Khami – Capital of the Kingdom of Butua
Khami is an archaeological site and former capital of the Kalanga Kingdom of Butua near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Skellig Michael – The Remote Island Monastery
Skellig Michael is an archaeological site and monastic settlement located on a twin pinnacle crag, off the coast of County Kerry in Ireland.
Gümüşler – The Byzantine Cave Monastery
Gümüşler Monastery is an archaeological site and Byzantine monastery carved out of rock in the modern-day town of Gümüşler in Turkey.
Ostia Antica – The Roman Port
Ostia Antica is an archaeological site and harbour of ancient Rome, near the modern-day Lido di Ostia in the X Municipio of the commune of Rome.
Aquincum – Roman Budapest
Aquincum is an archaeological site and Roman city, located in modern-day Budapest in Hungary.
Sigiriya – The Lion Rock
Sigiriya is an archaeological site and ancient city, located in the Matale District in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.
Lutetia – Roman Paris
Lutetia, also called Lutetia Parisiorum was a Roman town built in modern-day Paris, France, centred on a hill on the south bank of the Seine River.
Xanadu – Summer Capital of the Mongol Empire
Xanadu, also called Shangdu is an archaeological site and summer capital of the Yuan dynasty that ruled the Mongol Empire.
Meroë – The Capital of the Kingdom of Kush
Meroë, also called Medewi is an archaeological region and the ancient capital city of the Nubian Kingdom of Kush, located on the east-bank of the River Nile in Sudan.
Londinium – Roman London
Londinium is the name given to the Roman city, now occupied by the City of London that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district of London.
Olous – The Sunken City
Olous, also called Olus is an ancient Dorian city that lie on both sides of the isthmus connecting the peninsula of Spinalonga to the mainland in the modern-day town of Elounda in Crete. Researchers believe that the city was submerged due to a local shift caused by an earthquake sometime around the 2nd century AD.
Mohenjo-daro – Mound of the Dead Men
Mohenjo-daro, meaning ‘Mound of the Dead Men’ is an archaeological site and ancient city complex located west of the Indus River in Larkana District, Sindh, Pakistan.
Venta Icenorum – Caistor Roman Town
Venta Icenorum is an archaeological site and the remains of a Roman town located near modern-day Caistor St Edmund in Norfolk England.
Viroconium – Wroxeter Roman City
Viroconium, now named Wroxeter Roman City is an archaeological site located in the village of Wroxeter in Shropshire, England.
Persepolis – Ceremonial Capital of the Achaemenid Empire
Persepolis is an archaeological site and the ceremonial capital city of the Achaemenid Empire, also called the First Persian Empire that covered an area of 2.1 million square miles from the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper in the west, to the Indus Valley in the east.
