swap_horiz Jarlshof Alternatives

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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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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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L'Anse aux Meadows

Norse settlement on the northern tip of Newfoundland, Canada, dated to around 1000 CE and the only confirmed pre-Columbi...

Canada Viking Newfoundland Norse

8.5 Great

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Ring of Brodgar

The Ring of Brodgar is a massive Neolithic stone circle located in Orkney, Scotland, built between 2500 BC and 2000 BC,...

Scotland Ceremonial Neolithic Orkney

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

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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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Callanish Standing Stones

The Callanish Standing Stones are a Late Neolithic stone circle situated on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, constructed a...

Scotland Neolithic Lewis Megalithic

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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Maeshowe

Maeshowe is a Neolithic chambered cairn located on Orkney in Scotland, built around 2800 BC, renowned for its winter sol...

Scotland Neolithic Orkney Passage Tomb

8.0 Great

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Canyon de Chelly

A national monument in Arizona, USA, containing over 2,500 recorded archaeological sites spanning roughly 5,000 years of...

USA Arizona Cliff Dwellings Multi Period

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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Pachacamac

A major religious and pilgrimage center on the Peruvian coast near Lima, active from the early centuries CE through the...

Oracle Coastal Andean Peru

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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

7.2 Good

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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

7.2 Good

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Ban Chiang

A UNESCO World Heritage Site in northeastern Thailand with evidence of bronze metallurgy dating to around 2100 BCE, maki...

Thailand Bronze Age Pottery 1500BCE

7.2 Good