Which civilization sites have you visited?

I'd be interested to know how many sites the crowd here have actually visited.

So two questions - Where have you been and where would you like to go?

My top 20+ favorite places I've visited-not in order of importance.

Kalavassos and Tenta
Easter Island - the quarry
Kapilvastu and Lumbini
Pompei
Saggara
Luxor
Giza
Rome
Stonehenge
Rhodes
Esphesus
Chichen Itza
l'Anse aux Meadows
Towton
Lascaux and SW France
Ahu'ena and Pu'ukohola Heiau
Dilmun sites in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Iran
Malta
Rhodes
A variety of Roman cities in Europe - Trier and Italica stand out
Cortaillod/Sur les Rochettesest
Tiscali cave
Petra

Places to go

The pre-Inca sites on the west coast of Peru
Sumer/Bablyonian and Akkaidian sites in Iraq
Palenque
Jericho
Visby
Nomadic tombs of central asia
Samarkand
Khiva
Emperor's tombs in Japan
Classical sites in Sicily and Libya
Carthage
Baalbek
Palmyra

One could go on.....and on

So where have you been and where would you like to go?

Oh real places folks real places!! LOL

I've visited
Chaco Canyon
Mesa Verde
Old Zuni Pueblo
Canyon de Chelly

All are in my area and are very interesting. I would love to go to Easter Island, Nazca, Peru, Egypt, and the "holy land".







[edit on 1/4/2009 by ShAuNmAn-X]

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Just like I figured the first few posters would bring up places I'd like to go. I have plans to hit the four corner's area in late spring of '09

Thanks!

Malta [hypogeum]
Mystery Hill, Vermont
Rome
Pompeii

reply to post by Hanslune

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Well, if you need advice on places to stay or even some cool "off the map" places to check out, hit me up when you're down this way.

Unfortunately, I've only been to Stonehenge.

Places I'd like to see are:

Hill of Tara, Ireland
Newgrange, Ireland
Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland
Akrotiri, Santorini
Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
Shuruppak, Iraq
Jiroft, Iran
Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan
Odai Yamamoto I site, Japan
Pengtoushan Settlement, Li County, Hunan, China
Mal'ta Site, Russia

cormac

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Good to read you Cormac

As suspected you had a site I'd not heard of, Mal'ta Site, Russia, thanks - reading now.

its a list like hlunes that makes me feel like i've wasted all that time exploring the ancient coastlines of the sea they talk about in the sixth minute of this mainstream tv program

youtube history channel

not too many names to mention [that aren't boring like lepinski vir]

maybe
the rondel at vinga
"the vineyard" near alibunnar
kula sumig
iarcuri
tibiscus not tibiscum
sag and its wall

most are just coordinates. v unsexy. oh well. at least it wasn't crawling with tourists. now its crawling with western archaeologits. eeeeu.

I have been to the following sites in


a. Bhimbetaka Caves, in Madhyapradesh in India, which have one of the oldest cave paintings like in the lascaux caves. en.wikipedia.org...
b. Nalanda, the site of the ancient University in India.
c. Egypt - Cairo, Alexandria, luxor - on vacation trips from the middle east.

i want to visit loads and loads of places...no time....maybe after i retire.

Unfortunately I'm not particularly well traveled, the only real archaeological site I've ever visited is L'anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, the only verified Viking site in North America outside Greenland, inhabited around 1000 AD.

Many claim it's the site of 'Vinland,' though I choose to believe Vinland was farther south, with the L'anse aux Meadows site just being a stopping ground along the route to the larger viking settlements down North America's east coast.

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Ah good old L'anse, one of my favorites - just a dang long drive from St John's however

Primarily Native American rock art sites throughout Texas and California (focusing generally on the Chumash sites in California)... some in New Mexico and Arizona. I also visited some of the less visited rock art sites in Hawaii, and some of the Caddo mounds in the southeast United States.

When I was young, I lived in Germany but alas was too small to be involved in anything. We visited a number of castles and there was an old Roman watchtower (I now know what it was) in the hills above the military base at Gelnhausen that I loved to play around.

I've visited the volcanoes in Costa Rica (and the museums there ... wonderful artifacts) and spent some time talking to native Alaskans (Tlingit, Inuit) about traditional lifestyles and watching beadwork and dancing and other activities.

But nothing terribly exciting yet.

Where do I want to go? Oh, heavens... just give me a chance to go anywhere and I can guarantee I'll have great fun. We've got a trip to Indiana coming up later this year and I'll see what's on the road (Native American sites) that's visitable. I do want to go to Nevada to see a couple of sites that are threatened, and want to go back to Black Rock Canyon in California which is in the middle of NOWHERE (and I do mean nowhere) to do a GPS type survey and full pictoral survey of the images there.

I want to go back (maybe this year) to Albuquerque and perhaps with permission talk to some of the people who still live in the pueblos there. I want to re-examine some paint that I found on one of the volcanic vents there and ask the local museum and park rangers if it's been reported and if it's known what the thing is.

I want to go back to some of the Devil's River sites... I have some photos I need to re-enhance to look at the rock art and see if I can make a better determination of the shapes and the style.

(I'm just a rock art junkie... I really am.)

We'd like to go to the Mexican pyramids for December 21, 2012.

And of course, Egypt, Japan (the old temples), China (sites... and DINOSAURS!), Australia, ... uhmm... oh, just name a spot and give me a plane ticket! I'll find something delightful anywhere in the world!

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Oh yes... and I want to go see the Lion of Kea, mentioned in a recent thread. I'd love to go to Greece. And Egypt. And Kenya. And Turkey.

And Tunisia. Someone mentioned an archaeological dig done at the site George Lucas filmed "Star Wars" and that aroused my interest and curiosity.

reply to post by Byrd

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Yes those are all good sites, I need to increase my NA sites list.

The Green River Valley and its counter-part in China

I forgot to mention of course another place any one who is interested in early man should go; Olduva gorge and east Rudolf.

reply to post by Hanslune

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I assume then you've visited Newfoundland? Just out of curiosity - what did you think of it? We Newfoundlanders take enormous glee is hearing people rave about how beautiful it is here

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Well, I love the Irish bars and music in St. John, the Radio hill place.

The people looked Irish, heard of bit of Breton, the two French Islands off the coast were interesting - one heck of a long drive. So yes, beautiful in treeless sorta way up the finger.

Potato chips and bolonga to make a newfie taco.