Ancient cities

Kyoto ( or ; Japanese: , Kyōto ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people. It is also part of the even larger Keihanshin metropolitan area, along with Osaka and Kobe.

Timbuktu ( ; ; Koyra Chiini: ; ) is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River. It is the capital of the Tombouctou Region, one of the eight administrative regions of Mali, having a population of 32,460 in the 2018 census.

Taxila (, , ), historically known as Takshashila, is a city and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Rawalpindi District in Punjab province of Pakistan. Founded around , it is one of the oldest cities in South Asia. Taxila is located within the Taxila Tehsil on the Pothohar Plateau of Punjab, Pakistan, and it lies approximately northwest of the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area and is just south of the Haripura District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Erice (Italian: [ˈɛːritʃe]; Sicilian: Èrici [ˈɛːɾɪʃɪ]) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy. The town’s historic centre occupies the site of the ancient city of Eryx, an important religious and cultural centre in antiquity, long associated with pilgrimage. Erice hosts international scientific and peace initiatives.

Meroë was an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile about 6 km north-east of the Kabushiya station near Shendi, Sudan, approximately 200 km north-east of Khartoum. Near the site is a group of villages called Bagrawiyah (). This city was the capital of the Kingdom of Kush for several centuries from around 590 BC, until its collapse in the 4th century AD. The Kushitic Kingdom of Meroë gave its name to the "Island of Meroë", which was the modern region of Butana, a region bounded by the Nile (from the Atbarah River to Khartoum), the Atbarah and the Blue Nile.

Trowulan is an archaeological site in Trowulan Subdistrict, Mojokerto Regency, in the Indonesian province of East Java. It includes approximately 100 square kilometres and has been theorized to be the site of the eponymous capital city of the Majapahit Empire, which is described by Mpu Prapanca in the 14th-century poem Nagarakretagama and in a 15th-century Chinese source. When it was the capital of the Majapahit Empire, the city was known as Majapahit or Wilwatikta, which the empire derives its name from. It was razed during the invasion of Girindrawardhana to defeat Kertabhumi in 1478. After

Mahendraparvata () is an ancient city of the Khmer Empire era in Cambodia. The existence of the city has been known for decades, but much of it lay concealed by forest and earth. The city was uncovered by an archaeological expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Chevance and Damian Evans in 2012 with the aid of airborne laser scanning technology called LIDAR.

foremost fortified capital city of Kangleipak (Manipur)

Ocomtún, whose original name could have been Maatz', is an ancient Late Classic Maya city located on the Yucatan Peninsula in the Mexican state of Campeche. Archaeologists from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the discovery of the city in June 2023, after finding the ruins of several pyramid structures measuring approximately in height in a relatively unexplored area of the state. Analysis of pottery fragments found in the area indicate the area was inhabited by the Maya people between 600 CE and 800 CE, and that the city fell into ruin in around 1000 CE, coinc

ancient city located in the vicinity of Turkestan, Kazakhstan

Vyadhapura (, Sanskrit: व्याधपूर Vyādhapūra) was an ancient city of the Funan civilization, likely in what is now Ba Phnum District in the province of Prey Veng, Cambodia.

Historical city in Bangladesh

centre of ancient Mayan civilization in Mesoamerica

village and archaeological site in Sudan

thumb|right|Africa Proconsularis (125 AD) The Diocese of Sassura () is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. The Roman Town of Sassura, identifiable with Henchir-Ez-Zaouadi in today's Tunisia, is the ancient episcopal seat of the diocese which was in the Roman province of Byzacena.

thumb|right|Africa Proconsularis (125 AD) The diocese of Dionysiana (in Latin: Dioecesis Dionysianensis) is a suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church.