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This is a list of archaeological sites sorted by country. For one sorted by continent and time period, see the list of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age. An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology. ...
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One of the Buddhas of Bamyan as it stood in 1963. ...
Haji Piyada is thought to be the earliest Islamic building in Afghanistan. ...
Today Balkh (Persian: بلخ) is a small town in the Province of Balkh, Afghanistan, about 20 kilometers northwest of the provincial capital, Mazari Sharif, and some 74 km (46 miles) south of the Amu Darya, the Oxus River of antiquity, of which a tributary formerly flowed past Balkh. ...
National Archeological Parks of Albania: Other archeological sites: Antigonea was the chief inland city of ancient Chaonia. ...
There have been several places called Apollonia: An ancient Greek city in Illyria near to the sea and the river Vjosa, 12 km from Fier, Albania. ...
Remains of a theatre and part of the agora (Photo by Marc Morell) Remains of the 6th-century baptistery Butrint (Albanian: Butrint or Butrinti) is a city and an archeological site in Albania, close to the Greek border. ...
Finiq is a small village in Albania, located 8 km from the Ionian Sea and 20 km north of the Greek border. ...
Lezhë (Albanian: Lezhë or Lezha, Turkish: Leş) is a city in northwest Albania, in the district and county with the same name. ...
Üsküdar, a district of Istanbul, was also known as Scutari. ...
Berat (Albanian: Berat or Berati) is a town located in south-central Albania at . ...
Durrës (Italian: Durazzo; see also different names) is the most ancient and one of the most economically important important cities of Albania. ...
The Greek city of Epidamnos (Strabo Geography vi. ...
The Greek city of Epidamnos (Strabo Geography vi. ...
Binomial name Aramus guarauna Linnaeus, 1766 The Limpkin, Aramus guarauna, is an odd bird that looks like a large rail, but is skeletally closer to the cranes. ...
Zvartnots (Armenian: meaning celestial angels) is a town located in Armenian province of Armavir, about 10 km west from Yerevan, approximately half way to Echmiadzin. ...
The shore of Lake Mungo. ...
Cuddie Springs is a notable archeologic site in in the semi-arid zone of central northern New South Wales, Australia. ...
Murujuga, or The Burrup Peninsula, is located on the north-western coast of Western Australia on the Dampier Archipelago. ...
Venus of Willendorf Venus of Willendorf, also known as the Woman of Willendorf, is a 11. ...
Qobustan is a rayon of Azerbaijan. ...
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// Context The successive archaeological excavation campaigns at Veldwezelt-Hezerwater, Belgium provide important remains of at least five separate Middle Palaeolithic valley settlements. ...
Altun Ha is the name given ruins of an ancient Maya city in Belize, located in the Belize District about 30 miles (50 km) north of Belize City and about 6 miles (10 km) west of the shore of the Caribbean Sea. ...
Cahal Pech is a Maya site located near the Town of San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize. ...
Caracol or El Caracol is the name given to a large ancient Maya site located in the Cayo District of the nation of Belize. ...
Cerros is a Mayan temple dating from the late formative period (330BC-1AD), located on a peninsula overlooking Chetumal Bay in Belize. ...
Lamanai (from Lamaan Ai, submerged crocodile in Yukatek Maya) is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and was once a considerably sized city of the Maya civilization, located in the north of Belize, in Orange Walk District. ...
Lubaantun (sometimes spelled Lubaantún) is a Pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in southern Belize, Central America. ...
Nim Li Punit, sometimes also known as Big Hat or Top Hat (especially shortly after its discovery) is an ancient Maya site in the Toledo District of the nation of Belize, about 40 km north of the town of Punta Gorda, at 16° 19 N, 88° 47 60W. The name...
Xunantunich (shoo-NAHN-too-nich) is a Maya archaeological site in western Belize, about 80 miles (130 km) west of Belize City, in the Cayo District. ...
Middle Horizon Tiwanaku (old spelling: Tiahuanaco) is an important Pre-Columbian archeological site in Bolivia. ...
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Tsodilo is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Botswana. ...
The Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak is a vaulted brickwork beehive (tholos) tomb near the town of Kazanlak in central Bulgaria. ...
The ruins of the ancient city of Perperikon The ancient Thracian city of Perperikon (Bulgarian: Перперикон) is located in the Eastern Rhodopes, 15 km northeast of the present-day town of Kardzhali, Bulgaria, on a 470 m high rocky hill, which is thought to have been a sacred place. ...
The Varna Necropolis (Bulgarian: ) is a burial site in the western industrial part of Varna (approximately half a kilometre from Lake Varna), Bulgaria. ...
The Madara Rider The Madara Rider is a large rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria. ...
The Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari is situated 2,5 km southwest of the village of Sveshtari, which is located 42 km northeast of Razgrad, in the northeast of Bulgaria. ...
Angkor was the site of a series of capital cities of the Khmer empire for much of the period from the 9th century to the 15th century CE. Their ruins (13°24N, 103°51E) are located amid forests and farmland to the north of the Great Lake (Tonle...
Viking colonisation site at LAnse-aux-Meadows Viking colonisation site at LAnse-aux-Meadows LAnse aux Meadows (from the French LAnse-aux-Méduses (Jellyfish Cove)) is a site on the northernmost tip of the island of Newfoundland, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, where the remains...
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump located where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains begin to rise from the prairie 18 km northwest of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada on highway 785, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and museum of Native American culture. ...
Mladec (MladeÄ) is a village 20 km NW of Olomouc in central Moravia, Czech Republic. ...
Dolni Vestonice is a series of ice age archaeological sites, used by mammoth hunters, in the Czech Republic near the town of Brno. ...
- Easter Island: Hanga Roa, Orongo Village, etc.
- Monte Verde
- Fell Cave, Pali Aike and other sites in Patagonia
- Pukaras: Turi, Quitor, Camiña, Nama, etc.
- Villages: Caserones, Tulor, etc.
- Cementeries: Faldas del Morro, Camarones 14, Cuchipuy, Chacayes, El Mercurio, Bypass Temuco, etc.
- others
motto: ( Rapa Nui ) Also called Te Pito O Te Henua (Ombligo del mundo) (Navel of the world) Discovered by Europeans April 5, 1722 by Jakob Roggeveen Capital Hanga Roa Area - City Proper 163,6 km² Population - City (2005) - Density (city proper) 3. ...
Harbor scene in Hanga Roa Post Office in Hanga Roa Hanga Roa is the capital city of Easter Island, Chile, and is located in the southwest of the island. ...
Monte Verde is an archaeological site in south-central Chile, which is suspected to date 12,500 years before present, making it one of the earliest inhabited sites in the Americas. ...
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Turi are a Pathan tribe on the Kohat border of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. ...
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El Mercurio is a conservative Chilean newspaper with editions in ValparaÃso and Santiago. ...
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Anyang (Simplified Chinese: 安阳; Traditional Chinese: 安陽; Pinyin: ) is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Henan province, Peoples Republic of China. ...
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An array of Neolithic artifacts, including bracelets, axe heads, chisels, and polishing tools Excavated dwellings at Skara Brae Scotland, Europes most complete Neolithic village. ...
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Changan ▶(?) (Simplified Chinese: 长安; Traditional Chinese: 長安; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Chang-an) is the ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in China. ...
Trinomial name Homo erectus pekinensis (Black, 1927) Peking Man (sometimes now called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. ...
Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site - the Caves (taken in July 2004) Zhoukoudian or Choukoutien (周å£åº—) is a cave system near Beijing in China. ...
Beijing [English Pronunciation] (Chinese: 北京 [Chinese Pronunciation]; Pinyin: Běijīng; IPA: ), a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
View of the largest excavation pit of the Terracotta Army. ...
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Salamis was an ancient city-state on the east coast of Cyprus, at the mouth of the river Pedieos, 6 km North of Famagusta. ...
Lindholm Høje, June 2004, view overlooking Nørresundby and across the Limfjord to Aalborg Lindholm Høje (trans: the rise of Lindholm) is a major Viking burial site and former settlement situated to the north of and overlooking the city of Aalborg. ...
Model showing the relative positions of the Abu Simbel temples before and after relocation Categories: Ancient Egypt stubs | Wonders of the World ...
Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس), one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, stood about 11 km (6 miles) west of the Nile at latitude 26° 10 N. The Egyptian name was Abdju (technically, 3bdw, hieroglyphs shown to the right), the hill of the symbol or reliquary, in which the sacred head...
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Amarna The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; see below) (Arabic: العمارنة al-‘amÄrnä) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of al-Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of...
The Colossi of Memnon The Colossi of Memnon (known to locals as el-Colossat, or es-Salamat) are two massive stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. For the past 3400 years they have stood in the Theban necropolis, across the River Nile from the modern city of Luxor. ...
Deir al-Madinah is the Arabic name of an Ancient Egyptian village that was home to the artisans who built the temples and tombs ordered by the pharaohs and other dignitaries during the New Kingdom period (18th to 20th dynasties) in the Valley of the Kings. ...
Djeser-Djeseru – the focal point of the complex Deir el-Bahri (Arabic دير البØري dayr al-baḥrÄ«, literally meaning, “The Northern Monasteryâ€) is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the west bank of the Nile, opposite the city of Luxor, Egypt. ...
The front of the Edfu Temple The first pylon at Edfu Temple Statue of Horus, Edfu Temple Edfu (also spelt Idfu or in modern French as Edfou and known in antiquity as Behdet) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the River Nile between Esna and Aswan...
Tourist bazaar The Egyptian city of Esna (known in antiquity as Iunyt, Ta-senet, and Latopolis) is located on the west bank of the River Nile, some 55 km south of Luxor. ...
Giza, or Gizah (Arabic, الجيزة, transliterated al-ǧīzah; pronounced in the Cairene dialect of Egyptian Arabic eg-Gīza; also sometimes rendered in English as Gizeh, Ghizeh, or Geezeh) is a town in Egypt on the west bank of the Nile river, some 20 km southwest of central Cairo and now...
Heliopolis (Greek: or ), was one of the most ancient cities of Egypt, and capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome. ...
Entrance to Precinct of Amon-Re of the Karnak Temple Complex This article is about the village and pharaonic temple complex in Egypt. ...
The double entrance to Kom Ombo Temple A well-preserved frieze inside Kom Ombo temple The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple built during the Ptolemaic Period in the Egyptian town of Kom Ombo. ...
Luxor Temple, from the east bank of the Nile Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the River Nile in the city today known as Luxor (ancient Thebes). ...
Oxyrhynchus (Greek: ΟξÏÏυγχος; sharp-nosed; ancient Egyptian Per-Medjed; modern Egyptian Arabic el-Bahnasa) is an archaeological site in Egypt, considered one of the most important ever discovered. ...
Philae (or Pilak or Paaleq [Egyptian: remote place or the end or the angle island]; [Arabic: Anas el Wagud]) is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt. ...
Ramesseum from the air - showing pylons and secondary buildings Ramesseum: Hypostyle hall The Ramesseum is the memorial temple (or mortuary temple) of Pharaoh Ramesses II (Ramesses the Great, also spelt Ramses and Rameses). It is located in the Theban necropolis in Upper Egypt, across the River Nile from the modern...
Tanis or The ruins of Tanis in 2004 Tanis (Τάνις), the Greek name of ancient Djanet (modern صان الØجر á¹¢Än al-Ḥaǧar), is a city in the north-eastern Nile delta of Egypt. ...
View over the East Valley The Valley of the Kings, or Wadi el-Muluk (وادي الملوك) in Arabic, is a valley in Egypt where tombs were built for the Pharaohs and powerful nobles of the New Kingdom, the Eighteenth through Twentieth Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. ...
The Chauvet Cave or Chauvet-Pont-dArc Cave is a cave located near Vallon-Pont-dArc, in the Ardèche département, in southern France. ...
Lascaux Lascaux is a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its cave paintings. ...
Part of the Peutinger Table showing the location of Glanum Glanum was a Roman city in Provence, southern France, on the flanks of the Alpilles range of mountains in todays Bouches-du-Rhone départment. ...
Glozel () is a hamlet in central France, part of the commune of Ferrières-sur-Sichon, Mayet de Montagne, Allier, some 17 km from Vichy. ...
Armazi (Georgian - áƒáƒ მáƒáƒ–ი) was the highest god in Georgian pagan pantheon. ...
Dmanisi is a site in eastern Georgia approximately 85 km southwest of Tbilisi in the Mashavera River Valley. ...
Nokalakevi (Georgian: ნáƒáƒ¥áƒáƒšáƒáƒ¥áƒ”ვი, literally meaning place where a town was) is a village and archaeological site in Georgia; particularly, in Senaki district (raioni) of Samegrelo and Zemo Svaneti region. ...
Vani is one of the most ancient cities of the Republic of Georgia and the administrative center of Vani district in the Imereti region of Georgia. ...
Bilzingsleben is a findspot of early palaeolithic human remains in Thuringia, Germany. ...
The Warrior of Hirschlanden is a statue of a nude ithyphallic warrior made of sandstone, the first known iron age life-size anthropomorphic statue north of the alps. ...
The town of Königsaue in the district Aschersleben-Staßfurt, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany was destroyed in the course of opencast lignite mining in 1964. ...
Unteruhldingen is a small village on the Lake Constance, Germany. ...
Wasserburg (German: water castle) can refer to two German municipalities: Wasserburg am Inn, Bavaria Wasserburg (Lake Constance), Bavaria (German: Wasserburg am Bodensee) Wasserburg Buchau at Federsee Wasserburg is also the name of a part of the city of Günzburg in Bavaria. ...
Nickname: City of Athena or Cradle of Democracy Location of the city of Athens (red dot) within the Prefecture of Athens and Periphery of Attica Coordinates: Country Greece Peripheries Attica Prefecture Athens Founded circa 2000 BC Mayor Nikitas Kaklamanis Area - City 39 km² - Metro 3,808 km² Elevation 70 [3...
Corinth, or Korinth (Greek: ΚόÏινθος, Kórinthos; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is a Greek city-state, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. ...
The amphitheatre, seen from above. ...
Panoramic view of the theater at Epidaurus Epidaurus (Epidauros) was a small city (polis) in ancient Greece at the Saronic Gulf. ...
Gournia is the site of a Minoan palace complex on the island of Crete, Greece, excavated in the early 20th century by the American archaeologist, Harriet Boyd-Hawes. ...
There is another Kechries, see Kechries Kechries (Greek Modern: ΚεχÏιÎÏ‚, rarely ΚεχÏεÎÏ‚, Ancient/Katharevousa: Kenchreai), older form: Cenchreae, Kenchreai, Kechriai, Kekhries, Kekhriai, Kekhriais is a community in the municipality of Corinth in Corinthia. ...
A portion of Arthur Evans reconstruction of the Minoan palace at Knossos. ...
Acropolis of Lindos: the restored stoa Lindos (Greek Λινδος;) is a town and an archaeological site on the east coast of the island of Rhodes (Rhodhos) in the Dodecanese Islands in south-eastern Greece. ...
A clay tablet with writing in Linear B from Mycenae. ...
For a village in the prefecture of Ioannina, see Mystras (Ioannina), Greece The Vale of Laconia seen from the battlements of Mystras Mystras (also Mistra, Mystra and Mistras Greek: ÎœÏστÏας , ΜυζηθÏάς Mizithras or Myzithras in the chronicle of Morea ) was a fortified town in Morea (the Peloponnesus), on Mt. ...
Naxos is the largest island (428 km² ) in the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea, which separates Greece and Turkey. ...
Nemea is an ancient site near the head of the valley of the Nemea River in the Peloponnessus of Greece. ...
Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία OlympÃa or ΟλÏμπια Olýmpia, older transliterations, Olimpia, Olimbia), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. ...
Perachora is an inland settlement in the Loutraki-Perachoras municipality of the Corinthia prefecture in the periphery of Peloponnese in Greece. ...
Map of Minoan Crete Phaistos (Greek: Φαιστός, Mycenaean: PA-I-TO), also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Phaestus was an ancient city on the island of Crete. ...
Pylos (Greek Î Ïλος), formerly Navarino, is the name of a bay and a town on the west coast of the Peloponnese, in the district of Messenia in southern Greece. ...
General location of Samothrace The Samothrace Temple Complex, known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods is one of the principal Pan-Hellenic religious sanctuaries, located on the island of Samothrace within the larger Thrace. ...
Map ot Tiryns Tiryns (in ancient greek ΤίÏυνς) is a Mycenaean archeological site in the Greek nomos of Argolis in the Peloponnese peninsula, some kilometres north of Nauplion. ...
Vergina´s ( ΒεÏγίνα ) location in Macedonia, in Greece Vergina (in Greek ΒεÏγίνα; also spelled VerghÃna and VeryÃna) is a small town in northern Greece, located at coordinates , in the prefecture of Imathia in the region of Central Macedonia. ...
Quiriguá is an ancient Maya site in the Izabal department of Guatemala. ...
Tikal Temples I, II and III Tikal (or Tik’al, according to the more current orthography) is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization. ...
El Zotz is a Mesoamerican archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the Petén Basin region some 19 km (12 mi) northwest of the major center of Tikal. ...
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Location of Copán The Pre-Columbian city now known as Copán is a locale in extreme western Honduras, in the Copán Department, near to the Guatemalan border. ...
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Hungary Location of the city within the Roman Empire The ancient city of Aquincum was situated on the North-Eastern borders of the Pannonia Province within the Roman Empire. ...
Üllő5 Sarmatian pottery Üllő5 is an archeological site in Hungary, near the village of Üllő, next to Budapest. ...
Dholavira, an ancient metropolitan city, and locally known as Kotada Timba Prachin Mahanagar Dholavira, is one of the largest and most prominent archaeological sites in India, belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization. ...
Arikamedu is an archaeological site near Pondicherry, southern India, where Mortimer Wheeler conducted its best-known excavation in the 1940s. ...
Acheulean hand-axes from Kent. ...
Urmil Sagar: 1st National Water Sports in India Kulpahar is an ancient town situated on the National Highway 76 connecting Pindwara in Rajasthan and Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. ...
Borobudur from a distance Borobudur is a Buddhist stupa related to the Mahayana tradition, and is the largest Buddhist monument on earth. ...
Sangiran is an archaeological excavation site at the island of Java in Indonesia. ...
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Bukhara (Bokhara in XIX century English, Buxoro or Бухоро in Uzbek (the Cyrillic alphabet was officially phased out for Uzbek after independence); بÙخارا /Bukhârâ/ in Persian, Buhe/Puhe Tang Chinese, Бухара in Russian; also Boxara in Tatar) is the fifth-largest city in Uzbekistan, and capital of the Bukhara region (Bukhoro Wiloyati). ...
A model of the current Chogha Zanbil ziggurat, showing the other buildings in the vicinity of the main structure. ...
Golden Rhyton from Irans Achaemenid period. ...
The Lower Paleolithic site of Ganj Par is located at Gilan province, at north of Iran. ...
Map of Iran and surrounding countries, showing location of Gorgan Gorgan (Persian: گرگان, Land of the Wolf) is the capital city of the Iranian province of Golestan. ...
Jondi Shapur was the first ever Iranian academic city. ...
Kaba-i Zartosht The Kaba-i Zartosht (alt: Kaba-i Zardusht, Kaba-ye Zardosht), meaning the Cube of Zoroaster, is a 5th century BC Achaemenid-era edifice at Naqsh-e Rustam, an archaeological site just northwest of Persepolis, Iran. ...
The earliest known evidence for Lower Palaeolithic occupation of Iran comes from Kashfrud basin at east of Mashad. ...
Næqš-e Rostæm, near Shiraz A rock relief at Naqsh-e Rostam, depicting the triumph of Shapur I over three Roman Emperors Valerian, Gordian III and Philip the Arab. ...
Pasargadae was a city in ancient Persia, and is today an archaeological site and one of Irans UNESCO World Heritage Sites. ...
Persepolis aerial view. ...
Soltaniyeh, situated in the Province of Zanjan, some 240 km to the north-west from Tehran, used to be the capital of Ilkhanid rulers of Persia in the 14th century. ...
Winged sphinx from the palace of Darius the Great at Susa. ...
Takht e Soleyman, or Takht e Soleiman, is the holiest shrine of Zoroastrism and Sassanid Empire, now a World Heritage Site near the town of Takab in West Azarbaijan, Iran. ...
Tang-e Bolaghi is an ancient village discovered in 2005. ...
Kermanshah or Taq-i-Bustan , is located in western Iran , four miles north-East of Kermanshah. ...
Babylon was a city in Mesopotamia, the ruins of which can be found in present-day Babil Province, Iraq, about 50 miles south of Baghdad. ...
Hatra (al-aar الØضر) is an ancient ruined city in the former Iranian province of Khvarvaran, today part of Iraq, located at 35°34′ N 42°42′ E. It was an important fortified city of the Iranian Parthian Empire, and withstood repeated attacks by the Roman Empire. ...
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Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. ...
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Map showing Samarra near Baghdad SÄmarrÄ (سامراء) is a town in Iraq ( ). It stands on the east bank of the Tigris in the Salah ad Din Governorate, 125 km north of Baghdad and, in 2002, had an estimated population of 201,700. ...
UR, Ur, or ur can refer to several things: The City of Ur Úr (letter) of the Ogham alphabet Ur (rune) ᚢ of the runic alphabets Royal Game of Ur Ur, the first known continent Ur- is a German prefix. ...
Tel Arad is an ancient Canaanite city southwest of the Dead Sea, near the modern city of Arad, Israel. ...
Ashkelon or Ashqelon (Hebrew ×ַשְ×קְלוֹן; Standard Hebrew AÅ¡qÉ™lon; Tiberian Hebrew ʾAÅ¡qÉ™lôn; Arabic عسقلان ; Latin Ascalon) was an ancient Philistine seaport on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea just north of Gaza. ...
Canaan (Canaanite: ×›× ×¢×Ÿ, Hebrew: , Greek: Χαναάν whence Latin: Canaan; and from Hebrew, Aramaic: whence Arabic: ‎). Canaan is an ancient term for a region approximating present-day Israel(94%.) and West Bank and Gaza plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Lebanon and Syria. ...
Map showing the location of Philistine land and cities of Gaza, Ashdod, and Ascalon Map of the southern Levant, c. ...
Bethsaida (beth-sā´i-da; ΒηθσαΐδαÌ, BeÌ„thsaidaÌ, “house of fishingâ€) // Bethsaida Julias A city east of the Jordan River, in a “desert place†(that is, uncultivated ground used for grazing) at which Jesus miraculously fed the multitude with five loaves and two fishes (Mark 6:32; Luke 9:10). ...
Bet Shean (Hebrew בית שאן unofficially also spelled Beit Shean, Beth Shean; Arabic بيسان Baysān) is a city in the North District in Israel. ...
Caesarea Palaestina Caesarea Palaestina, also called Caesarea Maritima, a town built by Herod the Great about 25 –13 BC, lies on the sea-coast of Israel about halfway between Tel Aviv and Haifa, on the site of a place previously called Pyrgos Stratonos (Strato or Stratons Tower, in Latin...
Catholic church built over the house of Saint Peter Capernaum (pronounced k-pûrn-m; Hebrew כפר × ×—×•× Kefar Nachum, Nahums hamlet) was a settlement on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. ...
Et-Tell is an archaeological site in Israel that is popularly thought to be the Biblical city of Ai. ...
Gezer was a town in ancient Israel. ...
The city of Gibeon in Canaan (about 6 miles north of the center of Jerusalem in the West Bank) was one of the four cities of the Hivites, which did not easily fall to the Hebrews. ...
Map of the Decapolis showing the location of Hippos (here spelled Hippus) Hippos was a Greco-Roman city in Palestine. ...
The Taking of Jericho, by Jean Fouquet Near central Jericho, November 1996 Jericho (Arabic , ʼArīḥÄ; Hebrew , Standard YÉ™riḥo Tiberian YÉ™rîḫô / YÉ™rîḥô; meaning fragrant[1]. Greek ἹεÏιχώ = ἹεÏή ἠχώ, HierÄ“ Ä“chÅ - Holy echo[]) is a town in the West Bank, Palestine near the Jordan River. ...
Panoramic view from Mt. ...
The Temple Mount as it appears today. ...
Lachish was a town located in the Shephelah, or maritime plain of Palestine (Joshua 10:3, 5; 12:11). ...
Megiddo, in modern days Israel Part of the site of ancient Megiddo Megiddo (Hebrew: ) is a hill in Israel near the modern settlement of Megiddo, known for theological, historical and geographical reasons. ...
Ramat Rachel is a kibbutz in Israel just south of the city center of Jerusalem, overlooking Bethlehem. ...
Tel Dan is an area in upper Galilee in Northern Israel; fed by melt water from the snows of mount Hermon, it is well watered by streams and covered with lush vegetation that seems out of place amidst its arid surroundings. ...
Agrigento (formerly Girgenti) is the name of a town on the southern coast of Italy, capital of the province of Agrigento. ...
Map of central Mediterranean Sea, showing location of Agrigentum (modern Agrigento). ...
Asti is a city and comune in the Piemonte or Piedmont region, in north-western Italy, about 80 kilometres east of Turin in the plain of the Tanaro River. ...
Calabria (Latin: Bruttium or Brutium), is a region in southern Italy which occupies the toe of the Italian peninsula south of Naples. ...
Campania is a region of Southern Italy, bordering on Lazio to the north-west, Molise to the north, Puglia to the north-east, Basilicata to the east, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. ...
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Crotone is a city in Calabria, southern Italy, on the Gulf of Taranto. ...
Erice is a historical city in the mountains close to Trapani in Sicily, Italy. ...
The Roman Forum (Forum Romanum) was a central area of ancient Rome in which commerce, business, trading and the administration of justice took place. ...
Forlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, famed as the birthplace of the great painter Melozzo da Forlì and of Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, at the nearby comune of Predappio. ...
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Herculaneum (in modern Italian Ercolano) was an ancient Roman town, located in the territory of the current commune of Ercolano. ...
Isernia (Latin: Aesernia or, in Pliny and later writers, Eserninus, or in the Antonine Itinerary, Serni; Greek: ) is a town and comune in the southern Italian region of Molise, and the capital of Isernia province. ...
Lazio (Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Marche, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ...
Locri Epizephyri (epi-Zephyros, under the West wind; see also List of traditional Greek place names) was founded about 680 BC on the Italian shores of the Ionian Sea, near modern Capo Zefirio, by the Locrians, apparently by Opuntii (East Locrians) from the city of Opus, but including Ozolae (West...
Panoramic photo of Morgantinas agora on the Serra Orlando ridge, looking NE. The conical peak of Cittadella is visible in the center background. ...
Mozia is a small island, formerly known as Motia in the Trapani province, in Sicily, Italy, lies in the Stagnone Lagoon, and is generally included as a part of Marsala. ...
Piedmont is a region of northwestern Italy. ...
A computer-generated depiction of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 which buried Pompeii, from the BBCs Pompeii: The Last Day. ...
Nickname: The Eternal City Motto: SPQR: Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Mayor Walter Veltroni Area - City 1,285 km² (580 sq mi...
The ancient city of Rhegion (Latin Rhegium) (nowadays: Reggio Calabria) was one of the Magna Graecia colonies founded by Chalcidians in 730 BC. Thucydides wrote that the Delphi oracle was consulted prior to the founding of Rhegion. ...
Archaeological and artistic sites of Sardinia Acquafredda near Siliqua, castle, 13th century Aiodda near Nurallao-Nuragus, Giants Tomb Albucciu near Olbia-Arzachena, nuraghe Alghero Anghelu Ruju near Algher-Ozieri, necropolis Antas near Fluminimaggiore, temple Ardara Romanesque church Argentiera carbon mines, ghost villages, industrial architecture Asoru near Muravera, nuraghe Assemini Catalan...
Segesta was the political center of the Elymian people. ...
Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site in the south province of Trapani, in the island of Sicily. ...
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Sicily (Sicilia in Italian, Latin, Sicilian and Spanish, Σικελία in Greek) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 km² and 5 million inhabitants. ...
Map of central Mediterranean Sea, showing location of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. ...
The Suasa archaeological park is in Castelleone di Suasa (AN), Italy. ...
Isola Bella from the North Isola Bella Bay from the south Greek theatre in Taormina Taormina is a small town in the island of Sicily in Italy. ...
Turin (Italian: ; Piedmontese: Turin) is a major industrial city as well as a business and cultural center in northwest Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the west bank of the Po River. ...
Torre della Colombaia Trapani (2004 population 67,456) is a city in the west coast of Sicily in Italy. ...
The Villa Romana del Casale is an excavated Roman villa containing some of the best examples of Roman mosaics in their original settings in the world. ...
The site of a major archeological discovery, Iwajuku (岩宿) provided evidence of habitation of Japan by humans before 10,000 BC. To date, these are the oldest record of human dwellings from Japans past. ...
The oval forum and main street of Roman Jerash, with modern Jerash rising behind them Map of the Decapolis showing location of Gerasa (Jerash) Jerash (ancient Antioch-on-the-Chrysorhoas, also known as Gerasa) was a city of the Graceo-Roman Decapolis, its ruins now located in the Gilead region...
Madaba Map The Madaba Map is the oldest extant map of the Holy Land and is dated to the middle of the 6th century AD. It was discovered late in the 19th century, during an excavation and reconstruction of a mosaic floor in St Georges Church in Madaba, Jordan. ...
The Treasury at Petra Petra (from petra, rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, al-BitrÄ) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. ...
The Mazar of Shaikh Ahmad Yasavi in the town of Turkestan. ...
Anjar may mean: Anjar, India, town and district of India Anjar, Lebanon, town in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon Anjar Company, toy and game licensing company This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Overview of Baalbek in the late 19th century Baalbek (Arabic: ‎) is a town in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, altitude 3,850 ft (1,170 m), situated east of the Litani River. ...
The ruins of the Crusader castle in Byblos. ...
The Niah Caves is a prehistorical site in Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia. ...
Kota Tampan is an paleolithic prehistorical site in Malaysia. ...
Photo of Lenggong. ...
Bujang Valley (Lembah Bujang) The Bujang Valley or Lembah Bujang is a sprawling historical complex and has an area of approximately 224 square km. ...
See also Timbuktu (novel) for the book by Paul Auster. ...
Bonampak. ...
The Gran Basamento, protected by its sheet-metal roof Cacaxtla is an archaeological site located in the state of Tlaxcala, Mexico, at 19°18′ N 98°20′ W. History View over the top of the Gran Basamento Cacaxtla is believed to have been the capital of a nation...
Calakmul is the name of both a municipality and a major archeological site in the Mexican state of Campeche, in the central part of the Yucatán Peninsula. ...
Temple of the Warriors Chichen Itza is the largest of the Pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Yucat n, Mexico. ...
Coba (Cobá in the Spanish language) is a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, located in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. ...
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Mitla is a town in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, famous for its pre-Columbian Mesoamerican buildings. ...
Monte Albán is a large archeological site in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. ...
The Palace, Ruins of Palenque Palenque is a Maya archeological site near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 130 km south of Ciudad del Carmen (see map). ...
El TajÃn is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site near the city of Papantla, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico. ...
Teotihuacan was the largest Pre-Columbian known city in the Americas, and the name Teotihuacan is used to refer to the civilization this city dominated, which at its greatest extent included most of Mesoamerica. ...
Clay Bowl, pigmented, 1200–900 BC, from the Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, Indiana University Art Museum [1] Tlapacoya is an important archaeological site in Mexico. ...
Tlaltelolco is an area in Mexico City, centered on the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, a square surrounded on three sides by an excavated Aztec pyramid, the 17th century church Templo de Santiago, and the modern office complex of the Mexican foreign ministry. ...
Tulum against the blue sea Tulum (sometimes rendered as Tuluum) is a Pre-Columbian walled city of the Maya civilization located on the Caribbean Sea coast of the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. ...
Panorama of Uxmal Uxmal (, ) is a large Pre-Columbian ruined city of the Maya civilization in the state of Yucatán, Mexico. ...
Xochicalco is a Pre-Columbian archeological site in the western part of the Morelos, Mexico. ...
Nan Madol Nan Madol, consisting of a series of small artificial islands linked by a network of canals, is often called the Venice of the Pacific. ...
Map of Chuuk State Map of Chuuk Islands Chuuk islands A view of Chuuk Chuuk, formerly known by following names; Truk, Ruk, Hogoleu, Torres, Ugulat, and Lugulus; is an island group that comprises one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), along with Kosrae, Pohnpei, and...
Lixus refers to the following things: The Latin word for boiled The ancient city of Lixus in Morocco The insect genus Lixus which includes several species of weevils Lixus corporation, a Japanese distribution company A line of high-performance scientific cameras produced by German company Optologic This is a disambiguation...
Tamuda is an archaeological site in Morocco situated in Tetouan. ...
Volubilis, The Capitol Volubilis is a archaeological site in Morocco situated near Meknes and between Fez and Rabat. ...
- Te Wairoa - Maori village buried by volcanic eruption in the 1880s
Te Wairoa, also known as The Buried Village is located close to the shore of Lake Tarawera in New Zealands North Island. ...
Reine, Lofoten, seen from top of Reinebringen (June, 2003). ...
The Borre mound cemetery forms part of the Borre National Park in Horten, Vestfold, Norway. ...
History Gokstad viking ship -excavation. ...
The Oseberg longship (Viking Ship Museum, Norway) vantage exactly from the front - one of the most stunning expressions of Norse art and craftsmenship The Oseberg ship was found in a large burial mound at the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Vestfold county, Norway, in 1904. ...
Tune can refer to: a melody. ...
Harappa (Urdu: Ûڑپا) is a city in Punjab, northeast Pakistan, about 35km (22 miles) southwest of Sahiwal. ...
Mehrgarh was an ancient settlement in South Asia and is one of the most important sites in archaeology for the study of the earliest neolithic settlements in that region. ...
Mohenjo-daro (literally, mound of the dead), like Harappa, was a city of the Indus Valley civilization. ...
The city of Taxila ()[1] was an important early Hindu[2][3] and Buddhist[4] centre of learning from the 5th century BCE[5] to the 2nd century CE[6]. UNESCO has listed 18 locations at Taxila as World Heritage Sites. ...
Buena Vista is the 20-acre site of an archaeological dig north of Lima, Peru. ...
Caral is a large settlement in the Supe Valley, near Supe, Barranca province, Peru, some 200 km north of Lima (ca. ...
Overview of ruins of the Tschudi Complex, Chan Chan The largest Pre-Columbian city in South America, Chan Chan is an archaeological site located in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, just north of Trujillo. ...
Chavín de Huantar is an archaeological site located 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Peru. ...
View of Choquequirao Choquequirao (Quechua: Choqekiraw) is a partly excavated ruined city of the Inca in the south of Peru. ...
Cumbe Mayo Aqueduct Cumbe Mayo is located about 12 miles southwest of the Peruvian city of Cajamarca, at an elevation of approximately 11,000 feet. ...
The Church of La Compañía on the Plaza de Armas in Cuzco Cuzco is a city in southeastern Peru in the Huatanay Valley (Sacred Valley), of the Andes mountain range. ...
Middle Horizon The Huari (or Wari) was a Middle Horizon civilization that flourished in the southern Andes from about 500 to 1200 AD. The capital city is located near the modern city of Ayacucho, Peru. ...
Kuélap Fortress The fortress of Kuelap (or Kuélap), associated with the Chachapoyas culture, consists of massive exterior stone walls containing more than four hundred buildings. ...
View of Machu Picchu Machu Picchu (Quechua: Old Peak; sometimes called the Lost City of the Incas) is a well-preserved pre-Columbian Inca ruin located at 2,430 m (7,970 ft)[1] on a mountain ridge. ...
Moche pottery (Image © PROMPERU, used with permission) The Moche civilization (aka the Mochica culture, Early Chimu, Pre-Chimu, Proto-Chimu, etc. ...
Early South American Civilizations Nazca (sometimes spelled Nasca) is the name of a system of valleys on the southern coast of Peru, and the name of the regions largest existing town. ...
Ollantaytambo terraces Ollantaytambo is a town in southern Peru, located in the district of Ollantaytambo, province of Urubamba, Cusco region. ...
Pachacamac empire The ancient city of Pachacamac is a ruin 40 km southeast of Lima, Peru in the Valley of the LurÃn River. ...
QAllaqasa, the citadel. ...
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The tallest chullpa of Sillustani, about 12 m high. ...
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Tambo Colorado remains of original colours on adobe walls Tambo Colorado overview Tambo Colorado is a well-preserved Inca adobe site on the coast of Peru. ...
Area of the Middle Horizon The Gate of the Sun Tiwanaku (Spanish spellings: Tiahuanaco and Tiahuanacu) is an important Pre-Columbian archaeological site in Bolivia. ...
Purgatorio (purgatory) is the name by which local people refer to the dozens of prehispanic pyramids, enclosures and mounds found on the plain around La Raya Mountain, south of the La Leche River. ...
- Biskupin Iron Age
- Giecz Middle Ages
- Krzemionki Opatowskie Neolith
- Odry Iron Age
- Ostrów Lednicki Middle Ages
Gate to the reconstructed settlement Biskupin is an archaeological site and a life-size model of an Iron Age fortified settlement (gród) in Poland, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship. ...
Giecz is a small village in Poland, in the Greater Polish Voivodship, near Dominowo and Åšroda. ...
Ostrów Lednicki is a castle in Poland built in mediaeval times on an island on Lake Lednica. ...
ConÃmbriga is one of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal, and is classified as a National Monument. ...
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The Hill of Tara (aerial view) The Hill of Tara (Irish Teamhair na RÃ, Hill of the Kings), located near the River Boyne, is a long, low limestone ridge that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Leinster, Ireland. ...
The ruins of Kilcrea Friary (also called Kilcrea Abbey) are located near the town of Aherla in County Cork, Ireland at . Kilcrea Friary, exterior. ...
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Newgrange, located at , , is one of the passage tombs of the Brú na Bóinne complex in County Meath, is the most famous of all Irish prehistoric sites. ...
Trim Castle (Dublin Side) Trim Castle, [[Trim] (Baile Atha Troim in Irish)], Ireland has an area of 30,000 m². It is the remains of the largest castle in Europe, which was Norman in origin, built primarily by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter. ...
For an explanation of terms related to Macedonia, see Macedonia (terminology). ...
City motto : Coordinates Municipality : Ohrid municipality Elevation 695 m Population 55 749 Time zone - Standard - Summer (DST) CET (UTC+1) CEST (UTC+2) Founded Area code +389 046 Postal code 6000 Car plates OH Official Website www. ...
Callatis was a Roman town which is modern Mangalia in Romania today. ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Category:Histria Histria was first a Miletus colony and latter a roman town. ...
Sarmisezetusa was the capital of Dacia - which covered almost the same territory as present-day Romania. ...
Images of Trajan monument of victory Daco-Roman Wars I AD Categories: Romanian history | Nerva-Antonine Dynasty | Roman military history | Roman awards and decorations ...
Tomi (also called Tomi) was a Greek colony in the province of Scythia on the Black Seas shore, founded around 500 BC for commercial exchanges with local Dacian populations. ...
Arkaim is an archaeological site situated in the Southern Urals steppe, 8. ...
Ipatovo kurgan refers to kurgan 2 of the Ipatovo barrow cemetery 3, a cemetery of kurgan burial mounds, located near Ipatovo, some 120 km north-east of Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia. ...
Krivoye Ozero is a small lake in the Chelyabinsk Oblast of Russia, southeast of Magnitogorsk, near the Kazakhstani border. ...
Ladoga may refer to one of the following. ...
The Maykop culture, ca. ...
Velikiy Novgorod (Russian: ) is the foremost historic city of North-Western Russia, situated on the M10(E95) federal highway connecting Moscow and St. ...
Horseman, Pazyryk felt artifact, c. ...
Sarkel (or Åžarkil; Turkic for White Fortress) was a large limestone-and-brick fortress built by the Khazars with Byzantine assistance in the 830s. ...
The Sintashta fortified settlement in the southern Urals is dated to ca. ...
Sarmatian cataphract from Tanais. ...
Tmutarakan is an ancient city that controlled the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov. ...
Anthem: Bože pravde (English: God of Justice) Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Serbian written with the Cyrillic alphabet1 Government Republic - Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica - President Boris Tadić Establishment - Formation 814 - First Serbian Uprising 1804 - Internationally recognized July 13, 1878 - Kingdom of SCS created December 1, 1918 - SCG dissolved...
Sremska Mitrovica (Сремска Митровица) is a city located in the Vojvodina province of Serbia and Montenegro at 44. ...
Cave painting of a Bison from Altamira Outline of cave paintings. ...
TALAIOT Megalithic prehistoric structures found in the Balearic islands. ...
Adelsö is an island in the middle of the lake Mälaren in Sweden near southern and northern Björkfjärden. ...
Medieval drystone bridge in Alby Alby, Sweden (Latitude: 59° 16 60N; Longitude: 17° 41 60E) is a village on the Baltic Sea in the Hulterstad district at the western fringe of the Stora Alvaret. ...
Location in Sweden During the Viking Age, Birka or Birca , on the island of Björkö (also Bierkø, literally: Birch Island) in Sweden, was an important trading center which handled goods from Scandinavia as well as Central and Eastern Europe and the Orient. ...
Gamla Uppsala is an area rich in archaeological remains seen from the grave field whose larger mounds (left part) are close to the royal mounds. ...
Helgö is an island in lake Mälaren, Sweden. ...
Sigtuna is a city in central Sweden in the metropolitan area of Stockholm. ...
Uppåkra is a village located five kilometres south of Lund in Scania in southernmost Sweden. ...
Valsgärde is a farm at the Fyris river, ca 3 km north of Gamla Uppsala, the ancient centre of the Swedish kings and of the pagan faith in Sweden. ...
Ohtheres mound Vendel is a parish in the Swedish province of Uppland. ...
The La Tène culture was an Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. ...
Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ...
For the town in Jordan, see Bozrah. ...
Ebla is not to be confused with Elba. ...
A general view of the site Palmyra was in the ancient times an important city of central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 120 km southwest of the Euphrates. ...
Tell Abu Hureyra (tell is arabic for mount) was a site of an ancient settlement in the northern Levant or western Mesopotamia. ...
The Mesolithic (Greek mesos=middle and lithos=stone or the Middle Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age. ...
Entrance to the Palace of Ugarit Ugarit (modern site Ras Shamra رأس شمرة; in Arabic) 35°35´ N; 35°45´E) was an ancient cosmopolitan port city, sited on the Mediterranean coast of northern Syria a few kilometers north of the modern city of Latakia. ...
Intendant Ebih-Il, found in the temple of Ishtar at Mari, Archaic Dynasties (ca. ...
Qatna is an ancient city in Syria, present day Tell-el-Mishrife in the Wadi il-Aswad, a tributary of the Orontes, 18 km northeast of Homs. ...
Ban Chiang (Thai บ้านเชียง) is an archeological site located in the Udon Thani province, Thailand, at 17°32′55″N, 103°21′30″E. It is listed in the UNESCO world heritage list since 1992. ...
Ban Non Wat is a village in central Thailand, in the Non Sung district, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, located near the small city of Phimai. ...
Ruins of Roman-era Carthage The term Carthage (Greek: , Arabic: قرطاج also قرطاجة, Latin: Carthago) refers both to an ancient city in North Africa located in modern day Tunis and to the civilization that developed within the citys sphere of influence. ...
The tetrapylon (monumental gate) Aphrodisias was a town in Caria, now part of modern Turkey, about 230 km (142. ...
Excavations at the South Area of Çatal Höyük Çatalhöyük (also Çatal Höyük and Çatal Hüyük, or any of the three without diacritics; çatal is Turkish for fork, höyük for mound) was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern...
Historical Map of Ephesus, from Meyers Konversationslexikon 1888 Ephesus (Greek: , Turkish: ), was one of the great cities of the Ionian Greeks in Anatolia, located in Lydia where the Cayster River (Küçük Menderes) flows into the Aegean Sea (in modern day Turkey). ...
Göbekli Tepe is an early Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey. ...
Hasankeyf on the Tigris River Hasankeyf is in Batman Province, southeast Turkey — an area mainly settled by Kurds. ...
The Lion Gate in the south-west Hattusa (also known as Hattusas or Khattushash) was the capital of the Hittite Empire. ...
For other meanings of Smyrna, see Smyrna (disambiguation). ...
Kerkenes (or Kerkenes Dag) is the largest pre-Hellenistic site from the Anatolian Plateau (Turkey) – 7 km of strong stone defenses, pierced by seven gates, that enclose 2. ...
Knidos or Cnidus (modern-day Tekir in Turkey) is an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, once part of the country of Caria. ...
Nevali Cori is an early Neolithic settlement in the upper Euphrates valley, eastern Turkey, around 490 m high. ...
Acropolis of Pergamon as seen from above Sketched reconstruction of ancient Pergamon Temple of Trajan at the Acropolis of Pergamon The Asklepeion of Pergamon was the worlds first hospital Pergamon or Pergamum (Greek: Î ÎÏγαμος, modern day Bergama in Turkey, ) was an ancient Greek city, in Mysia, northwestern Anatolia, 16 miles...
A recent view of the ceremonial court of the thermae–gymnasium complex in Sardis, dated to 211—212 AD Sardis, (also Sardes, Greek: ΣάÏδεις), modern Sart in the Manisa province of Turkey, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, the seat of a proconsul under the Roman Empire, and...
Troy or Ilion, see Troy (disambiguation) and Ilion (disambiguation). ...
Zeugma (from the Greek word ζεÏγμα, meaning yoke) is a figure of speech in which one word applies to two others in different senses of that word, and in some cases only logically applies to one of the other two words. ...
Merv – Persian name: مرو; formerly Alexandria and Antiochia in Margiana (Greek: Αντιόχεια η ΜαÏγιανή) – in current-day Turkmenistan, was a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near todays Mary. ...
The remains of the city of Chersonesos Chersonesos (Greek: , Latin: , Ukrainian: , Russian: ; see also List of traditional Greek place names) also known as Chersonese, Chersonesos, Cherson, Khersones and Korsun was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of Crimea, known then as Taurica. ...
Pontic Olbia or Olvia is the site a colony founded by the Milesians on the shores of the Southern Bug estuary (Greek: Hypanis), opposite Berezan Island. ...
Berezan is an island in the Black Sea at the entrance of the Dnieper-Bug estuary, Ukraine. ...
Avebury Henge and Village Avebury is the site of a large henge and several stone circles in the English county of Wiltshire at grid reference SU103699, surrounding the village of Avebury (its geographical location is 51°25′43″N, 1°51′15″W). ...
Bignor is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England, about six miles north of Arundel. ...
Caerleon (Welsh: ) (grid reference ST323914, ) is a suburban village situated on the River Usk on the northern outskirts of the city of Newport. ...
Castell Henllys (Welsh, castle of the old court) is an important archaeological site in west Wales. ...
Bridge at Chew Stoke Chew Stoke is a small village approximately 8 miles south of Bristol. ...
Chysauster Ancient Village is Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall. ...
Danebury is a an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire in the United Kingdom, around 12 miles north west of Winchester. ...
Duggleby Howe (also known as Howe Hill, Duggleby) is one of the largest round barrows in Britain, located on the southern side of the Great Wold Valley in East Yorkshire, and is one of four such monuments in this area, known collectively as the Great barrows of East Yorkshire. ...
Emain Macha, (Old Irish , Emuin Macha, Modern Irish Eamhain Mhacha , Emania) known in English as Navan Fort, is an ancient monument in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. ...
Fishbourne is a village in West Sussex, situated between Chichester and Bosham. ...
Flag fen near Peterborough, England is a bronze age site, probably religious. ...
Cheddar Gorge is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom Cheddar Gorge is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom, near the village of Cheddar in the Mendip Hills in Somerset, England. ...
View of a seam of Flint in the Grimes Graves excavation. ...
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The village, seen from the bridge Ironbridge is a settlement beside the River Severn, at the heart of the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, England. ...
Jorvik was the Viking name for the English city of York and the kingdom centered there. ...
Kirkstall Abbey Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in the outskirts of Leeds in Yorkshire, set in grounds on the north bank of the River Aire. ...
Little Woodbury is the name of an important Iron Age archaeological site near Salisbury in the English county of Wiltshire. ...
Lullingstone Roman villa is situated in northwest Kent in England. ...
Maeshowe Maeshowe Entrance Maeshowe (or Maes Howe) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland Orkney, Scotland. ...
Mine Howe is a prehistoric subterranean man made chamber dug 20 feet deep inside a large mound. ...
Nempnett Thrubwell is a small village on the western edge of the county of Bath & North East Somerset. ...
Ring of Brodgar The Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar) is a neolithic henge and stone circle a little like Stonehenge in England. ...
Seahenge or Holme I is a bronze-age timber circle discovered in 1998 just off the coast of the English county of Norfolk at Holme-next-the-Sea. ...
Silbury Hill, part of the complex of Neolithic monuments around Avebury in Wiltshire (which includes the West Kennet Long Barrow), is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe and one of the worlds largest. ...
The walls and church Inside the walls; note far walls in distance Silchester Roman Town, or Calleva Atrebatum, was an Iron Age and subsequently Roman town and capital of the Celtic tribe named the Atrebates, located near the modern village of Silchester on what is today the border between the...
Skara Brae is a large stone-built Neolithic settlement, located in the Bay of Skaill on the west coast of mainland Orkney, Scotland. ...
The Stanton Drew stone circles are at Grid reference ST600633 just outside the village of Stanton Drew, Somerset. ...
Star Carr is a Mesolithic archaeological site in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. ...
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Sutton Hoo parade helmet (British Museum, restored). ...
Trellech is a village in Monmouthshire, Wales, and the location of an archaeological site. ...
Trimontium is the name of a Roman fort at Newstead, near Melrose, Scotland, close under the three Eildon Hills (whence the name trium montium). ...
Remains of the city walls Verulamium was the third largest city in Roman Britain. ...
Vindolanda was a Roman auxiliary fort located at Chesterholm, just south of Hadrians Wall in northern England, near the border with Scotland, guarding the Roman road from the River Tyne, to the Solway Firth, now known as the Stanegate. ...
Windmill Hill is a Neolithic causewayed enclosure in the English county of Wiltshire, situated around 3 miles north of Avebury. ...
Woodhenge Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class I henge and timber circle monument located to the North of Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, and it is closer to Amesbury than is Stonehenge. ...
Wroxeter is a village in the county of Shropshire, England, on the east bank of the River Severn, at grid reference SJ563082. ...
According to Book 2 Chapter 14 of the Ecclesiastical History of the Venerable Bede (680-735), in the year 627 Bishop Paulinus accompanied the Northumbrian king Edwin and his queen Aethelburh to their royal villa (the Latin term is villa regia), Adgefrin, where Paulinus spent 36 days preaching and baptising...
This article is about the historic English city. ...
Cahokia is the site of an ancient Native American city near Collinsville, Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. ...
Calico Early Man Site Calico Early Man is a possible archaeological site 15 miles NE of Barstow, California. ...
In the 1930s, this shelter was built to protect what remains of the Casa Grande ruins. ...
Castle Hill is a name that is used in many places: Castle Hill, Stirling is where James I of Scotland was crowned. ...
Sitka City and Borough is a borough located on the west side of Baranof Island in the Alexander Archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, in the state of Alaska. ...
Center for American Archeology, or CAA, is an is an independent non-profit 501(c)3 research and education institution nestled along the banks of the Illinois River in scenic Calhoun County in Kampsville, Illinois dedicated to the culture of prehistoric Native Americans. ...
Center for American Archeology, or CAA, is an is an independent non-profit 501(c)3 research and education institution nestled along the banks of the Illinois River in scenic Calhoun County in Kampsville, Illinois dedicated to the culture of prehistoric Native Americans. ...
Chacoan corner doorway in Pueblo Bonito. ...
Crystal River State Archaeological Site is a 61 acre Florida State Park located on the Crystal River and within the Crystal River Preserve State Park. ...
The Crystal River is a very short river in Citrus County, Florida flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. ...
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Jamestown is the name of the following places in the United States of America: Jamestown, California Jamestown, Colorado Jamestown, Indiana Jamestown, Kansas Jamestown, Kentucky Jamestown, Louisiana Jamestown, Missouri Jamestown, New York Jamestown, North Carolina Jamestown, North Dakota Jamestown, Ohio Jamestown, Oklahoma Jamestown, Pennsylvania Jamestown, Rhode Island Jamestown, South Carolina Jamestown...
Gungywamp stone circle Gungywamp is an archeological site in Groton, Connecticut consisting of artifacts dating from 2000-770 BC, a stone circle, Native American and colonial structure remains. ...
Waterfront of Groton, Connecticut looking upriver Groton is a town located on the Thames River in New London County, Connecticut. ...
Topper is an archaeological site located along the Savannah River in Allendale County, South Carolina in the United States. ...
Allendale is a town located in Allendale County, South Carolina. ...
La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles Countys Miracle Mile District. ...
Meadowcroft Rock Shelter is an archaeological site located near Avella in Washington County, in southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. ...
Mesa Verde National Park is a national park in southwest Colorado, in the United States. ...
The Serpent Mound is a 1,330 feet long and three feet high effigy mound located on a plateau in the Brush Creek Valley of Adams County, Ohio. ...
Snaketown is the name of a prehistoric Native American settlement in Arizonas lower Gila River valley near the community of Chandler in the United States of America. ...
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Williamsburg is the name of some places in the United States of America: Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York City Williamsburg, Colorado Williamsburg, Florida Williamsburg, Iowa Williamsburg, Kansas Williamsburg, Kentucky Williamsburg, Maryland Williamsburg, Massachusetts Williamsburg, Michigan Williamsburg, New Mexico Williamsburg, North Carolina Williamsburg, Ohio Williamsburg, Pennsylvania Williamsburg, Virginia including Colonial Williamsburg...
The Whydah Gally was the galley-style ship of the pirate Black Sam Bellamy. ...
Underwater archaeology is the study of past human life, behaviours and cultures using the physical remains found in salt or fresh water or buried beneath water-logged sediment. ...
Lubbock Lake Landmark is an important archeological site and natural history preserve in the city of Lubbock, Texas. ...
The Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center (Centro Ceremonial Indigena de Tibes) in Ponce, Puerto Rico, is one of the most important archeological discoveries made in the Antilles. ...
Flag Seal Nickname: Ciudad de los Leones , La Perla del Sur Gentilic: Ponceños Location Location of Ponce, Puerto Rico within Puerto Rico Government Founded 1692 Mayor Francisco Zayas Seijo Political party PPD Senatorial district 5 - Ponce Representative district 24,25 Geographical characteristics Area Total 501. ...
Colour photograph of a Madrasa taken in Samarkand ca. ...
Overview of Great Zimbabwe. ...
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