🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur Royal Cemetery PG 800 Death Pit
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ur Royal Cemetery PG 800 Death Pit in Dhi Qar, Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Harappa Mound F Granary Annex
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Harappa Mound F Granary Annex in Punjab, Sahiwal, Pakistan is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Iasos – Submerged Agora Harbour of Caria
Archaic to Byzantine (800 BCE – 700 CE) · Argive Greek / Carian / Hellenistic / Roman
Carian fishopolis — 120 m agora stoa now −3 m under Güllük Gulf with red marble quarries and isthmus lagoon.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex
Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Lalibela Biete Giyorgis Drainage Trench
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Lalibela Biete Giyorgis Drainage Trench in Amhara, Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇦 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.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Mari Palace Room 132 Archives
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mari Palace Room 132 Archives in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Sorte Muld
Roman Iron Age → Vendel–Viking 200–1100 (Bornholm central place) · Bornholm Iron Age (Burgundians? Bornholm island central place, guldgubbar sanctuary)
Sorte Muld (Black Soil) — Iron Age central-place and sanctuary (Late Roman 200–400 → Viking Age 400–1100, peak Vendel 600–800) on Bornholm plateau 2 km south Svaneke, eastern Bornholm's richest site.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Trypillia
Neolithic–Chalcolithic Trypillia A–C2 (5500–3500 BCE) type · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Eastern branch) — Khvoika's Tripolye
Trypillia (Trypillya/Tripolye) — eponymous type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1893–97 by Vikentiy Khvoika on Dnieper right bank 40 km south Kyiv.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Wari (Huari) Archaeological Complex
Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE (Huarpa antecedent 200 BCE–600 CE) · Wari (Huari, Middle Horizon Andean empire, Quechua predecessor, Ayacucho basin)
Capital of Wari Empire (600–1000 CE) – Andean first empire predating Inca by 400 years, 2,000 ha patchwork city with 7 m-high, 2 m-thick walled enclosures (Moraduchayuq, Vegachayuq Moqo),…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Zempoala
Teotihuacan to Aztec (300 – 1521 CE, aqueduct 1554) · Teotihuacano / Aztec / Spanish
Zempoala in Hidalgo, Mexico is a Teotihuacan to Aztec (300 – 1521 CE, aqueduct 1554) ancient city attributed to Teotihuacano / Aztec / Spanish culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Abdera – Submerged Clazomenian Harbour on Nestos Delta
Archaic to Byzantine (654 BCE – 600 CE) · Clazomenian–Teian Greek / Thracian / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Philosopher's port – twin Archaic moles 50 m and 30 m at –1.2 to –3 m on Nestos palaeochannel.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
Akra – The Fully Submerged Bosporan City at Cape Takyl
Archaic to Late Roman (c.560 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Crimean Atlantis — intact classical street grid and double walls at 3–7 m deep off Cape Takyl, the only wholly underwater Bosporan town.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Walled Compound Uhle
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Chan Chan Walled Compound Uhle in La Libertad, Chan Chan, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Eran
Chalcolithic 1200–600 BCE → Sunga 200 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Chalcolithic → Sunga → Gupta (Vakataka-Hunas)
Gupta temple city Airikina on Bina river (600 BCE–600 CE) — home to 2.66 m Varaha boar (510 CE) and earliest Sati inscription.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Karkemish
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1400–717 BCE) with Neolithic–Medieval overburden · Hittite viceregal → Neo-Hittite Luwian/Aramaean
Syro-Hittite capital on Euphrates (90 ha twin-mound, basalt orthostats, Storm-God reliefs) at Turkey–Syria border.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa Fresco House Wall Painting
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Larsa Fresco House Wall Painting in Dhi Qar, Tell as-Senkereh, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Cappadocia Göreme Dark Church Narthex
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Cappadocia Göreme Dark Church Narthex in Nevşehir, Göreme, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Haft Tepe (Haft Tappeh, ancient Kabnak)
Middle Elamite (1500–1350 BCE; short floruit ~100 years) · Middle Elamite (Kidinuid→Igihalkid)
Middle Elamite tomb-temple city of Tepti-Ahar with vaulted royal tombs and 600-tablet archive.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Harappa Mound E Granary North Platform
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Harappa Mound E Granary North Platform in Punjab, Sahiwal, Pakistan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nineveh Kuyunjik Palace Relief Panel 12
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nineveh Kuyunjik Palace Relief Panel 12 in Nineveh, Kuyunjik, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Phanagoria — Eastern Lobe Submerged Lower Town (Taman Bay)
Archaic to Medieval (543 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Easternmost third of Phanagoria submerged 1–5 m in Taman Bay — harbour mole, shipwreck and street grid 300 m offshore.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sbeitla (Sufetula)
Roman to Early Islamic (Flavian to 7th c; peak 2nd–5th c) · Roman / Berber / Byzantine
Mid-steppe Roman-Byzantine city with triple Capitol temples, olive-press quarter and five Byzantine basilicas.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Gigthis (Bou Grara)
Punic to Byzantine (6th c BCE–7th c CE; Roman peak 2nd c) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
10-ha causeway port with unique twin Antonine and Old Forums and Djerba lagoon mole.