🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Engaruka Terrace North
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Engaruka Terrace North in Bayuda Desert, Sudan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Charnel House Cemetery East in Basin of Mexico, Mexico is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Engaruka Terrace North in Bayuda Desert, Sudan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Great Serpent Mound South in Yucatán, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Meroe Northern Cemetery Pyramid in Tigray, Ethiopia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Roof Burn Layer East in Danube Plain, Romania is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Serpent Mound Egg Enclosure in Altiplano, Bolivia is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Harlaa Urban Mound East in Ténéré, Niger is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in North Coast, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Terrace Fill East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Workshop Debris East in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
São Raimundo Rock Art in Pampas, Argentina is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Wassu Quarry Outlier in Fezzan, Libya is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Tikal Twin Pyramid in Atacama, Chile is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early Mesolithic · Aegean Mesolithic
Early Mesolithic open-air village on Kythnos (c. 8800–8600 BCE), the earliest Holocene settlement in the Cyclades with stone-built floors, burials, imported Melian obsidian and marine fauna.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Vinča
Vinča culture settlement at Pločnik (c. 5500–4700 BCE) on Toplica River terrace, renowned for earliest copper metallurgy (c. 5000 BCE), pit houses and Vinča figurines.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Middle Bronze Age · Dartmoor Bronze Age
Concentrated Late Neolithic–Bronze Age ritual settlement on Dartmoor: double stone rows (up to 264 m), stone circle, standing stone (3.2 m), cists, hut circles and Bronze Age field systems on open…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE) · Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE)
Casamero Pueblo in New Mexico, McKinley County, Rio Puerco, near Prewitt, United States is a Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II Chacoan (1000–1150 CE) culture.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Early Bronze Phung Nguyen 2000–1500 BCE · Phung Nguyen (Red River Early Bronze)
Red River First Bronze type Phùng Nguyên (2000–1500 BCE) — nephrite jue and shouldered adze village in Phú Thọ.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze (6000–3000 BCE; peak LCh–Uruk 4500–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian → Uruk fringe
Upper Tigris concentric Chalcolithic complex with Uruk Bevelled Rim contact horizon.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Lower Rajasthan Necropolis A — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-43) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Rajasthan Ridge Inner — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-38) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B to Pottery Neolithic (9300–5500 BCE) · Upper Tigris PPN (Northern Fertile Crescent)
PPNA–PPNB lakeside village at Tigris–Botan confluence documenting crop domestication pathway.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Late Natufian · Galilean Natufian
Horvat Galil Late Natufian Hamlet at Upper Galilee, Israel is a Late Natufian ancient village of the Galilean Natufian tradition, built c.