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Akrotiri (Santorini)

Buried beneath volcanic deposits on Santorini, Greece, Akrotiri preserves a Bronze Age settlement with strong connection...

Settlement Volcanic Greece Bronze Age

9.21 Excellent

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Butrint

Butrint is an archaeological site in southern Albania on a peninsula beside the Vivari Channel and the Butrint lagoon. T...

City Greek Roman Albania

9.07 Excellent

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Syracuse

Syracuse is an ancient city on the southeastern coast of Sicily, founded by Greek settlers from Corinth in the eighth ce...

Italy City Greek Roman

9.05 Excellent

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Vergina (Aigai)

Vergina is an archaeological site in northern Greece that corresponds to the ancient city of Aigai, the first capital of...

Burial Greece Macedonian 4TH Century Bc

8.91 Great

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Neolithic Orkney

Neolithic Orkney refers to a group of prehistoric monuments located on the mainland of Orkney, Scotland. Dating from app...

Scotland UK Island Neolithic

8.79 Great

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Motya

Motya was a Phoenician settlement on San Pantaleo, a small island in the Stagnone lagoon off the western coast of Sicily...

Italy City Island Phoenician

8.58 Great

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Agrigento

Agrigento is an archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, containing the remnants of the ancient Greek...

Italy Ancient Greek Sicily

8.55 Great

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Ephesus

Ephesus is an exceptionally significant archaeological site located on Turkey’s coastal west. It flourished as a major G...

Classical Turkey Coastal Urban

8.28 Great

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Epidaurus

Epidaurus is an ancient Greek sanctuary and archaeological site located in Greece. It was renowned as a major healing ce...

Classical Greek Healing Greece

8.28 Great

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Agrigento (Valley of the Temples)

Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples preserves remarkably well-preserved remains of Akragas, a significant Greek city estab...

Greek Temples Sicily Doric

8.28 Great

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Apollonia (Illyria)

Apollonia was an ancient Greek colony in Illyria, founded in 588 BCE in what is now Albania. It later flourished as a Ro...

City Greek Roman Albania

8.12 Great

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Akrotiri

Akrotiri represents an exceptionally well-preserved Bronze Age settlement on Santorini. The site offers invaluable insig...

Volcanic Greece Bronze Age Santorini

8.10 Great

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Miletus

Miletus was an ancient Greek city located on the western coast of Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in mode...

Classical Turkey City Ancient

8.08 Great

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Delphi

Delphi is an ancient Greek archaeological site located on Mount Parnassus in Greece. It was a significant religious sanc...

Classical Oracle Greek Greece

8.00 Great

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Vergina

The Vergina archaeological site in northern Greece represents the ancient city of Aigai, the first capital of Macedon. I...

Greece Macedonian Alexander 4TH Century Bce

8.00 Great

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Heraclea Lyncestis

Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city near modern Bitola in North Macedonia, founded in the middle of the fo...

City Greek Roman North Macedonia

7.91 Good

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Paestum

Paestum is an archaeological site in Campania, southern Italy, founded by Greek settlers around 600 BCE under the name P...

Italy Greek Temples Doric

7.87 Good

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Xanthos-Letoon

Xanthos was the capital of ancient Lycia and Letoon was its primary religious sanctuary, located in modern-day southwest...

Classical Turkey City Ancient

7.84 Good

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Megara Hyblaea

Megara Hyblaea was an ancient Greek colony on the eastern coast of Sicily, near the modern city of Augusta. Greek settle...

Italy City Greek Ruins

7.83 Good

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Corinth

Corinth was an ancient Greek city-state situated on the Isthmus of Corinth, a strategic land bridge linking mainland Gre...

Classical Urban Greece Sanctuary

6.53 Fair