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201 ancient sites around the world, from the Paleolithic to the early modern era.

Colosseum

72 CE – 80 CE

The Colosseum, Rome's iconic Flavian Amphitheatre, hosted gladiatorial combats and public spectacles, embodying imperial power and engineering innovation.

Roman

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Great Wall of China

700 BCE – 1644 CE

A series of ancient fortifications built across northern China, spanning over 2,000 years from the 7th century BCE to the Ming dynasty, symbolizing Chinese engineering and military strength.

Iron AgeClassicalImperial China

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Machu Picchu

1450 CE – 1572 CE

An Inca citadel built c. 1450 CE, Machu Picchu sits atop a mountain ridge in Peru. Abandoned during the Spanish conquest, it remained unknown to the outside world until 1911.

Pre-ColumbianHigh MedievalEarly Modern

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Pompeii

700 BCE – 79 CE

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.

Iron AgeClassicalHellenistic

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Petra

300 BCE – 700 CE

Petra, the Nabataean capital from ~300 BCE to 700 CE, is famed for its rock-cut tombs and sophisticated water system, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New Seven Wonders.

HellenisticRomanLate Antique

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Stonehenge

3100 BCE – 1600 BCE

Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic monument in Wiltshire, England, erected in phases between 3100 and 1600 BCE. Its iconic sarsen stones and bluestones form a complex of ceremonial and astronomical significance.

NeolithicBronze Age

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Pantheon

27 BCE – 125 CE

The best-preserved monument of ancient Rome — a temple "to all the gods" rebuilt under the emperor Hadrian around 125 CE, crowned by the largest unreinforced concrete dome ever built, a perfect hemisphere lit by a single open oculus at its apex. It has stood roofed and in continuous use for nearly nineteen centuries.

Roman

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Angkor Wat

1113 CE – 1218 CE

Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious monument, was built as a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu by Khmer king Suryavarman II, later evolving into a Buddhist complex.

High Medieval

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Hagia Sophia

532 CE – 1453 CE

The supreme achievement of Byzantine architecture — a vast domed basilica built by the emperor Justinian in Constantinople in just five years and completed in 537 CE, its 31-metre dome seeming to float on a ring of windows. For nearly a thousand years it was the largest enclosed space and greatest cathedral in the Christian world, before becoming a mosque, a museum, and a mosque again.

Late AntiqueByzantineOttoman

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Carthage

814 BCE – 700 CE

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

Iron AgeClassicalHellenistic

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Parthenon

447 BCE – 432 BCE

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.

Classical

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Rapa Nui

1100 CE – 1722 CE

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) is famed for its colossal stone moai, crafted by a Polynesian society that flourished from roughly 1100 to 1722 CE, leaving a cryptic legacy of monumental art and ecological transformation.

Pre-ColumbianHigh MedievalEarly Modern