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Giza Pyramid Complex

The Giza Pyramid Complex is a monumental archaeological site in Egypt containing three primary pyramids built during the...

Egyptian Monument Funerary Old Kingdom

9.7 Brilliant

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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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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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Palmyra

Palmyra in central Syria was a prosperous caravan city that flourished under Roman rule in the 1st–3rd centuries CE, ren...

Desert Caravan Roman Syria

8.8 Great

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Baalbek

Baalbek in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley contains some of the largest and most elaborately decorated Roman temples ever built,...

Monumental Roman Lebanon Temple

8.7 Great

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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

8.5 Great

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Qumran

Settlement near the Dead Sea in the West Bank where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in caves in 1947, yielding the...

Desert Palestine Jewish Dead Sea Scrolls

8.2 Great

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Uruk

Ancient Sumerian city in southern Iraq dating to c. 4000 BCE, widely considered one of the world's first cities and the...

Mesopotamia Iraq Sumerian 4000BCE

8.0 Great

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Nineveh

Nineveh, near modern Mosul in Iraq, was the largest city in the world at its height and served as the capital of the Neo...

Mesopotamia Capital Iraq Iron Age

7.8 Good

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Nimrud

Ancient Assyrian capital Kalhu in northern Iraq, developed by Ashurnasirpal II in the 9th century BCE, renowned for colo...

Capital Iraq Assyrian 9TH Century Bce

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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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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Assur

Oldest capital of the Assyrian Empire on the Tigris River in Iraq, continuously occupied from c. 2600 BCE, and designate...

Mesopotamia Capital Iraq Assyrian

7.5 Good

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Eridu

Ancient Sumerian city in southern Iraq considered one of the earliest urban settlements in Mesopotamia, with occupation...

Mesopotamia Iraq Sumerian Earliest City

7.5 Good

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Carnuntum

Carnuntum was an important Roman army camp and provincial capital in modern-day Austria that reached its peak around 200...

Austria Roman Legion Danube

7.5 Good

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Nippur

Ancient Mesopotamian religious center in Iraq, seat of the god Enlil, occupied for millennia and yielding tens of thousa...

Mesopotamia Religious Iraq Sumerian

7.2 Good

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Pyu Ancient Cities

Three ancient cities in Myanmar—Halin, Beikthano, and Sri Ksetra—representing the Pyu civilization that flourished from...

Myanmar Walled Buddhist 1ST Century

7.0 Good

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Nisa

Nisa is an ancient archaeological site in Turkmenistan that served as the royal headquarters of the Parthian Empire arou...

Capital Palace Turkmenistan 3RD Century Bce

6.1 Fair

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Tillya Tepe

A northern Afghan burial site excavated in 1978 by Viktor Sarianidi, yielding over 20,000 gold objects from six nomadic...

Gold Nomadic Afghanistan 1ST Century

5.8 Mediocre

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Oc Eo

An ancient port city in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, associated with the Funan kingdom and active from the 1st to 7th cent...

Vietnam Mekong 1ST Century Funan

5.5 Mediocre