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List of famous archaeological sites

This is a list of notable archaeological sites throughout the world. Many are the subject of ongoing excavation or investigation. Note the difference between archaeological sites and archaeological discoveries which is that a site is a place-orientated and a discovery is object-orientated (though of course Troy was a discovery).

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Belize

Bolivia

China

Egypt

France

Greece

Guatemala

Honduras

Iran

Iraq

Italy

Lebanon

Mexico

All the above are either Aztec or Olmec sites.

Pacific

Pakistan

Palestine

Peru

Russia

Syria

Turkey

UK

Zimbabwe



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