Archaeological wonders matching “Roman era”

🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder

Eifel Aqueduct

The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire. The aqueduct, constructed in AD 80, carried water some 95 kilometres (59 mi) from the hilly Eifel region of what is now…

🇮🇳 India · Ancient city

Eran

Chalcolithic 1200–600 BCE → Sunga 200 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Chalcolithic → Sunga → Gupta (Vakataka-Hunas)

Gupta temple city Airikina on Bina river (600 BCE–600 CE) — home to 2.66 m Varaha boar (510 CE) and earliest Sati inscription.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Roman Tomb (Silistra)

ancient Roman tomb in Bulgaria

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder

Ausafa

Ausafa or Uzappa was a Roman era town, in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity Byzacena.

🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site

Antikythera Shipwreck – Mechanism Wreck

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.

Roman Empire · Archaeological wonder

Aeliae

Aeliae or Æliæ was a Roman-era city in the province of Byzacena. The town must have been of some importance as it was made a bishopric early after the Council of Nicaea and it was a Catholic diocese…

🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder

Centum Prata

Centum Prata is the name of a Roman vicus on the eastern shore of Lake Zurich, whose remains are located in Kempraten (to which the vicus lends its name) in the municipality Rapperswil-Jona, canton…

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder

Colonnaded Street

Colonnaded Street is located in downtown Beirut, Lebanon. it was an important street of Roman-era Berytus.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder

Colossi of Memnon

Ancient Egypt

The Colossi of Memnon (Arabic: el-Colossat or es-Salamat) are two large stone statues of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, which stand at the front of the ruined Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III, the…

🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder

Little St Bernard Pass

The Little St Bernard Pass (French: Col du Petit Saint-Bernard, Italian: Colle del Piccolo San Bernardo) is a mountain pass in the Alps on the France–Italy border.

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder

Henchir-Tebel

Henchir-Tebel is a town and archaeological site in Al Qayrawān, Tunisia, near Kairouan Henchir-Tebel is 118 metres above sea level.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient city

Kaundinyapura

Maurya 300 BCE → Sunga 187 BCE → Satavahana 50 BCE–230 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Vidarbha Early Historic (Satavahana–Vakataka) with Mahabharata memory

Mahabharata Kundina trading city on Wardha (300 BCE–400 CE) — 1.5 km wall with Satavahana–Roman trade and carbonized rice.

🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder

Ganjali Khan Complex

The Ganjali Khan Complex (Persian: مجموعه گنجعلیخان, romanized: Majmou'e-ye Ganjali Khan) is a Safavid era building complex, located in the old city center of Kerman in Iran.

🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder

The Corycian Cave (; Greek: Κωρύκιον ἄντρον, romanized: Kōrykion antron) is located in central Greece on the southern slopes of Mount Parnassus, in Parnassus National Park, which is situated north of…

🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder

Autun

Autun (French: [otœ̃] ) is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France.

🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder

Khemis Miliana

Khemis Miliana (Arabic: خميس مليانة) is a town in northern Algeria of around 210,000 inhabitants. It is a university town located 120 kilometers west of Algiers.

🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Sabratha

Phoenician to Byzantine (c.500 BCE–643 CE; monumental Roman 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine

Tripolitanian Phoenician port (5th c BCE) with Hellenistic and then Roman city: Theatre of Sabratha – most complete Roman theatre in Africa (Marcus Aurelius era 175–200 CE, cavea 92.6 m, three-storey…

🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder