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:
Tropaeum Augusti (La Turbie)
La Turbie: town in France, near Monaco, known for a monument dedicated to the emperor Augustus. Model of Augustus' monument Augustus' victory…Troy: excavation
Ilion or Troy: town in northwestern Asia Minor, famous for the legendary Trojan War, in which a coalition of Mycenaean warriors captured the city of king Priam. Homer's Iliad deals with an episode from this war. …Tunes
Tunes (Greek: Τύνης): city near Carthage, modern Tunis. Head of Bacchus from Tunes Tunes, the medina of modern Tunis, is situated on…Turnacum (Tournai)
Turnacum: Roman town, later capital of the Menapii, Tournai in modern Belgium.Turnacum City gate After the Roman conquest, the main settlement of the…Tušpa (Van)
Tušpa: name of an ancient Urartian fortress on the eastern shore of Lake Thospitis, not far from the modern city of Van. …Tyana (Kemerhisar)
Tyana (Greek Τύανα; modern Kemerhisar): ancient town in southern Cappadocia.Iron Age Ivriz, king Warpalas and the god Tarhunza Tyana was the main…Tyre
Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Origins …Ugarit (Ras Shamra)
Ugarit (Hebrew אוּגָרִית): Bronze Age port in northern Syria, destroyed in the early twelfth century BCE, modern Ras Shamra. Cuneiform tablets illustrate the religion of ancient Canaan, i.e., the gods against which the first Jewish prophets polemicized.History …Ur
Ur: ancient Sumerian city, modern Tell el-Muqayyar. Ur's ziggurat, partly rebuilt Prehistory Ur dates back to the Neolithic Ubaid Period, prior to c.3800…Urartu
Urartu (Akkadian Uraštu; Hebrew Ararat): ancient kingdom, situated along the river Araxes (modern Aras), the Upper Tigris and the Upper Euphrates. …Uruk
Uruk: ancient Sumerian city, modern Warka.Uruk Uruk, Seleucid temple Already an important town in the fourth millennium; in c.3200 BCE it measured…Uthina
Uthina (Greek Οὔθινα): Numidian-Roman city in Africa, modern Oudna.Uthina Uthina, Inscription by soldiers of XIII Gemina Along the river Miliane, upstream from…