🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Ayanis
Late Urartian Kingdom (early 7th century BCE) · Urartian (Biainili) late imperial
Rusa II's earthquake-collapsed Haldi temple-fortress with 4,000 bronze votives frozen mid-repair.
🇹🇷 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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Dholavira — North Gate West Flanking Tower (Kutch)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Dholavira — North Gate West Flanking Tower (Kutch) in Gujarat, Kutch, Dholavira, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attribut…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bhattiprolu
Bhattiprolu is a village in Bapatla district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the headquarters of Bhattiprolu mandal in Repalle revenue division.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Anjar, Lebanon
Anjar (meaning "unresolved or running river"; Arabic: عنجر / ALA-LC: ‘Anjar), also known as Hawsh Mousa (Arabic: حوش موسى / Ḥawsh Mūsá), is a town of Lebanon, near the Syrian border, located in the…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Autokane
Autokane (Ancient Greek: Αὐτοκάνη) or Autokana (Αὐτοκάνα) was an ancient Greek city of Aeolis located on a mountain of the same name in Asia Minor.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Perperikon Thracian Rock City
Chalcolithic to Late Antiquity (5000 BCE – 400 CE; rock city peak 1500–500 BCE) · Thracian (Bessi tribe) to Roman and Byzantine
Rocky massif on the Perperek gold–bearing ridge where Thracians carved a palace-temple complex into the living rock: hall of prophecies claimed as the sanctuary of Dionysus visited by Alexander…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Ancient city
Damo, Somalia
Damo (Somali: Daamo) is a small coastal settlement in Alula District, Bari region,Puntland, northeastern Somalia, situated approximately 5 km west of Cape Guardafui and facing the Guardafui Channel.
🇮🇶 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...
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Volodymyrivka
Chalcolithic Trypillia BI (4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia BI (Tomashivka central)
Volodymyrivka — Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3800 BCE, 100 ha, 800 houses) on Synyukha River, Kirovohrad, SBDI central cluster between Nebelivka and Dobrovody.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Surkotada
Mature Harappan 2600–1700 BCE · Indus Valley (Harappan)
Small fortified mature Harappan town (2600–1700 BCE) in Kutch, 1.4 ha with stone-built citadel and residential area sharing fortification like Kalibangan. Excavated 1964–68 by J.P.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Malhar — Chhattisgarh Urban Centre
Early Historic (350 BCE–500 CE) · Kalchuri
Malhar — Chhattisgarh Urban Centre in Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India is a Early Historic (350 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Kalchuri culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Can Hasan III
Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic
Small Neolithic mound (80 m diameter, 4 m high) on the Konya Plain, excavated by David French 1960s as the earliest of t...
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bagasra — Amreli
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Sorath Harappan
Bagasra — Amreli in Gujarat, Amreli, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sorath Harappan culture.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Begho North Quarter (Brong-Akan Gold Sector)
Medieval-Bono (13th–18th c. CE) · Brong-Akan (Bono)
North craft quarter of Begho gold entrepôt with gold-weights and bloomery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karahöyük (Elbistan)
Early Bronze Age to Medieval (peak MBA–Hittite–Iron) · EB Anatolian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Tabal → Armenian Medieval
Large Elbistan Plain mound (300 × 250 m, 22 m high) dominating the Ceyhan headwaters, second only to Tilmen in the plain...
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Chanhudaro
Harappan to Jhukar (2500–1700 BCE, industrial bead and shell) · Harappan → Jhukar-Chanhudaro
Harappan industrial town (2500–1700 BCE) — 7 ha faience and shell-bangle workshop on Indus left bank.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Ghantasala, Krishna district
Ghantasala is a village in Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is 21 km west of Machilipatnam and 11 km east of Krishna River.
🇸🇻 El Salvador · Ancient city
Cara Sucia (Mesoamerican site)
Cara Sucia is a Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Pacific coastal plain of western El Salvador.
North Macedonia · Ancient city
Idomenae
Idomenae or Idomenai (Ancient Greek: Ἰδομεναί, possibly from Ἰδομενεύς - Idomeneus), also known as Eidomene (Εἰδομενή) or Idomene (Ἰδομένη), or Eidomenae or Eidomenai, or Idomenia, was a town of…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Ancient city
Buyeo Naseong
Baekje Sabi Period (538–660 CE; UNESCO) · Baekje (King Seong to Uija)
Buyeo Naseong is Baekje's Sabi capital outer wall (538–660 CE, UNESCO) — 8.5-km earthen and stone wall (6 m high) enclosing 3.2 km² with Busosan Fortress and Neungsan-ri tombs.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kampyr Tepe
Hellenistic to Kushan (c.300 BCE–3rd cent CE, candidate Alexander 329 BCE) · Greco-Bactrian → Kushan
Hellenistic–Kushan Oxus fortress — candidate Alexandria on the Oxus (329 BCE) with 'Pompeii' preservation.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Ganweriwala
Mature Harappan (c.2500–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Fifth largest Harappan metropolis (80.5 ha) — un-excavated twin mounds anchoring Cholistan's 414 Harappan sites.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Idu (city)
Idu, also Idum (Sātu Qalā) was an ancient Near Eastern town in the Erbil Governorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on the right bank of the Lower Zab.