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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

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Nea Nikomedeia Tell site in Macedonia, northern Greece, occupied in the Early Neolithic period. Of a range of radiocarbon dates from c6200 to 5300 be, most authorities feel that those between 5800 and 5600 reflect the most likely date of the occupation. Several square and rectangular single-roomed houses were e...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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

Elateia The earliest known Neolithic settlement in central Greece, near Phocis, dated to the mid-6th millennium be. Rectangular houses were built of timber with earthen floors. A series of pottery styles has been recognized, starting with undecorated dark-and light-surfaced wares, later replaced by black...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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

Baalbek A settlement in the Lebanon, which achieved importance in late Hellenistic and Roman times, especially as holy city for the predatory Ituraean tetrarchs, and as religious centre of the Beqa’a region. Often known by its Greek name of Heliopolis (City of the Sun), it shows magnificent ruins of the ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Ayutthaya [Ayut’ia, Ayuthya, Ayudhaj. A city in southern central Thailand, about 75 km north of Bangkok, founded in 1350 by king Ràmàdhipati to unify the countries of Syàm (Sukhothai) and Lavo (Lopburi). It became the capital of the powerful Thai kingdom of the same name for more than four centuries until ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Argos City in the northeast Pelopponese, Greece. Ancient Argos, which is mostly covered by the modem city, lay a few miles inland on the Argive plain, overlooked by two hills, the Larissa and the Aspis, both of which show early traces of use as a fortified centre or acropolis. The city is clearly of ce...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Antioch Ancient city near the River Orontes in Syria. The plain of Antioch was occupied from the Neolithic onwards (see Amuq), but the city itself was founded in 300 bc by Seleucus I after the death of Alexander the Great. Antioch was one of the two capitals of the Parthian Empire and was populated by in...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Alexandria Founded by Alexander the Great in 331 bc on a narrow strip of land in the northwestern area of the Nile Delta, Alexandria soon replaced Memphis as capital of Egypt. With its double harbour favourably situated at a natural intersection of the shipping lanes of the classical world, the new city rap...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Agordat Town in western Eritrea, Ethiopia, best-known archaeologically for the presence of four village sites, never excavated but attributed on the basis of surface collections to about the 3rd millennium be. The artefacts, notably the stone mace-heads and ground stone axes, show affinities to those of ...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Agade See Akkad.Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Adria [Atria]. Port in northeast Italy. A principal 6th-5th century BC port on the Adriatic, and important crossover point for Etruscan and Greek trade, linking the sea routes with Etruria, the Po Valley and northern Europe. Variously described as of Venetie, Greek or Etruscan foundation, the town seem...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Abydos Major town in northern Egypt, which was a centre for the worship of Osiris and the chosen burial place of the pharaohs of the First Dynasty (seeDynastic Egypt). The royal tombs consisted of large underground brick-built rooms lined with wood, covered by a low mound surrounded by a brick wall. Ear...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

Adramytteion Adramyttion (modern Edremit) was a flourishing city in MYSIA, opposite LESBOS, overlooking the gulf to which it gave its name. Said to have been founded by Adramys, brother of CROESUS (Aristotle ap. Steph. Byz.s.v. Adramyteion) and reported to have beenthe seat of Croesus before his accession (Ni...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities

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Philia Πληκτρολογήστε ιστότοπο για τον πολιτισμό Χαλκολιθικής III στη βόρεια Κύπρο, στα μέσα της 3ης χιλιετίας π.Χ. Χαρακτηρίζεται από κόκκινη γυαλισμένη κεραμική....Added by archaeologs | Greek|Place Names, Ancient Cities

Karmir-Blur Modern Erivan, Ermenistan yakınlarındaki Urartu şehri. Bir kale ve duvarlarla çevrili bir yerleşim alanı ile, çoğunlukla MÖ 7. yüzyılda yerleşim görmüştür. Urartu öncesi mezarlar ve Helenistik yerleşim vardır. 8. yüzyılda Urartu yerleşimi olarak Erebuni'nin yerini almış olabilir....Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Dara Dara Antik Kenti Mardin’in 30 kilometre güneydoğusunda bulunan Oğuz Köyü'nde yer almaktadır. Tarihte Yukarı Mezopotamya'nın en önemli yerleşim yerlerinden birisi olan Dara, İmparator Anastasius'un (491-518) girişimleriyle 505 yılında, Doğu Roma İmparatorluğu’nun doğu sınırını Sasanilere karşı kor...Added by archaeologs | Turkish|Ancient Cities, Place Names

Dara During the reign of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius (491-518 AD), after more than 60 years of peace, a serious conflict with Persia broke out. It lasted from 502 to 506 AD and was known as the Anastasian War. It became the prelude to a long series of armed skirmishes, devastating both empires th...Added by archaeologs | English|Ancient Cities, Place Names

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Zeugma Zeugma started its existence as a Greek town, founded by Seleucus I Nicator, one of the Diadochi, the friends of Alexander the Great who fought for control over his empire after his death in 323 BCE. In ancient times, the name Zeugma encompassed the twin cities, perching on both banks of the Euph...Added by archaeologs | English|Place Names, Ancient Cities

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