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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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Forum of Rome

The Forum of Rome was the central public space of ancient Rome. This expansive area hosted significant civic life for ov...

Italy Urban Ancient Roman

9.1 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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Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana)

Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy, is a vast Roman archaeological complex built by Emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd centu...

Italy Roman Imperial 2ND Century

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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Jerash

Jerash in northern Jordan is one of the best-preserved Greco-Roman provincial cities in the Near East, featuring a colon...

Urban Roman Jordan Decapolis

8.2 Great

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Timgad

Roman colonial city in modern Algeria founded by Emperor Trajan in 100 CE, notable for its strict orthogonal grid plan,...

Urban North Africa Roman Algeria

8.2 Great

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Djemila

Roman city in northeastern Algeria (ancient Cuicul), founded in the 1st century CE, preserving temples, a theater, and a...

Urban North Africa Roman Algeria

8.0 Great

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Dougga

Best-preserved Roman town in North Africa, located in northern Tunisia, featuring a 2nd-century CE Capitol temple, a the...

Urban North Africa Tunisia 3RD Century

8.0 Great

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Vindolanda

Vindolanda is a Roman auxiliary fort just south of Hadrian's Wall in northern England, internationally significant for p...

Military England Roman Frontier

7.5 Good

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Dura-Europos

Greco-Roman frontier city on the Syrian Euphrates (c. 300 BCE–256 CE), preserving one of the earliest known Christian ho...

Multicultural Syria Hellenistic Euphrates

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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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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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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Aquincum

Aquincum was an ancient Roman city located in modern Budapest, Hungary, serving as the capital of Pannonia Inferior and...

Urban Roman Hungary Danube

7.3 Good

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Carthage

Carthage, near modern Tunis in Tunisia, was the capital of a powerful Phoenician maritime empire that rivaled Rome until...

Urban North Africa Tunisia Phoenician

7.2 Good