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Sutton Hoo

Sutton Hoo in England is the site of two early medieval cemeteries dating to the 6th and 7th centuries, famous for its A...

England Anglo Saxon 7TH Century Ship Burial

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Akrotiri

Akrotiri is a highly preserved Bronze Age Minoan settlement located on the Greek island of Santorini, buried by a catast...

Volcanic Greece Bronze Age Santorini

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Avebury

Avebury in Wiltshire, England, contains the largest Neolithic stone circle in the world, constructed around 2500 BCE, an...

England Ceremonial Neolithic Megalithic

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Mycenae

Mycenae is a Bronze Age citadel in the Peloponnese, Greece, that gave its name to Mycenaean civilization (c. 1600–1100 B...

Fortified Greece Bronze Age Mycenaean

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Roman Baths of Bath

The Roman Baths of Bath in Somerset, England, are a remarkably preserved 1st-century CE bathing complex built around a n...

England Thermal Sacred Roman

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Sanxingdui

Bronze Age site in Sichuan, China, first excavated in 1986, revealing a previously unknown civilization through spectacu...

China Ritual Bronze Age Sichuan

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Knossos

Knossos on Crete is the largest Bronze Age palace site in the Aegean, associated with Minoan civilization and first exte...

Labyrinth Bronze Age Crete Minoan

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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

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Yin Ruins (Anyang)

Last capital of China's Shang Dynasty in Henan, occupied c. 1300–1046 BCE and the site where oracle bone inscriptions—th...

China Capital Bronze Age Shang Dynasty

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Vindolanda

Vindolanda is a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, internationally significant for p...

Military England Roman Frontier

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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

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Ugarit (Ras Shamra)

Bronze Age port city on the Syrian coast (c. 1450–1185 BCE) where excavations beginning in 1929 revealed one of the earl...

Bronze Age Syria Levant Alphabetic

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Megiddo

Strategically located Canaanite and Israelite city in northern Israel, occupied from c. 7000 BCE, site of numerous ancie...

Israel Fortified Bronze Age Canaanite

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Maiden Castle

Maiden Castle is an extensive Iron Age hill fort located in Dorset, England, originally constructed around 600 BC and kn...

England Iron Age Dorset 6TH Century Bce

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West Kennet Long Barrow

The West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic chambered long barrow situated in Wiltshire, England, constructed around 3650...

England Wiltshire Neolithic Chambered Tomb

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Jarlshof

Jarlshof is a multi-period archaeological site in Shetland, Scotland, featuring continuous settlement from the Bronze Ag...

Scotland Bronze Age Shetland Norse

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Erlitou

Bronze Age site in Henan Province, China (c. 1900–1500 BCE), widely regarded as the probable capital of the Xia dynasty...

China Bronze Age Palatial 2000BCE

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Ebla (Tell Mardikh)

Third-millennium BCE Syrian city-state whose excavation from 1964 uncovered a palace archive of roughly 17,000 cuneiform...

Urban Bronze Age Syria 2400BCE

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Hazor

Largest Canaanite city-state in ancient Canaan, located in northern Israel, flourishing in the Middle Bronze Age and ref...

Israel Fortified Bronze Age Levant

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Star Carr

Star Carr is a prominent Mesolithic archaeological site in North Yorkshire, England, dating to roughly 9000 BC and famou...

England Hunter Gatherer Yorkshire Mesolithic

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