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Arsameia
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Arsameia submitted by h_fenton on 16th Jan 2011. The largest Greek inscription in Anatolia, at Arsameia, the inscription covers the flat area of rock above the tunnel/shaft entrance.
The shaft/tunnel descends 158metres at an angle into the hillside.
12 May 2003
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Nemrut Dag
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 2
Nemrut Dag submitted by davidmorgan on 30th Nov 2006. Figures on the west terrace.
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Göbekli Tepe
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 20th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Göbekli Tepe submitted by AlexHunger on 1st Aug 2006. Segment D is one of the near circular shaped pillared areas in the best condition of Göbekli Tepe.
There are 5 more, usually smaller such pillared areas on this site, many of the pillars having elaborate carvings.
Göbekli Tepe is apparently a Pre Pottery Neolithic Temple dating back to about 9,000 BCE near the Euphrates in South Eastern Turkey.
With kind permission from Dr. Klaus Schmidt, of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
Original text provided: Anlage D ist die bes...
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Sardurihinili
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 4
Sardurihinili submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. Royal citadel of King Sardur II.
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Hasankeyf
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 16th Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Hasankeyf submitted by Andy B on 8th Jun 2011. A view of the ancient bridge across the Tigris as the river flows through Hasankeyf.
(Courtesy Senol Demir/Flickr Creative Commons)
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Karakus Tumulus
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Artificial Mound
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 22nd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Karakus Tumulus submitted by davidmorgan on 12th Jan 2007. Mt. Nemrut is in the distance on the right.
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Cendere Bridge
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Trackway
Country: Turkey
Visited: Yes on 23rd Sep 2011. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 5
Cendere Bridge submitted by davidmorgan on 4th Mar 2008. A really nice 1800-year-old bridge. Only three columns now since the disgrace of Septimius Severus' son.
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Dura-Europos
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 5
Dura-Europos submitted by AlexHunger on 13th Jan 2007. Secondary Gate. Originally Seleucid City on the Wst bank of the EUphrates. Found in the 4th century BCE, Dura-Europos was finally conquered by the Sassanids (fom the current Iran) around 258 CE.
Note the 2 km long town wall on the western side. On the eastern side, the town is protected by the Euphrates and a cliff.
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Stanton Drew Great Circle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew Great Circle submitted by TimPrevett on 3rd Apr 2009. Stanton Drew Great Circle 01/04/09
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Stanton Drew NE Circle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew NE Circle submitted by ogham on 12th Mar 2013. Interesting site to wander round and usually there no others with you.
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Stanton Drew SSW
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Stone Circle
Country: England (Somerset)
Visited: Yes on 17th May 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Stanton Drew SSW submitted by TimPrevett on 18th Aug 2006. View towards the church from the South West Circle.
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Oliver's Castle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 21st Apr 2013. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Oliver's Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 31st Aug 2003. Accessible by footpath from Bromham or Roundway, this Iron Age promontory fort of 1.2 hectares is at SU 001646.
It has a single ditch and bank with post holes for gates in the eastern entrance.
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Oldbury Castle
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hillfort
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2013. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 3 Access 3
Oldbury Castle submitted by Thorgrim on 23rd Oct 2003. Oldbury Castle and Cherhill Down
Nominated by Andy B
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Cherhill White Horse
Date Added: 21st May 2013
Site Type: Hill Figure or Geoglyph
Country: England (Wiltshire)
Visited: Yes on 18th May 2013. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Cherhill White Horse submitted by SolarMegalith on 16th Oct 2010. Cherhill White Horse - the 18th century hill figure located below the earthwork of Oldbury Castle, an Iron Age hillfort (photo taken on June 2010).
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Ugarit Palace
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Palace
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 28th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 4
Ugarit Palace submitted by AlexHunger on 8th Jan 2007. Remains of King's Palace Courtyard. The king did a lot of the business deals himself. Foreign traders or dignitaries were received at the palace. Discussions were held at the pool while scribes etched and baked contracts on clay tablets on the spot.
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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Resafe
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 30th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 2 Ambience 4 Access 5
Resafe submitted by Jansold on 24th May 2013. Resafe.
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Apamea
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 27th Mar 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Apamea submitted by AlexHunger on 11th Jan 2007. City dating back to the Seleucid era with 2 Km long collonade, temples and agora.
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Palmyra Temple of Baal
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Temple of Baal submitted by AlexHunger on 16th Jan 2007. Helenistic Temple of the semitic God Baal in Palmyra. Unfortunately it lost most of the columns except on the East side, seen here.
There is a good part of the compound wall colonade.
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Palmyra Temple of Baal Shameen
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Temple
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
Palmyra Temple of Baal Shameen submitted by AlexHunger on 10th Jan 2007. Temple in Palmyra for the semitic God of luck and rain.
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Palmyra
Date Added: 22nd May 2013
Site Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Country: Syria
Visited: Yes on 1st Apr 2007. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 5 Access 4
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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