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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

2

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

3

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

4

Epidaurus

Epidaurus is an ancient Greek sanctuary and archaeological site located in Greece. It was renowned as a major healing ce...

Classical Greek Healing Greece

9.0 Excellent

5

Agrigento (Valley of the Temples)

Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples preserves remarkably well-preserved remains of Akragas, a significant Greek city estab...

Greek Temples Sicily Doric

9.0 Excellent

6

Delphi

Delphi is an ancient Greek archaeological site located on Mount Parnassus in Greece. It was a significant religious sanc...

Classical Oracle Greek Greece

8.7 Great

7

Paestum

Paestum is an archaeological site in Campania, southern Italy, founded by Greek settlers around 600 BCE under the name P...

Italy Greek Temples Doric

8.6 Great

8

Agrigento

Agrigento is an archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, containing the remnants of the ancient Greek...

Italy Ancient Greek Sicily

8.6 Great

9

Delos

Delos is a small, uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades archipelago that served as a major religious and commercial c...

Classical Greek Island Greece

8.5 Great

10

Mahabalipuram

A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984 on the Coromandel Coast of Tamil Nadu, India, comprising 7th- and 8th-century mo...

India Coastal Rock Cut 7TH Century

8.3 Great

11

Apollonia (Illyria)

Apollonia was an ancient Greek colony in Illyria, founded in 588 BCE in what is now Albania. It later flourished as a Ro...

City Greek Roman Albania

8.1 Great

12

Segesta

Segesta was a major ancient city of the Elymian people located in northwestern Sicily, Italy. Continuously inhabited and...

Italy Ancient Sicily Temple

8.0 Great

13

Heraclea Lyncestis

Heraclea Lyncestis was an ancient Macedonian city near modern Bitola in North Macedonia, founded in the middle of the fo...

City Greek Roman North Macedonia

7.9 Good

14

Caral

Caral is an extensive archaeological site in the Supe Valley of Peru, dating back to approximately 2600 BCE, making it t...

Coastal Peru Earliest City Norte Chico

7.8 Good

15

Caesarea Maritima

Caesarea Maritima is an archaeological site on the Mediterranean coast of Israel, constructed by Herod the Great between...

Israel Coastal Harbor 1ST Century

7.8 Good

16

Huaca del Sol y de la Luna

Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna are two massive adobe pyramid complexes built by the Moche civilization near the city...

Coastal Peru Pyramid Moche

7.8 Good

17

Megara Hyblaea

Megara Hyblaea was an ancient Greek colony on the eastern coast of Sicily, near the modern city of Augusta. Greek settle...

Italy City Greek Ruins

7.8 Good

18

Velia

Velia was an ancient Greek colony on the coast of the Cilento region in southern Italy. Founded by Greek settlers from P...

Italy City Greek Roman

7.7 Good

19

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

20

Gela

Gela was an ancient Greek colony on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy, founded in 689 or 688 BCE by colonists traditio...

Italy City Greek Roman

7.5 Good