🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Bilbao (Mesoamerican site)
Bilbao is a Mesoamerican archaeological site about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the modern town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the Escuintla department of Guatemala.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
M'Zab Valley — Ibadite Fortified Ksar Valley
Medieval Ibadite (11th–14th c to present continuous) · Ibadite Berber (Mozabite) / Rustumid
M'Zab Valley is the intact 11th c Ibadite Pentapolis 480 m deep limestone hamada: 5 fortified ksour (Ghardaïa, Beni Isguen, El Atteuf, Melika, Bou Noura) each on hill with pyramidal mosque-minaret,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hebenu
Hebenu (Ancient Egyptian: 𓎛𓃀𓈖𓏌𓍢𓊖, Coptic: ⲧϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, ⲡⲙⲁⲛϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, romanized: t-Habin, p-Manhabin, Arabic: حفن, romanized: Hafn) or Alabastron (Koine Greek: Ἀλάβαστρων πόλις) was a city in ancient…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Azenia (Attica)
Azenia (Ancient Greek: Ἀζηνία) was a deme of ancient Attica between Anaphlystus and Sunium. It was probably situated in the bay of which Sunium forms the eastern cape.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Aulae (Lycia)
Aulae or Aulai (Ancient Greek: Αὐλαί) was a town of ancient Lycia, noted by Stephanus of Byzantium. Its site is unlocated.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Caeno
Caeno or Kaino (Ancient Greek: Καινώ) was a town of ancient Crete, which, according to the legend of the purification of Apollo by Carmanor at Tarrha, is supposed to have existed in the neighbourhood…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Eshkaft-e Siahoo
Eshkaft-e Siahoo (Persian: اشکفت سیاهو), meaning "Black Cave" in the regional dialect, was used by Neolithic humans as a rock shelter between 12,000 and 10,000-years ago.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Quivira – Coronado's Plains City of Gold (Gran Quivira)
Contact myth 1540–1605 · Wichita / Spanish Entrada
Northernmost of Coronado's Seven Cities expedition – Turk told Coronado of Quivira rich in gold east beyond Pueblo; Coro...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Gunugus
Gunugus or Gunugu (Punic: 𐤂𐤍𐤂𐤍, gngn) was a Berber and Carthaginian town in northwest Africa in antiquity.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Atlantis Sardinia Plain – Sergio Frau Sardinian Atlantis
Claimed 9600 BCE (Nuragic 1800 BCE) · Nuragic / Plato forced
Frau Campidano 3000×2000 stades claimed Atlantis plain — Nuragic villages not concentric city Recorded context — Period: Claimed 9600 BCE (Nuragic 1800 BCE); Culture: Nuragic / Plato forced; Field…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Borremose
Borremose is a raised bog in central Himmerland, Denmark south east of the town of Aars. The name translates directly as 'Borre'-bog, where 'Borre' might well be a derivation of the old word burgh…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Hurvat Amudim
Hurvat Amudim or Sde Amudim was an ancient village, now an archaeological site, in Israel, located south-east of the Beit Netofa Valley, on the eastern side of Highway 65 between Golani Interchange and Kadarim Junction.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Arsinoe (Gulf of Suez)
Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη) or Arsinoites or Cleopatris (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπατρίς) or Cleopatra, was an ancient city at the northern extremity of the Heroopolite Gulf (Gulf of Suez), in the Red Sea.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Ayodhya
Ayodhya (Hindi: Ayodhyā, pronounced [ɐˈjoːd̪ʱjɐː] ) is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Dalisandus in Pamphylia
Dalisandus or Dalisandos (Ancient Greek: Δαλισανδός) was an ancient city and bishopric in eastern Pamphylia, in Asia Minor (Anatolia, Asian Turkey) and remains a Latin titular see.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
El Chal
El Chal is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located in the upper San Juan River valley of the southeastern Petén Basin region, Guatemala.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Hajar al-Nasr
Hadjar al-Nasr (Arabic: حجر النسر, lit. 'the vulture's rock') is an ancient fortress located in northern Morocco. It was constructed in the 10th century by the Idrisid dynasty.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Indraprastha
Indraprastha (Sanskrit: इन्द्रप्रस्थ, lit. "Plain of Indra" or "City of Indra"), contemporarily in Delhi, is a city cited in ancient Indian literature as a constituent of the Kuru kingdom.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kanchipuram
Kanchipuram (IAST: kāñcipuram; [kaːɲdʑipuɾam]), also known as Kanjeevaram or Kancheepuram, is a City in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu in Chennai Metropolitan Area.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Apollonia–Arsuf
Apollonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνία; Hebrew: אפולוניה), known in the Early Islamic period as Arsuf (Arabic: أرْسُوف, romanized: Arsūf) and in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as Arsur, was an…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Cytinium
Cytinium or Kytinion (Greek: Κυτίνιον or Κυτείνιον) was an ancient city and polis (city-state) of Greece, one of the towns of the tetrapolis of Doris.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
El Puente (Maya site)
El Puente, or the Parque Arqueológico El Puente ("El Puente Archaeological Park"), is a Maya archaeological site in the department of Copán in Honduras.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Istakhr
Istakhr (Middle Persian romanized: Stakhr, Persian: استخر, romanized: Estakhr) was an ancient city in Fars province, 5 kilometres (3 mi) north of Persepolis in southwestern Iran.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Argyra (Achaea)
Argyra (Ancient Greek: Ἀργυρᾶ) was a town or village in ancient Achaea, in the neighbourhood of Patrae. It was located near the river Selemnus, the spring Argyra and the town of Bolina.