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Ruins of Aizanoi Map of ancient Aizanoi and the modern village of Çavdarhisar, c. 1835. Colonnaded street in Aizanoi. Settlement in the area is known from the Bronze Age.The city may have derived its name from Azan, one of three sons of Arcas and the nymph Erato, legendary ancestors of the Phrygians.
Aten, properly called The Dazzling Aten [a] though dubbed initially by archaeologists the Rise of Aten, [1] [b] is the remains of an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile [2] in the Theban Necropolis near Luxor. Named after Egyptian sun god Aten, the city appears to
Temple of Athena in Assos, overlooking the Aegean Ancient theatre of Assos overlooking the Aegean, with the island of Lesbos on the horizon to the right City walls. The city was founded from 1000 to 900 BC by Aeolian colonists from Lesbos, who are said to have come from Methymna.
The Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba, Marib (Arabic: معالم مملكة سبأ القديمة, romanized: maʿālim mamlaka Sabaʿa al-Qadīma) is a serial property consisted of seven archeological sites in Marib Governorate, eastern Yemen. [1]
Sankissa (also Sankasia, Sankassa and Sankasya) was an ancient city in India.The city came into prominence at the time of Gautama Buddha.According to a Buddhist source, it was thirty leagues from Savatthi. [1]
Ashdod (Philistine: 𐤀𐤔𐤃𐤃 *ʾašdūd; Hebrew: אַשְׁדּוֹד, romanized: ʾašdōḏ; Arabic: أسدود, romanized: ʾasdūd) or Azotus (Koinē Greek: Ἄζωτος, romanized: azōtos) was an ancient Levantine metropolis, the remains of which are situated at Tel Ashdod, an archaeological site located a few kilometers south of the modern Ashdod in present-day Israel.
Antinoöpolis (also Antinoopolis, Antinoë, Antinopolis; Ancient Greek: Ἀντινόουπόλις; Coptic: ⲁⲛⲧⲓⲛⲱⲟⲩ Antinow; Arabic: انصنا, romanized: Ansinā, modern Arabic: الشيخ عبادة, modern Sheikh 'Ibada or Sheik Abāda) was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young beloved, Antinoüs, on the ...
Velia was the Roman name of an ancient city on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is located near the modern village of Novi Velia near Ascea in the Province of Salerno , Italy . It was founded by Greeks from Phocaea as Hyele ( Ancient Greek : Ὑέλη ) around 538–535 BC.