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 →

310 cities · 62 countries · updated 2026-06-01

Argentina (1)

Buenos Aires — founded 1580 AD

Armenia (2)

Artaxata — 176 BC to 500 AD
Dvin — 3000 BC to 1236 AD

Australia (1)

Sydney — founded 1788 AD

Austria (1)

Vienna — founded 15 AD

Bolivia (1)

Tiwanaku — 1500 BC to 1100 AD

Brazil (1)

Rio de Janeiro — founded 1565 AD

Bulgaria (3)

Pazardzhik — founded 1485 AD
Plovdiv — founded 6000 BC
Sofia — founded 500 BC

Cambodia (1)

Angkor — founded 802 AD

Canada (1)

Toronto — founded 1793 AD

Chile (1)

Rapa Nui — founded 1200 AD

China (5)

Anyang — 1300 BC to 1046 BC
Beijing — founded 1045 BC
Hangzhou — founded 222 BC
Hong Kong — founded 1842 AD
Xi'an — founded 1046 BC

Croatia (1)

Dubrovnik — founded 614 AD

Cuba (1)

Havana — founded 1519 AD

Cyprus (1)

Larnaca — founded 1300 BC

Czech Republic (1)

Prague — founded 880 AD

Egypt (6)

Alexandria — founded 331 BC
Cairo — founded 642 AD
Elkab — founded 6000 BC
Luxor — founded 3200 BC
Memphis — founded 3100 BC
Shedet — founded 4000 BC

Ethiopia (2)

Aksum — founded 100 AD
Lalibela — founded 1100 AD

France (2)

Marseille — founded 600 BC
Paris — founded 250 BC

Germany (2)

Berlin — founded 1237 AD
Trier — founded 16 BC

Greece (40)

Aigai — 750 BC to 300 AD
Akrotiri — 5000 BC to 1620 BC
Amphipolis — 500 BC to 800 AD
Antikyra — founded 1600 BC
Argos — founded 5000 BC
Arta — founded 625 BC
Athens — founded 3000 BC
Chalcis — founded 1300 BC
Corinth — founded 1600 BC
Delos — 3000 BC to 800 AD
Delphi — founded 1600 BC
Dion — founded 500 BC
Dodona — 2000 BC to 392 AD
Eleusis — founded 1600 BC
Gla — 1300 BC to 1100 BC
Heraklion — founded 1900 BC
Ioannina — founded 527 AD
Kavala — founded 625 BC
Knossos — 7000 BC to 700 AD
Lindos — founded 1000 BC
Medeon — 1600 BC to 600 AD
Messene — founded 2000 BC
Mycenae — 1700 BC to 150 BC
Mystras — founded 1249 AD
Nikopolis — 29 BC to 900 AD
Olympia — 1100 BC to 426 AD
Orchomenos — founded 2800 BC
Patras — founded 1100 BC
Pella — 400 BC to 1300 AD
Phaistos — 3600 BC to 200 BC
Philippi — 360 BC to 1540 AD
Pylos — 1600 BC to 1180 BC
Rhodes — founded 408 BC
Sparta — founded 1100 BC
Thebes — founded 1400 BC
Thermos — founded 1500 BC
Thessaloniki — founded 315 BC
Tiryns — 3000 BC to 470 BC
Volos — founded 1900 BC
Vonitsa — founded 1000 AD

Guatemala (1)

Tikal — 1000 BC to 900 AD

Honduras (1)

Copán — 426 AD to 900 AD

Iceland (1)

Reykjavík — founded 874 AD

India (3)

Delhi — founded 736 AD
Mumbai — founded 1534 AD
Patna — founded 490 BC

Indonesia (1)

Jakarta — founded 1527 AD

Iran (6)

Ganzak — 550 BC to 1300 AD
Pasargadae — 550 BC to 1000 AD
Persepolis — 518 BC to 330 BC
Susa — founded 4200 BC
Tabriz — founded 226 AD
Tehran — founded 800 AD

Iraq (18)

Akkad — 2334 BC to 2154 BC
Assur — 2500 BC to 240 AD
Babylon — 1894 BC to 1000 AD
Ctesiphon — 129 BC to 900 AD
Eridu — 5400 BC to 600 BC
Eshnunna — 3000 BC to 1755 BC
Girsu — 3000 BC to 2000 BC
Hatra — 250 BC to 241 AD
Jarmo — 7100 BC to 5800 BC
Lagash — 3000 BC to 2000 BC
Mosul — founded 637 AD
Nimrud — 1274 BC to 612 BC
Nineveh — founded 6000 BC
Seleucia — 305 BC to 900 AD
Tell al-Ubaid — 5500 BC to 2300 BC
Tell el-Oueili — 6500 BC to 3800 BC
Ur — 3800 BC to 500 BC
Uruk — 4000 BC to 100 AD

Israel (1)

Megiddo — 3500 BC to 350 BC

Italy (8)

Antium — founded 1000 BC
Florence — founded 59 BC
Herculaneum — founded 600 BC
Naples — founded 700 BC
Ostia Antica — founded 620 BC
Pompeii — 600 BC to 79 AD
Rome — founded 753 BC
Syracuse — founded 734 BC

Japan (3)

Kyoto — founded 711 AD
Nara — founded 710 AD
Tokyo — founded 1457 AD

Jordan (1)

Petra — founded 400 BC

Lebanon (3)

Byblos — founded 5000 BC
Sidon — founded 3000 BC
Tyre — founded 2750 BC

Libya (2)

Cyrene — 631 BC to 700 AD
Leptis Magna — 1100 BC to 1000 AD

Mali (1)

Timbuktu — founded 1100 AD

Mexico (5)

Calakmul — 600 BC to 1000 AD
Chichen Itza — 600 BC to 1200 AD
Mexico City — founded 1325 AD
Palenque — 226 AD to 800 AD
Teotihuacan — 100 BC to 750 AD

Morocco (3)

Casablanca — founded 1770 AD
Marrakesh — founded 1062 AD
Volubilis — 300 BC to 1755 AD

Myanmar (1)

Bagan — founded 849 AD

Netherlands (1)

Amsterdam — founded 1275 AD

Nigeria (1)

Lagos — founded 1400 AD

North Cyprus (1)

Nicosia — founded 1050 BC

Pakistan (2)

Harappa — 3300 BC to 1300 BC
Mohenjo-Daro — 2600 BC to 1700 BC

Palestine (3)

Gaza — founded 1500 BC
Jericho — founded 9000 BC
Jerusalem — founded 3000 BC

Peru (5)

Caral — 2600 BC to 1800 BC
Chan Chan — 850 AD to 1470 AD
Cuzco — founded 1100 AD
Lima — founded 1535 AD
Machu Picchu — 1450 AD to 1572 AD

Portugal (1)

Lisbon — founded 1200 BC

Russia (2)

Moscow — founded 800 AD
Saint Petersburg — founded 500 BC

Saudi Arabia (1)

Hegra — 100 BC to 300 AD

Singapore (1)

Singapore — founded 1819 AD

South Africa (1)

Cape Town — founded 1652 AD

South Korea (1)

Seoul — founded 1394 AD

Spain (4)

Madrid — founded 865 AD
Numantia — 600 BC to 500 AD
Saguntum — founded 500 BC
Tarraco — founded 600 BC

Sri Lanka (1)

Anuradhapura — founded 437 BC

Sweden (1)

Stockholm — founded 1252 AD

Syria (14)

Aleppo — founded 3000 BC
Apamea — founded 300 BC
Bosra — founded 1400 BC
Cyrrhus — 300 BC to 1300 AD
Damascus — founded 4300 BC
Dura-Europos — 303 BC to 257 AD
Ebla — 3000 BC to 1600 BC
Hama — founded 6500 BC
Mari — 2900 BC to 1759 BC
Palmyra — founded 2000 BC
Qatna — 2000 BC to 1340 BC
Rhesaina — founded 8000 BC
Tell Brak — 6500 BC to 600 BC
Ugarit — 6000 BC to 1185 BC

Thailand (3)

Ayutthaya — founded 1351 AD
Bangkok — founded 1782 AD
Sukhothai — 1238 AD to 1438 AD

Tunisia (2)

Carthage — founded 814 BC
Tunis — founded 698 AD

Türkiye (123)

Acemhöyük — 2000 BC to 1200 BC
Aizanoi — founded 3000 BC
Aksaray — founded 1600 BC
Alacahöyük — founded 3000 BC
Alişar Höyük — 4000 BC to 1071 AD
Amasya — founded 3000 BC
Amorium — 800 BC to 2026 AD
Anazarbus — 300 BC to 1374 AD
Ani — 300 AD to 1700 AD
Ankara — founded 2500 BC
Antandrus — founded 1000 BC
Antioch — founded 300 BC
Apasas — 1700 BC to 1200 BC
Aphrodisias — founded 5800 BC
Arsameia — 255 BC to 72 AD
Arsamosata — 240 BC to 1234 AD
Arslantepe — 4500 BC to 700 BC
Aşıklı Höyük — 8200 BC to 7400 BC
Aspendos — founded 1000 BC
Assos — founded 1000 BC
Attaleia — founded 158 BC
Battalgazi — founded 70 AD
Bergama — founded 400 BC
Bodrum — founded 1000 BC
Bursa — founded 202 BC
Çadır Höyük — 5000 BC to 1308 AD
Çankırı — founded 700 BC
Carchemish — 3000 BC to 605 BC
Çatalhöyük — 7500 BC to 5700 BC
Çavuştepe — 764 BC to 645 BC
Çayönü Tepesi — 10200 BC to 6800 BC
Comana — founded 1500 BC
Çukuriçi Höyük — 6700 BC to 1900 BC
Cyzicus — 756 BC to 1200 AD
Derinkuyu — 1200 BC to 2026 AD
Diyarbakır — founded 2000 BC
Edirne — founded 500 BC
Eğil — founded 900 BC
Ephesus — 1050 BC to 1100 AD
Eskiyapar Höyük — founded 3000 BC
Fethiye — founded 800 BC
Gaziantep — founded 300 BC
Gelibolu — founded 600 BC
Göbeklitepe — 9500 BC to 8000 BC
Gordion — 2300 BC to 1400 AD
Harran — founded 2000 BC
Hierapolis — founded 190 BC
Hüseyindede Höyüğü — 1650 BC to 1400 BC
Iasos — 2500 BC to 1500 AD
İpsala — founded 550 BC
İstanbul — founded 657 BC
İzmir — 3000 BC to 2026 AD
İzmit — founded 712 BC
Kadıköy — founded 685 BC
Kahramanmaraş — founded 2000 BC
Kanish — 3300 BC to 395 AD
Karadeniz Ereğli — founded 560 BC
Karahantepe — 9500 BC to 8000 BC
Karaman — founded 1600 BC
Karatepe — 720 BC to 612 BC
Kayseri — founded 500 BC
Kerkenes — 600 BC to 547 BC
Kilistra — 300 BC to 2026 AD
Klazomenai — 1100 BC to 1000 AD
Knidos — 900 BC to 700 AD
Konya — founded 3000 BC
Kozan — founded 70 AD
Laodicea — 260 BC to 1400 AD
Lapseki — founded 654 BC
Letoon — 700 BC to 1400 AD
Magnesia ad Maeandrum — 800 BC to 1200 AD
Malatya — founded 1840 AD
Manavgat — founded 1200 AD
Manisa — founded 1300 BC
Marmara Ereğlisi — founded 600 BC
Marmaris — founded 600 BC
Maşat Höyük — 2000 BC to 1180 BC
Metropolis — founded 3000 BC
Milas — founded 700 BC
Miletus — founded 2000 BC
Myra — founded 1200 BC
Nerik — 4500 BC to 700 BC
Nevali Çori — 8700 BC to 7500 BC
Nikaia — founded 316 BC
Olympos — 300 BC to 1500 AD
Patara — 1500 BC to 1340 AD
Perge — 1000 BC to 1200 AD
Pessinus — founded 400 BC
Pinara — 800 BC to 900 AD
Priene — 800 BC to 1300 AD
Sagalassos — 1400 BC to 650 AD
Samsat — founded 3000 BC
Samsun — founded 1500 BC
Samuha — 1600 BC to 1150 BC
Şanlıurfa — founded 3000 BC
Sapinuwa — 1600 BC to 1071 AD
Sardis — founded 1200 BC
Sarissa — 1600 BC to 1200 BC
Selçuk — founded 1100 AD
Selge — founded 1000 BC
Selimiye — founded 1895 AD
Sestos — 600 BC to 1356 AD
Side — 700 BC to 1200 AD
Silivri — founded 660 BC
Sinop — founded 630 BC
Sivas — founded 2000 BC
Stratonicea — 700 BC to 1985 AD
Tarsus — founded 2000 BC
Taşköprü — founded 700 BC
Tavium — 278 BC to 1200 AD
Tekirdağ — founded 700 BC
Termessos — 700 BC to 500 AD
Tlos — founded 1500 BC
Toprakkale — 714 BC to 590 BC
Tosya — founded 395 AD
Trabzon — founded 756 BC
Troy — 3000 BC to 1200 AD
Tyana — founded 1600 BC
Uşaklı Höyük — 2000 BC to 600 AD
Van — founded 860 BC
Xanthos — founded 1200 BC
Zeugma — 300 BC to 1300 AD
Zincirli Höyük — founded 3000 BC

Turkmenistan (1)

Merv — founded 500 BC

Ukraine (1)

Kyiv — founded 482 AD

United Kingdom (2)

London — founded 47 AD
Skara Brae — 3180 BC to 2500 BC

United States (2)

Cahokia — 700 AD to 1350 AD
Washington — founded 1790 AD

Uzbekistan (2)

Bukhara — founded 500 BC
Samarkand — founded 700 BC

Zimbabwe (1)

Great Zimbabwe — 1100 AD to 1450 AD