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Idebessos Idebessos diğer adıyla Edebessus veya Edebessos, Likya'da antik bir kent. Bugün kalıntıları, Türkiye'nin Antalya ilindeki küçük Kozağacı köyünün batısında kısa bir mesafede bulunur. ...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Idebessos Idebessos, Idebessus, also known as Edebessus or Edebessos, was an ancient city in Lycia. Today its ruins are found a short distance to the west of the small village of Kozağacı in Antalya Province, Turkey.Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Assos The Archaeological site of Assos is located in the south-western part of the Biga Peninsula (Troad), within the borders of the Village of Behramkale, 17 kilometers south of the district of Ayvacık in the province of Çanakkale. The ancient city lies on a steep hill, rising 235 m above sea level, a...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Metropolis Metropolis, İzmir’in Torbalı İlçesinde, Yeniköy ve Özbey mahalleleri arasındaki bir tepe ve yamaçlarında kurulmuş olan İon kenttir. Torbalı Ovasına hâkim 142 m. rakımlı bu tepe aynı zamanda kentin akropolisi olarak seçilmiştir. Akropolis’te tespit edilen en erken buluntular Erken Tunç Çağı’na tar...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Sarmizegethusa Doğu Romanya'nın Geç Demir Çağı kasabası, MÖ 1. yüzyılda Burebista tarafından kurulan Daçya devletinin merkezi. Bir tepenin üstündeki kale, birkaç tapınak ve tapınağın bulunduğu bir kutsal alanın yanındadır.Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Venosa An open Lower Palaeolithic site north of Potenza in Basilicata in southern Italy. A hand axe or Acheulian level overlies one with abundant ‘side scrapers’ (evolved Clac-tonian, Tayacian or Charentian). The date of these is not well fixed.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Abydos Two hieroglyphic inscriptions containing the names of Egyptian kings that were found on the walls in a small temple at Abydos, Egypt. The first tablet has the names of the kings of the 12th and 18th dynasties and it is now in the British Museum. The second tablet begins with Menes, one of the fir...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Syracuse A Greek colonial settlement and principal port on the east coast of Sicily, and later capital of Roman Sicily. Earliest occupation seems to be on the island of Ortygia which helps to enclose the Great Harbour, where some early Palaeolithic material occurs. It is likely that a native settlement pr...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Sounion [Roman Sunium]. Byron’s ‘Sunium’s marbled steep’ is a classical sanctuary site on a rocky headland some 70 km southeast of Athens. It is famous for the standing columns of its mid-5th century bc marble temple to Poseidon, which make a dramatic sight and give the location its alternative title of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Smyrna [ancient Izmir]. One of the largest late classical and early Byzantine sea ports of western Asia Minor. The early remains are now mostly covered by the modern city and so very little archaeological investigation has been possible, but historical sources have illuminated many aspects of its Byzant...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Shechem Modem Balata has been identified as the site of the biblical city of Schechem, near the central Palestinian town of Nablus. There was some occupation in the Pre-pottery Neolithic period, but the first town was built in the Middle Bronze Age, defended first by a free-standing wall, then an earth r...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Scoglio Del Tonno An important prehistoric site which formerly occupied a promontory projecting into the harbour of Taranto, southeast Italy; it was destroyed, after excavation, when the port was extended in 1899. The site was first occupied during the Late Neolithic by people using Serra D’Alto ware. It was then ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Qatna An impressive fortified city east of Homs in Syria. Excavation has found evidence of 3rd-millennium bc occupation, but the fortifications — consisting of a free-standing plaster-faced glacis (bank) — belong to the Middle Bronze Age in the early 2nd millennium bc and were probably constructed by t...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Oxyrhynchus An ancient Egyptian town some 11 km west of the Nile on the left bank of the Bahr Yusuf, best known for its papyri texts. Oxyrhynchus was a regional capital, and derives its name from the fish (Greek oxyrhynchus: ‘sharp-nosed’) with which the locally worshipped deity of Seth was associated. Littl...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Olynthus A classical Greek settlement at Toronaios Bay, Chalkidiki, familar from the speeches of Demosthenes (the so-called Olynthiacs), and of central importance as an example of Greek town-planning and the Hellenic house in the period 430-348 bc. Some late Neolithic settlement is followed after a gap by...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Neapolis See Naples.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Nasik Rock-cut Buddhist temple in the western Deccan, India, dating to the early centuries ad.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Naples Greek neapolis, ‘new city’ (a name common in antiquity). The principal Greek city of Campania, southern Italy, but probably only of modest size and importance during the Roman period. Tradition gives the settlement as a daughter colony founded by Greeks from Cumae, and a 7th-century bc date looks...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Mycenae A major citadel of the Greek Bronze Age situated in the Argolid, in the northeast Peloponnese. It was occupied in the Early Bronze Age, but became powerful in the Middle and Late Bronze Age after, it is believed, an invasion by Greek-speaking peoples. Among the most important monuments of Mycenae...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Mohenjo-Daro One of the two major cities of the Harappan civilization of the 3rd millennium bc. Mohenjo-Daro, in the upper Sind district of Pakistan, is the largest of all the Indus Valley sites, covering cl 00 hectares, of which nearly one third has been excavated. Its population has been estimated as around...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Miletus This ancient settlement on a bay at the mouth of the Meander River in southwest Turkey was inhabited from the 2nd millennium bc. By the beginning of the 1st millennium bc it was an Ionian Greek city, colonizing Black Sea and Egyptian Delta areas in the 7th and 6th centuries bc. Miletus produced p...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Mildenhall Thistley Green, West Row, 5 km from Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England is the find-site of a hoard of 4th-century Roman silver plate, richly decorated with figured reliefs. The 34 pieces include a large dish (roughly 60 cm in diameter) depicting the head of Oceanus, ringed by friezes of sea a...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Megiddo Large tell above the Plain of Esdraelon in Israel, excavated by the Oriental Institute of Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s. The ambitious aim of the project was to excavate the entire mound, layer by layer. This proved beyond the resources of the Institute, even at that period of cheap labour, but ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Liulige [Liu-li-ko]. A town in Hui Xian, Henan province, China, where many burials of the Shang and Eastern Zhou periods have been excavated. The Shang burials, some containing bronze ritual vessels, belong to the Erligang phase. Eastern Zhou finds at Liulige range in date from the 7th to the 2nd century...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Leptis Magna [also Lepcis (from Punic Lpdy or Lpqy)\. Principal city of Roman North Africa in Libya, particularly well-preserved after its 7th-century decline by the intrusion of the desert sand. It was known to imperial Rome as the birthplace of the Emperor Septimus Severus (193-211) whose Latin was apparent...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Larsa A tell site north of Ur in southern Iraq, which was one of the city-states of Sumer. It has never been properly excavated, but is well-known from documentary sources. It emerged as a city state during the Early Dynastic period, but gained in importance after the collapse of the Third Dynasty of U...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Jerusalem City sited on the Judaean hills, occupied for more than 4000 years and now the capital of Israel. Many excavations have taken place since the 1860s, but because of the long history of destruction and rebuilding on the site, it has been difficult to reconstruct the development of the city. Sporadi...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Jericho Known today as Tell es-Sultan, Jericho lies in an oasis in the Jordan Valley north of the Dead Sea, on a main east-west route. Its long stratigraphy documents almost continuous occupation from before 9000 be to cl580 bc. At the base of the tell was a Natuf-ian deposit, associated with a rectangul...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Iblis Located c80 km southwest of Kerman in southern Iran, Tal-i Iblis is a tell settlement occupied in the 5th, 4th and 3rd millennia be. The earliest occupation, dating to the early 5th millennium be (Tal-i Iblis 0), is characterized by coarse-tempered red burnished ware made into a variety of simple...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

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Herculaneum [Modern Ercolano], A small but wealthy and sophisticated Roman seaside town 8 km from Naples which, like Pompeii, was damaged in the earthquake of 63 ad and destroyed in the eruption of Vesuvius in 79. For beginnings, we have the option perhaps either of an original Greek settlement, or of an Osc...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Gortyn An important ancient Dorian Greek city in southern Crete, later to become capital of the Roman province of Crete and Cyren-aica. It is perhaps most famous for the Gortynian Law Code, a 5th or 6th century bc inscription incorporated by the Romans into the back wall of an odeum when this was being ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Erbil The ancient Assyrian city of Arab’ilu and a modem town in Iraq. It has been continuously inhabited for about 8000 years and provides a living example of the formation of a tell. Because it lies under the modem city there has been little excavation, but it is known from texts that it had a temple ...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Ephesus One of the richest and most splendid cities of the classical world, on the west coast of Turkey, famous in antiquity for its colossal temple of Artemis (one of the Seven Wonders of the World). The town was situated strategically in the delta area of the River Cayster, and there is some evidence f...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Delphi A dramatic site on the steep slopes of Mount Parnassus, central Greece, famous in classical antiquity as the home of the Delphic oracle. It is likely that there was pre-Hellenic use as an earth deity shrine, and the setting, with its striking backdrop of cliff-face, rock fissures and springs, was...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Damascus Modem capital of Syria. A rich oasis city, Damascus was occupied by the 3rd millennium bc, but the settlements of the prehistoric, biblical and Roman periods underlie the modem and medieval city and are therefore not readily available for excavation. Egyptian texts and references in the Bible att...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Dacia A Roman frontier province held from cl06-270 ad, comprising an area to the north of the Danube and roughly equivalent to modem Rumania. The Dacians had constituted a threat to Rome for some time, and their leader Decebalus had to be recognized as a client king by Domitian. A more determined and s...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Corinth Major ancient Greek city on the Isthmus of Corinth, excavated since 1896 by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The city, with its exceptionally high acropolis on Acrocorinth Hill, profited from having ports on both the Corinthian and Saronic Gulfs and was an important trading cit...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Cairo The capital of modern Egypt. In 641, the Arab conqueror of Egypt, Amr Ibn al-As, built a new quarter, Fustat [‘The Tents’], outside the old town of Cairo. Among the first monuments erected in Fustat was the Mosque of Amr; the present structure, however, is almost entirely of the 19th century. New...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Byzantium Byzantine, later Constantinople, now Istanbul. In the 7th century bc Dorian Greeks founded the settlement of Byzantium on a trapezoidal promontory on the European side of the Bosporus channel which leads from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and separates Europe from Asia. Thus began a city whi...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

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Byblos [Gebal, Gebail]. An important coastal settlement in Lebanon, north of Beirut, occupied for approximately 5000 years. The earliest settlement was a modest Neolithic village of the 6th millennium be with rectangular mud-brick houses with plastered floors. This settlement developed through several p...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Babylon The capital of Babylonia, situated on the Euphrates River south of Baghdad in modem Iraq. The city was occupied from the 3rd millennium bc but became important early in the 2nd millennium under the kings of Babylon’s First Dynasty (see Table 3, page 321). The sixth king of this dynasty was Hammur...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

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