All Cities on ArchaeoMap
A directory of every approved city in our archive, grouped by country. Click any name to open its interactive timeline and history. Return to the map →
332 cities · 63 countries · updated 2026-11-05
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Armenia (2)
Artaxata (also Artashat) - 176 BC to 500 AD Dvin (also Dabil) - 3000 BC to 1236 AD
Austria (1)
Vienna (also Vindobona, Wien) - founded 15 AD
Brazil (1)
Rio de Janeiro (also São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro) - founded 1565 AD
Bulgaria (3)
Pazardzhik (also Tatar Bazarcık) - founded 1485 AD Plovdiv (also Eumolpia, Pulpudeva, Philippopolis, Trimontium, Philippoupolis, Filibe) - founded 4500 BC Sofia (also Serdica, Triaditsa, Sredets, Sofya) - founded 500 BC
Cambodia (1)
Angkor (also Yaśodharapura) - founded 802 AD
China (5)
Anyang (also Yin) - 1300 BC to 1046 BC Beijing (also Ji, Zhuojun, Youzhou, Yanjing, Yanshan, Zhongdu, Khanbaliq, Beiping) - founded 1045 BC Hangzhou (also Qiantang, Xifu, Lin'an) - founded 222 BC Hong Kong (also Honkon) - founded 1842 AD Xi'an (also Hao, Xianyang, Chang'an, Daxing, Da'anfu, Jingzhao, Fengyuan) - founded 1046 BC
Croatia (1)
Dubrovnik (also Ragusium, Ragusa) - founded 614 AD
Cyprus (1)
Larnaca (also Kition, Larnax, Salines) - founded 1300 BC
Egypt (15)
Abydos (also Abdju, el-Araba el-Madfuna) - founded 3800 BC Alexandria (also Iskandariyya) - founded 331 BC Amarna (also Akhetaten) - 1348 BC to 1069 BC Aswan (also Abu, Elephantine, Syene) - founded 3500 BC Avaris (also Hut-waret, Pi-Ramesses, Qantir) - founded 1980 BC Cairo (also Kheraha, Babylon, Fustat, al-Askar, al-Qata'i, al-Qahira) - founded 600 BC Elkab (also Nekheb, Eileithyiaspolis, el-Kab) - 4500 BC to 750 AD Heliopolis (also Iunu, Ayn Shams, al-Matariya) - founded 3500 BC Hierakonpolis (also Nekhen) - 4500 BC to 300 AD Luxor (also Waset, Diospolis Magna, al-Uqsur) - founded 2345 BC Memphis (also Inbu-Hedj, Men-nefer, Manf, Mit Rahina) - founded 3100 BC Qasr Ibrim (also Pedeme, Primis, Silmi, Ibrim) - 1500 BC to 1812 AD Sais (also Sau, Sa, Sa el-Hagar) - founded 4300 BC Shedet (also Crocodilopolis, Arsinoë, Madinat al-Faiyum, Faiyum) - founded 2686 BC Tanis (also Djanet) - 1080 BC to 641 AD
France (2)
Marseille (also Massalia, Massilia) - founded 600 BC Paris (also Lutetia Parisiorum) - founded 250 BC
Germany (2)
Berlin - founded 1170 AD Trier (also Augusta Treverorum) - founded 16 BC
Greece (40)
Aigai - 1100 BC to 300 AD Akrotiri - 5000 BC to 1620 BC Amphipolis (also Ennea Hodoi) - 500 BC to 800 AD Antikyra (also Aspra Spitia) - founded 900 BC Argos - founded 3500 BC Arta (also Ambracia, Narda) - founded 625 BC Athens (also Athenai, Athenae, Athinai, Setines, Athina) - founded 3500 BC Chalcis (also Chalkis, Euripos, Negroponte, Eğriboz, Chalkida) - founded 1300 BC Corinth (also Korinthos, Gördüs, Corinto) - founded 6000 BC Delos - 3000 BC to 800 AD Delphi (also Pytho, Kastri, Delphoi) - founded 1600 BC Dion (also Malathria) - founded 500 BC Dodona - 2000 BC to 600 AD Eleusis (also Lepsina, Elefsina) - founded 2500 BC Gla - 1300 BC to 1200 BC Heraklion (also Heracleium, Chandax, Candia, Kandiye) - founded 1900 BC Ioannina (also Yanya) - founded 450 BC Kavala (also Neapolis, Christoupolis) - founded 650 BC Knossos - 7000 BC to 700 AD Lindos - founded 1000 BC Medeon - 2000 BC to 100 BC Messene (also Ithome, Messini, Mavromati) - founded 3000 BC Mycenae - 4000 BC to 150 BC Mystras (also Misistra) - founded 1249 AD Nikopolis (also Nicopolis) - 29 BC to 900 AD Olympia - 3000 BC to 620 AD Orchomenos (also Orchomenus, Skripou) - founded 2800 BC Patras (also Aroe, Patrai, Patrae, Balıbadra, Patrasso, Patra) - founded 1600 BC Pella - 3000 BC to 1300 AD Phaistos - 3600 BC to 200 BC Philippi (also Krenides) - 360 BC to 1400 AD Pylos - 2000 BC to 1180 BC Rhodes - founded 408 BC Sparta (also Lacedaemonia, La Cremonie, Palaia Sparti, Sparti) - founded 1100 BC Thebes (also Thebai, Thebae, Thiva, Estives, İstefe) - founded 1400 BC Thermos (also Thermo) - founded 1500 BC Thessaloniki (also Thessalonike, Thessalonica, Salonichi, Selanik) - founded 315 BC Tiryns - 5000 BC to 470 BC Volos (also Iolcus, Demetrias, Golos) - founded 1900 BC Vonitsa - founded 1000 AD
Guatemala (1)
Tikal (also Yax Mutal) - 1000 BC to 900 AD
Honduras (1)
Copán (also Oxwitik) - 1000 BC to 900 AD
India (3)
Delhi - founded 736 AD Mumbai (also Bom Bahia, Bombay) - founded 1534 AD Patna (also Pātaliputra) - founded 490 BC
Indonesia (1)
Jakarta (also Jayakarta, Batavia) - founded 1527 AD
Iran (6)
Ganzak (also Gazaca, Janzeh) - 550 BC to 1300 AD Pasargadae - 550 BC to 1000 AD Persepolis (also Parsa) - 518 BC to 330 BC Susa (also Shushan, Seleucia, Sus, Shush) - founded 4200 BC Tabriz (also T'awresh) - founded 226 AD Tehran - founded 800 AD
Iraq (18)
Akkad (also Agade) - 2334 BC to 2154 BC Assur - 2500 BC to 240 AD Babylon (also Babili, Babirus, Babil) - 2250 BC to 1000 AD Ctesiphon (also al-Mada'in) - 129 BC to 900 AD Eridu - 5400 BC to 600 BC Eshnunna - 3000 BC to 1595 BC Girsu - 4900 BC to 1600 BC Hatra - 250 BC to 241 AD Jarmo - 7100 BC to 5800 BC Lagash - 3300 BC to 1740 BC Mosul (also Al-Mawsil) - founded 637 AD Nimrud (also Kalḫu) - 1274 BC to 612 BC Nineveh (also Ninua, Ninawa, Nebi Yunus) - founded 6000 BC Seleucia (also Veh-Ardashir, al-Mada'in) - 305 BC to 900 AD Tell al-Ubaid - 5500 BC to 2004 BC Tell el-Oueili - 6500 BC to 3200 BC Ur (also Urim) - 5000 BC to 500 BC Uruk - 5000 BC to 250 AD
Italy (8)
Antium (also Anzio) - founded 1000 BC Florence (also Florentia, Firenze) - founded 59 BC Herculaneum (also Resina, Ercolano) - founded 600 BC Naples (also Parthenope, Neapolis, Napoli) - founded 700 BC Ostia Antica (also Ostia) - founded 620 BC Pompeii - 600 BC to 79 AD Rome (also Roma) - founded 753 BC Syracuse (also Syrakousai, Syracusae, Saraqusa, Siracusa) - founded 734 BC
Japan (3)
Kyoto (also Heian-kyō) - founded 711 AD Nara (also Heijō-kyō) - founded 710 AD Tokyo (also Edo) - founded 1457 AD
Jordan (1)
Petra (also Raqmu, Wadi Musa) - founded 300 BC
Lebanon (3)
Byblos (also Gubla, Kupna, Gebal, Jbeil, Gibelet) - founded 6900 BC Sidon (also Saida) - founded 3000 BC Tyre (also Şurru, Şūr, Tyros, Tyrus, Sur) - founded 2750 BC
Mali (1)
Timbuktu (also Tombouctou) - founded 1100 AD
Nigeria (1)
Lagos (also Eko) - founded 1400 AD
North Cyprus (1)
Nicosia (also Ledra, Lefkosia, Lefkoşa) - founded 2500 BC
Palestine (3)
Gaza (also Azzah, Hazzat, Ghazzah) - founded 1500 BC Jericho (also Yariho, Yeriho, Hiericho, Ariha) - founded 9300 BC Jerusalem (also Urusalim, Yerushalayim, Hierosolyma, Iliya, Al-Quds) - founded 3000 BC
Portugal (1)
Lisbon (also Ulissipo, Olisipo, Olissipo, al-Ushbuna, Lisboa) - founded 1200 BC
Russia (2)
Moscow (also Moskva River Settlements, Moskva) - founded 800 AD Saint Petersburg (also Neva Delta Settlements, Neva Land, Izhora Land, Nyen, Sankt Peterburg, Petrograd, Leningrad) - founded 500 BC
South Korea (1)
Seoul (also Hanyang, Hanseong, Keijō) - founded 1394 AD
Spain (4)
Madrid (also Mayrit) - founded 865 AD Numantia - 700 BC to 500 AD Saguntum (also Arse, Murbiter, Morvedre, Sagunto) - founded 500 BC Tarraco (also Kesse, Tarracona, Tarrakuna, Tarragona) - founded 600 BC
Sudan (5)
Kerma (also Pnubs) - 2500 BC to 400 AD Meroe - 900 BC to 350 AD Napata (also Karima) - founded 1450 BC Old Dongola (also Tungul, Dunqula, Dunqula al-Ajuz) - founded 500 AD Soba - founded 500 AD
Syria (14)
Aleppo (also Halab, Halabu, Halap, Beroea, Halep) - founded 3000 BC Apamea (also Pella, Afamiyya, Qalaat al-Madiq) - founded 320 BC Bosra (also Busruna, Bostra, Busra) - founded 3000 BC Cyrrhus (also Hagioupolis, Qurush, Coricie) - 300 BC to 1300 AD Damascus (also Dimasqu, Aram-Damascus, Dimaşqa, Dimashqu, Damaskos, Dimashq, Şam) - founded 3000 BC Dura-Europos (also Europos) - 303 BC to 257 AD Ebla - 3500 BC to 1600 BC Hama (also Hamath, Epiphaneia, Epiphania, Emath) - founded 6500 BC Mari - 2900 BC to 1759 BC Palmyra (also Tadmor, Tadmur) - founded 2500 BC Qatna - 3300 BC to 1340 BC Rhesaina (also Sikkan, Resh-aina, Theodosiopolis, Ras al-Ayn) - founded 7000 BC Tell Brak (also Nagar, Nawar) - 6500 BC to 600 BC Ugarit - 7500 BC to 1185 BC
Thailand (3)
Ayutthaya (also Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya) - founded 1351 AD Bangkok (also Bang Kok, Thonburi, Krung Thep) - founded 1424 AD Sukhothai - 1238 AD to 1438 AD
Tunisia (2)
Carthage (also Qart-ḥadaşt, Colonia Iunonia, Colonia Iulia Carthago, Carthago, Qarṭājannah) - founded 814 BC Tunis (also Tynes, Tunes, Thunes, Tūnis) - founded 400 BC
Türkiye (131)
Acemhöyük (also Burušhattum) - 2700 BC to 1200 BC Afyonkarahisar (also Akroinon, Karahisar) - founded 800 BC Aizanoi (also Aezani, Çavdarhisar) - founded 3000 BC Aksaray (also Kuršaura, Šinuḫtu, Garsaura, Archelaïs, Koloneia) - founded 1600 BC Alacahöyük - founded 3000 BC Alişar Höyük (also Ankuwa) - 4000 BC to 1071 AD Amasya (also Amaseia) - founded 3000 BC Amorium (also Amorion, Hisarköy) - founded 800 BC Anazarbus (also Cyinda, Justinianopolis, Ain Zarba, Anazarbos, Anavarza) - 300 BC to 1374 AD Ani - 300 AD to 1700 AD Ankara (also Ankyra, Ancyra, Engürü, Angora) - founded 750 BC Antandrus (also Antandros, Altınoluk) - founded 725 BC Antioch (also Antakya) - founded 300 BC Apasas - 3500 BC to 1200 BC Aphrodisias (also Ninoë, Megale Polis, Stauropolis, Geyre) - founded 4500 BC Arsameia - 255 BC to 72 AD Arsamosata (also Shimshat) - 240 BC to 1234 AD Arslantepe (also Malidiya, Malizi, Melitea, Meliddu) - 4250 BC to 700 BC Aşıklı Höyük - 8400 BC to 7400 BC Aspendos (also Estwediys, Belkıs) - founded 1000 BC Assos (also Behramkale) - founded 1000 BC Attaleia (also Antalya, Satalia) - founded 158 BC Aydın (also Tralles, Seleukeia, Güzelhisar) - founded 700 BC Balıkesir (also Hadrianutherae, Palaiokastron, Karesi) - founded 700 BC Battalgazi (also Melitene, Malatya, Eski Malatya) - founded 70 AD Bergama (also Pergamon, Pergamum) - founded 700 BC Bodrum (also Halicarnassus, Halikarnassos, Petronion) - founded 1000 BC Bursa (also Prousa, Prusa) - founded 202 BC Çadır Höyük - 5200 BC to 1100 AD Çankırı (also Gangra, Germanicopolis) - founded 700 BC Carchemish (also Karkamissa, Karkamisa, Karkemiš, Karkemish, Europos, Jirbas) - 5000 BC to 1000 AD Çatalhöyük - 7100 BC to 5600 BC Çavuştepe (also Sardurihinili) - 764 BC to 645 BC Çayönü Tepesi - 10200 BC to 6800 BC Comana (also Kummanni, Komana, Şar) - founded 1500 BC Çukuriçi Höyük - 6700 BC to 2750 BC Cyzicus (also Kyzikos) - 756 BC to 1200 AD Daskyleion - founded 1000 BC Derinkuyu (also Malakopia) - founded 800 BC Diyarbakır (also Amidu, Amedi, Amida, Amid, Diyarbekir) - founded 2000 BC Edirne (also Uskudama, Hadrianopolis, Adrianople) - founded 500 BC Eğil (also Carcathiocerta, Ingila, Ankil, Egil) - founded 900 BC Ephesus (also Ephesos) - 1050 BC to 1100 AD Eskişehir (also Dorylaion, Sultanönü) - founded 800 BC Eskiyapar Höyük (also Eskiyapar) - founded 3000 BC Fethiye (also Telebehi, Telmessos, Anastasiopolis, Beskaza, Meğri) - founded 800 BC Gaziantep (also Antiochia, Aintab, Antep, Ayntab) - founded 300 BC Gelibolu (also Kallipolis, Gallipoli) - founded 600 BC Göbeklitepe - 9500 BC to 8000 BC Gordion (also Gordium) - 2500 BC to 1308 AD Harran (also Harranu, Carrhae) - founded 2500 BC Hierapolis (also Pamukkale) - founded 190 BC Hüseyindede Höyüğü - 1650 BC to 1400 BC Iasos (also Iasus, Asin, Asın) - 2500 BC to 1500 AD İpsala (also Kypsela, Cypsela) - founded 550 BC İstanbul (also Byzantion, Byzantium, Constantinople, Constantinopolis, Kostantiniyye) - founded 657 BC İzmir (also Smyrna) - founded 334 BC İzmit (also Astakos, Nicomedia, Nikomedeia, İznikmid) - founded 712 BC Kadıköy (also Chalcedon) - founded 685 BC Kahramanmaraş (also Marqas, Germanicia, Germanikeia, Mar'ash, Marash, Maraş) - founded 2000 BC Kanish (also Kaneš) - 3300 BC to 395 AD Karadeniz Ereğli (also Heraclea Pontica, Pontoheraclea, Ereğli) - founded 560 BC Karahantepe - 9500 BC to 8000 BC Karaman (also Lānda, Laranda, Larende) - founded 1600 BC Karatepe (also Azatiwadaya) - 720 BC to 680 BC Kayseri (also Mazaka, Caesarea, Kaisareia) - founded 500 BC Kerkenes (also Pteria) - 600 BC to 547 BC Kilistra - founded 300 BC Klazomenai (also Clazomenae) - 1100 BC to 1000 AD Knidos (also Cnidus) - 900 BC to 700 AD Konya (also Ikkuwaniya, Kawania, Ikonion, Iconium) - founded 3000 BC Kozan (also Flaviopolis, Sision, Sis) - founded 70 AD Kütahya (also Kotiaion, Cotiaeum, Kotyaion) - founded 700 BC Laodicea (also Rhoas, Diospolis) - 5500 BC to 610 AD Lapseki (also Lampsakos, Lampsacus) - founded 654 BC Letoon - 700 BC to 1400 AD Magnesia ad Maeandrum (also Magnesia) - 800 BC to 1200 AD Malatya - founded 1840 AD Manavgat (also Manavghad) - founded 1200 AD Manisa (also Magnesia) - founded 1300 BC Marmara Ereğlisi (also Perinthos, Heraclea, Ereğli) - founded 600 BC Marmaris (also Physkos) - founded 600 BC Maşat Höyük (also Tapikka) - 3000 BC to 350 BC Metropolis (also Mētropolis, Yeniköy) - founded 750 BC Milas (also Mylasa) - founded 700 BC Miletus (also Millawanda, Miletos, Palatia, Balat) - founded 2000 BC Myra (also Kale-i Demre, Demre) - founded 1200 BC Nerik (also Nerikka) - 4500 BC to 700 BC Nevali Çori - 8700 BC to 7500 BC Nikaia (also Antigoneia, İznik) - founded 316 BC Old Smyrna (also Smyrna) - 3000 BC to 300 BC Olympos - 300 BC to 1500 AD Patara (also Patar, Arsinoë) - 1500 BC to 1340 AD Perge (also Parha) - 4200 BC to 1200 AD Pessinus (also Pessinous, Ballıhisar) - founded 400 BC Pinara - 800 BC to 900 AD Priene (also Old Priene, Sampson, Samsun Kale) - 800 BC to 1300 AD Sagalassos (also Sagalassus) - 425 BC to 1210 AD Samsat (also Kummuh, Kummuhu, Samosata, Sumaysat) - founded 3000 BC Samsun (also Amisos, Amisus) - founded 1500 BC Samuha (also Šamuḫa) - 4500 BC to 1190 BC Şanlıurfa (also Urhai, Edessa, al-Ruha, Urfa) - founded 3000 BC Sapinuwa (also Šapinuwa) - 1600 BC to 1071 AD Sardis (also Sfard, Sparda, Sart) - founded 1600 BC Sarissa (also Šarišša) - 1530 BC to 1200 BC Selçuk (also Hagios Theologos, Ayasoluk) - founded 1100 AD Selge (also Altınkaya) - founded 1000 BC Selimiye (also Side) - founded 1895 AD Sestos - 600 BC to 1356 AD Side - 700 BC to 1200 AD Silivri (also Selymbria) - founded 660 BC Sinop (also Sinope) - founded 630 BC Sivas (also Megalopolis, Sebasteia) - founded 2000 BC Stratonicea (also Idrias, Stratonikeia, Eskihisar) - founded 700 BC Tarsus (also Tarša, Tarzi, Tarzu) - founded 4500 BC Taşköprü (also Pompeiopolis) - founded 700 BC Tavium (also Tawiniya) - 3500 BC to 1200 AD Tekirdağ (also Bisanthe, Rhaedestus, Rodosto, Rodosçuk) - founded 700 BC Termessos (also Termessus) - 700 BC to 500 AD Tlos (also Dalawa, Tlawa, Yakaköy) - founded 2000 BC Toprakkale (also Rusahinili) - 680 BC to 590 BC Tosya (also Doceia) - founded 395 AD Trabzon (also Trapezus, Trapezous, Trebizond) - founded 756 BC Troy (also Wilusa, Ilion, Ilium) - 3000 BC to 1200 AD Tyana (also Tūwanuwa, Tuwana, Kemerhisar) - founded 1600 BC Uşak (also Temenothyrae) - founded 700 BC Uşaklı Höyük (also Zippalanda) - 2300 BC to 600 AD Van (also Tušpa, Tushpa, Wan) - founded 3000 BC Xanthos (also Arnna, Xanthus, Kınık) - founded 800 BC Zeugma - 300 BC to 1300 AD Zincirli Höyük (also Sam'al, Zincirli) - founded 3000 BC
Turkmenistan (1)
Merv (also Margush, Alexandria Margiana, Antiocheia Margiana, Marv, Bayramaly) - founded 500 BC
United Kingdom (2)
London (also Londinium, Lundenwic, Lundenburh) - founded 47 AD Skara Brae - 3180 BC to 2500 BC
Uzbekistan (2)
Bukhara (also Bukhārak, Bukhārā) - founded 500 BC Samarkand (also Afrasiab, Marakanda) - founded 700 BC