🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Ancient City of Source Mesa
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ancient City of Source Mesa in Sicily, Italy is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
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🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ancient City of Source Mesa in Sicily, Italy is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Rock-Cut Tombs of Henge Nara Ditch in Sicily, Italy is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Harappan culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tumulus
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Highfield-Narrow Wadi Burial Mound in Sicily, Italy is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) tumulus attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Submerged Floor North in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Paleolithic to Iron Age (8,000 BCE–16th c. CE peak; Epipaleolithic to medieval) · Camunni (Iron Age Alpine) and earlier hunter groups
Valcamonica – 140,000+ petroglyphs carved over 8,000 years (8th millennium BCE–16th c.) across 250 km² Brescia Alps. 8 parks (Naquane 104 rocks, Seradina-Bedolina map).
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Olous Submerged City Blocks South in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Quarry
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Quarry of Marsh in Sicily, Italy is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) quarry attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient port
Roman Imperial (12 BCE–5th c. CE Classis Misenensis largest fleet 10,000 men, 100 ships, Pliny the Elder died 79 CE here) · Roman Imperial Naval (Augustus to late antiquity)
Misenum naval base surveyed, Pliny Elder 79.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Classical 430–420 BCE temple, theater 3rd c. BCE Hellenistic · Elymian (Trojan-origin indigenous beholden to Greek culture)
Unfinished 5th c. Doric temple and mountaintop theater of Trojan-descended Elymians.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Bass Strait Drowned Midden South in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Serra Orrios Nuragic Village in Sardinia, Nuoro, Italy is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Chambered Cairn Hill Buried 18 — Italy Region 6 in Italy Region 6, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Drowned Harbour Mole West in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Tumulus Cemetery Europe 110 — Italy Region 2 in Italy Region 2, Italy is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Period Medieval · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Pyramid Outlier Buried 13 — Italy Region 1 in Italy Region 1, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Nuragic
Barumini type-site excavated by Lilliu 1949–56, with Iron Age village over Bronze Age bastion, restored.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Claim 9600 BCE (Etna 500 ka volcano) · Pseudo Sicilian / Volcanology
Pseudoarchaeology – Schulten 1927 Tartessos–Sicily Aitna (Etna) Atlantis mirror misplaces Plato's island to Sicily Etna plain; Hausmann 1990s Sicilian Atlantis.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Arzachena Culture (Ozieri)
Li Muri Necropolis in Sardinia, Olbia-Tempio, Italy is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Arzachena Culture (Ozieri) culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
The Catacomb of San Pancrazio (also called of Ottavilla) is a catacomb of Rome (Italy), located in the Via Aurelia, within the modern Quartiere Gianicolense.
🇮🇹 Italy · Necropolis
The Anguilla necropolis (Italian: necropolis Anguilla) is an archaeological site in the Italian comune of Ribera in the province of Agrigento in Sicily.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
The Apostolic Palace of the Lateran (Latin: Palatium Apostolicum Lateranense), informally the Lateran Palace (Latin: Palatium Lateranense; Italian: Palazzo del Laterano), is an ancient palace of the…
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Apollonia (Greek: Ἀπολλωνία) was an ancient city of Magna Graecia in Sicily, which, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, was situated in the neighbourhood of Aluntium and Calacte.