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Tarquinia

Tarquinia was an important Etruscan city in central Italy, and its principal archaeological remains include the Monteroz...

Italy Tomb Necropolis Etruscan

9.14 Excellent

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Cerveteri

Cerveteri was an ancient Etruscan settlement in central Italy, known in archaeology for the Banditaccia necropolis. The...

Italy Tomb Necropolis Etruscan

9.08 Excellent

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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

9.07 Excellent

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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

9.05 Excellent

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Su Nuraxi

Su Nuraxi is a Nuragic archaeological complex at Barumini in Sardinia, Italy, centered on a stone tower known as a nurag...

Italy Tower Bronze Age Nuragic

9.03 Excellent

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Aquileia

Aquileia was a Roman city founded in northeastern Italy in 181 BCE. Its position near the northern Adriatic made it an i...

Italy City Roman Ruins

8.94 Great

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Baiae

Baiae was an ancient Roman settlement and leisure resort on the Gulf of Naples in Italy, known for thermal springs, vill...

Italy Resort Roman Ruins

8.74 Great

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Pantalica

Pantalica is an ancient necropolis in southeastern Sicily, Italy, located on a limestone plateau between the Anapo and C...

Italy Rock Cut Bronze Age Necropolis

8.64 Great

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Motya

Motya was a Phoenician settlement on San Pantaleo, a small island in the Stagnone lagoon off the western coast of Sicily...

Italy City Island Phoenician

8.58 Great

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Agrigento

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

Italy Ancient Greek Sicily

8.55 Great

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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

8.37 Great

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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

8.28 Great

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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

8.28 Great

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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

8.28 Great

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Capua

Capua was an ancient city of Campania in southern Italy, first associated with the Etruscans and later incorporated into...

Italy City Roman Etruscan

8.16 Great

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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

8.12 Great

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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

7.83 Good

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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

7.69 Good

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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

7.47 Good

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Selinunte

Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site on the southwestern coast of Sicily, founded by colonists from Megara...

Coastal Greek Temples Sicily

7.13 Good