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Metsamor, which is located 32 km (20 mi) west of Yerevan, Armenia is one of the most interesting archaeological sites in the Caucasus. While first settled and founded as a Bronze Age city, people continuously inhabited Metsamor through Urartian...

Palaeoanthropological site of Trinil, Java, Indonesia, where Eugène Dubois first discovered Pithecanthropus (now Homo) erectus in the 1890s.

Modern-day site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Battle of the Greasy Grass), June 1876.

The site of the main sewer, called the Cloaca Maxima located in the Forum Romanum. Believed to be drained around 600 BCE by Tarquinius Priscus, the draining of the area between the Palatine, Capitoline, Esquiline & the Viminal Hills led...

Site of Fort St. George, the fortified element of the early 17th-century CE Popham Colony (1607-8 CE) in what is now Phippsburg, Maine

Site of the Viking trading centre of Hedeby, which flourished under the Danish Vikings from the 8th-11th centuries CE and lies in present-day northern Germany, near the city of Schleswig. Archaeological excavations are ongoing but the Hedeby...

An oasis in the Syrian desert, north-east of Damascus, Palmyra contains the monumental ruins of a great city that was one of the most important cultural centres of the ancient world. From the 1st to the 2nd century AD, the art and architecture...

Ground discoidal stones used in the Native American game of chunkey (Tchung-kee), found at the Winterville Site, Mississippi, USA.

The Archaeological Site of Mystras is an unusual and interesting UNESCO World Heritage Site in Greece. Unlike most sites in Greece, it isn't particularly ancient! It's a ruined castle and fortress complex dating to the 13th century, when...

1st-century CE six-apse pagan temple on the left and 3rd-century CE wine cellar on the right, complete with qvevris (large earthenware jars buried under the ground for fermentation and storage). Armaziskhevi Archaeological Site, Mtskheta...