🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kellia
Kellia ("the Cells"), referred to as "the innermost desert", was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert about 65 km (40 mi)…
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🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Neolithic to present (c.4000 BCE–present; Bronze Age city from 3000 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Third great Phoenician city-state, Sidon was famed for glassmaking, purple dye, and as mother-city of Tyre.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kellia ("the Cells"), referred to as "the innermost desert", was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert about 65 km (40 mi)…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Historic (3rd c. BCE–3rd CE) · Satavahana
Bavikonda — Visakhapatnam Monastery in Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam, India is a Early Historic (3rd c. BCE–3rd CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (c.5500–4800 BCE) · Ubaid-related Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Middle Chalcolithic tell (200 m diameter, 8 m high) on the Konya Plain’s southern apron, excavated by David French. Sequ...
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Neolithic to Late Iron (1800 BCE–1500 CE) · Hadjer Lamis / Kotoko ancestral
3-m 115×85 m stratified mound establishing Chad Basin Neolithic-to-Iron sequence 1800 BCE–1500 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Medieval (5th–8th c. CE) · Sarapbhapuriya
Sirpur — Chhattisgarh Buddhist Centre in Chhattisgarh, Mahasamund, India is a Early Medieval (5th–8th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Sarapbhapuriya culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Gynaecopolis (Ancient Greek: Γυναικόπολις) or Gynaecospolis (Ancient Greek: Γυναικόσπολις); "Woman's city" or "Women's City"; sometimes translated as "Wife's City".
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Hasanlu IV 1100–800 BCE) · Giyan → Hasanlu IV (Mannaean/Urartian sphere) → Urartian
Hasanlu is the great Iron Age walled city south of Lake Urmia — Hasanlu IV (1100–800 BCE) citadel with columned halls, ivory workshop, and violent destruction b...
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Swahili Coast Medieval (9th–19th c; Sultanate peak 1100–1500) · Swahili (Bantu-Arab-Persian) / Shirazi dynasty / Portuguese interlude
Swahili stone-town entrepôt (9th–19th c) controlling Indian Ocean gold trade from Sofala and Great Zimbabwe: Gereza fortress (Portuguese 1505), Great Mosque (oldest sub-Saharan mosque 1131–1770…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Early Harappan (4000–3100 BCE) · Kot Diji
Rehman Dheri — Early Harappan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gomal plain, Pakistan is a Early Harappan (4000–3100 BCE) ancient city attributed to Kot Diji culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
High Middle Ages (c.1150–1400 CE) · Gotlandic Hanseatic / Medieval Scandinavian
3.4 km medieval ring wall encircling Hanseatic Visby, best preserved in Scandinavia, built 13th–14th c. limestone with 27 towers, gate towers and caponier.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Anantnag (also called Islamabad) is the administrative headquarters of Anantnag district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Caddoan Mississippian 800–1300 CE (Early Caddo) · Caddoan (Hasinai)
Southernmost Caddoan Mississippian center with three mounds, plaza and El Camino trace.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Panel Qasr Ancient City in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) ancient city attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Neolithic to Abbasid (6000 BCE–present; Assyrian capital 705–612 BCE) · Assyrian / Babylonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Parthian
Great Assyrian capital under Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) extended by Ashurbanipal (668–630 BCE), Nineveh at fall (612 BCE) was world's largest city (~15 km walls, 100,000 inhabitants).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (27 BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Tubusuctu (Tiklat) on the Soummam River was Augustus' veteran colony for Legio? Set on fertile Soummam plain beneath Djurdjura, with orthogonal Hippodamian plan 1,000×400 m. Remains: punic?
🇦🇹 Austria · Ancient city
The ruins of Aguntum are an ancient Roman site in East Tirol, Austria, located approximately four kilometres (2.5 mi) east of Lienz in the Drau valley.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Islamic (peak MBA–Hittite) · Halaf-Ubaid → Kura-Araxes → Yamhad → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Major Euphrates terrace tell (220 × 180 m, 18 m high) on the Sajur tributary near Nizip, rescue-excavated 1990s ahead of...
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
White South Ancient City in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Sultanate (15th c. CE) · Bengal Sultanate
Kherua Masjid — Sherpur in Bogra District, Sherpur, Bangladesh is a Sultanate (15th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Bengal Sultanate culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to EJ III (4500–2100 BCE; peak LC sprawl 3800 BCE) · LC northern Mesopotamian → Uruk → Ninevite 5
LC sprawl 4000 BCE battle town 3500 BCE — sling-bullet warfare horizon (Gibson).
🇭🇺 Hungary · Ancient city
Carolingian–Great Moravian (839–907, Pribina–Kocel) · Pannonian Slavic / Carolingian
Island fortress capital of the Pannonian Slavic principality (Mosapurc–Blatnograd) built by exiled Nitra prince Pribina as Frankish vassal 839 and his son Kocel on Lake Balaton islet, with three…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Achaemenid (559–530 BCE construction; occupied to Seleucid era) · Achaemenid Persian
Earliest Achaemenid capital built by Cyrus the Great (559–530 BCE) on victory site over Medes.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Juni Kuran — Kutch in Gujarat, Kutch, Khadir island, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan culture.
