Archaeological Sites

Lost tombs, drowned wonders, and the gold of vanished kingdoms.

• Akrotiri, the Aegean Atlantis Santorini (Thera), Greece
• Babylon and the Ishtar Gate Hillah, Iraq
• Batan Grande, the Sican Gold Lambayeque, Peru
• Cahokia Mounds Collinsville, IL
• Chaco Canyon NW New Mexico
• Djenne-Djeno Djenne, Mali
• Etowah Mounds near Cartersville, GA
• Fort Mose N of St. Augustine, FL
• Fort Raleigh (Lost Colony) Roanoke Island, NC
• Frobisher's Fool's Gold Kodlunarn Island, Baffin, Canada
• Gardar, the Bishop's Seat Igaliku, Greenland
• Great Zimbabwe Near Masvingo, Zimbabwe
• Grytviken, South Georgia South Georgia
• Herod's Lost Tomb Herodium, West Bank
• Hovenweep Utah, Colorado border
• Khara-Khoto, the Black City Gobi Desert, Inner Mongolia, China
• Konye-Urgench, the Drowned Capital Konye-Urgench, Turkmenistan
• Mahd adh Dhahab, the Cradle of Gold Mahd adh Dhahab, Saudi Arabia
• Mapungubwe and the Golden Rhino Limpopo, South Africa
• Megiddo, the Armageddon Ivories Tel Megiddo, Israel
• Mesa Verde SW Colorado
• Otrar, Where the Storm Began Otrar, Kazakhstan
• Penjikent, the Sogdian Pompeii Panjakent, Tajikistan
• Petra, the Treasury Wadi Musa, southern Jordan
• Poverty Point NE Louisiana
• Pueblo Grande de Nevada, the Lost City Moapa Valley, near Overton, Nevada
• Sanxingdui Guanghan, Sichuan, China
• Serpent Mound Adams County, OH
• Sodom at Tall el-Hammam Jordan Valley, Jordan
• Spiro Mounds Le Flore County, OK
• Sutton Hoo Near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England
• The Cave of Letters Nahal Hever, Judean Desert, Israel
• The Colossus of Rhodes Rhodes, Greece
• The Gold of Troy Hisarlik, Turkey
• The Gold of the Pagan Kings Bagan, Myanmar
• The Library Cave of Dunhuang Mogao Caves, Gansu, China
• The Lord of Sipán Huaca Rajada, near Chiclayo, Peru
• The Lost City of Loulan Lop Nur, Taklamakan, China
• The Lost Wealth of Merv Mary Province, Turkmenistan
• The Maine Penny (Goddard Site) Naskeag Point, Brooklin, ME
• The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus Bodrum, Turkey
• The Ransom Room of Cajamarca Cajamarca, Peru
• The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Ephesus, Turkey
• The Tomb of Philip II at Vergina Vergina, Greece
• The Tomb of Qin Shi Huang Lintong, Shaanxi, China
• The Tomb of Suleiman the Magnificent Szigetvár, Hungary
• The Tombs of Niya Niya ruins, Taklamakan, China
• The Treasure of Bamiyan Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan
• The Treasures of Nineveh Mosul, Iraq
• The Treasury of Persepolis Persepolis, Iran
• The Valley of the Kings West bank of the Nile, Luxor, Egypt
• The Valley of the Thracian Kings near Kazanlak, Bulgaria
• The Varna Necropolis Varna, Black Sea coast, Bulgaria
• Tillya Tepe, the Bactrian Gold Sheberghan, Jowzjan, N. Afghanistan
• Ur of the Chaldees Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq