Search places, or jump to a section
The catalogue
13,227 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Biahmu (Byahmu) is a village and archaeological site in Faiyum Governorate, Egypt. The town is in the Faiyum Oasis, 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from the city of Faiyum.
🇫🇷 France · Earthwork
Hallstatt D (550–450 BCE) · Hallstatt Celtic (Vix princess)
Châtillonnais hillfort famous for Vix princess tomb 1953, largest Greek bronze krater (1100 L), gold torc 480 g, excavated by Joffroy.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
The Tashtyk culture was a Late Iron Age archaeological culture that flourished in the Yenisei valley in Siberia from the 1st century CE to the 4th century CE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid to Mitanni (6500–1200 BCE) · Uruk/Mitanni
Tell Brak — Nagar Outer City Eye Temple in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur plain, Syria is a Ubaid to Mitanni (6500–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Uruk/Mitanni culture.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Archaeological wonder
Trou de l’Abîme also known as La caverne de l'Abîme and Couvin Cave is a karst cave located in Wallonia on the right bank of the Eau Noire river in the center of Couvin, Belgium, in Namur province.
🇱🇾 Libya · Temple complex
Greek / Roman · Greek (Cyrenean)
Healing sanctuary of Asclepius with spring valley, temple, incubation theatre, stoa and sacred spring under eucalypts. Annual Asclepieia games; Pausanias lists oracle.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Philistine Timnah c.1200–600) · Canaanite → Philistine (Timnah) → Judah
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah in Sorek Valley — Samson's Timnah (Judges 14) and Philistine border town between Ekron and Gezer. Mazar/Kelm 1977–89 revealed MB g...
🇧🇭 Bahrain · Archaeological wonder
The Ain Umm Sujoor (Arabic: عين أم السجور) is an archaeological site located in the village of Diraz, Bahrain.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ghana Empire satellite (800–1350 CE peak Awdaghust near Al Bakri) · Sanhaja Berber → Ghana Empire → Almoravid
Tegdaoust excavated by Robert & Mauny 1960–70, Ghana southern frontier caravan town 800–1350.
🇫🇷 France · Fortress
Fort Saint-Jean (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ sɛ̃ʒɑ̃]; Occitan: Fort Sant Joan) is a fortification in Marseille, built in 1660 by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–1200 BCE) · Egyptian-Hittite
Kamid el-Loz — Beqaa Palace in Beqaa Governorate, Kumidi palace, Lebanon is a Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Egyptian-Hittite culture.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Fortress
Achaemenid to Kushan (400 BCE–400 CE) Khorezm · Khorezmian
Koy-Krylgan Kala — Khorezm Fortress in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan is a Achaemenid to Kushan (400 BCE–400 CE) Khorezm fortress attributed to Khorezmian.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Medjerda road vicus with forum, baths and Christian basilica with mosaic epitaphs, controlling Siliana valley grain.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Sicán (Lambayeque), c.750–1050 CE, peak 900–1050 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque)
Huaca La Merced (Huaca Sialupe) in Batan Grande — Sicán capital pyramid (c.750–1050 CE, Middle Sicán).
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Brea (Ancient Greek: Βρέα, demonym: Βρεαῖος or Βρεάτης) was an ancient Greek colony in Thrace. Nothing is known about the city itself.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Kakavaberd or Kaqavaberd (Armenian: Կաքավաբերդ, Eastern Armenian Kak'avaberd), also known as Geghi Berd, Keghi Berd or Kegh (Գեղի բերդ Gełi Berd), is a fortress on a ridge overlooking the Azat River…
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
The Catacomb of Calepodius (also called the Cemetery of Calepodius) is one of the Catacombs of Rome, notable for containing the tombs of Pope Callixtus I (ironically, the creator of the Catacomb of…
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
The Commodilla catacomb inscription is found on the cornice of a fresco in the tomb of the Christian martyrs Felix and Adauctus, located in the catacombs of Commodilla in Rome.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Iskuqucha (Quechua isku lime, qucha lake, "lime lake", Hispanicized spelling Izcucocha) is an archaeological site in Peru. It is located in the Junín Region, Yauli Province, La Oroya District.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Predynastic to New Kingdom (3500–1086 BCE) · Predynastic / Egyptian (New Kingdom)
Governor tombs north of El Kab with predynastic rock-art bank.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Persian period (c.525 BCE; chamber c.525–500 BCE) · Persian-period Lycian (Elmalı dynasty under Achaemenid satrapy)
Persian-period painted chamber tomb (525 BCE) with 2.5 m banquet frieze under tumulus at Elmalı.
🇷🇺 Russia · Temple complex
The Conception Convent or Zachatyevsky Monastery (Russian: Зачатьевский монастырь, romanized: Zachat'yevskiy monastyr') is a Russian Orthodox stauropegic convent on the northern bank of the Moskva…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Develtos (Bulgarian: Деултум, Greek: Δεβελτός, Δηβελτός, Δεουελτός, Δεούελτος, Διβηλτóς) or Deultum was an ancient city and bishopric in Thrace.
