Greece
Akrotiri — Minoan Bronze Age City
A Minoan port city sealed under volcanic ash around 1600 BC, Akrotiri is one of the best-preserved prehistoric…
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Ethiopia
Aksum (Axum)
Capital of the African empire that traded with Rome and India, first Christian kingdom of the region, home…
Sri Lanka
Ancient City of Polonnaruwa
Sri Lanka's second medieval capital, home to the Gal Vihara rock-cut Buddhas and the great Parakrama Samudra reservoir…
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Aquileia: Basilica e Zona Archeologica
Aquileia pairs a Roman city that once ranked among the empire's largest with the world's earliest and largest…
Lebanon
Baalbek
Baalbek's Roman ruins hold the largest temple ever built by Rome and three stone blocks so vast that…
Tunisia
Carthage
Carthage's Antonine Baths, Punic ports and tophet trace the city's history from its Phoenician founding through Roman destruction…
United States
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
A canyon of monumental great houses and engineered roads built by the Ancestral Puebloans, aligned with striking precision…
Peru
Chan Chan
Chan Chan, the Chimú capital near Trujillo, is the largest adobe city ever built and South America's biggest…
Turkey
Ephesus
Ephesus in Selçuk, Turkey preserves the Library of Celsus, a 24,000-seat theatre and the marble streets of a…
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