🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Pashash — Recuay Capital
Early Intermediate (400 BCE–600 CE) · Recuay (Pashash)
Pashash — Recuay Capital in Ancash Region, Peru is a Early Intermediate (400 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Recuay (Pashash).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Leilan — Shubat-Enlil Eastern Palace
Akkadian to Old Babylonian (2600–1728 BCE) · Akkadian/Assyrian
Tell Leilan — Shubat-Enlil Eastern Palace in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle, Syria is a Akkadian to Old Babylonian (2600–1728 BCE) tell attributed to Akkadian/Assyrian culture.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Tell el-Ajjul — Gaza
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–600 CE) · Canaanite / Egyptian / Philistine
Tell el-Ajjul — Gaza in Gaza Strip, Palestine is a Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–600 CE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Egyptian / Philistine.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Delos Archaeological Site
Archaeic to Hellenistic-Roman 9th c. BCE–69 BCE, sacred from Bronze Age · Greek (Ionian) to Hellenistic-Roman
Sacred island birthplace of Apollo - entire island is UNESCO open-air museum.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur
Ubaid to Persian (c.3800 BCE–300 BCE; Early Dynastic/Ur III peak 2600–2000 BCE) · Sumerian / Akkadian / Babylonian / Persian
Sumerian city-state of the moon god Nanna (Sîn), Ur famous for Woolley's excavations 1922–34: Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu (2112 BCE) best-preserved ziggurat, Royal Cemetery with Standard of Ur, Pu-abi's…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tell Atchana
EB to LB (c.3400–1200 BCE; peak Level VII palace 1740–1400) · Eblaite → Amorite → Mittani → Hittite
Tell Atchana is ancient Alalakh, capital of Mukish in the Amuq, famous for Level VII palace (Yarim-Lim) with painted frescoes, Level IV palace of Idrimi (statue...
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Thapsos — Mycenaean Emporium
Middle Bronze Age (1500–1200 BCE) · Sikels with Mycenaean contact
Thapsos — Mycenaean Emporium in Sicily, Italy is a Middle Bronze Age (1500–1200 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Sikels with Mycenaean contact.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Vilcabamba — Espíritu Pampa (Last Capital of the Inca)
Wari → Inca → Neo-Inca 1200–1572 CE · Neo-Inca (Manco Inca)
Last Neo-Inca capital 1536–1572, 12 ha jungle city.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Canopus (East Canopus)
Ptolemaic to Byzantine · Egyptian-Greek / Roman
Sister city to Heracleion, 1.7 km west on same dune-barrier, sacred to Osiris with temple of Serapis, submerged same event, excavated by Goddio with statuettes, jewellery and ritual vessels.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Gonur North Extension — Margiana
Bactria-Margiana (BMAC) Gonur (2400–1600 BCE) · Oxus civilization (BMAC)
Gonur North Extension — Margiana in Mary Province, Turkmenistan is a Bactria-Margiana (BMAC) Gonur (2400–1600 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Oxus civilization (BMAC).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing
Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive · Early Syrian Eblaite
Mardikh excavated by Matthiae 1964–, 20,000 tablet fragments, bilingual Sumerian-Eblaite vocabularies and palace colonnade.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient port
Lixus — Mauretanian-Phoenician Atlantic Port Pillars
Phoenician 8th c. BCE → Mauretanian Juba II 25 BCE → Roman Tingitana · Phoenician → Mauretanian (Juba) → Roman
Lixus excavated by Montalban & Ponsich 1947–, Atlantic garum capital of Tingitana.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur — Tell Muqayyar Diqdiqqah Residential
Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) · Sumerian
Ur — Tell Muqayyar Diqdiqqah Residential in Dhi Qar Governorate, Euphrates, Iraq is a Ubaid to Neo-Babylonian (4000–500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sumerian culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ain Mallaha (Eynan)
Late Natufian (c.12000–9600 BCE) · Natufian
Natufian open-air hamlet (c.12000–9600 BCE) at the Hula lake edge, excavated by Jean Perrot. Over 50 round semi-subterra...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Elaiussa Sebaste — Archaic Port and Agora
Hellenistic to Byzantine (170 BCE–500 CE) · Hellenistic then Roman (Archelaos)
Elaiussa Sebaste — Archaic Port and Agora in Mersin Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Byzantine (170 BCE–500 CE) ancient-city attributed to Hellenistic then Roman (Archelaos).
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Azougui — Almoravid Capital on Adrar Plateau
Ghana terminal to Almoravid capital (11th c. CE Almoravid capital 1050–1147) · Sanhaja Berber Almoravid (Ibn Yasin)
Azougui excavated by de Moraes Farias 1970s, Almoravid birthplace 1053, stone city 10 ha.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pergamon Trajan Temple — Upper Acropolis Traianeum Sanctuary
Hellenistic Attalid to Roman Hadrianic (300 BCE – 130 CE) · Attalid Pergamene to Roman Asia provincial
Upper terrace Trajan–Hadrian Corinthian sanctuary behind Zeus altar.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Aizanoi — Zeus Temple and Penkalas Bridge Complex
Roman Imperial (92 CE temple; bridge 250 CE) · Phrygian → Roman Imperial
Kütahya Roman city excavated by Naumann 1930–, best preserved Zeus temple in Anatolia, copy of Diocletian's Price Edict 301 CE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Suakin — Coral Port City
Medieval to Ottoman (12th–20th c CE) · Beja–Ottoman Swahili-type coral city
Suakin — Coral Port City in Red Sea State, Sudan is a Medieval to Ottoman (12th–20th c CE) ancient-city attributed to Beja–Ottoman Swahili-type coral city.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Segesta — Elymian Temple
5th c. BCE · Elymian (Greek-influenced non-Greek)
Segesta — Elymian Temple in Sicily, Greece is a 5th c. BCE temple-complex attributed to Elymian (Greek-influenced non-Greek).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Seressi (Henchir Oum el-Abouab)
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Municipium on Fahs plain with forum, amphitheatre earthwork and aqueduct feeder.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Gesher Benot Ya‘aqov
Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean (c.780 ka) · Acheulean Homo erectus/heidelbergensis
Acheulean lakeside camp (c.780,000 BCE) on the paleo-Hula shore, earliest habitations with controlled fire. Excavated by...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Paquimé-Casas Grandes Annex — House of the Macaws
Paquimé Phase (1200–1400 CE) Medio period · Casas Grandes (Paquimé) Mogollon
Chihuahua Paquimé excavated by Di Peso 1958–61, Medio period 1200–1400, macaw pens and cast turquoise.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Abila of the Decapolis — Quweilbeh
Hellenistic to Umayyad (300 BCE–750 CE) · Seleucid / Roman Decapolis
Abila of the Decapolis — Quweilbeh in North Jordan, Jordan is a Hellenistic to Umayyad (300 BCE–750 CE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid / Roman Decapolis.