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:

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. …

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Tunes

Tunes (Greek: Τύνης): city near Carthage, modern Tunis. Head of Bacchus from Tunes Tunes, the medina of modern Tunis, is situated on…

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Tyre

Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Origins …

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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 …

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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…

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Urartu

Urartu (Akkadian Uraštu; Hebrew Ararat): ancient kingdom, situated along the river Araxes (modern Aras), the Upper Tigris and the Upper Euphrates. …

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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…

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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…

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