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The Great Pyramid of Giza

Built during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt's Old Kingdom around 2560 BCE, the Great Pyramid of Giza served as the tomb of...

Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Egypt

9.85 Brilliant

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Thebes (Luxor)

Ancient Thebes occupied the Nile valley in Upper Egypt around the modern city of Luxor. It served as an important capita...

Egyptian Ancient City Egypt Temple

9.72 Brilliant

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Terracotta Army (Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang)

The Terracotta Army forms part of the funerary complex of Qin Shi Huang, China's first emperor, near Xi'an. Local farmer...

Burial Ceramic Chinese Qin Dynasty

9.55 Brilliant

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Uruk (Warka)

Known today as Warka, Uruk was a major early city in southern Mesopotamia, within modern Iraq. It flourished from around...

Mesopotamia Ancient City Iraq Sumerian

9.32 Excellent

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Moenjodaro

Moenjodaro, also commonly spelled Mohenjo-daro, preserves one of the largest urban settlements of the Indus Valley Civil...

Urban Bronze Age Pakistan Indus Valley

9.27 Excellent

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Chauvet Cave

Discovered in 1994 by Jean-Marie Chauvet and his colleagues, Chauvet Cave lies in the Ardèche gorge of southern France....

France Prehistoric Paleolithic Cave Art

9.24 Excellent

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Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Sutton Hoo is the site of two early medieval cemeteries from the 6th and 7th centuries located in Suffolk, England. Exca...

England UK Royal Burial Anglo Saxon

9.00 Excellent

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Coppergate (Jorvik)

Coppergate is the York archaeological site associated with Jorvik, the Viking-Age name for the settlement that developed...

England Settlement City Viking

8.61 Great

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Bath (Aquae Sulis)

Bath, historically known to the Romans as Aquae Sulis, is an archaeological and historical city located in Somerset, Eng...

England UK Roman 1ST Century

8.54 Great

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Sutton Hoo

The Sutton Hoo archaeological site in East Anglia, England represents a significant Anglo-Saxon burial ground active bet...

England Anglo Saxon 7TH Century Ship Burial

8.10 Great

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Avebury

Avebury is a monumental Neolithic archaeological site located in Wiltshire, England. It features the world’s largest sto...

England Ceremonial Neolithic Megalithic

8.00 Great

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Roman Baths of Bath

The Roman Baths complex in Bath, Somerset, England, is a remarkably preserved bathing and religious site dating to the 1...

England Thermal Sacred Roman

7.82 Good

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Verulamium (St Albans)

Verulamium is a major Roman archaeological site located beneath the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England....

England UK City Roman

7.49 Good

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Camulodunum (Colchester)

Camulodunum is an ancient archaeological site located beneath modern Colchester in Essex, England, recognized as Britain...

England UK City Roman

7.46 Good

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Jericho (Tell es-Sultan)

Tell es-Sultan near Jericho in the West Bank is widely considered one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the...

Neolithic Palestine Levant 9000BCE

7.18 Good

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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

6.90 Fair

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Maiden Castle

Maiden Castle is a large Iron Age hill fort located approximately three kilometers southwest of Dorchester in Dorset, En...

England Iron Age Dorset 6TH Century Bce

6.90 Fair

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West Kennet Long Barrow

West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic chambered long barrow located near Avebury in Wiltshire, England, constructed app...

England Wiltshire Neolithic Chambered Tomb

6.90 Fair

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Lepenski Vir

Lepenski Vir is a prehistoric archaeological site on the right bank of the Danube in the Iron Gates gorge of eastern Ser...

Serbia Riverside Sculpture Mesolithic

6.62 Fair

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Flag Fen

Flag Fen is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the fenland near Peterborough, England. Excavations revealed a timber ca...

England Wetland Bronze Age Cambridge

6.26 Fair