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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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Lascaux Cave

The Lascaux Cave is an archaeological site located in southwestern France. It contains remarkably preserved Paleolithic...

France Paleolithic Paintings Cave Art

9.3 Excellent

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Karnak

Karnak stands as a monumental Egyptian temple complex near Luxor. Constructed over two millennia starting in the New Kin...

Monumental Egyptian Temple Luxor

9.2 Excellent

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Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is a Chilean island renowned for its monumental Moai statues. These large stone figures, car...

Medieval Polynesian Chile Monolithic

9.2 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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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

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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

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Delphi

Delphi, situated on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in Greece, was the seat of the Oracle of Apollo and served as the most...

Classical Oracle Greek Greece

8.7 Great

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Paestum

Paestum is an ancient Greco-Roman city in southern Italy founded around 600 BC, celebrated for its remarkably well-prese...

Italy Greek Temples Doric

8.6 Great

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Delos

Delos is a small Greek island that was a major sacred sanctuary and ancient cult center, believed to be the mythological...

Classical Greek Island Greece

8.5 Great

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Caral

Ancient city in the Supe Valley of Peru, dating to c. 2600 BCE and recognized as the oldest known urban civilization in...

Coastal Peru Earliest City Norte Chico

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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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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Tipasa

Ancient site on Algeria's Mediterranean coast, initially a Phoenician trading post and later a Roman colony, featuring e...

Coastal North Africa Roman Algeria

7.5 Good

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Huaca Rajada

A site in northern Peru where archaeologist Walter Alva discovered the unlooted tomb of the Lord of Sipán in 1987, yield...

Coastal Peru Moche 3RD Century

7.4 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

7.4 Good

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Sambor Prei Kuk

A UNESCO World Heritage Site in Cambodia with brick temple complexes dated to the 6th–7th centuries CE, representing the...

Hindu Temples Cambodia 7TH Century

7.3 Good

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Ai Khanoum

A Hellenistic city in northeastern Afghanistan considered one of the easternmost Greek urban centers, established after...

Greek Afghanistan Hellenistic 3RD Century Bce

6.3 Fair