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🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village

Belovode — Vinča Copper Settlement

Late Neolithic · Vinča

Vinča settlement at Belovode (c. 5400–4600 BCE) in eastern Serbia, with 80 ha scatter and early copper smelting furnaces (c.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city

Khirbat Hamra Ifdan (KHI) – Faynan Copper Workshop

Chalcolithic to Early Bronze III (3600–2000 BCE; peak EB II–III 3100–2500 BCE) · Faynan Early Bronze (Levantine copper culture) → EB III urban

Wadi Faynan Early Bronze copper factory — 12 ha with furnace strata and 10 t slag mounds.

🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village

Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field

Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic

Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field in Sicily, Syracuse, Cozzo Pantano, Italy is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attrib…

🇬🇷 Greece · Hydraulic works

Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza

Classical (5th–4th c. BCE) · Athenian

Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza in Attica, Greece is a Classical (5th–4th c. BCE) hydraulic attributed to Athenian.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Chuera Northeast — Pottery Kiln Quarter 2600 BCE

Early Bronze (2600–2300 BCE Early Jezireh III) · Early Syrian Kranzhügel

Chuera suburb excavated alongside Steinbau by Meyer, production for 15 ha town.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient village

Provadia-Solnitsata Salt Complex

Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Hamangia / Varna

Chalcolithic fortified salt-production centre (c. 5500–4200 BCE), Europe's oldest salt works and fortified settlement, with massive stone walls 3 m thick, brine evaporation installations and tumulus…

🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder

Timna Valley Copper Mines

Chalcolithic to Iron Age (~4500 BCE – 800 BCE; peak New Kingdom Egyptian 14th–12th century BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom, Midianite/Edomite and early Arabah nomadic

Three-sided sandstone valley north of Eilat where 10,000 shafts and 1.5 million tonnes of slag mark one of the world's earliest industrial landscapes.

🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid

Batán Grande — Sicán Metallurgy City Pompeii of Adobes Poma Forest

Sicán Middle (900–1050 CE Sicán metallurgy peak) + Inca later · Sicán (Lambayeque) bronze arsenic gold tumi metallurgy with Chimú later

Batan Grande Shimada 1978–, 900 Sicán capital metallurgy frenzy.

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Timna Valley Copper Mines

Batán Grande — Sicán Metallurgy City Pompeii of Adobes Poma Forest

Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza

Provadia-Solnitsata Salt Complex

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Belovode — Vinča Copper Settlement

Khirbat Hamra Ifdan (KHI) – Faynan Copper Workshop

Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field

Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza

Tell Chuera Northeast — Pottery Kiln Quarter 2600 BCE

Provadia-Solnitsata Salt Complex

Timna Valley Copper Mines

Batán Grande — Sicán Metallurgy City Pompeii of Adobes Poma Forest

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Notable industrials

Timna Valley Copper Mines

Batán Grande — Sicán Metallurgy City Pompeii of Adobes Poma Forest

Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza

Provadia-Solnitsata Salt Complex

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Excavation

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