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Monte Aguzzo tumulus

Monte Aguzzo tumulus (Tumulo Chigi), an Etruscan princely burial mound near Formello in Veii's territory, about 60 m across, excavated 1882 by Lanciani; yielded the Chigi olpe and the Formello alphabetary.

Monte Albán

Monte Albán, Zapotec hilltop capital in Oaxaca, Mexico, founded around 500 BC, flourished to about 850 AD, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987 with Oaxaca's historic centre.

Monte Calvo

Monte Calvo, Scandriglia (Rieti): hill in Sabina, Italy, site of the Roman Villa dei Bruttii Praesentes, owned by the family of empress Bruttia Crispina; excavated 1824 and 1998-2003, its statues now in Copenhagen's Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.

Monte d'Accoddi

Monte d'Accoddi, a prehistoric sanctuary near Sassari, Sardinia: a truncated-pyramid terrace altar (37 × 30 m, 42 m ramp) built in the Copper Age over an older Red Temple, abandoned before the Nuragic civilization.

Monte Gentili

Monte Gentili (Monte Gentile), hill at Campofilone, Fermo, Marche, Italy, with an extensive Paleolithic lithic deposit of Levallois débitage industries, found from 1976 by Archeoclub surveys; distinct from a Roman-countryside Monte Gentile near Rome.

Monte Li Santi

Monte Li Santi is a tuff hill in the Treja valley, Lazio, Italy, part of the ancient Faliscan center of Narce, with an excavated sanctuary at its foot.

Monte Papalucio

Monte Papalucio, Oria (Apulia): Messapian sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone-Kore, mid-6th century BC to 470s BC, with Hellenistic phase; excavated by University of Salento under Francesco D'Andria.

Monte S. Martino

Monte S. Martino (Monte San Martino ai Campi) is an archaeological site at about 800 m on the Tenno-Riva del Garda border, Trentino: a Rhaetian Brandopferplatz cult site, then a Roman sanctuary, then a church dedicated to San Martino used until 1750.

Monte Stallone catacomb (Formello)

Monte Stallone catacomb (Catacomba di Monte Stallone), a small 4th-5th century Christian hypogeum at Formello near Rome, with five galleries and a cubiculum; found in the 1960s by the British School at Rome, managed by the Comune di Formello since 2020.

Monte Testaccio

Monte Testaccio (Monte dei Cocci), artificial hill in Rome's Emporium district made of roughly 53 million broken Baetican olive-oil amphorae, dumped in terraces from the Augustan era to A.D. 257.

Monte Tosto

Monte Tosto (Montetosto), Etruscan site 4 km west of Cerveteri (Caere) on the Caere-Pyrgi road: a 60 m tumulus excavated by Mengarelli and a 54 x 54 m Archaic sanctuary linked to the Alalia expiation cult.

Monte Turcisi

Monte Turcisi is a 303 m hill in eastern Sicily crowned by a small Greek fortress of the early 4th century BC, probably dependent on Syracuse.

Montefortini

Montefortini (Tumulo di Montefortini) is an Etruscan tumulus at Comeana, Carmignano, Tuscany: a 12-meter artificial hill with a 640-630 BC tholos tomb and a later rectangular chamber tomb, excavated from 1966 under Francesco Nicosia. Not the town of Montefortino in Le Marche.

Monterfil II at Corseul

Monterfil II, at Corseul (Côtes-d'Armor), France: an excavated commercial and artisanal quarter of Gallo-Roman Fanum Martis, capital of the Coriosolites, dug 1986-1997 by Hervé Kerébel, occupied 15/10 BC to 4th century AD.

Monteroni

Monteroni is an Italian place name: chiefly the Monteroni Tumuli, an Etruscan tumulus necropolis near Ladispoli between Caere and Alsium; also towns Monteroni di Lecce and Monteroni d'Arbia; distinct from Tarquinia's Monterozzi.

Montinho das Laranjeiras

Montinho das Laranjeiras (Villa Romana do Montinho das Laranjeiras) is a Roman villa site on the Guadiana at Alcoutim, Algarve, Portugal, occupied from the 1st century BC to the Islamic period, with a cruciform ecclesia, baptistery, and buyut.

Montione

Montione: ancient Roman villa site near Grottaferrata, southeast of Rome, a large villa platform about 150 meters square, earliest phase first century BC; also an Italian toponym for a Verghereto hamlet, a Pisan abbey, and an Umbrian wine estate.

Montmaurin

Montmaurin (Haute-Garonne, Comminges, France): archaeological site with Paleolithic caves, the Montmaurin mandible, the Venus of Lespugue, and two large Gallo-Roman villas, Lassalles and la Hillère, excavated by Georges Fouet.

Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa

Montmaurin Gallo-Roman villa: two large villas (Lassalles and Hillère) in Comminges, Haute-Garonne, France, founded in the 1st century, rebuilt as an aristocratic palace around 330–350, excavated by Georges Fouet.

Monument at Ain bou Merzoug

Ras el-Aïn Bou Merzoug, also called the monument at Ain bou Merzoug, is a protohistoric megalithic necropolis of about 1,000 dolmens and cromlechs 35 km south of Constantine, Algeria, excavated from 1863 by Féraud and Christy and classified as a historic monument.

Monument La Torratxa (Vilablareix)

La Torratxa (Vilablareix), also Torre dels Moros, is a Roman turriform funerary mausoleum of opus caementicium in the Gironès, Catalonia, center of a villa necropolis, roughly 8 m tall, restored with a protective roof.

Monument near Ghirza

The monuments near Ghirza are monumental funerary mausolea in two Roman-period cemeteries at Ghirza, a frontier settlement in the pre-desert zone of Tripolitania, western Libya, mostly dating from the late third and fourth centuries AD.

Monument of Kallimachos

Monument of Kallimachos (Nike of Kallimachos, Acropolis Museum inv. Ακρ. 690): post-490 BC Athenian votive Nike on an inscribed column, dedicated by the polemarch Kallimachos of Aphidna after Marathon; 28 fragments, 4.85 m reconstructed, restored 2009-2010.

Monument of Nikias

Choragic Monument of Nikias (Χορηγικό μνημείο του Νικία), Doric hexastyle prostyle naiskos of 320/319 BC on the Acropolis south slope, Athens, built by choregos Nikias son of Nikodemos; dismantled in the 3rd century AD and reused in the Beulé Gate.

Monument of the Eponymous Heroes

Monument of the Eponymous Heroes (Το Μνημείο των Επώνυμων Ηρώων): long pedestal in the Athenian Agora carrying bronze statues of the ten tribal heroes, serving as Athens' official notice board from the 4th century BC to Hadrian's era.

Monumental complex of Sant'Ilario a Port' Aurea

Monumental complex of Sant'Ilario a Port' Aurea, Benevento: a Lombard-era church (late 7th-8th century) with two domes, beside the Arch of Trajan (Porta Aurea), with an attached Benedictine monastery, excavated 2000-2002 and now housing the Museo dell'Arco.

Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex

The Monumental Mid-Republican Building Complex is a large public building of the mid-third century BC at Gabii, an ancient Latin city about 20 km east of Rome.

Mooghaun Ringfort

Mooghaun Ringfort, also Mooghaun Hillfort (Múchán), a trivallate Late Bronze Age hillfort near Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland; largest hillfort in Ireland, built c. 950 BC, with the 1854 Mooghaun gold hoard found nearby.

Moos

Moos is a municipality in Lower Bavaria, Germany, near the Isar-Danube confluence, with a Neolithic ditched enclosure, the Roman fort Moos-Burgstall (c. 80–120 AD), and Schloss Moos, held by the Preysing family 1568–1940.

Mora Mound

Mora Mound: ancient protected archaeological site near Mora village, Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh (मोरा), about 11 km west of Mathura. Excavated 1911-12; yielded the Mora well inscription and earliest evidence of the five Vrishni heroes' worship.