🇻🇳 Vietnam · Temple complex
Go Thap
Funan to Chenla (5th–12th century CE, Oc Eo phase 5th–7th, Chenla later) · Oc Eo → Chenla → Khmer
Plain of Reeds island temple (5th–12th cent) — 10 ha Funan–Chenla brick sanctuary in Dong Thap Muoi.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Iskanwaya
Late Intermediate Mollo 1145–1425 CE, pre-Inca before Inca annexation · Mollo (Andean Late Intermediate, west Cordillera Real)
Mollo hilltop city on east slope Cordillera Real at 1672 m with 90 rectangular houses of pirca (rough stone) on 13 terraces, streets and plazas on slope, dry-stone walls 2 m high, first reported by…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Musawwarat es-Sufra Temple Annex — Limpopo (Polokwane)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Musawwarat es-Sufra Temple Annex in Limpopo, South Africa is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Comalcalco Archaeological Zone
Maya Classic 250–900 CE · Maya (Chontal)
Maya brick city 56 million bricks, Chontal 250–900 CE.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Charnel House Cemetery East — Basin of Mexico (Mexico 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
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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Geoy Tepe (Goy Tepe)
Hajji Firuz to Iron I (c.5000–900 BCE) · Hajji Firuz → Early Transcaucasian → Iron
Burton-Brown 1948 type-site near Rezaiyeh (Urmia) giving K-stage Geoy sequence: Gurney’s Parallels to Pisdeli ware: Hajji Firuz burnished, Geoy M painted orange-over-buff, and Hasanlu Grey ware…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Great Serpent Mound South
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
Meroe Northern Cemetery Pyramid — Tigray (Axum)
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
Roof Burn Layer East
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
Serpent Mound Egg Enclosure — Altiplano (La Paz)
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.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thimisica (Henchir Mehonine)
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Road town between Mejez el-Bab and Beja with porticoed forum and fort.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Banasa (Sidi Ali Bou Djenoun) – Colony on the Sebou
Mauretanian / Roman · Mauretanian / Roman
Augustan veteran colonia on Sebou floodplain, river-port exporting olive oil to Rhine legions. Forum, capitol, baths and kiln quarter with Tabula Banasitana bronze (212 CE citizenship grant).
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Kuelap
Chachapoya (Middle Horizon to Inca) · Chachapoya
Immense walled city on Andean ridge (500–1570 CE) of Chachapoya 'Warriors of the Clouds' with limestone dry-stone walls 19 m high, 3 entries tapering to 1 person, circular houses with zigzag friezes.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Yalape South Annex
Late Intermediate Chachapoya 1100–1470 CE · Chachapoyas
Secondary terraced annex of Yalape fortress-city perched above Utcubamba 15 km south of Chachapoyas town: 40 circular houses with trapezoidal niches on terraces stepping down 60 m vertical, defensive…
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Harlaa Urban Mound East — Ténéré (Agadez)
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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Jebel Barkal Pyramid North — Giza Plateau (Giza)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Jebel Barkal Pyramid North in Giza Plateau, Egypt is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Antinoöpolis (El Sheikh Ibada / Antinoë) – Hadrian's City
Roman · Roman / Egyptian / Greek
Instant Græco-Roman show-city founded by Hadrian Oct 130 CE for drowned Antinous. Hippodamian grid, tetrastyle gates, 3 km colonnaded cardo, circus and temple to Osiris-Antinous. Greek boule papyri.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Berenike Trogodytica Eastern Ridge — Red Sea Port Ridge
Ptolemaic to Roman (275 BCE–600 CE) · Ptolemaic Trogodytica trade port
Berenike Trogodytica Eastern Ridge — Red Sea Port Ridge in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt is a Ptolemaic to Roman (275 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Ptolemaic Trogodytica trade port.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Akrotiri (Thera)
Middle to Late Minoan (LM IA) · Cycladic / Minoan
Minoan Cycladic town buried under pumice by Theran eruption c.1620–1530 BCE (S: 1600 BCE), preserving 3-storey buildings, drainage, vivid frescoes (Spring, Ship Procession) comparable to Pompeii.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Dahan-e Gholaman — Sistan Achaemenid City
Achaemenid (550–330 BCE) · Achaemenid satrapy Zranka (Drangiana)
Dahan-e Gholaman — Sistan Achaemenid City in Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran is a Achaemenid (550–330 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Achaemenid satrapy Zranka (Drangiana).
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall — North Coast (Trujillo)
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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Nalanda Mahavihara
Gupta to Pala 427–1193 CE (peak 5th–12th c) · Bihar / Gupta-Pala Buddhist Mahayana
Iconic Buddhist residential university (5th–13th c CE) with Gupta to Pala brick viharas, stupas, chaityas and votive structures across 23 ha.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Terrace Fill East
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.