Archaeological Sites in Austria
City/town/settlement in Austria (13)
Aguntum
The ruins of Aguntum are an ancient Roman site in East Tirol, Austria, located approximately four kilometres east of Lienz in the Drau valley. According to Pliny the Elder, the…
Burgstallkogel, Sulm Valley
The Burgstallkogel is a hill situated near the confluence of the Sulm and the Saggau river valleys in Southern Styria in Austria, about 30 km south of Graz between Gleinstätten…
Carnuntum
Carnuntum (from Ancient Greek Καρνοῦς (Carnous) according to Ptolemy) was a Roman legionary fortress and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. Carnuntum first occurs in…
Celtic Settlement, Sandberg
The Sandberg is a hill ridge in the northwestern Weinviertel region of Lower Austria, approximately 70 km north of Vienna. It represents one of the most significant archaeological…
City of Enns
Enns, in Upper Austria, stands on the site of Lauriacum, a major Roman legionary base on the Danube Limes. An extensive civilian settlement grew to the north and southwest, likely…
Clunia, Austria
Clunia was an ancient Roman city located in present-day Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, Austria, indicated on the Tabula Peutingeriana as a settlement along the Roman road network.
Flavia Solva
Flavia Solva was a municipium in the ancient Roman province of Noricum. It was situated on the western banks of the Mur river. Shortly after the annexation of Noricum as a Roman…
Frohnleiten
Frohnleiten is a historic town in the Graz-Umgebung district of Styria, Austria. The town and its surroundings feature several castles and manor houses of historical importance,…
Lauriacum
Lauriacum (or Laureacum) was an important legionary Roman town on the Danube Limes in Austria. Initially only a small Roman settlement was located at a ford over the Enns. The…
Platt
The Platt area shows signs of human habitation that date back to late neolithic (Funnelbeaker culture) and early Bronze Age (Unetice culture) times. Prehistoric culture reached…
Teurnia
Teurnia (later Tiburnia) was a Roman city (municipium). Today its ruins lie in the western Austrian state of Carinthia. In late antiquity it was also a bishop's see, and towards…
Virunum
Claudium Virunum was a Roman city in the province of Noricum, on today's Zollfeld in the Austrian State of Carinthia. Municipium Claudium Virunum, or simply, Virunum, was founded…
Willendorf in der Wachau
Palaeolithic site in the Wachau valley, Lower Austria, world-famous for the discovery of the Venus of Willendorf in 1908 during railway construction. This 11 cm female figurine…
Cave Structures in Austria (4)
Drachenhöhle
Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz is a 542 m long cave with a 20 m wide and 12 m high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria, south-east of Bruck an der Mur located at an…
Gudenus Cave
The Gudenus Cave is an archaeological site near the city of Krems in north-eastern Austria. It is noted for its fossils and remains of Palaeolithic human settlers. The Gudenus…
Salzofen Cave
Salzofen Cave is an archaeological site in Styria, Austria. In 1924 two hunters, who had taken shelter in the cave from a storm found several fossilized bones in the entrance…
Tischofer Cave
The Tischofer Cave is a cave in the Kaisertal valley in the Kaisergebirge mountains in Austria. The roughly 40 m long cave, which is about 8.5 m high at the entrance, was occupied…
Fortress/citadel in Austria (2)
Comagena
Comagena was a fortified Roman camp on the Danube, on the site of the modern town of Tulln on the Danube in Lower Austria. Built as a defensive work along the Norican frontier, it…
Vindobona
Vindobona was a Roman military camp (or castra) in the province of Pannonia, located on the site of the modern city of Vienna in Austria. Early references to Vindobona are made by…
Mound/tumulus in Austria (2)
Großmugl
The tumulus has never been excavated and this will not change in the foreseeable future. A smaller adjacent mound, the "Tomb of the Queen," investigated in the 1950s, yielded clay…
The Giant Tumulus, Großmugl
The Giant Tumulus (Großmugl) is a prehistoric burial mound in Lower Austria, part of a necropolis complex dating from 1500–500 BC. The tumulus was erected by the Kalenderberg…
Gate/archway/bridge in Austria (1)
Theatre in Austria (1)
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