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This is a list of known ancient Egyptian towns and cities. [1] The list is for sites intended for permanent settlement and does not include fortresses and other locations of intermittent habitation. a capital of ancient Egypt
Sybaris (Ancient Greek: Σύβαρις; Italian: Sibari) was an important ancient Greek city situated on the coast of the Gulf of Taranto in modern Calabria, Italy. The city was founded around 720 BC by Achaean and Troezenian settlers and the Achaeans also went on to found the nearby great city of Kroton 10 years later. Sybaris amassed great ...
Thurii (/ ˈ θ ʊər i aɪ /; Latin: Thūriī; Ancient Greek: Θούρῐοι, romanized: Thoúrioi), called also by some Latin writers Thūrium (compare Ancient Greek: Θούρῐον, romanized: Thoúrion, in Ptolemy), and later in Roman times also Cōpia and Cōpiae, was an ancient Greek city situated on the Gulf of Taranto, near or on the site of the great renowned city of Sybaris, whose ...
Hatra was the best preserved and most informative example of ancient Arabian architecture. Its plan was circular, [8] and was encircled by inner and outer walls nearly 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in diameter [9] and supported by more than 160 towers. A temenos (τέμενος
Afrasiyab (Uzbek: Afrosiyob),(Persian: افراسياب afrāsiyāb) is an ancient site in Northern Samarkand, present day Uzbekistan, that was occupied from c. 500 BC to 1220 AD prior to the Mongol invasion in the 13th century (see Siege of Samarkand (1220)). [1] The oldest layers date from the middle of the first millennium BC. [1]
Elath was an Israelite city that existed in the same general area. The original settlement was probably at the northern tip of the Gulf of Eilat. [ 10 ] Ancient Egyptian records also document the extensive and lucrative mining operations and trade across the Red Sea with Egypt starting as early as the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt .
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Sagalassos (Greek: Σαγαλασσός), also known as Selgessos (Greek: Σελγησσός) [1] and Sagallesos (Greek: Σαγαλλησός), [2] is an archaeological site in southwestern Turkey, about 100 km north of Antalya (ancient Attaleia) and 30 km from Burdur and Isparta.