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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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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

9

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

10

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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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

14

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

16

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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Mycenae

Mycenae is a Bronze Age citadel in the northeastern Peloponnese, Greece, which gave its name to the Mycenaean civilizati...

Fortified Greece Bronze Age Mycenaean

7.82 Good

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Delos

Delos is a small, uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago that served as a major religious and commercial c...

Classical Greek Island Greece

7.82 Good

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Velia

Velia was an ancient Greek colony on the coast of the Cilento region in southern Italy. Founded by Greek settlers from P...

Italy City Greek Roman

7.69 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