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Baiae – The Hedonistic Harbour of Vice
Baiae is an archaeological site and the remains of a partially sunken Roman town, located on the shore of the Gulf of Naples in the present-day comune of Bacoli in Italy.
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The Caves of Valerón
The Caves of Valerón, also known as Valerón's "Monastery" is an ancient pre-Hispanic rock-cut complex of honeycomb caves on the north-west face of the Mountain of the Galician ("Montaña del Gallego") in the Spanish island of Grand Canary.
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Al-Musawwarat as-Safra – The Ancient Meroitic City of Temples
Al-Musawwarat as-Safra, also called Al-Musawarat Al-Sufra is an ancient temple city of the early Meroitic period, located in Western Butan (historically called the Island of Meroë) in Sudan.
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Ancient Nicopolis ad Istrum – The City of Victory
Nicopolis ad Istrum, also called Nicopolis ad Iatrum is an ancient Roman and Byzantine city, located near the present-day village of Niyup in northern Bulgaria.
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Paddock – Churchill’s Secret Bunker
During WW2, a secret bunker complex codenamed “Paddock” and “CWR2” was constructed near Paddock Road on the site of the Post Office Research and Development Station in Dollis Hill London.
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Ancient Miletus
Miletus is an ancient Greek city, located in western Anatolia, near the mouth of the Maeander River in the Aydın Province of present-day Turkey.
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Nineveh – The Neo-Assyrian Capital
Nineveh is an ancient Assyrian city, located on the east bank of the Tigris River near the present-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
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Camulodunum – The First Capital of Britannia
Camulodunum was a Roman city and the first capital of the Roman province of Britannia, in what is now the present-day city of Colchester in Essex, England.
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The Ancient Pyramid City of Túcume
Túcume is an ancient city that is traditionally considered to be the last great capital of the Lambayeque Kingdom, located in the lower valley La Leche River in the Lambayeque Region of Peru.
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The Greco-Roman City of Hippos
Hippos, meaning “horse” is an ancient Greco-Roman city in the foothills beneath the Sussita Mountain, located near the present-day Kibbutz Ein Gev in the Northern District of Israel.
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Ancient Troy
The ruins of Troy (also called Ilios or Ilion and Ilium) in present-day Hisarlik in Canakkale, Turkey - comprises of a multi-period site now partially buried in an artificial tell illustrating the gradual development of the city in north-western Asia Minor.
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Pasargadae – The First Dynastic Capital of the Achaemenid Empire
Pasargadae is an ancient city and capital of the Achaemenid Empire, located in the present-day province of Fars in southwestern Iran.
