Serjilla – The Dead City
Serjilla is an abandoned settlement, part of a group of 40 similar sites known as the “Dead Cities” that are organised into 8 archaeological parks in northwest Syria.
Merv the Great – The city of Several Cities
Merv, also known by many names such as Alexandria, Antiochia in Margiana and Marv-i-Shahijan or “Merv the Great” was an ancient city located in present Turkmenistan.
The Maijishan Grottoes
The Maijishan Grottoes is an elaborate range of rock-cut ceremonial chambers, containing over 7200 Buddhist sculptures and 100 square metres of murals in Tianshui, northwest China.
Cahokia – North America’s First City
Cahokia was the largest urban settlement to develop from the Mississippian culture, a mound-building pre-Columbian civilisation that developed in the Midwestern, Eastern, and South-eastern United States.
Skara Brae – The Neolithic Settlement
Skara Brae is a Neolithic settlement on the Bay of Skaill in Orkney Scotland that dates from 3180 to 2500 BC.
The Ellora Caves
The Ellora Caves is a large rock-cut monastery temple complex located in the Aurangabad district of Maharashtra, India.
Carthage – Capital of the Carthaginian Empire
Carthage was the capital of the Carthaginian Empire, located on the eastern side of Lake Tunis in Tunisia.
Verulamium – The Roman Town
The pre-Roman settlement is believed to have been founded by Tasciovanus, King of the Catuvellauni, and was called Verlamion or Uerulāmion in Brittonic.
Deva Victrix – The Legionary Fortress
Deva Victrix, also called Deva was a Roman fortress first built by the Legio secunda adiutrix around AD70 in the modern city of Chester in England.
Ciudad Perdida – The “Lost City”
Ciudad Perdida, translated in Spanish as the “Lost City”, also known as "Teyuna" and "Buritaca" is an archaeological site in the jungles of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe
The Kingdom of Zimbabwe was a medieval kingdom of 150 tributaries that existed from 1220-1450 CE in modern day Zimbabwe.
Hardknott Roman Fort – Mediobogdum
Hardknott Roman Fort, also known as Mediobogdum in the Ravenna Cosmography is a Roman Fort constructed at the Hardknott Pass in the Lake District, Cumbria, England to guard against raids by the Scots and Brigantes
Masada – The Fortress Palace
Masada is an ancient fortress and palace, built on the plateau of a geological horst (regions that lie between normal faults and are either higher or lower than the area beyond the faults) in the Southern District of Israel overlooking the dead sea.
Rutupiae – Roman Gateway to Britain
Rutupiae (Richborough Castle) are the ruins of a Roman Saxon Shore Fort located in Richborough, Kent in the United Kingdom.
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Derinkuyu – The Underground City
Derinkuyu is an underground hive city in the Derinkuyu district, Turkey, one of 36 proposed underground city complexes found throughout the region of Cappadocia.
