🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Numeira — Dead Sea Plain
Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) · EBA
Numeira — Dead Sea Plain in Karak Governorate, Dead Sea plain, Jordan is a Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) ancient city attributed to EBA culture.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (500–1000 CE) · Wari Empire
Wari Capital Core — Ayacucho Enclosure in Ayacucho Region, Peru is a Middle Horizon (500–1000 CE) ancient-city attributed to Wari Empire.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) · EBA
Numeira — Dead Sea Plain in Karak Governorate, Dead Sea plain, Jordan is a Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) ancient city attributed to EBA culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Late Classic 300–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc, Uxmal polity)
Palace of Masks 250 Chaac masks, 18 km sacbé 800–950 CE, UNESCO 1996.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Gunugus or Gunugu (Punic: 𐤂𐤍𐤂𐤍, gngn) was a Berber and Carthaginian town in northwest Africa in antiquity.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Bronze Age BMAC (3200–2000 BCE) · Namazga V – Altyn Depe
Altyn Depe — South Craft Quarter in Ahal Province, Turkmenistan is a Bronze Age BMAC (3200–2000 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Namazga V – Altyn Depe.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–1200 CE) · Hellenistic (Tralles)
Tralleis — Aydın Terrace City West Annex in Aydın Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–1200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Hellenistic (Tralles).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Sahel olive road vicus with long press row and cisterns, typical Bydacena oleoculture landscape feeding Hadrumetum port.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Iron IIB–C (c.700–600 BCE) · Edomite (with Judean/ Arabian influence)
Iron II Edomite open-air shrine (c.700–600 BCE) on a hilltop in the Negev, excavated by Itzhaq Beit-Arieh. Single-phase...
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Moche Middle (250–400 CE) · Moche (Sipán)
Sipán Royal Tombs — Huaca Rajada in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Moche Middle (250–400 CE) ancient-city attributed to Moche (Sipán).
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Late Neolithic to Roman · Athenian
Thorikos Theatre and Laurion Mines in Attica, Greece is a Late Neolithic to Roman ancient-city attributed to Athenian. Earliest rectilinear theatre (525 BCE) above silver mines that financed Athens.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze to Crusader; Philistine peak 1170–830 BCE · Philistine (Gath of Goliath)
Tell es-Safi excavated by Maeir 1996–, Philistine inscription Goliath sherd and Hazael siege system.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
70 m Gran Palacio 90 rooms, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Recuay / Pashash (200 BCE–700 CE) → Wari · Recuay (Pashash culture)
Cabana Pashash excavated by Grieder 1970s, Recuay negative resist and Pashabamba stratigraphy.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
MB II (c.2000–1600 BCE) · Canaanite MB II coastal → Phoenician
Small Middle Bronze II fortified town (1.6 ha) on a coastal hill south of Sidon, Lebanese-German excavations by Uwe Fink...
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Preclassic Mirador fluorescence 400 BCE–150 CE · Maya (Mirador Basin)
Mirador Basin satellite 10 km SE of El Mirador on 12 km raised sacbe to Nakbe. Structure 1 retains 6 m stucco sculpture of jaguar paw and Structure 2 has cranial caches.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–500 BCE; OB peak c.1800) · Sumerian → Old Babylonian → Kassite → Neo-Babylonian
Twin-mound (with Tell al-Sib) on Diyala-Adhaim — ancient Mê-Turran/Turran cult city with Adad temple and ziggurat podium. Iraqi–Italian Hamrin Dam rescue excava...
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Kushan (100 CE) Gandhara · Gandhara Buddhist
Sahri Bahlol — Taxila Mound Annex at Loriyan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Kushan (100 CE) Gandhara ancient-city attributed to Gandhara Buddhist.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Lycian (500 BCE–200 CE) · Lycian
Phellos — Lycian Hill City Extension in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian (500 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Lycian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Classical (500 BCE) · Karian–Lycian border
Calynda — Karia-Lycia Border City in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Classical (500 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Karian–Lycian border.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman (100 CE – 7th c CE; Trajanic foundation) · Roman (Numidia, Legio III Augusta veterans)
The northern insula quarter of the perfect Trajanic grid city (12×12 insulae), Timgad North exposes veterans' houses, library with mosaic, northern baths and market, beyond the bli...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine
Tel Gerisa — Yarkon Gardens in Yarkon, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Philistine.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic (450–650 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tetitla Apartment — Teotihuacan in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic (450–650 CE) ancient-city attributed to Teotihuacan. Apartment with eagles and jaguars murals, pulque gods and Tlaloc processions.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Pass fort on northern Aurès road, Thamallula guards the Belezma gap with courtyard fortress and road village.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Lycian Classical (500 BCE–300 BCE) · Lycian
Idebessos — Lycian Tower City in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian Classical (500 BCE–300 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Lycian.
