Abu Hureyra

Kerameikós

İ.Ö. 5. yüzyıldan kalma çok sayıda Spartalı gömüsü dahil, Atina'nın en prestijli mezarlık ve seramik atölyesi bölgesidir. Birçok mezar kabartma bezemeli steller ile işaretlenmiştir. Karadeniz'deki Heraklea'dan gelen bazı Messenians ve Sinope göçmenleri için bir bölge vardı.

archaeologsTurkishPlace Names

Philia

Πληκτρολογήστε ιστότοπο για τον πολιτισμό Χαλκολιθικής III στη βόρεια Κύπρο, στα μέσα της 3ης χιλιετίας π.Χ. Χαρακτηρίζεται από κόκκινη γυαλισμένη κεραμική....

archaeologsGreekPlace 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....

archaeologsTurkishAncient Cities, Place Names

Göbeklitepe

Göbeklitepe Arkeolojik Alanı, Şanlıurfa kent merkezinin 18 kilometre kuzeydoğusunda, Örencik Köyü yakınlarındadır. Alan 1963 yılında, İstanbul ve Chicago Üniversitelerinin ortaklığıyla gerçekleştirilen bir yüzey araştırması sırasında keşfedilmiş ve  “V52 Neolitik Yerleşimi” olarak tanımlanmıştır....

archaeologsTurkishPlace Names

Göbeklitepe

A pre-historic site, about 15 km away from the city of Sanliurfa, Southeastern Turkiye. What makes Gobeklitepe unique in its class is the date it was built, which is roughly twelve thousand years ago, circa 10,000 BC. Archaeologically categorised as a site of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A Period (c...

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Göbeklitepe

Herodeion

Herodium is a man-made mountain located in the middle of the desert region of the Judean wilderness, 8 miles south of Jerusalem and 3 miles east of Bethlehem. Herod, Palestine's greatest builder, created the seven-story palace atop a natural hill and then constructed a sloping fill of earth and g...

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Herodeion

Most of the surviving ceremonial buildings and fortifications date to the Hasmonean Dynasty and the period of Roman domination of Syria-Palestine; Herod the Great (c.37–4 BC) constructed a palace complex, like that at the fortress of Herodium, as well as granaries, baths and water cisterns. In AD...

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Herodeion

Büyük Hirodes (M.Ö. 37-4) tarafından yaptırılan bir kale ve Hirodes'in mezarının bulunduğu Filistin bölgesi. Kale, Roma yönetimine karşı Yahudi isyancıların kalesiydi.

archaeologsTurkishPlace 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...

archaeologsTurkishAncient 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...

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Dara

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...

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Zeugma

Norsuntepe

Norşuntepe Höyüğü, Elazığ il merkezinin 25 kilometre güneydoğusundadır. 1975 yılında Keban Barajı’nın tamamlanması ile baraj gölünün suları altında kalmıştır.  Norşuntepe, baraj sularının altında kalmadan önce bulunduğu ovadan yaklaşık 35 metre yükselmiştir. Höyüğün genişliği ise yaklaşık 500 x ...

archaeologsTurkishPlace Names

Philia

Kuzey Kıbrıs'ta Kalkolitik III kültür alanı, MÖ 3. binin ortası. Kırmızı cilalı seramik ile karakterizedir.

archaeologsTurkishPlace Names, Ancient Cities

Petralona

Selanik, Yunanistan yakınlarındaki Orta Paleolitik mağara alanı, Son Buzul'un başlangıcından Orta Pleistosen'e kadar bir dizi yerleşim gören bir alandır. Buluntular arasında yer alan neredeyse eksiksiz bir kafatasının, 400.000 yıllık Homo sapiens'e yakın olduğu saptanmıştır. Diğer eserler arasınd...

archaeologsTurkishPlace Names

Acemhöyük

Acemhöyuk (Yeşilova, Aksaray) Anadolu'nun en büyük höyüklerinden biri olan Acemhöyük, Aksaray İl merkezinin 18 km. kuzeybatısında, Tuz Gölünün güney kıyısı yakınındaki Yeşilova Kasabası içindedir. Yerleşim yeri, 700x600x20 m3 hacimdeki höyük ve onu çevreleyen Aşağı Şehir'den oluşur.  Acemhöyük'd...

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Acemhöyük

Açemhöyük or Acemhöyük Settlement mound in the central plain of Anatolia, which has been identified with the city of Burushkhattum (the HITTITE Purushkhanda). The site has been excavated since 1963 by Nimet Özgüç, revealing occupation levels stretching back to the 5th millennium BC. The city reac...

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Acemhöyük

Hadrian's Villa

An Imperial country residence built c 125-134 AD at Tivoli near Rome by the emperor Hadrian. This villa is considered the epitome in architecture and elegance of the Roman world. The imperial garden city included baths and bath buildings, libraries, sculpture gardens, theaters, alfresco dining ha...

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Ruanga

Kuzey Mashonaland, Zimbabve'de bir Demir Çağı yerleşmesi.

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Didyma

In the ancient times, Didyma was famous as the place where a colossal Temple of Apollo stood, and the oracle revealed the future. In its heyday, Didyma was not a city, but a place of worship, connected with Miletus by the so-called Sacred Way. This road was used by the pilgrims who arrived at Did...

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Didyma

Antik dünyanın en önemli kehanet merkezlerinden biri olan Didyma Apollon Tapınağı, Aydın’ın Didim ilçesinde yer almaktadır. İyon’ya kent devletlerini oluşturan Efes, Priene gibi önemli kentlerin kehanet merkezliğini yapan Apollon Tapınağı’nın asıl bağlı olduğu Miletos antik kentinin kutsal alanıy...

archaeologsTurkishPlace Names, Ancient Cities

Agora

Un espace ouvert dans une ville grecque, servant de centre commercial, politique et social, comme le Forum romain. La région est souvent caractérisée par une architecture élaborée, comme à Ephèse classique et à Athènes, où l'agora a été étudiée lors de fouilles récentes.

archaeologsFrenchPlace Names

Celebes

An Indonesian island east of Borneo which has produced the oldest Buddhist image known in the archipelago, dated to the 4th century. Celebes lies between the two shelves of the Australian and Asian continents. A broad central area is made up of igneous rocks with a band of volcanic detritus (tuff...

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Celebes

Melka Kontoure

A site in Ethiopia some 50 km south of Addis Ababa, with many archaeological levels dating from over 1.5 million years old at the base to late Pleistocene times. Its long stone artifact sequence included Oldowan, Acheulian, Middle Stone Age, and Microlithic Later Stone Age. A few hominid fragment...

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Melka Kontoure

Oxyrhynchus

Ancient Greco-Roman town west of the Nile on the left bank of the Bahr Yusuf in Middle Egypt, best known for its papyri texts. Oxyrhynchus was a regional capital which was reasonably prosperous in the Roman period, and developed into a church and monastic center during the Coptic period. A large ...

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Oxyrhynchus

Mossgiel

The find site of a skeleton with robust cranial morphology on the western plains of New South Wales, Australia. Radiocarbon dating of bone gave an estimate of about 4000 BC.

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Mossgiel

Palermo

Major city of Sicily, on the northwest coast of the island, which has been continuously occupied for two and a half millennia. The Phoenicians established a port of the site by the 8th century BC, and from the 5th century BC the city was controlled by Carthage. The Romans captured Palermo in 254 ...

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Palermo

Urewe Ware

Characteristic Early Iron Age pottery type of the interlacustrine region of East Africa: southwest Kenya, northwest Tanzania, Rwanda, east Zaire, and south Uganda. It dates from the last centuries BC to the first centuries AD and is the name of a tradition of the Chifumbaze complex. Urewe ware wa...

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Urewe Ware

Krems

An Upper Palaeolithic site on the Danube in northeast Austria, dating to around 35,200 bp. The Krems-Hundssteig locality has revealed a very rich Aurignacian-like assemblage in which numerous bladelets, endscrapers, retouched blades, and 'Krems' points were found. A female figurine of green serpe...

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Krems

Fontbouïsse

A Chalcolithic (Copper Age) settlement site in Gard, France, which has given its name to a style of pottery decorated with channeled decoration arranged usually in metopic or concentric semicircle patterns. Fontbouïsse ware is widespread in southern France, occurring in chamber bombs, village sit...

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Fontbouïsse

Yanik Tepe

Tell site near Tabriz, Iran, with evidence of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Early Bronze Age, and Iron Age occupations. It is one of the earliest permanent settlement sites in the area, dating from the late-7th millennium BC. The earliest pottery was undecorated, but painted wares appeared in the ...

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Yanik Tepe

Birsmatten

A site in the Bern district of Switzerland, Basis-Grotte, that has one of the longest known sequences of Mesolithic deposits. There are several levels of Sauveterrian and Tardenoisian occupation and extensive human remains.

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Birsmatten

Ezero

An Eneolithic and Early Bronze Age site in central Bulgaria which lends its name to a culture of the lower Danube basin and the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. There were two building phases of the Veselinovo culture (Karanovo III) dated c 4320 BC, a level with Karanovo IV pottery, eight building le...

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Ezero

Lazaret

Acheulian cave site near Nice, France, with some evidence of hutlike structures and an assemblage dated to Riss III with pointed bifaces and choppers.

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Lazaret