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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mari (Tell Hariri)

Ancient Mesopotamian city on the Euphrates in Syria (c. 2900–1759 BCE) whose palace archive of some 25,000 cuneiform tab...

Syria Mesopotamian Euphrates Palatial

7.3 Good

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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

7.3 Good

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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

7.2 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

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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

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Tiryns

Tiryns is a Mycenaean archaeological site in the Peloponnese, Greece, which flourished from 1400 to 1200 BC and is disti...

Fortified Greece Bronze Age Mycenaean

7.1 Good

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Palace of Nestor (Pylos)

The Palace of Nestor is a prominent Mycenaean palace near Pylos, Greece, destroyed by fire around 1200 BC, which preserv...

Greece Bronze Age Mycenaean Palatial

6.9 Fair

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Flag Fen

Flag Fen in England is a significant Bronze Age archaeological site near Peterborough, featuring a wooden causeway built...

England Wetland Bronze Age Cambridge

6.8 Fair

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Gonur Depe

Gonur Depe is a major Bronze Age archaeological site in Turkmenistan dating to 2200 BC, recognized as a principal city o...

Oasis Bronze Age Turkmenistan Bactria Margiana

6.0 Fair