🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Oualata Painted House Courtyard 3
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Oualata Painted House Courtyard 3 in Hodh Ech Chargui, Oualata, Mauritania is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Patara – Silted Harbour of the Lycian League Port
Iron Age Lycian to Byzantine (800 BCE – 700 CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Capital port of Lycia — 64 CE Neronian lighthouse and Hadrian granary beside 400 m harbour now 600 m inland behind dunes.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Tumaco–La Tolita
Late Formative – Classic (c.600 BCE–400 CE) Tumaco–La Tolita · Tumaco–La Tolita (Tumaco-La Tolita I-II)
Tumaco–La Tolita is the classic Late Formative Pacific lowland tradition spanning the Colombia–Ecuador border from Nariño (Tumaco) to Esmeraldas (Isla La Tolita / Pampa de Oro) at 5 m in…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex
Late Chalcolithic (4000-3100 BCE) · Uruk Period
Uruk Anu Ziggurat Terrace North Annex in Al Muthanna, Warka, Iraq is a Late Chalcolithic (4000-3100 BCE) ancient city attributed to Uruk Period.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Altun Ha
Preclassic 900 BCE–1000 CE (plazas 200–900 CE; jade tomb early 300 CE) · Maya (northern coastal Belize, Altun Ha polity, Lowland–Caribbean zone)
Coastal-plain trade port city controlling Caribbean shell, salt and jade routes near Rockstone Pond wetlands: twin Temple of the Masonry Altars (B4, 16 m high) with three altar superstructures and…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex — Eastern Outlier
Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex — Eastern Outlier in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex — Western Terrace
Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex — Western Terrace in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Phaselis – Triple Harbour City of Lycia, Kemer
Archaic to Byzantine (690 BCE – 700 CE) · Rhodian Greek / Lycian / Roman / Byzantine
Rhodian 690 BCE triple-harbour isthmus city — north mole 90 m at −1 m and south naval basin 100x75 m at −3 m.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Tegdaoust (Aoudaghost)
Medieval Ghana Empire (Wagadu) / Almoravid (7th–17th c; peak 10th–13th c) · Soninke (Wagadu) / Sanhaja Berber
12 ha stone citadel identified as Ghana Empire's gold entrepôt Awdaghust with Tagant artisan quarters and central mosque.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Ulug-Depe
Jeitun (6000) → Anau–Namazga (4500–1800) → BMAC → Achaemenid–Parthian 500 BCE–300 CE · Kopet oasis continuous (Jeitun → BMAC → Persian)
Longest-lived oasis tell in southern Turkmenistan (c.6000 BCE–Medieval) at Dushak north of Kaahka — 15 ha mound 32 m high with continuous 8000-year stratigraphy excavated since 2001 by Olivier…
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Altyn-Depe (Altyn Tepe)
Namazga II–IV 3200–2000 BCE (Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze) · Namazga oasis (Pre-BMAC) → BMAC (Bactria-Margiana)
Middle–Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze oasis town (c.3200–2000 BCE, Namazga II–IV) between Namazga and the Karakum — 26 ha walled town famous for its Ziggurat-like mudbrick 'altar' complex (massive…
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Chan Chich
Middle Preclassic – Terminal Classic (c.800 BCE–900 CE) Lowland Maya · Maya (Lowland)
Chan Chich is a rainforest hilltop Maya city hidden in the Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area near the Guatemala border, Orange Walk, at 120 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex — Northern Annex
Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex — Northern Annex in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Los Millares Bastion South Gate
Chalcolithic (3200-2300 BCE) · Los Millares Culture
Los Millares Bastion South Gate in Andalusia, Almeria, Spain is a Chalcolithic (3200-2300 BCE) ancient city attributed to Los Millares Culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex
Medieval (1075-1220 CE) · Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex in Limpopo, Musina, South Africa is a Medieval (1075-1220 CE) ancient city attributed to Mapungubwe.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ptolemais of Cyrenaica (Tolmeita)
Archaic Greek to Early Islamic (7th c BCE–7th c CE; Hellenistic–Roman peak) · Greek / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Hellenistic Pentapolis capital with 45×38 m grid, Villa of Columns 55 m peristyle and Diocletian circuit wall.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Hohokam Casa Grande Compound A Great House
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hohokam Casa Grande Compound A Great House in Arizona, Coolidge, United States is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Jericho Kenyon Trench Spiral Stair
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jericho Kenyon Trench Spiral Stair in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Marajoara Mounds (Teso dos Bichos)
Marajoara Phase (Polychrome Tradition) · Marajoara (Arauan-derived Amazonian Polychrome)
Marajoara chiefdom mounds (800–1400 CE)—40-m tesos and funerary urn fields on Amazon's delta island.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Rakhigarhi Citadel Mound Annex 7 South
Harappan Early-Mature (3200-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Rakhigarhi Citadel Mound Annex 7 South in Haryana, Hisar, India is a Harappan Early-Mature (3200-1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Samarra Buried Abbasid Palace Dar al-Khilafa
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Samarra Buried Abbasid Palace Dar al-Khilafa in Salah ad-Din, Samarra, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán
Early Formative 1500–900 BCE (San Lorenzo phase, Olmec apogee 1500–1200) · Olmec (Olmeca, earliest Gulf Olmec capital)
Earliest Olmec capital (1500–900 BCE) on 50 ha artificial plateau (700 m long) raised 50 m above floodplain with surrounding ditch and berm modification of natural hill, controlling Coatzacoalcos…
🇵🇪 Peru · Buried city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa Vitcos Valley Submerged Sector (Concepción)
Late Horizon Neo-Inca (1539 – 1572 CE) · Neo-Inca State (Manco, Sayri, Titu Cusi, Tupac Amaru)
Last Inca capital valley floor — Espíritu Pampa Vilcabamba lowland terraces and causeway 0.5–1 m under floodplain jungle below Vitcos ridge.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Iassos Agora Temple of Artemis Astias
Archaic to Roman · Ionian, Carian, Hellenistic
Kıyıkışlacık peninsula agora tetrastyle Artemis Astias 150 BCE with Roman mausoleum, Iassic Gulf fishing town.