🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Colossus of Rhodes site
Hellenistic 292–280 BCE; destroyed 226 BCE · Greek Rhodian (Hellenistic)
33-m bronze sun-god toppled by earthquake 54 years after raising.
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🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Hellenistic 292–280 BCE; destroyed 226 BCE · Greek Rhodian (Hellenistic)
33-m bronze sun-god toppled by earthquake 54 years after raising.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Late Classical (Peloponnesian War) · Classical Athenian
421–405 BCE asymmetric Ionic with Caryatids, housing Athena Polias and Poseidon-Erechtheus on Mycenaean terrace.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Hellenistic–Late Roman Republican (ship c.80–60 BCE; mechanism c.150–80 BCE) · Greek / Roman trade – Pergamene-Rhodian sculpture cargo
70 BCE Roman freighter off Antikythera at 45 m that yielded the geared Antikythera Mechanism.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Hellenistic 6th–2nd c. BCE · Ancient Greek Argive
Asklepios healing sanctuary with world's most acoustically perfect 14,000-seat Greek theater.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical (High Classical, Age of Pericles) · Classical Greek (Athenian)
449–415 BCE Doric 6×13 temple atop Agora Kolonos, best-preserved Greek temple, Hephaestus–Athena Ergane.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Mycenaean 1600–1100 BCE, acme 1300–1200 BCE · Mycenaean
Cyclopean citadel with earliest vaulted galleries in Europe and megaron palace.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Geometric to Medieval · Mycenaean, Dorian Rhodian, Byzantine, Knights
Rhodes 267-m Filerimos Doric Athena Polias 3rd BCE atop Minoan–Knights stratigraphy with sacred road and fountain.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Delphi Marmaria Athena Sanctuary in Central Greece, Delphi, Greece is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Vergina Tomb III Philip Arrhidaeus in Macedonia, Vergina, Greece is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Tiryns Cyclopean Gallery North in Peloponnese, Tiryns, Greece is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Delphi Settlement Central — Delphi (60-46) at Delphi, Greece is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical 429–400 BCE · Ancient Greek Arcadian (Phigalian)
Iktinos' mountain Apollo temple mixing all three orders with earliest Corinthian capital.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Ancient City of Tre-Fell in Thessaly, Greece is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Mycenaean to Roman ~1400 BCE–391 CE · Epirote Greek (Molossoi then Aetolian)
Oak-and-bronze oracle of Zeus — oldest in Greece — with vast theater and lot-tablet archive.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Dwarka Gomati Submerged Wall East in Pavlopetri Coast, Greece is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Dolmen Avenue Temple 40 — Greece Region 4 in Greece Region 4, Greece is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical High 447–406 BCE over Bronze Age citadel · Athenian Classical Greek
Periclean citadel with Parthenon, Erechtheion Caryatids and Propylaia — summit of Classical Greece.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman 600 BCE–267 CE, Classical peak 5th c. BCE · Athenian Greek
Democratic square of Athens with intact Hephaisteion, Stoa of Attalos and Socratic stoa.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Geometric to Hellenistic-Roman 8th c. BCE–395 CE; temple 510 BCE · Ancient Greek (pan-Hellenic)
Apollo's oracle sanctuary on Parnassus - spiritual center of ancient Greek world.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman Imperial (638-year build) · Athenian tyranny, Hellenistic Seleucid, Roman Imperial
638-year colossal: Pisistratid → Antiochus–Cossutius → Hadrian, 8×20 Corinthian 17 m columns, largest mainland.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Hellenistic (700–200 BCE) · Athenian (Ionic) — Artemis Brauronia
420 BCE Doric 6×11 with 44-m pi stoa where Athenian bear-girls (arktoi) danced initiation, Iphigenia myth.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Classical to Hellenistic (426 BCE – 88 BCE Sulla/Mithridates sack) · Athenian / Cycladic Delian League
Sacred processional causeway 250 m linking Apollo's Delos to Rheneia necropolis — basalt slabs now –1 to –3 m on channel reef.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Western Delphi Ridge Central — Delphi (60-05) at Delphi, Greece is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Palaeolithic–Neolithic (130,000–3000 BCE) · Palaeolithic to Neolithic — Thessalian cave sequence
Limestone cave near Meteora, Thessaly, with the longest continuous stratigraphic sequence in Greece, spanning 130,000 years from Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.