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Moenjodaro

Moenjodaro is an archaeological site in Sindh, Pakistan, representing one of the largest urban settlements of the ancien...

Urban Bronze Age Pakistan Indus Valley

9.3 Excellent

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Ravenna

Ravenna is a city in northeastern Italy known for eight early Christian monuments included in a UNESCO World Heritage pr...

Italy Byzantine City Roman

9.3 Excellent

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Akrotiri (Santorini)

Akrotiri is an archaeological site on the island of Santorini, Greece, containing the remains of a Minoan Bronze Age set...

Settlement Volcanic Greece Bronze Age

9.2 Excellent

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Troy (Hisarlik)

Located in northwestern Anatolia in modern-day Turkey, the archaeological site of Hisarlik is widely identified as the a...

Turkey City Ancient Bronze Age

9.1 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

9.1 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

9.1 Excellent

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Anyang (Yin Ruins)

The Yin Ruins at Anyang represent the remains of the last capital city of the Shang Dynasty, located in Henan Province,...

China Capital Bronze Age Shang

9.0 Excellent

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Su Nuraxi

Su Nuraxi is a Nuragic archaeological complex at Barumini in Sardinia, Italy, centered on a stone tower known as a nurag...

Italy Tower Bronze Age Nuragic

9.0 Excellent

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Vijayanagara (Hampi)

Vijayanagara, historically centered around the modern village of Hampi in Karnataka, India, was the capital of the Vijay...

India City Temple 14TH Century

8.9 Great

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Ohrid

Ohrid is a historic city in North Macedonia, known in antiquity as Lychnidos and for archaeological remains from the Rom...

Medieval City North Macedonia Churches

8.9 Great

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Aquileia

Aquileia was a Roman city founded in northeastern Italy in 181 BCE. Its position near the northern Adriatic made it an i...

Italy City Roman Ruins

8.9 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

8.8 Great

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Hattusa

Hattusa was the capital city of the Hittite Empire, situated in central Anatolia near modern-day Boğazköy, Turkey. The s...

Turkey Capital Bronze Age Hittite

8.8 Great

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Susa (Shush)

Susa, located in southwestern Iran, was an ancient city that served as a major urban center for several millennia. It fu...

City Ancient Iran Multi Period

8.7 Great

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Dholavira

Dholavira is an archaeological site representing a major city of the Indus Valley Civilization, located in the Kutch dis...

India Urban Bronze Age Indus Valley

8.7 Great

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Amarna (Akhetaten)

Amarna, historically known as Akhetaten, is a vast archaeological site in Middle Egypt founded by Pharaoh Akhenaten arou...

City Egyptian Egypt New Kingdom

8.6 Great

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Megiddo (Armageddon)

Megiddo is an ancient tell in northern Israel overlooking the strategic Jezreel Valley pass. The site contains approxima...

Israel Bronze Age Multi Period Canaanite Israelite

8.6 Great

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Ebla

Ebla was an ancient Syrian city-state located at modern Tell Mardikh, flourishing primarily during the mid-3rd millenniu...

City Bronze Age Syria Syrian

8.5 Great

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Knossos

Knossos is a Bronze Age archaeological site located near the modern city of Heraklion on the island of Crete. It is cons...

Labyrinth Bronze Age Crete Minoan

8.3 Great

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Jiroft

The Jiroft archaeological complex is a Bronze Age urban site located in the Halil River valley in Kerman Province, Iran,...

City Ancient Bronze Age Iran

7.3 Good