Epoca Classical

800 a.C. – 323 a.C. · 111 siti

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Longest Recorded History in China

Great Wall of China

700 a.C. – 1644 d.C.

The vast frontier fortification system of northern China — rammed-earth Qin walls and the iconic stone Ming battlements — remains the single most conspicuous monumental gap left in a global archaeological atlas.

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Most-Visited Ancient Site in the World

Troy

3000 a.C. – 500 d.C.

Nine settlement layers at Hisarlık in northwestern Türkiye, where Heinrich Schliemann dug for Homer's Troy and archaeologists still debate which level matches a historical war. UNESCO listed the site in 1998; renewed interest from epic film adaptations keeps new visitors comparing poetry with stone.

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Oldest City in Italy

Pompeii

700 a.C. – 79 d.C.

The Roman city of Pompeii was buried in the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, its extraordinary preservation offering an unparalleled window into ancient daily life.

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The Parthenon and Acropolis citadel above Athens

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Longest Recorded History in Greece

Acropolis of Athens

447 a.C. – 1687 d.C.

The fortified limestone citadel rising above Athens — crowned by the Parthenon, Erechtheion, and Propylaea — the supreme monument cluster of classical Greece and one of Europe's most visited archaeological sites.

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Oldest Temple in Europe

Parthenon

447 a.C. – 432 a.C.

The Parthenon (447–432 BCE) on the Athenian Acropolis is the supreme achievement of Classical Greek temple architecture, dedicated to Athena Parthenos and embodying the ideals of Periclean democracy.

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Earliest Known Site in Mexico

Teotihuacan

100 a.C. – 650 d.C.

Teotihuacan, the 'City of the Gods,' was a vast metropolis and ceremonial center in central Mexico, dominating Mesoamerica from 100 BCE to 650 CE.

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Terracotta Army

246 a.C. – 208 a.C.

Life-sized terracotta army buried with China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, to guard him in the afterlife, discovered in 1974 near Xi'an.

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Most-Visited Ancient Site in Africa

Carthage

814 a.C. – 700 d.C.

Ancient Phoenician city-state that became Rome's greatest rival, later reborn as a Roman metropolis, embodying over a millennium of Mediterranean history.

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Delphi

800 a.C. – 393 d.C.

Sanctuary of Apollo on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, seat of the Pythia whose oracles shaped Greek colonisation, warfare, and personal choices. Treasury buildings, a theatre, and the stadium crown the site where Greeks imagined the omphalos, the navel of the world.

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Oldest Monument in South America

Nazca Lines

500 a.C. – 500 d.C.

The Nazca Lines, vast geoglyphs etched into Peru’s desert, date from c. 500 BCE–500 CE and remain one of archaeology’s most intriguing legacies of ancient monumental art.

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Known by the Most Names in Iran

Persepolis

518 a.C. – 330 a.C.

Ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, built by Darius I c. 518 BCE and sacked by Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, renowned for its monumental terraces and reliefs.

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Oldest Complex in Italy

Roman Forum

500 a.C. – 600 d.C.

The political, religious, and commercial heart of ancient Rome, continuously inhabited from the 7th century BCE to the 7th century CE, now one of the world's most iconic archaeological landscapes.

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