🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Lixus Garum Factory Tank 12
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Lixus Garum Factory Tank 12 in Tanger-Tétouan, Lixus, Morocco is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Dabbs Wadi Rock Engraving Panel 12
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dabbs Wadi Rock Engraving Panel 12 in Northern, Dabbs Wadi, Sudan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Ancient city
Navekat (Krasnaya Rechka – Ak-Beshim West)
Sogdian 6–8 c. → Karluks 8–9 c. → Qarakhanid 10–12 c. · Sogdian → Turkic Khaganate → Qarakhanid (Chu Silk Road)
Sogdian Navekat city (6–12 c. CE) at Krasnaya Rechka 18 km west Suyab — 20 ha shahristan with 3 m Buddha vs Suyab's khagan palace.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Nevasa
Lower Paleolithic 400 Ka → Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic → Satavahana → Medieval · Soan Acheulian → Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) → Satavahana
Deccan textbook sequence on Pravara (400 Ka handaxes → 1400 BCE Jorwe village) — 130-house Chalcolithic with urn child burials.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Dobrovody
Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia B1–B2 (c.4100–3700 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia, Tomashivka group)
Dobrovody (Dobrovodi) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3700 BCE, 150–250 ha, 700+ houses, up to 16,200 estimated inhabitants per 2014 research) west of Dobrovody village, Cherkasy, on loess…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Tikal Mundo Perdido Pyramid 5D-87 (Lost World)
Preclassic to Early Classic (Mundo Perdido phase) · Maya (Preclassic Tikal)
Tikal’s earliest pyramid — Mundo Perdido 5D-87 — 30 m Preclassic E-Group astronomical pyramid 67 m base c.100 BCE, ancestor to Tikal’s dynastic pyramids.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis in Oaxaca, Yagul, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Castro de Baroña — Porto do Son
Iron Age to Roman (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Atlantic Castro (Gallaeci, Celtic)
Castro de Baroña (Iron Age c.600 BCE–100 CE, with 1st c. BCE–CE stone phase) is a spectacular Atlantic castro on a rocky isthmus peninsula cut off by a 50-m isthmus ditch, its 20+ round stone houses…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Cuicuilco Pyramidal Platform (Circular Basement)
Preclassic / Late Formative (Central Mexican Preclassic) · Cuicuilco (Basin of Mexico Preclassic)
Giant circular stepped pyramidal platform at Cuicuilco — 135 m diameter 20 m high 700–150 BCE, buried by Xitle lava eruption 245 CE.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Tiddis (Castellum Tidditanorum)
Numidian / Roman (Berber stronghold to late antique) · Numidian / Roman
Cliff-hanging Berber-Roman 'mini Delphi' on Guelaa plateau with stepped streets, bazina tombs and aqueducts.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Kekova – Sunken City of Dolichiste (Simena)
Lycian to Byzantine (Hellenistic 4th c. BCE – 7th c. CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Lycian harbour town Dolichiste subsided by 2nd c. earthquakes along 500 m of Kekova Island — sarcophagi awash.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Matara (Metara)
Pre-Aksumite Ethio-Sabaean to Late Aksumite (800 BCE–800 CE) · Ethio-Sabaean D'MT / pre-Aksumite → Aksumite
10 ha highland caravans town with Hawulti 5.5 m Sabaean obelisk, Aksumite stelai, palace of Kaskase and dam reservoir.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Cantona Pyramid — Acropolis South (Puebla)
Classic to Epiclassic · Cantona culture (highland central Mexico)
High-altitude lava-block pyramid city at Cantona — 15 m acropolis pyramid at 2550 m c.600 CE with 24 ball courts and walled lava causeways.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Nuraghe Arrubiu — Orroli, Sardinia
Middle to Final Bronze Age (c.1500–900 BCE) · Nuragic (Middle–Late Bronze)
Nuraghe Arrubiu (Middle–Final Bronze Age c.1500–900 BCE) on the basalt Pran'e Muru plateau near Orroli is Sardinia's largest nuraghe (3,000 sq m): a central keep 15 m high preserved plus five bastion…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Ayaz-Kala
Chorasmian (Khorezm) 4 c. BCE–8 c. CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) with Kangju–Kushan phases
Khorezmian hilltop fortress complex (c.4 c. BCE–7 c. CE) on the Kyzylkum edge near Ayazkol lake — three forts: Ayaz Kala 1 (4 c. BCE–2 c.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Qumaarkaj
Late Postclassic (1200 – 1524 CE) · K'iche' Maya
Qumaarkaj in Quiché, Guatemala is a Late Postclassic (1200 – 1524 CE) ancient city attributed to K'iche' Maya culture. Gumarcaj/Utatlán: 4 causeways, 23 palaces, Temple of Tohil human sacrifice.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Galindo Moche–Wari Center
Middle Horizon transition (Moche V – Wari 500–850 CE) · Moche V → Wari (Huari) intrusion
Eclipsed late Moche administrative city (500–850 CE) 12 km inland from Huacas de Moche (Huaca del Sol/Luna), occupying terraced hill with 3 civic–ceremonial mounds 10–15 m high (Plataforma Principal,…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Lerna — House of the Tiles, Argolid
Early Bronze Age Early Helladic II (c.2500–2300 BCE, site 4000–1200 BCE) · Early Helladic (Proto-Urban Aegean, Argolid)
Lerna (Neolithic–Mycenaean, House of the Tiles Early Helladic II c.2500–2300 BCE) is a low tell 6 m high on the Argolid's Lerna marsh plain near Myloi, capped by the House of the Tiles 25 × 12 m: an…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Apollonia of Cyrenaica
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (630 BCE–7th c CE) · Greek / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
Cyrene's port with double submerged harbour at -2.5 m, theatre and Governor's mosaics.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Amri
Amri IA–IB (4000–3000) → Kot Diji (3000–2600) → Harappan · Amri culture / Nal-related → Early Harappan
Chalcolithic type-site for Amri culture (c.4000–3000 BCE) on the west bank of the Indus in Dadu/Jamshoro, Sindh — 4 ha mound with four periods: Amri IA–IB (thin red ware with geometric black…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Sirsukh
Kushan 1st–3rd c CE → Gupta → Hepthalite 5th c · Kushan Gandhara (Taxila valley)
Sirsukh — last great city of Taxila (late 1st c CE–mid 5th c CE) 2 km NE Sirkap, Taxila valley, founded under Kushan Kujula Kadphises/Kanishka after 80 CE.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Djémila (Cuicul)
Roman (Trajanic to Byzantine; peak Severan 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber / Christian
Mountain Roman ridge town at 900 m with Arch of Caracalla, Severan baths and finest polychrome mosaics.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Rey (Cancún) Maya Port Town
Late Postclassic East Coast (1200–1520 CE, occupied to contact) · Maya (East Coast – Ecab / Cuchbalam)
Postclassic coastal town (1200–1520 CE) directly in Cancún Hotel Zone at km 18 on barrier island between Nichupté Lagoon and Caribbean: ~40 platforms, colonnaded halls and Pyramid Structure 2 (9 m…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Olba and Diocaesarea (Uzuncaburç)
Hellenistic to Byzantine (c.300 BCE–600 CE) · Seleucid priest-kings → Isaurian → Roman Cilician
Priest-kingdom Olba with colossal Zeus temple (five columns 11 m) and Diocaesarea colonnaded sacred way.