Place

There were many ancient towns and many have been excavated. Here's an overview of ancient sites, usually with maps and photos of the remains.

There are 619 items in Place:

Gandara

Gandara (Old Persian Gandâra): name of a satrapy of the ancient Achaemenid Empire, roughly equivalent to the valley of the river Cophen (modern Kabul). The Greeks called the western part this region Parapamisos, which may be derived from the old…

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Gandj Nameh

Gandj Nameh: place near Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana), where the Achaemenid kings Darius I the Great and Xerxes left inscriptions. The nearest village is called Abbasabad. …

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Garamantes

Garamantes: name of a nation of desert dwellers in the Fezzan (southwestern Libya, near modern Germa).Country and Ethnogenesis A Garamantian chariot…

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Gedrosia

Gedrosia: part of the ancient Achaemenid empire, modern Balûchestân in Iran.Gedrosia is a dry, mountainous country along the northwestern shores of the Indian Ocean. It was occupied in the Bronze age by people who settled in the few oases in…

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