Some areas may provide archeological values such as ancient Indian village sites or hunting areas, caves, artifacts, etcetera.

A modest Turkish farming village lies to the southwest of the ancient city.

The present village Amfipoli (), named after the ancient city, occupies the site.

In 1940, Russian construction workers found ancient ruins during the construction of a highway between Abakan and the nearby district center village of Askyz ( Аскыз ).

The area of King's Cross, London was previously a village known as Battle Bridge which was an ancient crossing of the River Fleet.

In this sense it is synonymous with the concept of an ancient settlement, whether a hamlet, village, town, or city.

Located about southwest of Athens, Corinth is surrounded by the coastal townlets of ( clockwise ) Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site and village of ancient Corinth.

In 1893 archaeologists from the École française d ' Athènes finally located the actual site of ancient Delphi and the village was moved to a new location, west of the site of the temples.

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

In ancient India, around 920 AD, in Tamil Nadu, Palm leaves were used for village assembly elections.

The Roman church of San Gavino is Gavoi's foremost sacred spot, through there are eight other ancient churches in the village.

The current village of Harappa is from the ancient site.

The south coast has two populated areas ; the bay of Komi and the ancient village of " Emporio ", inhabited since 1800 BC, and the site of the black volcanic beach of " Mavra Volia ", believed to have been created by the explosion of Santorini island in 1600 BC.

The village of Kinglassie lies to the north of the Lochty Burn, 3 miles ( 5 km ) southwest of Glenrothes in Fife and 3 miles southeast of Perth and Kinross district. Kinglassie ( Pronounced Kin-glassie ) village has been populated for thousands of years, in 830 AD the village was known as Kinglace, the ancient Picts used to live in this area.

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

There are also at least two surviving pyramid-like structures still available to study, one at Hellenikon and the other at Ligourio / Ligurio, a village near the ancient theatre Epidaurus.

It was built in 1988 in the place in where was once the ancient Roman port of Portiolum, and after its immediate success, a huge village was built around it with the same name.

The SS Paranormal Division, under Oberführer Helga von Bulow, has been excavating the catacombs and crypts of an ancient church within the village.

* Zeno, ancient name for the village of Akköse

The modern village of San Felice Circeo seems to occupy the site of the ancient town, the citadel of which stood on the mountain top ; its medieval walls rest upon ancient walls of Cyclopean work of less careful construction than those of the citadel, and enclose an area that measures 200 meters by 150 meters ( 660 by 490 ft ).

Plans are in progress to enter the castle, the fortified town and the ancient village in the sites of UNESCO.

In the video game Assassin's Creed II, Minerva appears in an ancient vault underneath the Vatican at the end of the game.

* Two levels of the video game Deus Ex: Invisible War posits ( circa 2072 ) a futuristic arcology, simply called the Arcology, on the edge of an ancient medina in Cairo.

* Mehen, another ancient board game from Predynastic Egypt

* Go, an ancient strategic board game originating in China

* Patolli, a board game originating in Mesoamerica played by the ancient Aztec

The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC.

Interestingly, this image's caption describes the game as " a curious ancient pastime ", confirming that croquet games were not new in early nineteenth century England.

A version of keno, an ancient Chinese lottery game, is played in casinos around the world.

In Canada, from oral histories, there is evidence of a tradition of an ancient stick and ball game played among the Mi ' kmaq First Nation in Eastern Canada.

A spurious legend has it that the invention of the game saved an ancient city in time of war, and its widespread popularity helped raise funds to build the Great Wall of China.

* Doom ( 2005 ) – Barely based on the third installment of the Doom computer game series, a group of Marines are sent to the red planet via an ancient Martian portal called the Ark to deal with an outbreak of a mutagenic virus.

Two 18th century continental European books dealing with a game that may or may not be the one with which we are concerned are mentioned on page 14 of the Spring 1989 Othello Quarterly, and there has been speculation, so far without documentation, that the game has more ancient origins.

Inspired by the ancient Chinese strategy game ' Go ', Hasegawa sought to create a game that was rich in strategy, but still approachable by the casual player.

In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed and patented a similar game – which he called sphairistike (, from ancient Greek meaning " skill at playing at ball "), and was soon known simply as " sticky " — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

In this game, the ' spirit tracks ', railroads which chain an ancient evil, are disappearing from Hyrule.

* In the 2008 video game Prince of Persia, a gigantic, ancient tree in the middle of the desert is used to keep the evil deity Ahriman sealed in a temple at its trunk.

* Titans, the ancient Gods of Heavy Metal in the game Brütal Legend

Another closely related ancient game is Three Men's Morris which is also played on a simple grid and requires three pieces in a row to finish.

All of these games bear varying degrees of similarity to the ancient Asian game of Go.

A sequel to the Heavy Metal 2000 animated movie, the game stars Julie in her quest to save her home planet of Eden from GITH, an ancient entity seeking to conquer the universe.

* The first Boss fight of the video game God of War II set in ancient Greece

Snakes and Ladders ( or Chutes and Ladders ) is an ancient Indian board game regarded today as a worldwide classic.