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Gobekli Tepe

Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site in southeastern Turkey representing a significant Neolithic discovery. Constructe...

Turkey Ritual Neolithic Pre Pottery

9.4 Excellent

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Forum of Rome

The Forum of Rome was the central public space of ancient Rome. This expansive area hosted significant civic life for ov...

Italy Urban Ancient Roman

9.1 Excellent

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Herculaneum

Herculaneum is an exceptionally well-preserved Roman town located near modern Naples, Italy. The site offers a unique wi...

Italy Urban Volcanic Roman

9.0 Excellent

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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

9.0 Excellent

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Delphi

Delphi, situated on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in Greece, was the seat of the Oracle of Apollo and served as the most...

Classical Oracle Greek Greece

8.7 Great

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Templo Mayor

The central Aztec temple of Tenochtitlan, now beneath Mexico City, dedicated to Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc; excavated fr...

Urban Sacred Mexico 15TH Century

8.7 Great

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Delos

Delos is a small Greek island that was a major sacred sanctuary and ancient cult center, believed to be the mythological...

Classical Greek Island Greece

8.5 Great

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Jerash

Jerash in northern Jordan is one of the best-preserved Greco-Roman provincial cities in the Near East, featuring a colon...

Urban Roman Jordan Decapolis

8.2 Great

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Catalhoyuk

Çatalhöyük in south-central Turkey is one of the world's earliest and largest Neolithic settlements, occupied from appro...

Turkey Urban Settlement Neolithic

8.2 Great

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Harappa

Major urban center of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, flourishing c. 2600–1900 BCE and notable fo...

Urban Bronze Age Pakistan Indus Valley

8.2 Great

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Timgad

Roman colonial city in modern Algeria founded by Emperor Trajan in 100 CE, notable for its strict orthogonal grid plan,...

Urban North Africa Roman Algeria

8.2 Great

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Cahokia Mounds

Largest known pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, near modern Collinsville, Illinois, peaking around 1100 CE and dominat...

USA Urban Pre Columbian Mound

8.0 Great

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Djemila

Roman city in northeastern Algeria (ancient Cuicul), founded in the 1st century CE, preserving temples, a theater, and a...

Urban North Africa Roman Algeria

8.0 Great

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Dougga

Best-preserved Roman town in North Africa, located in northern Tunisia, featuring a 2nd-century CE Capitol temple, a the...

Urban North Africa Tunisia 3RD Century

8.0 Great

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Caral

Ancient city in the Supe Valley of Peru, dating to c. 2600 BCE and recognized as the oldest known urban civilization in...

Coastal Peru Earliest City Norte Chico

7.8 Good

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Caesarea Maritima

Roman coastal city in Israel constructed by Herod the Great between approximately 22 and 10 BCE, featuring an artificial...

Israel Coastal Harbor 1ST Century

7.8 Good

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Selinunte

Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily, founded in 628 BC, and is notable for...

Coastal Greek Temples Sicily

7.8 Good

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Huaca del Sol y de la Luna

Two massive adobe pyramids near Trujillo, Peru, built by the Moche civilization between approximately 100 and 800 CE; Hu...

Coastal Peru Pyramid Moche

7.8 Good

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Byblos

Byblos on the Lebanese coast is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a major Phoenician port wh...

Coastal Trading Bronze Age Lebanon

7.5 Good

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Corinth

Corinth was a major ancient city-state in Greece, continuously occupied from the Neolithic period, renowned for its imme...

Classical Urban Greece Sanctuary

7.1 Good