swap_horiz Harappa Alternatives

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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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Ephesus

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

Classical Turkey Coastal Urban

9.0 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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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

8.8 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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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

8.5 Great

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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

8.5 Great

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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

8.3 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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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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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

8.0 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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Taxila

Ancient city in present-day Pakistan that served as a leading center of Buddhist and Hindu learning from the 5th century...

Pakistan Buddhist Gandhara Greek Period

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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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

7.5 Good

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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

7.5 Good

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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

7.2 Good