Ancient

Tempio di Portuno, Rome, Italy

Rome, Rome, Italy

The Temple of Portunus rises beside the Tiber where Rome's oldest river port once received the city's commerce....

Tempio di Zeus (G)

Selinunte, Trapani, Italy

The Temple of Heracles is the oldest sacred structure in the Valle dei Templi, dating to approximately 510 BC....

Temple of Amun (Amon Temple), Siwa Oasis

أغورمي, Matruh, Egypt

Deep in the Western Desert, an oracle once spoke from this remote oasis temple. Pilgrims crossed hundreds of miles of lethal terrain to hear the god's pronouncements....

Temple of Apollo and Athena at Side

Part of Side

Antalya, Turkey

The temples of Apollo and Athena at Side occupy the westernmost tip of a Mediterranean peninsula — a harbor sacred area where two Olympian deities once watched over every...

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae

Bassae, Oichalia, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece

Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae is a source-documented ancient temple in Oichalia, Messenia, Peloponnese, associated with Apollo Epicurius....

Temple of Apollo, Syracuse

Syracuse, Syracuse, Italy

Before the Parthenon rose in Athens, before Selinunte built its great sanctuaries, the colonists of Syracuse raised a temple to Apollo in stone....

Temple of Artemis

İzmir, Turkey

For over a millennium, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was the holiest sanctuary in the ancient Mediterranean world — and the largest building the Greeks ever constructed....

Temple of Artemis at Jerash

Jerash, Jerash, Jerash Governorate, Jordan

Temple of Artemis at Jerash is a documented temple in Jerash, Jerash Governorate, Jordan, connected with Ancient Greek & Roman....

Temple of Concordia

Agrigento, Agrigento, Italy

On a ridge overlooking the Mediterranean, the Temple of Concordia rises in near-perfect preservation, its thirty-four columns intact, its pediments complete, its...

Temple of Hathor, Dendera

Dendera, Qena, Egypt

The Temple of Hathor at Dendera survives as the most complete ancient Egyptian temple, its painted ceilings and carved columns largely intact after two thousand years....

Temple of Hatshepsut

Luxor, Luxor, Egypt

Hatshepsut declared herself pharaoh in a world that reserved that title for men....

Temple of Hecate at Lagina

Muğla, Turkey

Lagina holds the largest and most important sanctuary of Hecate ever built — a site where she was not a supplementary figure in someone else's pantheon but the principal...

Temple of Hercules at Amman Citadel

Amman Citadel, Amman Citadel, Amman Governorate, Jordan

Temple of Hercules at Amman Citadel is a documented temple in Amman Citadel, Amman Governorate, Jordan, connected with Ancient Greek & Roman....

Temple of Karnak

Old Karnak, Luxor, Egypt

Karnak Temple Complex covers 247 acres of accumulated sacred architecture—the work of approximately thirty pharaohs over two millennia....

Temple of Khnum, Esna

Esna, Luxor, Egypt

The Temple of Khnum sits in an excavation pit nine meters below modern Esna, a literal descent through millennia of accumulated civilization....

Temple of Ptah

Part of Temple of Karnak

Luxor, Luxor, Egypt

Hidden in Karnak's northern corner, the Temple of Ptah offers what the vast complex cannot: intimate encounter....

Temple of Water at Zaghouan

Zaghouan, Zaghouan, Zaghouan, Tunisia

Temple of Water at Zaghouan is a documented archaeological site in Zaghouan, Zaghouan, Tunisia, connected with Ancient Roman religion....

Termessos

Antalya, Turkey

Termessos stands on a near-inaccessible summit of Güllük Dağı at almost 1,000 metres, ringed by cliffs that turned back Alexander the Great in 333 BCE....

The acropolis of Baalbek

Baalbek, Baalbek-Hermel, Lebanon

Baalbek stands in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, where Phoenicians worshipped Baal, Greeks honored the sun, and Romans built temples on a scale they attempted nowhere else in...

The Great Sphinx

Part of Giza Necropolis

Giza, Giza, Egypt

At the edge of the Western Desert, where the living world meets the vast necropolis of ancient kings, a limestone creature emerges from the bedrock itself....

The Ruins of Paestum (Basilica of Hera)

Capaccio Paestum, Salerno, Italy

Paestum stands as one of the most complete Greek sacred sites outside Greece itself....

Theimussa

Antalya, Turkey

At Üçağız, the ancient village of Theimussa, the line between archaeology and daily life has never fully closed....

Tilmen Höyük

Gaziantep, Turkey

Tilmen Höyük is a Bronze Age tell mound near Islahiye in southeastern Turkey, set within a Ramsar-protected wetland valley....

Tongobriga

Marco de Canaveses, Porto, Portugal

Tongobriga grew from an Iron Age Castro-culture hillfort into a Roman administrative town with a forum and baths, and later carried a Palaeochristian basilica into the...

Topada Rock Inscription

Nevşehir, Turkey

On a natural cliff plateau in the Cappadocian borderlands, King Wasusarma of Tabal carved the most historically detailed royal inscription from Iron Age central Anatolia:...

Tophet of Carthage

Carthage, Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

Tophet of Carthage is a documented archaeological site in Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, connected with Ancient Punic religion....

Traostalos Minoan Peak Sanctuary

Itanos Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

On a windswept plateau at 515 meters above the southeastern coast of Crete, Minoan worshippers climbed for five hundred years to leave clay figurines, model ships, and...

Trofonion Oracle, Livadia, Greece

Levadia Municipal Unit, Central Greece, Greece

In the Boeotian town of Livadia, a limestone gorge opens where the Herkyna River emerges from the rock....

Troy

Çanakkale, Turkey

Troy (Troia / Truva) is a multi-period Bronze Age to Roman city mound near Çanakkale, where nine distinct occupation layers span from around 3000 BC to AD 400....

Tumba Madžari

Madžari, Madžari, Gazi Baba Municipality, Skopje, North Macedonia

Tumba Madžari is a documented archaeological site in Madžari, North Macedonia, interpreted through ancient ritual and archaeological evidence....

Tylissos Minoan Temple

Tylissos Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece

In the foothills southwest of Heraklion, the ruins of three grand Minoan villas stand among olive groves at the edge of the modern village of Tylissos....

Uzuncaburç

Mersin, Turkey

Uzuncaburç was once the divine capital of the Olba kingdom, where a priestly dynasty ruled in the name of Zeus Olbios....

Valle dei Templi

Agrigento, Agrigento, Italy

The Valle dei Templi in Agrigento preserves seven ancient Greek temples along a south-facing ridge overlooking the sea....

Valley Temple of Khafre

Part of Giza Necropolis

Giza, Giza, Egypt

The Valley Temple of Khafre is Egypt's best-preserved Old Kingdom temple, where priests once transformed the dead pharaoh into a divine being....

Van Fortress

Van, Turkey

Van Fortress (Tushpa) was the sacred capital of the Urartian Kingdom from the 9th to 6th centuries BCE — a massive conglomerate rock rising from the shore of Lake Van...

Vinča-Belo Brdo Archaeological Site

Vinča, Vinča / Belgrade, City of Belgrade, Serbia

Vinča-Belo Brdo Archaeological Site is a documented archaeological site in Vinča, Serbia, interpreted through ancient ritual and archaeological evidence....

Wardija Punic Temple

San Lawrenz, Malta

Ras il-Wardija stands at the extreme southwest of Gozo, 120 metres above the sea, where Punic sailors carved rock-hewn niches into the clifftop and left offerings to...

Yalburt Pool Monument

Isparta, Turkey

At 1,300 metres in the highland meadows of western Konya, a rectangular basin of inscribed limestone blocks marks the place where a Hittite king bound his military...

Yazılıkaya

Çorum, Turkey

Yazılıkaya is the largest known open-air Hittite sanctuary, located 2 km northeast of Hattusha in central Turkey....

Yesemek

Gaziantep, Turkey

Yesemek is an ancient quarry and sculpture workshop in southern Turkey where the Hittite Empire produced sacred guardian figures — sphinxes, lions, and mountain gods —...

Zeugma

Gaziantep, Turkey

Zeugma stood for two millennia where the Euphrates divided the Greek and Persian worlds....

Zincirli

Gaziantep, Turkey

Zincirli Höyük is the site of ancient Sam'al, a Neo-Hittite and Aramaean city-state in southeastern Turkey....

Zindan Cave, Yazılı Canyon

Aksu, Isparta, Turkey

Zindan Cave and Yazılı Canyon are two distinct locations roughly 35-40 km apart in Isparta Province, treated here as sequential stops on the same ancient road and modern...