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Alesia was the capital of the Mandubii, one of the Gallic tribes allied with the Aedui. The Celtic oppidum was conquered by Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars and afterwards became a Gallo-Roman…
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Antigonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀντιγόνεια), also transliterated as Antigonea and Antigoneia, was an ancient Greek city in Chaonia, Epirus, and the chief inland city of the ancient Chaonians.
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Asqalan or Askalan is a village in Kunduz Province, in northern Afghanistan. It lies roughly 20 kilometres northwest of Kunduz and is also an archaeological site of an ancient tomb.
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Aïn Turk (Arabic: عين ترك) nearby Bouira (Algeria) is a commune in Bouïra Province, Algeria. It is about 100 km from Algiers.
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Bassetki (Kurdish: باستکێ, romanized: Bassetkî) is a small village in Iraq, in Dohuk Governorate of autonomous Kurdistan Region. The village is associated with several archaeological finds.
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Baumann's Cave (German: Baumannshöhle), located nearby Hermann's Cave, is a show cave in Rübeland in the district of Harz and is Germany's oldest show cave.
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Bawomataluo village is a settlement in the Teluk Dalam province of the South Nias Regency of Indonesia.
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Bystrzyca [bɨsˈtʂɨt͡sa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Oława, within Oława County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.
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The Castle of Gjon Boçari (Albanian: Kalaja e Gjon Boçarit) is a castle of the 16th and 17th century built during Ottoman times in Tragjas, Albania.
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Chocolá is a Preclassic Southern Maya site whose developmental emphasis was from c. 1000 BC to AD 200. The site lies within the Southern Maya area.
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The Dieng Plateau, often called simply Dieng (Javanese: ꦣꦶꦲꦾꦁ; Javanese pronunciation: [dijénɡ]) is a plateau in Central Java, Indonesia that forms the floor of the caldera complex on the Dieng…
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The Drimolen Palaeocave System consists of a series of terminal Pliocene to early Pleistocene hominin-bearing palaeocave fills located around 40 kilometres (25 mi) north of Johannesburg, South…
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Eski Mosul (Arabic: أسكي موصل) is a village in Mosul District, in present-day northern Iraq.
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The European Archaeological Park at Bliesbruck-Reinheim, in the German municipality of Gersheim (Saarland) and the French municipality of Bliesbruck (Département Moselle), is a cross-border project…
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Fterrë (Albanian definite form: Fterra) is a village in the former commune of Lukovë, Vlorë County, southern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Himarë.
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The Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites (Korean: 고창 화순 강화 고인돌 유적) are the location of hundreds of stone dolmens which were used as grave markers, and for ritual purposes during the first…
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The Goloring is an ancient earthworks monument located near Koblenz, Germany. It was created in the Bronze Age era, which dates back to the Urnfield culture (1200–800 BCE.).
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Govurqala is a name shared by four archaeological sites in Azerbaijan, located in Agdam. Govurqala is within the Boyahmadly village and represents a 3rd–10th-century-related town and cemetery with an…
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Gärde is a locality in the north of Offerdal in the historical province Jämtland in the middle of Sweden.
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The Hadži-Prodan's Cave (Serbian: Хаџи-Проданова пећина, Hadži-Prodanova pećina) is an archaeological site of the Paleolithic period and a national natural monument, located in the village Raščići…