🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi
Roman Imperial (High Empire) · Roman Phrygia (Aezanitai polis under Rome)
Hadrianic Ionic pseudodipteral 9×15 with intact vaulted cryptoporticus, Phrygian Roman gem.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion)
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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Antinopolis (Antinoë)
Roman to Early Islamic (130–800 CE) · Roman / Greek / Egyptian
130 CE Hadrian-planned city for Antinous with 300-m hippodrome, triumphal arch and North Cemetery mummy portraits.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Jerash (Gerasa)
Hellenistic to Early Islamic (c.332 BCE–749 CE, peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Graeco-Roman / Nabataean / Byzantine / Umayyad
One of the best-preserved Greco-Roman cities in the Near East, Gerasa was a Decapolis city with colonnaded cardo, two tetrapylons, Hadrian's Arch (129 CE), Oval Plaza, Temple of Artemis and Temple of…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Ephesus and Temple of Artemis
Archaeic Greek to Roman Imperial 10th c. BCE–3rd c. CE, Artemision 550 BCE · Greek Ionian then Roman
Roman Asian capital with Artemis Wonder remnant and Library of Celsus.
🇱🇾 Libya · Hydraulic works
Cinyps Bridge (Wadi Ka'am)
Roman (Hadrianic, 2nd c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitania)
Three-arched Roman bridge (15 m spans) on Leptis coastal road.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Antinoöpolis (El Sheikh Ibada / Antinoë) – Hadrian's City
Roman · Roman / Egyptian / Greek
Instant Græco-Roman show-city founded by Hadrian Oct 130 CE for drowned Antinous. Hippodamian grid, tetrastyle gates, 3 km colonnaded cardo, circus and temple to Osiris-Antinous. Greek boule papyri.