🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 736
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 736 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 770
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 770 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 791
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 791 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 798
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 798 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 876
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 876 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 889
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 889 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 900
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 900 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 918
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 918 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 944
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 944 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 958
Chimu (900-1470 CE) · Chimu
Chan Chan Citadel Uhle Sector 958 in La Libertad, Peru is a Chimu (900-1470 CE) ancient-city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Iron Age Ancient City — Huanuco Annex 404
Iron Age · Iron Age
Iron Age ancient-city at Huanuco.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Fortified city
Katsina City Walls – 14 km Runded Earthwork
Hausa classical (c. 1100–1807 CE; Ganuwa built 13th–14th c) · Hausa (Katsina scholarly centre)
Seven-gate 14 km mud rampart enclosing 405 ha Hausa scholarly city of Gobarau minaret (14th c mudbrick tower 15 m, oldest multi-storey mud in West Africa), manuscript libraries and...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Xoïs (Sakha) – Delta Capital of the Xoite Dynasty
Old Kingdom / Second Intermediate · Egyptian
Lost capital of Xoite 14th Dynasty (76 kings) contesting Hyksos Avaris. Stepped temple of Amun and 8 m Hyksos walls detected by magnetometry; Herodotus lists Delta metropolis.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Petra
Nabataean to Roman (312 BCE–363 CE earthquake) · Nabataean / Arab
Nabataean caravan city (312 BCE–106 CE) carved into sandstone cliffs: Al-Khazneh Treasury, Theatre, Monastery Ad-Deir, Royal Tombs, and hydraulic system capturing desert flash floods.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Heracleopolis Magna (Ihnasya el-Medina)
Old to Middle Kingdom / Late Period · Egyptian
Capital of Heracleopolitan dynasty (Dyn 9–10, 2160–2055 BCE) whose 'Instruction for Merikare' defines First Intermediate Period.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Madauros (M'Daourouch) – University City of Apuleius
Numidian / Roman · Romano-Berber
High-plateau Roman university town famed as birthplace of Apuleius (Golden Ass) and Augustine's school.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Kisurra
ED to Isin-Larsa (c.3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Kisurra (Abu Hatab) is a Sumerian city-state between Isin and Larsa, with ED palace and Ur III archive. German excavations (1900, 1990s) revealed city wall (2 k...
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Phycus (Naustathmos)
Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek / Roman (Cyrenaica)
Submerged roadstead at Ras al Hilal with quay blocks 2–4 m deep.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Essouk (Tadmekka)
Medieval trans-Saharan (8th–15th c; peak 11th–14th c) · Sanhaja Berber / Tuareg (Kel Essouk) / Songhai
Arid 12 ha Berber warehouse town with 8th-c mosque (among earliest in West Africa) and 750,000 glass beads on salt route.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Varvarovka
Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1 (3800–3500 BCE) Southern Bug · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 (Varvarovka variant, Usatovo contact)
Varvarovka (Varvarovca) — cluster of Cucuteni-Trypillia C1 settlements Varvarovka VIII and XV (c.3800–3500 BCE, 5–10 ha each) on Southern Bug right bank at Varvarovka village, Mykolaiv NW suburb, Bug…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kaundinyapura Wardha Settlement
Early Historic 3rd c BCE–4th c CE Early Historic Deccan · Vidarbha Early Historic — Satavahana trading city (Kundina literary)
Kaundinyapura Wardha Settlement — Early Historic trading city (3rd c BCE–4th c CE) on Wardha River at Kaundinyapura, identified with Mahabharata Kundina (Vidarbha capital of Bhishmaka, Rukmini…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Chinkultic (Lagunas de Montebello) Maya City
Early to Late Classic Maya (300–1200 CE) · Maya (Tojolabal – Comitán sphere)
Highland Maya city (300–1200 CE) perched above Cenote Agua Azul at Montebello Lakes, Comitán plateau: 127 mounds grouped in 4 architectural clusters (Groups A–D) over 50 ha, including 25-m-high…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Kanlıdivane (Kanytelis / Neapolis)
Hellenistic to medieval (c.400 BCE–1200 CE) · Olbian priest-kings → Isaurian pirates → Roman → Byzantine
Sinkhole-city Kanytelis: 60 m chasm with rim temples, three basilicas and tower-tomb skyline.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Dilbat
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–539 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB → Kassite → NB
Dilbat (Tell al-Deylam, ancient Dulbat) is a 30-ha Sumerian town 30 km south of Babylon on the Arahtu canal, centre of the grain-goddess Uraš and later Nabu of...