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[Terqa]/Asicha? — by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 12, 2024 10:24 AM

[Terqa]/Asicha? was an ancient city located at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the Euphrates river.

Anatho — by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 11, 2024 05:36 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 91 C3 Anatho

Ashqelon/Ascalon — by B. Isaac — last modified Feb 06, 2024 01:51 PM

Ashqelon/Ascalon was an ancient city in coastal Palestine, located midway between Azotus and Gaza. It became independent in 104 B.C. and remained the only free city in Palestine. Strabo refers to it, while Pliny calls it a free city (oppidum libera).

Ben Shemen Forest — by Jamie Novotny — last modified May 06, 2024 10:59 PM

Ben Shemen Forest is the largest forest in Central Israel and it contains several archaeological sites, including Bir a Shemi, Tel Gimzo, Tel Hadid, and several Hasmonean-period tombs.

Bersiba — by T. Sinclair — last modified Sep 07, 2024 03:56 PM

Bersiba was an ancient site in Syria, inhabited as early as the Neolithic period. To the Hittites the site was known as Masuwari.

Cantigi — by P.O. Spann — last modified Feb 27, 2023 06:02 AM

An ancient settlement attested by an ethnic name in a single, fragmentary funerary inscription. The 19th century findspot of the inscription, presumably in the immediate vicinity of the ancient town, was at a locality called "Plaza de Armas" located to the northeast of (and across the Guadalquivir from) the modern Spanish town of Espelúy (Jaén, Andalucia).

Derveni tombs — by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Sep 25, 2023 01:23 PM

Macedonian tombs and Hellenistic chamber tombs where the Derveni krater and Derveni papyri were discovered.

Dhahran — by D.T. Potts — last modified Mar 21, 2023 12:54 PM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 95 C3 Dhahran

Falerii Veteres — by W.V. Harris — last modified Jul 09, 2024 01:59 PM

Falerii Veteres was the principal city of the Faliscans. It is located on a tuff outcropping at the point where several tributaries of the Treia join to flow into the Tiber. After rebelling against Rome in 241 B.C., Falerii suffered serious reversals of fortune.

Fontalovskaya — by David Braund — last modified Mar 04, 2024 01:10 PM

Modern village on the Taman Peninsula. It was the find-spot of a hoard of first-century didrachms.

Ierusalem/Hierosolyma/Col. Aelia Capitolina — by B. Isaac — last modified Jun 12, 2024 09:43 AM

The city of Jerusalem.

Karmir-blur — by David Braund — last modified Jan 05, 2024 12:12 PM

Karmir Blur (or "Red Hill") is the ancient Urartian site of Teishebaini, a fortified city of the seventh century BC built by Rusa II.

Leukos Limen — by J.P. Brown — last modified Jan 11, 2024 10:25 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 68 A2 Leukos Limen

Mazaka/Eusebeia/Caesarea — by T.B. Mitford — last modified Jun 10, 2024 02:58 PM

Mazaka/Eusebeia/Caesarea was the chief town of Cappadocia, modern Kayseri.

Mound at Banāt al-Hassan (Adams 131) — by Carolin Johansson — last modified Feb 01, 2023 05:56 PM

Part of a group of mounds in central Mesopotamia, this settlement (number 131 in Adams 1972) contained remains dated to the Early Dynastic I-Old Babylonian periods (chiefly Ur III-Larsa). The site also contains a number of burials from the Parthian period, fragments of Sasanian pottery, and the remains of an Early Islamic structure.

Nemavand/Laodicea/Niphaunda — by A. Hausleiter — last modified Jun 16, 2023 11:48 AM

Nemavand/Laodicea/Niphaunda was an ancient city in Media founded by Darius the Great.

Opis — by M. Roaf — last modified Sep 16, 2024 11:20 AM

Opis was an ancient city of Babylonia located on the Tigris River close to the site of modern Baghdad.

Phakoussa — by A. Bernand — last modified Apr 12, 2023 05:55 PM

The modern city of Faqous in the southeastern portion of the Nile delta is thought to have been built atop an ancient city known to the Greeks as Phakoussa. Strabo identifies it as the terminus of an ancient canal connecting to the Red Sea.

Qalatgah — by M. Roaf — last modified Jun 19, 2023 10:12 AM

An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 H3 Qalatgah

Samaria/Sebaste — by E.M. Meyers — last modified Jan 04, 2024 11:41 AM

Samaria/Sebaste was an ancient city of Iudaea. In 30 B.C. it passed under the control of Herod the Great and was renamed Sebaste in honor of the emperor Augustus.