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Elaiussa Sebaste
Date Added: 27th Dec 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Would like to visit
Elaiussa Sebaste submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Nov 2011. The theatre.
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Aspendos
Date Added: 27th Dec 2015
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Would like to visit
Aspendos Theatre submitted by AlexHunger on 25th Dec 2005. Roman Theatre in Aspendos, Turkey.
Still used for performances today.
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Djebel Gorra
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Djebel Gorra submitted by vagabeja on 9th Jun 2010. Dolmen Djebel Gorra. Tunisia
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 14
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 14 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 05
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 05 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 17
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 17 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Elles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 19
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 19 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 18
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 18 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 22
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 22 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 23
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 23 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 24
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 24 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 25
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 25 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Eles Megalithic Tomb 29
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Eles Megalithic Tomb 29 submitted by AlexHunger on 27th Mar 2008. Here probably the one in best shape, perhaps like an Egyptian mastaba. East Facade. I have seen tower blocks less solidly built. it has 7 chambers and measures 10.5 x 9 Meters.
One of up to 60 Numidian Megalithic Tombs dating to at least the 2nd century BCE in Eles stretched over about 1 square Kilometer. Most are numbered.
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Mactaris Numidian Tomb
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Chambered Tomb
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Mactaris Numidian Tomb submitted by AlexHunger on 26th Mar 2008. Large Numidian Megalithic tomb measuring 12 x 4.5 Meters next to Numidian-Roman City. South Side. It has 6 chambers all next to each other. The style is as if the locals had been influenced by Egyptian mastabas and French Allé Couverte and the odd Maltese temple.
The Numidian Megalithic tombs tend to begin in the 5th century BCE and end in the middle of the 2nd Century BCE.
As much of Mactaris has not been excavated from a 2 Meter layer of dirt, I suspect that there ight be a couple more of...
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Thysdrus
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Thysdrus submitted by AlexHunger on 29th Mar 2008. Amphitheatre in modern El Jem.
The back side is unfortunately missing as it was destroyed when Berber tribes resisted the Arab invasion in the 7th Century.
The theatre is still used for spectacles today.
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Dougga Dolmen
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Burial Chamber or Dolmen
Country: Tunisia
Visited: Would like to visit
Dougga Dolmen submitted by Alun on 24th Sep 2001. The dolmens sit at the top of the hill that Dougga is built into, looking South-South-East-ish towards the city.
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Mari.
Date Added: 22nd Feb 2014
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 4th Dec 2013
Mari. submitted by DrewParsons on 4th Dec 2013. Ebil-II the Superintendent of Mari from the Temple of Ishtar at Mari, Syria. Dated to the Archaic Dynasties Period circa 2400 BC. Now in the Louvre. September 2009
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Ugarit
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Would like to visit
Ugarit submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jan 2007. Gate of ancient Cananite city destroyed by the invasion of the Sea People around 1185 BCE.
The people of Ugarit invented one of the first Alphabets and controled trade from Crete and Cyprus to Mesopotamia and Egypt.
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Palmyra
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Would like to visit
Palmyra Valley of the Tombs submitted by AlexHunger on 14th Jan 2007. Tomb of Elabel, a familly tower crypt dating to 103 CE. It had room for 260 people.
Outside of Palmyra, a desert trading town. Perhaps the Las Vegas of its day.
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Damascus National Museum
Date Added: 25th Jun 2012
Site Type: Museum
Country: Syria
Visited: Would like to visit
Damascus National Museum submitted by AlexHunger on 11th Jan 2007. Major archeological Museum in Damascus. It holds the more valuable small objects, such as clay tablets and jewelery from the significant Syrian archeological sites such as Ebla, Ugarit or Mari. There is a Lapidarium outside with mostly Roman or hellenistic parts of statues, sarcophagi and decorative objects.
The pre Roman statues are mostly in the Aleppo Museum.
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