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Abbey Gardens, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
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Abritus
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abritus)
Abritus (Abrittus) was a late Roman city near the site of the modern city of Razgrad. Abritus was established at the end of the 1st century AD as a Roman military camp built on the ruins of an ancient Thracian settlement and grew to become one of the biggest urban centres in Moesia Inferior.
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Aggersborg
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Aggersborg is the largest of Denmark's former Viking ring castles, and one of the largest archeological sites in Denmark. It is located near Aggersund on the north side of the Limfjord. It consisted of a circular rampart surrounded by a ditch. Four main roads arranged in a crossconnected the castle centre with the outer ring. The roads were tunnelled under the outer rampart, leaving the circular structure intact.
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Acropolis
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The most famous example is the Acropolis of Athens,[3] which, by reason of its historical associations and the several famous buildings erected upon it (most notably the Parthenon), is known without qualification as the Acropolis. Although originating in the mainland of Greece, use of the acropolis model quickly spread to Greek colonies such as the Dorian Lato on Crete during the Archaic Period.
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Akrotiri (Santorini)
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Akrotiri (Greek: Ακρωτήρι, pronounced Greek: [akroˈtiri]) is a Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the volcanic Greek island of Santorini (Thera). The settlement was destroyed in the Theran eruption about 1627 BCE and buried in volcanic ash, which preserved the remains of fine Frescoes and many objects and artworks. The settlement has been suggested as a possible inspiration for Plato's story of Atlantis. The site has been excavated since 1967.
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Amphipolis, Greece
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'Important' Ancient Tomb Discovered In Greece Dates Back To Era Of Alexander The Great.
But archaeologists believe the apparently unlooted Amphipolis grave, which is surrounded by a surprisingly long and well-built wall with courses of marble decorations, may have belonged to a senior ancient official.
Excavator Katerina Peristeri has argued that the mound was originally topped by a large stone lion that was unearthed a century ago some 5 kilometers from the site. In the past, the lion has been associated with Laomedon of Mytilene, one of Alexander's military commanders who became governor of Syria after the king's death.
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Antigonea
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigonia_(Chaonia)
Antigonea (Greek: Αντιγόνεια), also transliterated as Antigonia and Antigoneia, was an ancient Greek [1] city in Epirus and the chief inland city of the ancient Chaonians. It was founded in the 3rd century BC by Pyrrhus of Epirus, who named it after one of his wives, Antigone, daughter of Berenice and step-daughter of Ptolemy I of Egypt. In 198 BC the Romans defeated the Macedonian armies of Philip V.

Alba Iulia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alba_Iulia#Ancient_times)
During the Roman period the settlement was called Apulum (from the Dacian Apoulon, mentioned by Ptolemy).[4][5][6] The early Slavic name of the settlement was Bălgrad (meaning "white castle" or "white town").[6][7] The old Romanian name of the town was Bălgrad,[6] originated from Slavic. The "white city" was Latinized into Alba Julia or Alba Yulia.[5]
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Alesia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alesia_(city)
Alesia was the capital of the Mandubii, one of the Gallic tribes allied with the Aedui, and after Julius Caesar's conquest a Roman town (oppidum) in Gaul. There have been archeological excavations since the time of Napoléon III in Alise-Sainte-Reine in Côte d'Or near Dijon, which have claimed that the historical Alesia is located there.
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Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls
Wikipedia
The Amphitheatre of the Three Gauls (French: Amphithéâtre des Trois Gaules) of Lugdunum (Lyon) was part of the federal sanctuary of the three Gauls dedicated to the cult of Rome and Augustus celebrated by the 60 Gallic tribes when they gathered at Lugdunum. In 1961, it was classified as monument historique.[1]

Apollonia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollonia_(Illyria)
Its ruins are situated in the Fier region, near the village of Pojani, in modern-day Albania. Apollonia was founded in 588 BCE by Greek colonists from Corfu and Corinth,[2] on a site initially occupied by Illyrian tribes[3] and was perhaps the most important of the several classical towns known as Apollonia. Apollonia flourished in the Roman period and was home to a renowned school of philosophy, but began to decline in the 3rd century AD when its harbor started silting up as a result of an earthquake. It was abandoned by the end of Late Antiquity.
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Aqueduct of the Gier
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqueduct_of_the_Gier)
The Aqueduct of the Gier (French Aqueduc du Gier)[1] is an ancient Roman aqueduct probably constructed in the 1st century CE to provide water for Lugdunum (Lyon), in what is now eastern France. It is the longest and best preserved of four Roman aqueducts[2] that served the growing capital of the Roman province of Gallia Lugdunensis. It drew its water from the source of the Gier, a small tributary of the Rhone, on the slopes of Mont Pilat, 42 km (26 mi) south-west of Lyon.[3]

Aquae Iasae
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquae_Iasae)
In the 3rd century BC, in this area lived the Illyrian tribe Jasi, whose name the Romans referred to later in calling this place Aquae Iasae, "Waters of the Jasi". The village Jasa, thanks to its springs of water, grew into a significant medical, ceremonial, cultural and economic center of Upper Pannonia.
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Aquincum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquincum)
It was originally settled by the Eravisci, a Celtic tribe and the name was Ak-ink. Aquincum served as a military base (castrum), having been part of the Roman border protection system called limes. Around AD 41-54, a 500-strong cavalry unit arrived, and a Roman legion of 6,000 men was stationed here by AD 89. The city gradually grew around the fortress, and after Pannonia was reorganised by the Romans in AD 106, Aquincum became the capital city of Pannonia Inferior.

Arbeia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeia)
Founded around 120, it later became the maritime supply fort for Hadrian's Wall, and contains the only permanent stone-built granaries yet found in Britain. It was occupied until the Romans left Britain in the 5th century.
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Arch of Germanicus
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arch_of_Germanicus)
The Arch of Germanicus is an ancient Roman arch in Saintes, Charente-Maritime in France. It was built in 18 or 19 by a rich citizen of the town (then known as Mediolanum Santonum), C. Julius Rufus, and dedicated to the emperor Tiberius, his son Drusus Julius Caesar, and his adoptive son Germanicus.

Arenes de Lutece
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Constructed in the 1st century AD, this amphitheater is considered the longest of its kind constructed by the Romans. The sunken arena of the amphitheater was surrounded by the wall of a podium 2.5 m (8.2 feet) high, surmounted by a parapet. The presence of a 41.2-m- (135-foot-) long stage allowed scenes to alternate between theatrical productions and combat.
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Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments
Wikipedia
Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments (French: Arles, monuments romains et romans)[1] is an area containing a collection of monuments in the city centre of Arles, France, that has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981.

Arles Roman Arena
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arles#Ancient_era)
Arelate was a city of considerable importance in the province of Gallia Narbonensis. It covered an area of some 99 acres (40 ha) (400,000 m²) and possessed a number of monuments, including an amphitheatre, triumphal arch, Roman circus, theatre, and a full circuit of walls. Ancient Arles was closer to the sea than it is now and served as a major port.
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Arles - Constantine Baths

Arles Roman Theatre
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Arkesini @ Ay. Triada-Amorgos
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Assumption of the Virgin Cathedral
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja%C3%A9n_Cathedral)
Construction of the cathedral began in 1249 on the ruins of an ancient mosque. It was damaged and rebuilt on numerous occasions during the following two centuries until the sixteenth century, when several architects, Andrés de Vandelvira being the most important one, built the biggest part of the Cathedral. It was consecrated in 1724.

Augusta Raurica
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta_Raurica)
Augusta Raurica, or Colonia Augusta Rauracorum, was founded by Lucius Munatius Plancus around 44 BC in the vicinity of a local Gallic tribe, the Rauraci, relatives of the Helvetii. No archaeological evidence from this period has yet been found, leading to the conclusion that, either the settlement of the colony was disturbed by the civil war following the death of Julius Caesar, or that Plancus' colony was actually in the area of modern Basel, not Augst.

Avebury
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avebury)
Avebury (/ˈeɪvbri/) is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. Unique amongst megalithic monuments, Avebury contains the largest stone circle in Europe, and is one of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary Pagans.
Constructed around 2600 BCE,[1] during the Neolithic, or 'New Stone Age', the monument comprises a large henge (that is a bank and a ditch) with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony.
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Ballowall Barrow (Carn Gluze Barrow)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carn_Gluze)
Ballowall Barrow (Cornish: Krug Karrekloos)[1] is a prehistoric funerary cairn (chambered tomb) which Ashbee (1982) and Hencken (1902–81) [2] state contains several phases of use from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. It is situated on the cliff top at Ballowall Common, near St Just in Cornwall, England, UK. It is also known as Carn Gluze Barrow.[3]
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Basilica di San Gavino
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Gavino)
The Basilica di San Gavino (Basilica of Saint Gabinus) is a proto−Romanesque church in Porto Torres,Sardinia, Italy. A former cathedral, it is now a place for the veneration of local martyrs and a parish church.

Baths of Caracalla
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The Baths of Caracalla (Italian: Terme di Caracalla) in Rome, Italy, were the second largest Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla.[1]Chris Scarre provides a slightly longer construction period 211-217 AD.[2] They would have had to install over 2,000 tons of material every day for six years in order to complete it in this time. Records show that the idea for the baths were drawn up by Septimius Severus, and merely completed or opened in the lifetime of Caracalla.[3] This would allow for a longer construction timeframe. They are today a tourist attraction.
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Belgrade Fortress
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalemegdan)
Belgrade Fortress is the core and the oldest section of the urban area of Belgrade and for centuries the city population was concentrated only within the walls of the fortress, thus the history of the fortress, until most recent history, equals the history of Belgrade itself (see: Timeline of Belgrade history). First mention of the city is when it was founded in the 3rd century BC as "Singidunum" by the Celtic tribe of Scordisci who had defeated Thracian and Dacian tribes that previously lived at the fort and around. The city-fortress was later conquered by the Romans, became known as Singidunum and became a part of "the military frontier", where theRoman Empire bordered "barbaric Central Europe".
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Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Akkerman)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akkerman)
In the 6th century BC, Milesian colonists founded a settlement named Tyras on the future location of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi, one which later came under Roman and Byzantine rule. The Byzantines built the fortress and named it Asprocastron ("White Castle" - a meaning kept in several languages). The Voskresensk Chronicle lists Bilhorod "at the mouth of the Dniester, above the sea" among the towns controlled by Kievan Rus.

Bijela Tabija
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijela_tabija)
As far as the precise year of construction goes, differing opinions have been put forward. One of them proposes that Bijela Tabija was built around 1550 (this opinion is founded on the information given by the travel writer Katarino Zeno) and was destroyed during the time of Vratnik City's construction when a new fort was erected in its place.
According to another opinion, a fortress existed in the place of Bijela Tabija during the Middle Ages and it was not bigger than the usual medieval defence fortresses that protected open settlements in their vicinity. Since it is confirmed that there was a medieval settlement (trg) Tornik on the site of today's Sarajevo, it is safe to presume that this settlement must have had a fort which protected it.

Buen Suceso Hospital (15th century)
elpais.com
The technology giant’s [Apple] renovation of the building located at number 1, Puerta del Sol — formerly the Paris Hotel — led to the discovery of the outer walls of the Buen Suceso hospital, next to the church of the same name. Both buildings were demolished in 1854 to make room for the square.
The San Andrés Hospital was built in the early 15th century to treat plague victims. A church was constructed beside it and took the same name. Both changed their names to Buen Suceso (Good fortune) in 1612 and underwent several reconstructions until, in 1854, they were demolished to extend the Puerta del Sol. At that time, the hospital had 60 beds.

Burnum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnum)
It is assumed that Burnum originates from the year 33 BC, but it is more likely that it was established a few decades later.[2] Several Roman legions were located there in succession, and the first one was legio XX Valeria Victrix, placed already there in the beginning of the Pannonian uprising (Bellum Batonianum) AD 6-9.[3] The reason for its location was the need for the control of traffic around the Krka River. Building was initiated by the Roman governor for Dalmatia Publius Cornelius Dolabella and continued by the Roman Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

Butrint
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butrint)
The earliest archaeological evidence of settled occupation dates to between 10th and 8th centuries BC, although some claim that there is earlier evidence of habitation in the 12th century BC.[6]Excavation at Bouthroton has yielded Proto-Corinthian pottery of the 7th century and then Corinthianand Attic pottery of the 6th century, however there are no indications of a prehistoric settlement.[7]

Byllis
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byllis)
The Bylliones are first attested in the mid-4th century BC, in the description of the geographer Pseudo-Scylax,[2] and also asking the oracle of Dodona to which god they should sacrifice in order to ensure the safety of their possessions. The archaeological attestation of the city is possible as far back as the second half of the 4th century BC and was later conquered by Pyrrhus.[3] According to another view, Byllis was found by king Pyrrhus of Epirus.

Calaceite
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaceite)
There are many ancient buildings of great architectural value in the town, as well as the ruins of an ancient Iberian village at Sant Antoni. This town is part of La Franja region of Aragon.
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Callanish Standing Stones
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callanish)
Calanais is the location of the Callanish Stones, a cross-shaped setting of standing stones erected around 3000 BC, one of the most spectacular megalithic monuments in Scotland. There is a modern visitor centre which provides information about the main circle and several other lesser monuments nearby.

Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester Roman Town)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calleva_Atrebatum)
The Atrebates tribe founded their capital at the site of Silchester in the late first century BC. The walls of the Iron Age settlement enclosed an area of approximately 32 hectares (79 acres). After the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD the settlement developed into the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum. It was slightly larger, about 40 hectares (99 acres), and was laid out along a distinctive street grid pattern. The town contained a number of public buildings and flourished until the early Anglo-Saxon period. It was finally abandoned in the 5th to 7th century, which is unusually late compared to other deserted Roman settlements.[1]

Capidava
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capidava)
Romanian archaeologist and historian Vasile Pârvan identified the Geto-Dacian Capidava as the center of power for the Getic king Dapyx, within a territorium Capidavense.[4][5] Cassius Dio's Historia Romana makes mention of the retreat of Dapyx into his fort after his defeat in 28 BC at the hand of Marcus Licinius Crassus.[13][23] Pârvan identified the fort mentioned by Dio with future Roman fort Capidava,[24] stating the locations described in the ancient source fit well with the modern location.[25]

Capitoline Hill
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitoline_Hill)
The Capitoline Hill (/ˈkæpɨtəlaɪn/[1] or /kəˈpɪtɵlaɪn/;[2] Latin: Collis Capitōlīnus), between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the seven hills of Rome. It was the citadel (equivalent of the ancient Greek acropolis) of the earliest Romans. By the 16th century, Capitolinus had become Capitolino in Italian, with the alternative Campidoglio stemming from Capitolium, one of the three major spurs of the Capitolinus (the others being Arx and Tarpeius). The English word capitol derives from Capitoline. The Capitoline contains few ancient ground-level ruins, as they are almost entirely covered up by Medieval and Renaissance palaces (now housing the Capitoline Museums) that surround a piazza, a significant urban plan designed by Michelangelo.

Caerleon - Roman Barracks
Wiikpedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerleon)
Caerleon is a site of archaeological importance, being the site of a notable Roman legionary fortress, Isca Augusta, and an Iron Age hill fort. The Wales National Roman Legion Museum and Roman Baths Museum are in Caerleon close to the remains of Isca Augusta. Caerleon is a site of archaeological importance, being the site of a notable Roman legionary fortress, Isca Augusta, and an Iron Age hill fort. The Wales National Roman Legion Museum and Roman Baths Museum are in Caerleon close to the remains of Isca Augusta.
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Carnac stones
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_stones)
The Carnac stones are an exceptionally dense collection of megalithic sites around the French village of Carnac, in Brittany, consisting of alignments, dolmens, tumuliand single menhirs. More than 3,000 prehistoric standing stones were hewn from local rock and erected by the pre-Celtic people of Brittany, and are the largest such collection in the world.[1] Most of the stones are within the Breton village of Carnac, but some to the east are within La Trinité-sur-Mer. The stones were erected at some stage during the Neolithic period, probably around 3300 BC, but some may date to as old as 4500 BC.[2]
Wikipedia Commons / Snjeschok (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Snjeschok)

Carnuntum Roman Army Camp
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnuntum)
Carnuntum (Καρνους in Ptolemy) was a Roman army camp on the Danube in the Noricum province and after the 1st century the capital of the Upper Pannonia province. Its remains are situated in Lower Austria halfway between Vienna and Bratislava on the "Archaeological Park Carnuntum", extending over the area of 10 km² near today's villages Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg.
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Carnuntum Roman triumphal arch
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Carnuntum Roman amphitheater

Carnuntum Buried Roman Gladiator School
nationalgeographic.com
Gladiator School Discovery Reveals Hard Lives of Ancient Warriors
"The similarities show that gladiators were housed and trained in the provinces in the same way as in the metropolis [of Rome]," Coleman says. The one gate exiting the compound faced a road leading to the town's public amphitheater, reportedly the fourth largest in the empire."
The shape of this wooded area matches the shape and location of the Gladiator School shown in the drawing in the article.

Castle of Charles V
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotone#Main_sights)
The 16th-century Castle of Charles V. It houses the Town Museum, with findings excavated in the ancient site of Kroton. Notable are also the remnants of the walls, of the same century, and of various watchtowers.

Castel Nuovo
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Nuovo)
Before the accession of Carlo I of Anjou to the throne in 1266, the capital of the Kingdom of Naples was Palermo. There was a royal residence in Naples, at the Castel Capuano. However, when the capital was moved to Naples, Charles ordered a new castle, not far from the sea, built to house the court. Works, directed by French architects, began in 1279 and were completed three years later.

Castel Sant'Angelo
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castel_Sant%27Angelo)
The Mausoleum of Hadrian, usually known as Castel Sant'Angelo (English: Castle of the Holy Angel), is a towering cylindrical building in Parco Adriano, Rome, Italy. It was initially commissioned by the Roman Emperor Hadrian as a mausoleum for himself and his family. The building was later used by the popes as a fortress and castle, and is now a museum. The Castel was once the tallest building in Rome.

Castell Henllys
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castell_Henllys)
This Iron Age hillfort has been the subject of an ongoing excavation for more than twenty years, accompanied by an exercise in reconstruction archaeology whereby experiments in prehistoric farming have been practised. Four roundhouses and a granary have been reconstructed on their original Iron Age foundations.

Castra Martis
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castra_martis)
Castra Martis (Bulgarian: Кастра Мартис) was a Roman fortress (castra) in the Roman province of Dacia ripensis on the modern site of Kula, in Vidin Province inBulgaria. It used to protect the road through Vrashka Chuka pass in the western Balkan mountains.

Cathedral of Palermo
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palermo_Cathedral)
The church was erected in 1185 by Walter Ophamil (or Walter of the Mill), the Anglo-Norman archbishop of Palermo and King William II's minister, on the area of an earlier Byzantine basilica. By all accounts this earlier church was founded by St. Gregory and was later turned into a mosque by the Saracens after their conquest of the city in the 9th century. Ophamil is buried in a sarcophagus in the church's crypt. The medieval edifice had a basilica plan with three apses, of which only some minor architectural elements survive today.

Cathedral of St. Pantaleo (Dolianova Cathedral)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_San_Pantaleo)
The site of the church has been connected with Christian worship as early as the 6th century, as testified by a Palaeo-Christian baptismal font housed under the church's presbytery. The existence of the diocese of Dolia (the ancient name of Dolianova) is documented from 1089 until 1503, when it was merged into the archdiocese of Cagliari.[1] The cathedral, the bishop's seat of the former diocese, was erected between the 12th and the 13th centuries.

Cheddar Gorge
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Gorge)
Cheddar Gorge is a limestone gorge in the Mendip Hills, near the village of Cheddar in Somerset, England. The gorge is the site of the Cheddar show caves, where Britain's oldest complete human skeleton, Cheddar Man, estimated to be over 9,000 years old, was found in 1903.[1] Older remains from the Upper Late Palaeolithic era (12,000–13,000 years ago) have been found.[2] The caves, produced by the activity of an underground river, contain stalactites andstalagmites. The gorge is part of a Site of Special Scientific Interest called Cheddar Complex.[3]
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Chedworth Roman Villa
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chedworth_Roman_Villa)
Chedworth Roman Villa is a Roman villa located at Chedworth, Gloucestershire, England.[1] It is one of the largest Roman villas in Britain. The villa was built in phases from the early 2nd century to the 4th century, with the 4th century construction transforming the building into an elite dwelling arranged around three sides of a courtyard.

Chernobyl (nuclear ruins)
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The Chernobyl disaster (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська катастрофа, Chornobylska Katastrofa – Chornobyl Catastrophe) was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially the Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere, which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe.
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Chersonesus Taurica
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chersonesus_Taurica)
Chersonesus is an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula, known then as Taurica. The colony was established in the 6th century BC by settlers from Heraclea Pontica.
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Chester Amphitheatre
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Roman_Amphitheatre)
Chester Amphitheatre is a Roman amphitheatre in Chester, Cheshire. The site is managed by English Heritage; it is designated as a Grade Ilisted building,[1] and a scheduled monument.[2][3] The ruins currently exposed are those of a large stone amphitheatre, similar to those found in Continental Europe, and although it was long believed that a smaller wooden amphitheatre existed on the site beforehand, excavations since 1999 have shown that the wooden grillage is the base of the seating. Today, only the northern half of the structure is exposed; the southern half is covered by buildings, some of which are themselves listed.[4]

Chiesa di San Cataldo
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Cataldo,_Palermo)
The Chiesa di San Cataldo is a church of the Sicilian city of Palermo, on the central Piazza Bellini. It is a notable example of the Arabian - Norman architecture which flourished in Sicily under the Norman domination of the island. The church is annexed to that of Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio.

Church of Christ Pantocrator
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ_Pantocrator)
The Church of Christ Pantocrator (Bulgarian: църква „Христос Пантократор“, tsarkva „Hristos Pantokrator“ or църква „Христос Вседържател“, tsarkva „Hristos Vsedarzhatel“, Byzantine Greek: Ναός Χριστού Παντοκράτωρος) is a medieval Eastern Orthodox church in the eastern Bulgarian town of Nesebar(medieval Mesembria), on the Black Sea coast of Burgas Province. Part of the Ancient Nesebar UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Church of Christ Pantocrator was constructed in the 13th–14th century and is best known for its lavish exterior decoration. The church, today an art gallery, survives largely intact and is among Bulgaria's best preserved churches of the Middle Ages.[1]

Church of St. John the Baptist
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_John_the_Baptist)
The Church of St. John the Baptist is a domed cruciform church, built of undressed stone. It is one of the best preserved churches in Nessebar. It is 12 meters long and 10 meters wide. The structure of the church consists of two cylindrical vaults which intersect in the center of the composition. The masonry is crushed stone and pebbles and the facades were probably smoothly plastered. It was built in the 11th century.[1]

Church of St John Aliturgetos
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_John_Aliturgetos)
Church of St John Aliturgetos (14th century)
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Chysauster Ancient Village
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chysauster)
Chysauster Ancient Village is a late Iron Age and Romano-British village of courtyard houses in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, which is currently in the care of English Heritage. The village included eight to ten houses, each with its own internal courtyard. To the south east is the remains of a fogou, an underground structure of uncertain function.

Cimiez
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimiez)
The area contains the Musée Matisse and the ruins of Cemenelum, capital of the Ancient Roman province Alpes Maritimae on the Ligurian coast. Cemenelum was an important rival of Nice, continuing to exist as a separate city till the time of the Lombard invasions.
The ruins include an arena, amphitheatre, thermal baths, and paleochristian basilica. For many years, the Nice Jazz Festival was held on the grounds of the Roman Ruins in July each year (since 2011 the festival moved to the Place Masséna).[1] Close to the ruins is the splendid Hôtel Régina where Queen Victoria spent part of her long visits to the French Riviera.

Colosseum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colosseum)
The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre (Latin: Amphitheatrum Flavium; Italian: Anfiteatro Flavio or Colosseo) is an ellipticalamphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy. Built of concrete and stone,[1] it was the largest amphitheatre of the Roman Empire, and is considered one of the greatest works of Roman architecture and engineering. It is the largest amphitheatre in the world.[2]

Conímbriga
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con%C3%ADmbriga)
Like many archaeological sites, Conímbriga was built in layers. The archaeological evidence tells us that Conímbriga was inhabited, at least, between the 9th century BC and 7th / 8th century AD.[1]

Contrada Pirettina Theatre (view it in StreetView)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locri#The_theatre)
The theatre was built in the fourth century BC not far from the ancient city, in the Contrada Pirettina, taking advantage of a hillside slope. The original structure had space for more than 4,500 people; now only the central part of the theatre is visible.

Coria (Corbridge )
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coria_%28Corbridge%29)
There is evidence of Iron Age round houses on the site, but the first Romans in the area built the Red House Fort, half a mile (800 m) to the west, as a supply camp for Agricola's campaigns.[3]

Corneşti-Iarcuri
antiquity.ac.uk (http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ant/085/ant0850819.htm)
A massive Late Bronze Age fortified settlement in Central Europe has been the subject of a new and exemplary investigation by excavation and site survey. This prehistoric enclosure, nearly 6km across, had a complex development, dense occupation and signs of destruction by fire. It can hardly be other than a capital city playing a role in the determinant struggles of its day — weighty and far reaching events of the European continent now being chronicled by archaeology.
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Cosa
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosa)
Cosa was a Latin colonia founded under Roman influence in southwestern Tuscany in 273 BC, on land confiscated from the Etruscans (Velleius Paterculus1.14.7; Livy Periochae 14; Strabo 5.2.8).

Danebury
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danebury)
Danebury is an Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire in England, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) north-west of Winchester (grid reference SU323376).[1] The site, covering 5 hectares (12 acres), was excavated by Barry Cunliffe in the 1970s. Danebury is considered a type-site for hill forts,[2] and was important in developing the understanding of hill forts, as very few others have been so intensively excavated.

Daorson
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daorson)
Daorson (Ancient Greek Δαορσών) was the capital of a Hellenised[1][2][3][4] Illyrian tribe called the Daorsi (Ancient Greek Δαόριζοι, Δαούρσιοι; Latin Daorsei). The Daorsi lived in the valley of the Neretva River between 300 BC and 50 BC. The remnants of Daorson can be found at Ošanići, near Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina.[5]
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Delphi
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi)
Delphi (/ˈdɛlfaɪ/ or /ˈdɛlfi/; Greek: Δελφοί, [ðelˈfi])[1] is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis. In myths dating to the classical period of Ancient Greece (510-323 BC), the site of Delphi was believed to be determined by Zeus when he sought to find the centre of his "Grandmother Earth" (Ge, Gaea, or Gaia). He sent two eagles flying from the eastern and western extremities, and the path of the eagles crossed over Delphi where the omphalos, or navel of Gaia was found.[2]
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Devil's Arrows
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil%27s_Arrows)
Erected in prehistoric times and distinctively grooved by millennia of rainfall, the tallest stone is 22 feet 6 inches in height making this the tallest menhir in the United Kingdom after the Rudston Monolith which is 25 feet tall.[1]
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Dmanisi
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmanisi)
The town of Dmanisi is first mentioned in the 9th century as a possession of the Arab emirate of Tbilisi, though the area had been settled since the Early Bronze Age. An Orthodox Christian cathedral – “Dmansis Sioni” – was built there in the 6th century. Located on the confluence of trading routes and cultural influences, Dmanisi was of particular importance, growing into a major commercial center of medieval Georgia.
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Duggleby Howe
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duggleby_Howe)
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 the district of Ryedale, and is one of four such monuments in this area, known collectively as the Great barrows of East Yorkshire. Duggleby Howe is believed on the basis of artefacts recovered to be of Late Neolithic date, but no radiocarbon dates are available. Howe as a place name is believed to have originated from the Old Norse word haugr.
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Duino Castle
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Duino Castle (also known as Castello di Duino or Castel Duino or Devinski grad in Slovene) is a fourteenth-century fortification located inDuino (municipality of Duino-Aurisina), near Trieste, Italy, on the cliffs overlooking the Gulf of Trieste.
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Dunragit
scotsman.com
The treasure trove unearthed during the building of the £17 million A75 Dunragit bypass in Wigtownshire sheds new light on land use and settlement in the area over the past 9,000 years.
The discoveries include a rare and complete 130-piece jet bead necklace dating about 2000BC – the first of its kind ever discovered in south-west Scotland.
Other finds include an Iron Age village, a Romano-British brooch, a Bronze Age cemetery complex, cremation urns and pottery fragments.

Dürnstein Castle
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrnstein#History)
Dürnstein was first mentioned in 1192, when, in the castle above the town, King Richard I Lionheart of England was held captive by Duke Leopold V of Austria after their dispute during the Third Crusade.
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Durrës Amphitheatre
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durr%C3%ABs_Amphitheatre)
The Durrës Amphitheatre (Albanian: Amfiteatri i Durrësit) is a large Roman amphitheatre in the city of Durrës, Albania. Built in the 2nd century AD during Roman Emperor Trajan's rule, it is located in the centre of the city and is only half unearthed.
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Durrington Walls
Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durrington_Walls)
Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site. It is 2 miles north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury.
In 2013 excavations on the site by a team led by the University of Sheffield revealed a settlement of approximately 1,000 homes which may have supported a population of 4,000 people at one time. The village was carbon dated to about 2600 B.C.
It is the "largest Neolithic settlement in the whole of northern Europe".[1][2][3] At 500m in diameter, the henge is the largest in Britain and recent evidence suggests that it was a complementary monument to Stonehenge.[4]
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Eboracum
yorkarchaeology.co.uk (http://www.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/secrets/roman.htm)
Founded as a fortress in AD 71, Eboracum housed first the 9th and later the 6th Legion. It soon had a civilian population and boasted fine public and military buildings. Eboracum became one of the most important cities of Roman Britain and, after 211, it was the capital of the province of Britannia Inferior (Lower Britain).
Roman Wall
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Ehrenbreitstein Fortress
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenbreitstein_Fortress)
Ehrenbreitstein Fortress (German: Festung Ehrenbreitstein) is a fortress on the mountain of the same name on the east bank of the Rhine opposite the town of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
It was built as the backbone of the regional fortification system, Festung Koblenz, by Prussia between 1817 and 1832 and guarded the middle Rhine region, an area that had been invaded by French troops repeatedly before. The fortress was never attacked.

El Fonoll
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Fonoll)
El Fonoll has been mentioned in writings going back as far as 1305.[1] The village originally contained a castle, of which no trace remains, and a small church dedicated to St. Blaise, built between the 10th and 12th centuries, which contains some unique architectural features and has remained in good condition.[2][3]

Empúries
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emp%C3%BAries)
It was founded in 575 BC by Greek colonists from Phocaea with the name of Ἐμπόριον (Emporion, meaning "trading place", cf. emporion). It was later occupied by the Romans (Latin: Emporiæ), but in the Early Middle Ages, when its exposed coastal position left it open to marauders, the town was abandoned.
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Epidaurus
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidaurus)
Epidaurus was not independent of Argos and not included in Argolis until the time Greece was occupied by the Romanas Romans. With its supporting territory, it formed the small territory called Epidauria. Reputed to be the birthplace of Apollo's son Asclepeios, the healer, Epidaurus was known for its sanctuary situated about five miles (8 km) from the town, as well as its theater, which is once again in use today. The cult ofAsclepeios at Epidauros is attested in the 6th century BC, when the older hill-top sanctuary of Apollon Maleatas was no longer spacious enough.

Ħaġar Qim
Wikipedia
Ħaġar Qim (Maltese pronunciation: [ħadʒar ˈʔiːm]; "Standing/Worshipping Stones") is a megalithic temple complex found on the Mediterranean island ofMalta, dating from the Ġgantija phase (3600-3200 BC).[1] The Megalithic Temples of Malta are among the most ancient religious sites on Earth,[2]described by the World Heritage Sites committee as "unique architectural masterpieces."[3] In 1992 UNESCO recognized Ħaġar Qim and four other Maltese megalithic structures as World Heritage Sites.[4]
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Fontana Fraterna
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isernia#Fontana_Fraterna)
The “Fontana Fraterna” is a refined public fountain with six water jets, with an unusual arcade-shape, made of blocks of calcareous, compact stone. It is built of Roman and Romanesque materials, and has been restored in 1835.
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Fountains Abbey
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountains_Abbey)
Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England. It is located approximately three miles south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield. Founded in 1132, the abbey operated for over 400 years, until 1539, when Henry VIIIordered the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Forte de Nissa Senhora de Graça
wmf.org (http://www.wmf.org/project/fort-gra%C3%A7)
atlasobscura.com
The Fort of Graça is located near the Portuguese border town of Elvas, occupying an important strategic position. Elvas was strongly fortified in the seventeenth century, during the Portuguese War of Independence, and two major outlying forts were later constructed on hills overlooking the town, offering a strong position from which to defend against attack. Designed to withstand intense bombardment, the Fort of Graça was constructed between 1763 and 1792. It was built on massive earthworks and it consists of three heavy lines of defense, with deep ditches between them, in the tradition of Vauban. Long considered an exemplary work of military engineering, the fort helped resist the Spanish advance into Portugal in the brief War of the Oranges, and it later saw action during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Roman Temple of Fortuna
npr.org
Archaeologists Unearth What May Be Oldest Roman Temple
"And here they decide to create a temple," says Nic Terrenato, who teaches classical archaeology at the University of Michigan and is co-director of the Sant'Omobono excavation project.
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Fyrkat
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyrkat)
Fyrkat might be the oldest of Denmark's former Viking ring castles. It is located near the town of Hobro some distance from the end of the Mariager Fjord in North Jutland. It is built on a narrow piece of land with a river on one side and swampy area on the others. It could have controlled the traffic on the main land route between Alborg and Aarhus.
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Gamla Uppsala
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamla_Uppsala)
As early as the 3rd century AD and the 4th century AD and onwards, it was an important religious, economic and political centre.[1] Early written sources show [clarification needed] that already during pre-history, Gamla Uppsala was well known in Northern Europe as the residence of the Swedish kings of the legendary Yngling dynasty.[2] In fact, the oldest Scandinavian sources, such as Ynglingatal, the Westrogothic law and the Gutasaga talk of the king of Sweden as the "King at Uppsala".[3]
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Gamzigrad
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamzigrad)
In the vicinity of Gamzigrad lie the ruins of a huge Roman complex called Felix Romuliana, one of the most important late Roman sites in Europe. Early explorers believed the ancient ruins to have been a Roman military camp, because of their size and numerous towers. Systematic archaeological excavations conducted since 1953 revealed that the site was, in fact, an Imperial palace.

Gavrinis
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrinis)
The island is famous because of its important passage grave, a megalithic monument from the Neolithic period, belonging to the same broad context as the Breton megaliths of Carnac and Locmariaquer, and closely connected with the monuments at Brú na Boínne (Ireland) and Maes Howe(Orkney). At the time of its construction, c. 3500 BC, the island was still connected with the mainland. The rich internal decorations make Gavrinis one of the major treasuries of European megalithic art. The tomb is also remarkable for the care taken in its construction and its good preservation.
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Glanum
Between the 4h and 2nd centuries BC, the Salyens, the largest of the Celto-Ligurian tribes in Provence, built a rampart of stones on the peaks that surrounded the valley of Notre_Dame-de-Laval, and constructed an oppidum, or fortified town, around the spring in the valley, which was known for its healing powers. A shrine was built at the spring to Glanis, a Celtic god. The town grew, and a second wall was built in the 2nd century BC.[2]
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Grianán of Aileach
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grianan_of_Aileach)
The Grianan of Aileach (Irish: Grianán Ailigh, sometimes anglicised Greenan Ely) is a group of historic structures atop a 244 metres (801 ft) hill in County Donegal, Ireland. The main structure is a stone ringfort, thought to have been built by the Uí Néill in the sixth or seventh century CE;[1]although there is evidence that the site had been in use before the fort was built. It has been identified as the seat of the Kingdom of Aileach and one of the royal sites of Gaelic Ireland.

Ġgantija
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%A0gantija)
Ġgantija (Maltese pronunciation: [dʒɡanˈtiːja], "Giants' Tower") is a Neolithic, megalithic temple complex on the Mediterranean island of Gozo. The Ġgantija temples are the earliest of a series of megalithic temples in Malta. The Ġgantija temples are older than the pyramids of Egypt. Their makers erected the two Ġgantija temples during the Neolithic Age (c. 3600-2500 BC), which makes these temples more than 5500 years old and the world's second oldest manmade religious structures, after Göbekli Tepe.
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Hadrian's Wall
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadrian%27s_wall)
Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium) was a defensive fortification in Roman Britain, begun in AD 122 during the rule of emperor Hadrian. In addition to its military role, gates through the wall served as customs posts.[1]

Hamrija Tower
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamrija_Tower)
Ħamrija Tower is a fortification (recently reconstructed), that the Knights of Malta built on the island of Malta. It is a watchtower, one of 13 such towers that Grand MasterMartin de Redin ordered built. The tower was constructed in 1659 as the 12th tower in the series of de Redin towers and the last on Malta's southwestern Coast. The nearest tower in the chain is the Wardija Tower to the south-east. The tower was originally armed with an 3-pounder gun and a ½-pounder gun, both too small to be of much use except to signal.
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Heraclea Lyncestis
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclea_Lyncestis)
Heraclea Lyncestis also spelled Herakleia Lynkestis (Greek: Ἡράκλεια Λυγκηστίς; Latin: Heraclea Lyncestis; Macedonian: Хераклеја Линкестис), was anancient Greek city[1][2][3] in Macedon, ruled later by the Romans. Its ruins are situated 2 km south of the present-day town of Bitola, Republic of Macedonia.[4] It was founded by Philip II of Macedon in the middle of the 4th century BC, after he had conquered the surrounding region and incorporated it into his kingdom ofMacedon. The city was named in honor of the mythological Greek hero Heracles. The name Lynkestis originates from the name of the ancient kingdom, conquered by Philip, where the city was built.

Herculaneum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herculaneum)
It is most famous for having been lost, along with Pompeii, Stabiae, Oplontis and the neighbourhood of Monte Bursaccio in Boscoreale, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 which buried it in superheated pyroclastic material.
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Roman Fort at Hermeskeil
livescience.com (http://www.livescience.com/23197-germany-roman-fort.html)
Discovery: Ancient Fort Aided Julius Caesar's Conquest of Gaul
"From an archaeological point of view our findings are of particular interest because there are only few sites known that document Caesar's campaign in Gaul," researcher Sabine Hornung, of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (JGU), told LiveScience in an email.
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Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogeum_of_%C4%A6al-Saflieni)
The Hypogeum of Paola, Malta, (Ipoġew in Maltese) literally meaning "underground" in Greek, is a subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase (3000-2500 BC) in Maltese prehistory. Thought to have been originally a sanctuary, it became a necropolis in prehistoric times and the remains of more than 7,000 individuals have been found. It is the only known prehistoric underground temple in the world.
Wikipedia Commons / Public Domain

Hill of Tara
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_of_Tara)
The Hill of Tara (Irish: Cnoc na Teamhrach,[1] Teamhair or Teamhair na Rí), located near the River Boyne, is an archaeological complex that runs between Navan and Dunshaughlin in County Meath, Ireland. It contains a number of ancient monuments, and according to tradition, was the seat of the High King of Ireland.

Hisarya
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisarya,_Bulgaria)
Because of its springs, the town was founded thousands of years ago. Some pre-historic remains have been found in what is now the town centre. Later, it became a Thracian city and, when Thrace fell to the Romans and became a Roman province, Hisarya became a Roman town — one of the three most important towns in the province. At times it was called Augusta, Diocletianopolis (after emperor Diocletian), and a couple of other names. It was a famous resort even in those times, which is proved by the fact that emperor Septimius Severusvisited the city.
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Histria
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histria_(Sinoe)
Established by Milesian settlers in order to facilitate trade with the native Getae, it is considered the oldest urban settlement on Romanian territory. Scymnus of Chios (ca 110 BC), dated its founding to 630 BC, whileEusebius of Caesarea set it during the time of the 33rd Olympic Games (657 – 656 BC). The earliest documented currency on Romanian territory was an 8-gram silver drachma, issued by the city around 480 BC.
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Housesteads Roman Fort
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housesteads_Roman_Fort)
Vercovicium, now known as Housesteads Roman Fort, was an auxiliary fort on Hadrian's Wall,[1] in the Roman province of Britannia. Its ruins are located at Housesteads (grid reference NY790688) in the civil parish of Bardon Mill in Northumberland, England, somewhat to the south of Broomlee Lough.

Hunnenring: circular fort at Otzenhausen
The Celtic circular fort at Otzenhausen is one of the biggest fortifications the Celts ever constructed. It was built by Gauls of the Treveri tribe, who lived in the region north of the fort. The fort is located on top of theDollberg, a hill near Otzenhausen in Germany, about 695 m above sea level. The only visible remains are two circular earth ramparts, covered with stones.
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Innisfallen
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innisfallen_Island)
It is home to the ruins of Innisfallen Abbey, one of the most impressive archaeological remains dating from the early Christianperiod found in the Killarney National Park. The monastery was founded in 640 by St. Finian the Leper, and was occupied for approximately 850 years. Over a period of about 300 of these, the monks wrote the Annals of Innisfallen, which chronicle the early history of Ireland as it was known to the monks. The monks were dispossessed of the abbey on August 18, 1594, by Elizabeth I.

Italica
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C3%A1lica)
Italica was the birthplace of the Roman emperor Trajan. Hadrian was generous to his settled town, which he made a colonia; he added temples, including a Trajaneum venerating Trajan, and rebuilt public buildings. Italica’s amphitheater seated 25,000 spectators—half as many as the Flavian Amphitheatre in Rome— and was the third largest in the Roman Empire. The city's Roman population at the time is estimated to have been only 8000. The games and theatrical performances funded by the local aristocracy, who filled the positions of magistrate, were a means of establishing status: the size of the amphitheater shows that the local elite was maintaining status that extended far beyond Italica itself.

Justiniana Prima (Caricin grad)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justiniana_Prima)
Justiniana Prima (Serbian: Царичин град) was a Byzantine city that existed from 535 to 615, and currently an archaeological site, near today'sLebane, Leskovac district in southern Serbia. It was founded by Emperor Justinian I and served as the seat of an Archbishopric that had jurisdiction of the Central Balkans.

Kabyle
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabyle_(ancient_city)
Kabyle (Bulgarian: Кабиле) is an ancient Thracian city situated at less than 10 km of Yambol, south-eastern Bulgaria. Kabyle used to one of the most important centers of south-easternThrace. It was established around 2000 BC on the Zaychi Vrah Heights. It was proclaimed part of the 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria. The territory of the city and the surrounding area was proclaimed a territory of national importance in 1965 and converted to an archaeological reserve.

Kaliakra
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Kaliakra)
It also features the remnants of the fortified walls, water-main, baths and residence of Despot Dobrotitsa in the short-lived Principality of Karvuna's medieval capital.[1] The Bolata Cove with a small sheltered beach lies just north at the mouth of a picturesque canyon, also part of the nature reserve.

Kirkstall Abbey
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkstall_Abbey)
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall north-west of Leeds city centre in West Yorkshire, England. It is set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire. It was founded c.1152. It was disestablished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under the auspices of Henry VIII.

Klekkende Høj
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klekkende_H%C3%B8j)
Klekkende Høj is a megalithic tomb on the island of Møn in Denmark. It takes its name near the village of Klekkende. Høj, from the Old Norse word haugr (Swedish "hög"), means hill, mound or barrow.

Kilcrea Friary
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcrea_Abbey)
Founded in 1465 for the Observant Franciscans by Cormac Laidir MacCarthy, Lord of Muskerry, Kilcrea Friary is located on the site on an earlier monastery, and named after Saint Cyra. He is interred in the centre of the choir. The Friary was officially suppressed in 1542 but continued in use under MacCarthy patronage. It was sacked by English troops in 1584. In 1597, it was granted to Cormac MacDermot MacCarthy who leased it to Richard Hardinge.

Knossos
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos)
Knossos, Knossus, or Cnossus (/ˈnɒsəs/; Greek Κνωσός, pronounced [knoˈsos]) is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Creteand is considered Europe's oldest city.[4]

Kokino megalithic observatory
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokino)
It was discovered by archeologist Jovica Stankovski, director of the national museum in Kumanovo,[1] in 2001. In 2002, Stankovski together with Gorje Cenev (who is the head of a planetarium at a Youth Cultural Center in Skopje) published the claim that the site contains a "megalithic observatory and sacred site" (мегалитска опсерваторија и светилиште).
The oldest archaeological finds date from about the 19th century BC, corresponding to the early European Bronze Age. It shows signs of occupation for the period from the 19th to the 7th centuries BC. Finds from the Middle Bronze Age (c. 16th to 14th centuries BC) are the most numerous (mainly ceramic vessels, stone-mills and a few molds). An agglomeration from the Iron Age was discovered in 2009.[2]
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La Tour Magne
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%AEmes#Sights)
The nearby Mont Cavalier is crowned by the Tour Magne ("Great Tower"), a ruined Roman tower.[4]

Lindholm Høje
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindholm_H%C3%B8je)
Lindholm Høje (Lindholm Hills, from Old Norse haugr, hill or mound) is a major Viking burial site and former settlement situated to the north of and overlooking the city of Aalborg in Denmark.
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Linn Duchaill Viking site
irishcentral.com
Carbon testing on trenches at a ‘virgin’ site in Annagassan have revealed that the small rural community once housed a Viking winter base, one of only two in Ireland.
The other went on to become Dublin but the Annagassan site, 50 miles north of the capital, was believed to be the stuff of mythology and folklore until now.
Geophysical tests funded by Dundalk’s County Museum have allowed scientists to make the big breakthrough.
They have now confirmed that the Linn Duchaill site, beside the river Glyde and south of Dundalk Bay, was where the Vikings brought their long ships or longphorts to be repaired.

Longthorpe Tower
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longthorpe_Tower)
Longthorpe Tower is a 14th-century three-storey tower in the village of Longthorpe, famous for its well-preserved set of medieval murals.

Lyons - Ancient Theatre of Fourvière
The Roman theatre is a Roman ancient structure in Lyon, France. It was built next to the hill of Fourvière, which is located in the center of the Roman city.
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Lyons - Roman Baths
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon#Antiquity
On the south side of Fourvière are the vast ruins of Roman Baths, partially intact ruins of a Roman Theatre (15 BC) and a 2nd Century Roman Odéon rediscovered in the 20th century and now home to a museum as well as a series of concerts and operas throughout the summer.

Maiden Castle
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Castle,_Dorset)
The earliest archaeological evidence of human activity on the site consists of a Neolithic causewayed enclosure and bank barrow. In about 1800 BC, during the Bronze Age, the site was used for growing crops before being abandoned. Maiden Castle itself was built in about 600 BC; the early phase was a simple and unremarkable site, similar to many other hill forts in Britain and covering 6.4 hectares (16 acres). Around 450 BC it underwent major expansion, during which the enclosed area was nearly tripled in size to 19 ha (47 acres), making it the largest hill fort in Britain and by some definitions the largest in Europe. At the same time, Maiden Castle's defences were made more complex with the addition of further ramparts and ditches. Around 100 BC habitation at the hill fort went into decline and became focused at the eastern end of the site. It was occupied until at least the Roman period, by which time it was in the territory of the Durotriges, a Celtictribe.
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Maison Carrée
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maison_Carr%C3%A9e)
It was built c. 16 BC,[1] and reconstructed in the following years,[2] by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, who was also the original patron of the Pantheon in Rome, and was dedicated or rededicated c. 2-4/5 AD to his two sons, Gaius Caesar and Lucius Caesar, adopted heirs of Augustus who both died young.

Mediana
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediana)
Mediana is an important archeological site from the late Roman period, located in the eastern suburb of the Serbian city of Niš. It represents a luxurious residence with a highly organised economy. Excavatations have revealed a villa with peristyle, thermae, granary and water tower.
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Maeshowe
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeshowe)
Maeshowe (or Maes Howe; Norse: Orkhaugr[1]) is a Neolithic chambered cairn and passage grave situated on Mainland, Orkney, Scotland. It was probably built in around 2800 BC.

Melk Abbey
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melk_Abbey)
The abbey was founded in 1089 when Leopold II, Margrave of Austria gave one of his castles to Benedictine monks from Lambach Abbey. A monastic school, the Stifts gymnasium Melk, was founded in the 12th century, and the monastic library soon became renowned for its extensive manuscript collection. The monastery's scriptorium was also a major site for the production of manuscripts. In the 15th century the abbey became the centre of the Melk Reform movement which reinvigorated the monastic life of Austria and Southern Germany.[3]

Mezek
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezek)
The Mezek Fortress, 6.5 decares (6,500 m2) in area, is claimed to be among the best preserved Bulgarian medieval castles. It dates to the 11th century. Along with the Thracian tombs, it was studied by a team under archaeologist Bogdan Filov in 1931–1932. The castle has nine towers, five of which lie at the vulnerable south wall. The Mezek Fortress was built out of stone, with two decorative lines of bricks on the outside. It suffered some destruction around 1900, when stones from the fortress were used for the construction of Ottoman barracks in Svilengrad.[3]
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Miróbriga
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%C3%B3briga)
Miróbriga (Mirobriga Celticorum) is an ancient Roman town located near the village and civil parish of Santiago do Cacém, in the municipality of the same name in the south-west of Portugal. Archeology revealed a that the town occupied the site of an ancient Iron Age settlement that existed since the 9th century B.C.

Mnajdra
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnajdra)
Mnajdra was built around the fourth millennium BCE; the Megalithic Temples of Malta are among the most ancient religious sites on Earth,[1] described by the World Heritage Sites committee as "unique architectural masterpieces."[2] In 1992 UNESCO recognized the Mnajdra complex and four other Maltese megalithic structures as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.[3] In 2009 work was completed on a protective tent.[4]
Wikipedia Commons / Mareksilarski (http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedysta:Mareksilarski)

Monasterboice
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterboice)
The historic ruins of Monasterboice (Irish: Mainistir Bhuithe) are of an early Christian settlement in County Louth in Ireland, north of Drogheda.[1] It was founded in the late 5th century by Saint Buithe who died around 521,[2] and was an important centre of religion and learning until the founding of nearby Mellifont Abbey in 1142.[1]
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Monkodonja
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkodonja)
Monkodonja is a hill fort occupied about 1800-1200 BC during the Bronze Age,[1] located near the city of Rovinj in the Croatian region of Istria.[2]
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Morgantina
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgantina)
The site consists of a two-kilometre long ridge running southwest-northeast, known as Serra Orlando, and a neighboring hill at the northeast called Cittadella. Morgantina was inhabited in several periods. The earliest major settlement was made at Cittadella and lasted from about 1000/900 to about 450 BCE. The other major settlement was located on Serra Orlando, and existed from about 450 BCE to about 50 CE. Morgantina has been the subject of archaeological investigation since the early 20th century.

Motya
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motya)
The foundation of the city probably dates from the 8th century BCE, about a century after the foundation of Carthage in Tunisia. It was originally a colony of the Phoenicians, who were fond of choosing similar sites, and probably in the first instance merely a commercial station or emporium, but gradually rose to be a flourishing and important town. The Greeks, however, according to their custom, assigned it a legendary origin, and derived its name from a woman named "Motya", whom they connected with the fables concerning Herakles.[2]
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Mycenae
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycenae)
In the second millennium BC, Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece. The period of Greek history from about 1600 BC to about 1100 BC is called Mycenaean in reference to Mycenae. At its height in 1350 BC, the citadel and lower town had a population of 30,000 and an area of 32 hectares.[1]
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Navan Fort
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emain_Macha)
Navan Fort (Old Irish: Emaın Macha ([ˈeṽənʲ ˈṽaxə]), Modern Irish: Eamhain Mhacha ([ˈaw̃nʲ ˈw̃axə]) is an ancient monument in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. According to Irish mythology, it was one of the great royal sites of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland and the capital of the Ulaidh. It is a large circular enclosure—marked by a bank and ditch—with a circular mound and the remains of a ring barrow in the middle.

Neanderthal "Pit of Bones" Cave
Nationalgeographic.com
The 17 skulls discovered in Spain's Sima de los Huesos (Pit of Bones) cave and Reported in the journal Science show early Neanderthals sported That Their telltale "beetle brows" and heavy jaws acerca 430,000 years ago, long before They evolved Neanderthal crania In Their features, including larger brains.

Nesactium
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesactium)
In pre-Roman times Nesactium with his legendary king Epulon, was the capital of the tribal population of the peninsula called Histri, connected also to the prehistoric Castellieri culture. There are some theories stating their later Celtic influence, but who they were and where they came from has never been discovered for certain. Supposedly their main economic activities were trade and piracy all over the ancient Mediterranean Sea. All indicates they were a particular ethnical group, such as Etruscans in nearest Italy. Still today they was wrongly mentioned as a part of illyrians.
In 177 BC the town was conquered by the Romans and destroyed. Rebuilt upon the original Histrian pattern, it was a Roman town until the 46-45 BC, when the ancient Greek colonies Polai was elevated to Pietas Iulia, today Pula. The town was crossed by the ancient Via Flavia, which connectedTriest to Dalmatia. Its Histro-Roman walls still remain.

Nesebar Fortifications
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesebar)
Nesebar (also transcribed as Nessebar or Nesebur, Bulgarian: Несебър, pronounced [nɛˈsɛbɐr], Thracian: Melsambria, Greek: Μεσημβρία,Mesembria) is an ancient town and one of the major seaside resorts on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, located in Burgas Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Nesebar Municipality. Often referred to as the "Pearl of the Black Sea" and "Bulgaria's Dubrovnik", Nesebar is a rich city-museum defined by more than three millennia of ever-changing history.
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Newgrange
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newgrange)
It was built about 3200 BC,[3][4] during the Neolithic period, which makes it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.[5]Newg range is a large circular mound with a stone passageway and chambers inside. The mound has a retaining wall at the front and is ringed by 'kerbstones' engraved with artwork.

Nîmes Amphitheatre
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%AEmes#Roman_period)
The amphitheatre dates from the end of the 2nd century AD.
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Niš Fortress
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C5%A1_Fortress)
The extant fortification is of Turkish origin, dating from the first decades of the 18th century (1719–1723). It is well known as one of the most significant and best preserved monuments of this kind in the mid-Balkans. The Fortress was erected on the site of earlier fortifications - the ancient Roman, Byzantine, and later yet Mediaeval forts.

Nokalakevi
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokalakevi)
The fortress is located 15 km from the modern town of Senaki on the Martvili road, and would have commanded an important crossing point of the river Tekhuri, at the junction with a valuable strategic route that still winds through the neighbouring hills to Chkhorotsqu in central Samegrelo. Nokalakevi-Archaeopolis played a pivotal part in the major wars fought between the Byzantines and Sasanians in the South Caucasus during the sixth century AD. It was one of the key fortresses guarding Lazika (modern Mingrelia) from Sasanian, Persian and Iberian (East Georgian/Kartlian) attack. During the war of AD 540-562, the Persians' failure to take Nokalakevi-Archaeopolis from the Byzantines and the Laz eventually cost them control of Lazika.
Google Map / Panoramio / David Galegashvili

Nostra Signora di Tergu
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostra_Signora_di_Tergu)
The construction of the church is attributed to the Giudice of Torres Marianus I, who reigned from 1065 to 1082. In 1122 it was a possession of the abbey of Montecassino. It is mentioned in the Pseudocondaghe of Santa Maria di Tergu as having been consecrated in 1117, and built by workers from Pisa and Lombardy. In 1444 the church and the monastery became part of the archdiocese of Torres.
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Notre-Dame de Reims
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Reims)
Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Reims) is the seat of the Archdiocese of Reims, where the kings of France were crowned.[1] The cathedral replaced an older church, destroyed by fire in 1211, that was built on the site of the basilica where Clovis was baptized by Saint Remi, bishop of Reims, in AD 496. That original structure had itself been erected on the site of some Roman baths. A major tourism destination, the cathedral receives about one million visitors annually.[2]
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Novae
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novae)
In AD 86 the province was divided and Novae, together with Durostorum, became one of two legionary bases within the borders of Moesia Inferior. During the Dacian wars of Domitian (85-89) Novae did not suffer significant damage, which may indicate that the main operations took place in the western and eastern part of the province. Far more significant change took place during the campaigns of Trajan, when the old constructions of wood and dried brick were replaced by stone. Apart from the new defensive walls, the monumental building of headquarters (principia) with the new Trajanic basilica, and the new building of a hospital (valetudinarium) was built at the place of the former Flavian baths (thermae).
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Nuraghe Losa
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuraghe_Losa)
One of the largest and best preserved nuraghe in the island, it dates to the 15th-13th centuries BC. The bastion and the line of walls date instead to the late 13th-early 12th centuries BC. The nuraghe was used for funerary rites until the 7th century AD.

Odeon of Lyon
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeon_of_Lyon)
The building was discovered in the sixteenth century and was wrongly considered at the time as the amphitheater where the Christian martyrsdied in Lyon in 177. Sometimes regarded as a theater or auditorium by various authors (Claude Bellièvre, Gabriel Simeoni, Guillaume Paradin), the monument appeared in several texts and plans, and was eventually deemed as a cultural building.

Castle of Olivença
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivenza)
1259 - The Knights Templar already established in the nearby town of Alconchel, create the first settlement that can be identified as the origin of the town of Olivenza. The Templars built the first castle and church of the town.[6]
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Olynthus
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olynthus)
Olynthus, son of Heracles, was considered the mythological founder of the town. The South Hill bore a small Neolithicsettlement; was abandoned during the Bronze Age; and was resettled in the 7th century BC. Subsequently, the town was captured by the Bottiaeans, a Thracian tribe ejected from Macedon by Alexander I. The town of Olynthus remained in their possession until 479 BC. In that year the Persian general Artabazus, on his return from escorting Xerxes to the Hellespont, suspecting that a revolt from the Great King was meditated, handed the town over to Kritovoulos from Toroni and to a fresh population consisting of Greeks from the neighboring region of Chalcidice (Herod. viii. 127). Though Herodotus reports that Artabazus slaughtered them, Boetiaeans continued to live in the area.
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Oricum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oricum)
Ancient sources (for instance, Herodotus) describe it as a limen, or harbor, but eventually it achieved the status of a polis, and from around 230 to 168 BC it issued its own coins with the legend ΩΡΙΚΙΩΝ ('of the Oricians').[8]
Google Map / Panoramio / iglipustina

Ostia Antica
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_Antica)
Ostia may have been Rome's first colonia. An inscription says that Ostia was founded by Ancus Marcius, the semi-legendary fourth king of Rome, in the 7th century BC.[2] The oldest archaeological remains so far discovered date back to only the 4th century BC. The most ancient buildings currently visible are from the 3rd century BC, notably the Castrum(military camp); of a slightly later date is the Capitolium (temple of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva).

Ostrów Lednicki
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostr%C3%B3w_Lednicki)
A gród (a medieval Slavonic fortified settlement) was built here in the Middle Ages. Existing ruins of a chapel, church and palace, thought to be the home of the first Kings of the Piast dynasty, have been roofed over for preservation. Today the ruins are of archaeological significance, and the site of the Museum of the Piast Dynasty, opened in 1969.[1] It is Poland's largest open-air museum.[2]
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Olympia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia,_Greece)
Olympia (Greek: Ολυμπία Olympía), a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, the most famous games in history.
The Olympic Games were held every four years throughout Classical Antiquity, from the 8th century BC to the 4th century AD.[2] The first Olympic Games were in honor of Zeus.
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Paestum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paestum)
Paestum was a major ancient Greek city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea in Magna Graecia. After its foundation by Greekcolonists under the name of Poseidonia (Ancient Greek: Ποσειδωνία) it was eventually conquered by the Lucanians and later theRomans. The Lucanians renamed it to Paistos and the Romans gave the city its current name.[1] The ruins of Paestum are notable for their three ancient Greek temples which are in a very good state of preservation.

Palace of Tau
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Tau)
The Palace was the residence of the Kings of France before their coronation in Notre-Dame de Reims. The King was dressed for the coronation at the palace before proceeding to the cathedral; afterwards, a banquet was held at the palace. The first recorded coronation banquet was held at the palace in 990, and the most recent in 1825.
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Palatine Chapel
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cappella_Palatina)
The chapel was commissioned by Roger II of Sicily in 1132 to be built upon an older chapel (now the crypt) constructed around 1080. It took eight years to build and many more to decorate with mosaics and fine art. The sanctuary, dedicated to Saint Peter, is reminiscent of a domedbasilica. It has three apses, as is usual in Byzantine architecture, with six pointed arches (three on each side of the central nave) resting on recycled classical columns.

Palatine Towers
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine_Towers)
The Palatine Gate (Italian: in Italian Porta Palatina; Piedmontese: Tor Roman-e) was the ancient Porta Principalis Dexterawhich allowed access from the North to Julia Augusta Taurinorum, the roman civitas now known as Turin.
This gate is the main archaeological evidence of the town's Roman age, and one of the best preserved 1st century BC gates in the world.

Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi
The Palazzina di caccia of Stupinigi (Italian: "The hunting residence[1] of Stupinigi") is one of the Residences of the Royal House of Savoy in northern Italy, part of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Built as a royal hunting lodge in the early 18th century, it is located in Stupinigi, a suburb of the town of Nichelino, 10 km (6 mi) southwest of Turin.
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Palazzo Madama
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Madama)
Palazzo Madama is a palace in Rome that is the home of the Senate of the Italian Republic.[1]
It was built atop the ruins of the ancient baths of Nero, next to Piazza Navona. The terrain had been acquired in the Middle Ages by the monks of the Abbey of Farfa, who later ceded it to France.
The new building was begun at the end of the 15th century and completed in 1505, for the Medici family. It housed two Medici cardinals and cousins, Giovanni and Giulio, who both later became popes as Leo X and Clement VII, respectively. Catherine de' Medici, Clement VII's niece, also lived here before she was married to Henry, son of King Francis I of France in 1533. Cardinal Francesco Maria Del Monte, patron of the artist Caravaggio, lived there until his death in 1627.
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Pantheon
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome)
The Pantheon (/ˈpænθiən/ or US /ˈpænθiɒn/;[1] Latin: Pantheon,[nb 1] [pantʰewn] from Greek: Πάνθεον [ἱερόν], an adjective understood as "[temple consecrated] to all gods") is a building in Rome, Italy, commissioned by Marcus Agrippa during the reign of Augustus as a temple to all the gods of ancient Rome, and rebuilt by the emperor Hadrian about 126 AD.[2]

Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_St._John_Lateran)
The Papal Archbasilica of St. John Lateran (Italian: Arcibasilica Papale di San Giovanni in Laterano), commonly known as St. John Lateran's Archbasilica, St. John Lateran's Basilica, and just The Lateran Basilica, is the cathedral church of theDiocese of Rome and the official ecclesiastical seat of the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope.
The archbasilica stands over the remains of the Castra Nova equitum singularium, the 'new fort' of the imperial cavalry bodyguard. The fort was established by Septimius Severus in AD 193. Following the victory of Constantine I over Maxentius (for whom the Equites singulares augusti had fought) at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, the guard were abolished and the fort demolished. Substantial remains of the fort lie directly beneath the nave.

Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major
It is agreed that the present church was built under Pope Sixtus III (432-440). The dedicatory inscription on the triumphal arch, Sixtus Episcopus plebi Dei, (Sixtus the bishop to the people of God) is an indication of that Pope's role in the construction.[22] As well as this church on the summit of the Esquiline Hill, Pope Sixtus III is said to have commissioned extensive building projects throughout the city, which were continued by his successor Pope Leo I, the great.[23]
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Papal Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls
The basilica was founded by the Roman Emperor Constantine I over the burial place of Saint Paul, where it was said that, after the Apostle's execution, his followers erected a memorial, called a cella memoriae. This first edifice was expanded under Valentinian I in the 370s.

Papal Basilica of Saint Peter
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica)
Pope Julius II planned far more for St Peter's than Nicholas V's program of repair or modification. Julius was at that time planning his own tomb, which was to be designed and adorned with sculpture by Michelangelo and placed within St Peter's.[22] In 1505 Julius made a decision to demolish the ancient basilica and replace it with a monumental structure to house his enormous tomb and "aggrandize himself in the popular imagination".[6] A competition was held, and a number of the designs have survived at the Uffizi Gallery. A succession of popes and architects followed in the next 120 years, their combined efforts resulting in the present building.

Périgueux Cathedral
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A9rigueux_Cathedral)
A church was first built on the site in the 4th and 5th centuries.
In 976 the Bishop Frotaire had the Abbey of Saint-Front constructed on the site of the church. The abbey was consecrated in 1047. Its vaulted choir housed the tomb of Saint Front, which was sculpted in 1077 by Guimaunond, a monk of the abbey of Chaise-Dieu. This tomb was decorated with numerous precious stones and sculptures, notably an angle with a halo made of pieces of glass and is now kept in the Périgord Museum.

Perperikon
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perperikon#cite_note-3)
Human activity in the area dates back to 5000 B.C. The first traces of civilization on the hill date from the Bronze Age, while the ceramics found on the place date from the Early Iron Age, as well as the impressive round altar, almost 2 m in diameter, hewn out of the rocks. At Perperikon, a twelve days' journey from the sea, Medokos called himself king of Thrace after Sitalces's death in 424 BC, but failed to hold a throne.[3]
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Petrovaradin Fortress
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrovaradin_Fortress)
Recent archeological discoveries have offered a new perspective not only on the history of Petrovaradin, but on the entire region. At the Upper Fortress, the remains of an earlier Paleolithic settlement dating from 19,000 to 15,000 BC has been discovered. With this new development it has been established that there has been a continuous settlement at this site from the Paleolithic age to the present. During the excavations carried out in 2005, archeologists also discovered another significant find. Examining remains from the earlyBronze age (c. 3000 BC), ramparts were discovered which testify that already at that time a fortified settlement existed at the Petrovaradin site.
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Piraeus (Eetioneian Gate)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piraeus#Culture)
Part of Eetioneia, the ancient gate to the harbour and part of the fortification of Piraeus, built during the Peloponnesian War.
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Plaosnik -
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plao%C5%A1nik)
Plaošnik or simply Plaoš (Macedonian: Плаошник, Плаош) is an archaeological site and holy place in Ohrid, 250 meters below Samuil's Fortress
The church was built by St.Clement in 893 year on the foundation of an early Christian basilica, and dedicated to St.Panteleimon. It was here that the Ohrid Literary School, a center of Slavonic literary and cultural activity where it was educated more than 3,500 disciples. St. Clement was buried in this monastery, in the tomb which was built by his own hands.
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Pliska
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliska)
Pliska was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire between 681 and 893 AD. According to a Bulgarian chronicle, it was founded by Khan Asparukh. At its greatest extent, it had an area of 21.8 km² and was surrounded by earthen ramparts.[4] A smaller stone fortification was built inside these ramparts and this contained a palace and buildings belonging to the aristocracy.
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Plovdiv Roman theatre
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plovdiv_Roman_amphitheatre)
The ancient theatre of Philippopolis is a historical building in the city center of Plovdiv (ancient Philippopolis), Bulgaria. Although this structure is commonly referred to as an amphitheatre, it is actually a traditional Roman theatre. It stands between the south-western slope of the Dzhambaz Tepe and the Taxim tepe hill within the old town, and is a major tourist attraction for travelers coming to the area. According to a builders’ inscription, discovered on the frieze-architrave of the eastern proskenion, the construction of the theatre dates back to the time of Emperor Trajan (reigned 98–117 AD).

Pont du Gard
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_du_Gard)
The Pont du Gard (literally: Gard Bridge) is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge that crosses the Gardon River[4]

Pompeii
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii)
The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of thecomune of Pompei. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
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Porte Mars
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porte_Mars)
Porte Mars is an ancient Roman triumphal arch in Reims, France. It dates from the third century AD, and was the widest arch in the Roman world.

Porolissum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porolissum)
Porolissum was an ancient Roman city in Dacia. Established as a military camp in 106 during Trajan's Dacian Wars, the city quickly grew through trade with the native Dacians and became the capital of the province Dacia Porolissensis in 124. The site is one of the largest and best-preserved archaeological sites in modern-day Romania. It is 8 km away from the modern city of Zalău, in Jac village, Creaca Commune, Sălaj County.

Preslav
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav)
Preslav (Bulgarian: Преслав) was the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire from 893 to 972 and one of the most important cities of medieval Southeastern Europe. The ruins of the city are situated in modern northeastern Bulgaria, some 20 kilometres southwest of the regional capital of Shumen, and are currently a national archaeological reserve.
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Pula Arena
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pula_Arena)
The Pula Arena is the name of the amphitheatre located in Pula, Croatia. The Arena is the only remaining Roman amphitheatre to have four side towers and with all three Roman architectural orders entirely preserved. It was constructed in 27 BC - 68 AD[1] and is among the six largest surviving Roman arenas in the World.[1] A rare example among the 200 Roman surviving amphitheatres, it is also the best preserved ancient monument in Croatia.

Reculver Towers and Roman fort

Ricina
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricina)
It was probably a municipium until it was refounded by Pertinax and Septimius Severus, after which it bore the name Colonia Helvia Ricina Pertinax. The site is now deserted, but considerable ruins of a theatre and remains of baths and other buildings (all in brickwork of the Imperial period) still exist; also the fragments of an ancient bridge over the Potenza. Flavian of Ricina was a bishop here in the 3rd century.
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Ring of Brodgar
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Brogar)
The Ring of Brodgar (or Brogar, or Ring o' Brodgar) is a Neolithic henge and stone circle on the Mainland, the largest island in Orkney, Scotland. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Heart of Neolithic Orkney.

Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo
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The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo (Bulgarian: Ивановски скални църкви, Ivanovski skalni tsarkvi) are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, located near the village of Ivanovo, 20 km south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom, 32 m above the river. The complex is noted for its beautiful and well-preserved medieval frescoes.
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Rollright Stones
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollright_Stones)
The Rollright Stones are a complex of three Neolithic and Bronze Age megalithic monuments located near to the village of Long Compton on the borders of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire in the English Midlands.
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Roman Forum
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The Roman Forum (Latin: Forum Romanum, Italian: Foro Romano) is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the center of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum.
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San Giovanni degli Eremiti
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Giovanni_degli_Eremiti
The church's origins date to the 6th century. Later, after the Islamic conquest of Sicily, it was converted into a mosque. After the establishment of the Norman domination of southern Italy, it was returned to the Christians by Roger II of Sicily who, around 1136, entrusted it to the Benedictine monks of Saint William of Vercelli.
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San Gregorio Magno al Celio
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Gregorio_Magno_al_Celio)
San Gregorio Magno al Celio, also known as San Gregorio al Celio or simply San Gregorio, is a church in Rome, Italy, which is part of a monastery of monks of the Camaldolese branch of the Benedictine Order. St. Augustine of Canterbury and his Benedictines were sent by Pope Saint Gregory the Great, the basilica's namesake and patron saint, to evangelize England in 597 AD.

Santa Maria dell'Ammiraglio or San Nicolò dei Greci
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martorana)
The foundation charter of the church (which was initially Eastern Orthodox), in Greek and Arabic, is preserved and dates to 1143; construction may already have begun at this point. The church had certainly been completed by the death of George in 1151, and he and his wife were interred in the narthex.

Saintes - Roman Amphitheatre

San Sebastiano fuori le mura
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Sebastiano_fuori_le_Mura)
Built originally in the first half of the 4th century,[2] the basilica is dedicated to St. Sebastian, a popular Roman martyr of the 3rd century. The name ad catacumbasrefers to the catacombs of St Sebastian, over which the church was built, while "fuori le mura" refers to the fact that the church is built outside the Aurelian Walls, and is used to differentiate the basilica from the church of San Sebastiano al Palatino on the Palatine Hill.

Sarmizegetusa Regia
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmizegetusa_Regia)
Sarmizegetusa Regia (also Sarmisegetusa, Sarmisegethusa, Sarmisegethuza, Ζαρμιζεγεθούσα (Zarmizegethousa), Ζερμιζεγεθούση (Zermizegethousy)) was the capital and the most important military, religious and political centre of the Dacians. Erected on top of a 1,200 metre high mountain, the fortress was the core of the strategic defensive system in the Orăştie Mountains (in present-day Romania), comprising six citadels. Sarmizegetusa Regia was the capital of Dacia prior to the wars with the Roman Empire.

Scupi
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scupi)
A Roman military camp was founded here in the second century BC on the site of an older Dardanian settlement. It became later Colonia Flavia Aelia Scupi and many veteran legionnaires were settled there. A Roman town was founded in the time of Domitian (AD 81-96) and Scupi became the chief center for romanizing Dardania. It was abandoned in AD 518 after an earthquake completely destroyed the city.

Scylletium
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylletium)
According to a tradition generally received in ancient times, Scylletium was founded by an Athenian colony, a part of the followers who had accompanied Menestheus to theTrojan War.[4] Another tradition was, however, extant, which ascribed its foundation to Ulysses.[5] But no historical value can be attached to such statements, and there is no trace in historical times of Scylletium having been a Greek colony, still less an Athenian one.
In 124 BCE the Romans, at the instigation of C. Gracchus, sent a colony to Scylletium, which appears to have assumed the name of Minervium or Colonia Minervia.[8]
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Segesta
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segesta)
According to the tradition used in Virgil's Aeneid, Segesta was founded jointly by the territorial king Acestes (who was son of the local river Crinisus by a Dardanian woman named Segesta or Egesta) and by those of Aeneas' folk who wished to remain behind with Acestes to found the city of Acesta.
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Selinunte (site 1)
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selinunte)
Selinunte (Ancient Greek: Σελινοῦς; Latin: Selinus) was an ancient Greek city on the southern coast of Sicily in Italy. It was situated between the valleys of the Belice and Modione rivers. It now lies in thecomune Castelvetrano, between the frazioni of Triscina di Selinunte in the west and Marinella di Selinunte in the east. The archaeological site contains five temples centered on an acropolis. Of the five temples, only theTemple of Hera, also known as "Temple E", has been re-erected. At its peak before 409 BC the city grew to 30,000 people excludings slaves.[1]

Selinunte (site 2)

Servian Wall
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servian_Wall)
The Servian Wall (Latin: Murus Servii Tullii, Italian: Mura serviane) was a defensive barrier constructed around the city of Rome in the early 4th century BC.
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Skala-Podilska Castle (1515 -1765)

Skara Brae
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae)
Skara Brae /ˈskærə ˈbreɪ/ is a stone-built Neolithic settlement, located on the Bay of Skaill on the west coast ofMainland, the largest island in the Orkney archipelago of Scotland. It consists of eight clustered houses, and was occupied from roughly 3180 BCE–2500 BCE. Europe's most complete Neolithic village, Skara Brae gained UNESCOWorld Heritage Site status as one of four sites making up "The Heart of Neolithic Orkney."
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Solnitsata
Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solnitsata)
Solnitsata (Bulgarian: Солницата, "The Saltworks") was an ancient town located in present-day Bulgaria, near the modern city of Provadia. Believed by Bulgarian archaeologists to be the oldest town in Europe, Solnitsata was the site of a salt production facility approximately six millennia ago;[1] it flourished ca 4700-4200 BC.[2] The settlement was walled to protect the salt, a crucial commodity in antiquity.[3] Although its population has been estimated at only 350,[3] archaeologist Vassil Nikolov argues that it meets established criteria as a prehistoric city.[4]
Salt production drove Solnitsata's economy, and the town is believed to have supplied salt throughout the Balkans. A large collection of gold objects nearby has led archaeologists to speculate that this trade resulted in considerable wealth for the town's residents.[1]
The town is believed to have been destroyed by an earthquake.[5]
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Sparta's ancient theater
In 1904, the British School at Athens began a thorough exploration of Laconia, and in the following year excavations were made at Thalamae, Geronthrae, and Angelona near Monemvasia. In 1906, excavations began in Sparta.
A small circus described by Leake proved to be a theatre-like building constructed soon after AD 200 around the altar and in front of the temple of Artemis Orthia.

St Olofs
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigtuna)
The old church built in the 13th century by the Dominican order at the monastery still remains, and has had few restorations. The Dominican monastery played an important role in the Swedish Middle Ages and produced many important Church officials. Among them, many Swedish archbishops. Many church and monastery ruins still stand, and the old city structure has not been remodeled, as happened in many Swedish cities during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Stanton Drew stone circles
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Drew_stone_circles)
The largest stone circle is the Great Circle, 113 metres (371 ft) in diameter and the second largest stone circle in Britain (after Avebury); it is considered to be one of the largest Neolithic monuments to have been built. It was made a scheduled monument in 1982.[1]

Staraya Ladoga fortress
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staraya_Ladoga)
The fortress of Ladoga was built in the 12th century and rebuilt 400 years later. It is now mostly reconstructed since being heavily damaged during World War II.
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Stobi
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stobi)
The town was first mentioned in 197 BC by Livius. In 148 BC, the four areas of Macedonia were brought together in a unified Roman province. In the reign of Augustus the town grew in size and population. The town grew in 69 BC once it became a municipium and coins, with Municipium Stobensium printed on them, were distributed.

Stonehenge
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge)
One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is the remains of a ring of standing stones set within earthworks. It is in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.[1]
Archaeologists believe it was built anywhere from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. Radiocarbon dating in 2008 suggested that the first stones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC,[2] whilst another theory suggests that bluestones may have been raised at the site as early as 3000 BC.[3][4][5]

Stonehenge Cursus
Wikipedia: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge_Cursus)
The Stonehenge Cursus (sometimes known as the Greater Cursus) is a large Neolithic cursus monument next to Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England.
It is roughly 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long and between 100 metres (330 ft) and 150 metres (490 ft) wide. Excavations in 2007 dated the construction of the earthwork to between 3630 and 3375 BCE.[1] This makes the monument several hundred years older than the earliest phase of Stonehenge in 3000 BC. The cursus is part of the National Trust's Stonehenge Landscape property.
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Suasa
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suasa)
Suasa was founded by the Romans in the early 3rd century BC, after the Battle of Sentinum (295 BC), in a territory inhabited by the Senones. The town was crossed by a secondary trait of the Via Flaminia and by the Via Salaria Gallica, which connected it to Forum Sempronii (Fossombrone) and Ostra. In 232 BC, it became a prefecture and, in the 1st century BC, a municipium.

Syracuse
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syracuse,_Sicily)
The city is notable for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres,architecture, and as the birthplace of the preeminent mathematician and engineer Archimedes.[3] This 2,700-year-old city played a key role in ancient times, when it was one of the major powers of the Mediterranean world.

Tanais
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanais)
The site of Tanais was occupied long before the Milesians founded an emporium there. A necropolis of over 300 burial kurgans near the ancient city show that the site had already been occupied since the Bronze Age, and that kurgan burials continued through Greek and into even Roman times.

Tarxien Temples
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarxien_Temples)
The Tarxien Temples (Maltese pronunciation: [ˈtarʃi.ɛn]) are an archaeological complex in Tarxien, Malta. They date to approximately 3150 BC.[1] The site was accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980 along with the other Megalithic temples on the island of Malta.
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Taormina
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taormina#Ancient)
The area around Taormina was inhabited by the Siculi even before the Greeks arrived on the Sicilian coast in 734 BC to found a town called Naxos. The theory that Tauromenion was founded by colonists from Naxos is confirmed by Strabo and other ancient writers.
The new settlement seems to have risen rapidly to prosperity, and was apparently already a considerable town at the time of Timoleon's expedition in 345 BC.

Trajan's Market
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Market)
Trajan's Market (Latin: Mercatus Traiani, Italian: Mercati di Traiano) is a large complex of ruins in the city of Rome, Italy, located on the Via dei Fori Imperiali, at the opposite end to the Colosseum. The surviving buildings and structures, built as an integral part of Trajan's Forum and nestled against the excavated flank of the Quirinal Hill, present a living model of life in the Roman capital and a glimpse at the continuing restoration in the city, which reveals new treasures and insights about Ancient Roman architecture.[1][2][3][4]
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Temple de Diane

Théâtre antique d'Orange
The Théâtre antique d'Orange ("Ancient Theatre of Orange") is an ancient Roman theatre, in Orange, southern France, built early in the 1st century CE. It is owned by the municipality of Orange and is the home of the summeropera festival, the Chorégies d'Orange.

Thera
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Thera)
Ancient Thera (Greek: Αρχαία Θήρα) is an antique city on a ridge of the steep, 360 m high Messavouno mountain on the Greek island of Santorini. It was named after the mythical ruler of the island, Theras, and was inhabited from the 9th century BC until 726 AD.

Tiryns
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiryns)
Tiryns was a hill fort with occupation ranging back seven thousand years, from before the beginning of the Bronze Age. It reached its height between 1400 and 1200 BC, when it was one of the most important centers of the Mycenaean world, and in particular in Argolis. Its most notable features were its palace, its cyclopean tunnels and especially its walls, which gave the city its Homeric epithet of "mighty walled Tiryns".
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Thornborough Henges
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornborough_Henges)
The Thornborough Henges is an unusual ancient monument complex that includes the three aligned henges that give the site its name. The complex is located near the village of Thornborough, close to the town of Masham inNorth Yorkshire, England. The complex includes many large ancient structures including a cursus, henges, burial grounds and settlements. They are thought to have been part of a Neolithic and Bronze Age 'ritual landscape' comparable with Salisbury Plain and date from between 3500 and 2500 BC.
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Trajan's Bridge
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan%27s_Bridge)
Trajan's Bridge (Romanian: Podul lui Traian; Serbian: Трајанов мост, Trajanov Most) or Bridge of Apollodorus over the Danube was a Roman segmental arch bridge, the first to be built over the lower Danube. Though it was only functional for a few decades, for more than 1,000 years it was the longest arch bridge in both total and span length.[1]

Trevi Fountain
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevi_Fountain)
The fountain at the junction of three roads (tre vie)[2] marks the terminal point[3] of the "modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the aqueducts that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8.1 mi) from the city.

Trim Castle
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_Castle)
The Castle was used as a centre of Norman administration for the Lordship of Meath, one of the new administrative areas of Ireland created by King Henry II of England. Hugh de Lacy took possession of it in 1172. De Lacy built a huge ringwork castle defended by a stout double palisade and external ditch on top of the hill.

Tusculum
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusculum)
According to legend, the city was founded either by Telegonus, the son of Odysseus and Circe, or by the Latin king Latinus Silvius, a descendant of Aeneas, who according to Titus Livius was the founder of most of the towns and cities in Latium. The geographer Filippo Cluverio discounts these legends, asserting that the city was founded by Latins about three hundred years before the Trojan War. Funerary urns datable to the 8th–7th centuries B.C. demonstrate a human presence in the late phases of Latin culture in this area.
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Ulpia Traiana Augusta Dacica Sarmizegetusa
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmizegetusa_Ulpia_Traiana)
The exact period when the city was built is not known. Some say the first settlement was erected between 106-107, others say it was between 108-110. However, due to an inscription discovered at the beginning of the 14th century in the village of Grădişte, it is known that the new town was settled in the first years after the conquest of Dacia. The inscription reads: "On the command of the emperor Caesar Nerva Traianus Augustus, son of the divine Nerva, was settled the Dacian Colony by Decimus Terentius Scaurianus, its governor."

Ulpiana, Kosovo

Uppåkra
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upp%C3%A5kra)
Uppåkra was situated on the ancient main road between Trelleborg and Helsingborg in what was to become the Danish kingdom. The original foundation of Uppåkra is dated to the last century BC, although its importance appears to have increased in the fifth century. It seems likely that the rulers of Uppåkra by then wielded influence over most or all of West Scania, i.e. the land along the Trelleborg–Helsingborg main road, known for extraordinarily fertile plains.
Uppåkra church, built in the 1860s on the site of the mediaeval church.

Valle dei Templi
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_dei_Templi)
The Valle dei Templi (English: Valley of the Temples, Sicilian: Vaddi di li Tempri) is an archaeological site in Agrigento (ancient Greek Akragas), Sicily, southern Italy. It is one of the most outstanding examples of Greater Greece art and architecture, and is one of the main attractions of Sicily as well as a national monument of Italy. The area was included in the UNESCO Heritage Site list in 1997.
- Temple of Juno Lacinia
- Temple of Concordia
- Temple of Asclepius
- Temple of Heracles
- Olympeion field
- Temple of the Dioscuri
- Temple of Vulcan

Temple of Juno Lacinia
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Temple of Concordia
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Temple of the Dioscuri
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Temple of Heracles
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Underwater ancient Greek ruins at Alykanas Village, Greece

Vaison-la-Romaine
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaison-la-Romaine)
The area was inhabited in the Bronze Age. At the end of the fourth century BCE, the upper city of Vaison became the capital of a Celtic tribe, theVocontii or Voconces. After the Roman conquest (125-118 BCE) the Vocontii retained a certain degree of autonomy; they had two capitals, Luc-en-Diois (in modern Drôme département), apparently the religious center, and Vaison.

Veleia
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veleia_(Italy)
Nothing further was known of it until 1747, when some ploughmen found the famous Tabula alimentaria, now in the museum at Parma. This, the largest inscribed bronze tablet of antiquity (4 ft. 6 in. by 9 ft. 6 in.) contains the list of estates in the territories of Veleia, Libarna, Placentia, Parma and Luca, in which Trajan had assigned before AD 102 72,000 sesterces and then 1,044,000 sesterces on a mortgage bond to forty-six estates. The total value of which was reckoned at over 13,000,000 sesterces (~I3o,ooo), the interest on which at 5% was to serve for the support of 266 boys and 6 girls, the former receiving 16, the latter 12 sesterces a month.
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Villa Cardillio
The first construction of this "villa" occurred in the first century, of which only remains the primitive atrium and the remains of the thermal baths (which later adapted into the successive infrastructures.[1][2]
Vila Cadílio's second phase occurred of around the 4th century, being the property of Cardílio and Avita.[1][2]
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Villa of the Quintilii
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Quintilii)
The Villa of the Quintilii (Italian: Villa dei Quintili) is an ancient Roman villa beyond the fifth milestone along theVia Appia Antica just outside the traditional boundaries of Rome,[1] Italy. It was built by the rich and cultured brothers Sextus Quintilius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus (consuls in 151 AD) in the course of the 2nd century.[2]

Villa Romana del Casale
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Romana_del_Casale
The villa was constructed (on the remains of an older villa) in the first quarter of the 4th century AD, probably as the center of a huge latifundium (agricultural estate) covering the surrounding area. How long the villa kept this role is not known, maybe for less than 150 years.
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Viminacium
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viminacium)
The city dates back to the 1st century AD, and at its peak it is believed to have had 40,000 inhabitants, making it one of the biggest cities of that time. It lies on the Roman road Via Militaris. Viminacium was devastated by Huns in the 5th century, but was later rebuilt byJustinian. It was completely destroyed with the arrival of Slavs in the 6th century. Today, the archaeological site occupies a total of 450 hectares (1,100 acres), and contains remains of temples, streets, squares, amphitheatres, palaces, hippodromes and Roman baths.[1]

Vindolanda
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vindolanda#Early_accounts)
The first post-Roman record of the ruins at Vindolanda was made by the antiquarian William Camden, in his Britannia (1586). Occasional travellers reached the site over the next two hundred years, and the accounts they left are useful because they predate much of the stone-stealing that has damaged the site.

Viničko Kale
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vini%C4%8Dko_Kale)
Viničko Kale is an ancient ruin located on the hill above the town of Vinica, Republic of Macedonia. It is located on the left side of the Grdečka River, on a hill about 400 meters above sea level. Viničko Kale was discovered in 1954. In 1978, 5 fragments of terra-cotta icons were discovered in Viničko Kale, which shows that it was inhabited from Neolithic times to the Middle Ages.

Virunum - Antikes Amphitheater
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virunum)
Municipium Claudium Virunum, or simply, Virunum, was founded under Emperor Claudius as the capital of the province of Noricum succeeding the town upon the hilltop of Magdalensberg, perhaps also taking its name from that settlement, which is widely believed to have been the royal capital city of the pre-Roman Celtic kingdom of Noricum, a town whose name is, as yet, not known.
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Veliky Novgorod - St. Sophia Cathedral
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novgorod#Sights)
The foremost among these is the St. Sophia Cathedral, built between 1045 and 1050 under the patronage of Vladimir Yaroslavich, the son of Yaroslav the Wise (Vladimir is buried in the cathedral along with his mother, Anna).[25] It is one of the best preserved churches from the 11th century. It's also probably the oldest structure still in use in Russia and the first one to represent original features of Russian architecture (austere stone walls, five helmet-like domes).
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West Kennet Long Barrow
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kennet_Long_Barrow)
The West Kennet Long Barrow is a Neolithic tomb or barrow, situated on a prominent chalk ridge, near Silbury Hill, one-and-a-half miles south of Avebury in Wiltshire, England. The site was recorded by John Aubrey in the 17th century and by William Stukeley in the 18th century.
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Woodhenge
Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodhenge)
Woodhenge is a Neolithic Class II henge and timber circle monument located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, England. It is 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Stonehenge in the parish of Durrington, just north of Amesbury.

Wroxeter
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Wroxeter is on the site of the Roman city of Viroconium Cornoviorum, which was the fourth largest civitascapital in Roman Britain. In Old Welsh it was called Caer Guricon and may have served as the early post-Roman capital of the Welsh kingdom of Powys. Mercian encroachment forced the Welsh to move toMathrafal castle sometime before AD 717 after famine and plague. The main section of the Watling StreetRoman road runs across England between Dubris (Roman Dover) and Wroxeter.

Ancient Greek homestead, Crimea, District of Sevastopol
Google Map / Panoramio / Oleksa Haiworonski

Ancient Greek homestead in Yukharina Gulch
Google Map / Panoramio / Oleksa Haiworonski

Mesemvria - Zoni, Ancient Ruins - 400 BC

Delos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delos
The island of Delos (/ˈdiːlɒs/; Greek: Δήλος [ˈðilos]; Attic: Δῆλος, Doric: Δᾶλος), near Mykonos, near the centre of the Cyclades archipelago, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece. The excavations in the island are among the most extensive in the Mediterranean; ongoing work takes place under the direction of the French School at Athens and many of the artifacts found are on display at the Archaeological Museum of Delos and the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Wikipedia Commons / Bernard Gagnon

Small Underwater Town Found Off Delos (approximated)
The ruins of an ancient pottery workshop prompted archaeologists to say that this was in fact an ancient settlement. The findings lay at a depth of only two meters on the northeastern coast of Delos, near the popular island of Mykonos. According to Greek mythology, the god Apollo and goddess Artemis were born on Delos, making it a sacred island. Hence the famous Temple of Apollo on the island.