🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Lamluda
Libyan to Roman (500 BCE–300 CE) · Libyan / Greek / Hellenistic
Libyan shaft necropolis with betyl horseman stela and Hooded-figure Karst chambers 500 BCE–300 CE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Fekheriye (Washukanni?)
Early Bronze to Mitanni to Neo-Assyrian (Jezirah) · Hurrian Mitanni → Aramaean Sikani → Assyrian
Spring-mound town Sikani (Mitanni to Neo-Assyrian) candidate for Mitanni capital Washukanni (hot debate) — 90 ha lower town + 8 ha citadel mound at main Khabur karst spring (Ras al-Ain).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hebenu
Hebenu (Ancient Egyptian: 𓎛𓃀𓈖𓏌𓍢𓊖, Coptic: ⲧϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, ⲡⲙⲁⲛϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, romanized: t-Habin, p-Manhabin, Arabic: حفن, romanized: Hafn) or Alabastron (Koine Greek: Ἀλάβαστρων πόλις) was a city in ancient…
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient city
Petreni Cucuteni-Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (4000–3600 BCE, Cucuteni A–B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Moldovan mega-settlement of Cucuteni A–B / Trypillia BII, 30–35 ha, c.4000–3600 BCE, with ca. 500 houses in oval ring and two mega-structures.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Kerma — Western Deffufa Ancillary Courtyard
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Kerma — Western Deffufa Ancillary Courtyard in Northern, Kerma, Sudan is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age …
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Azenia (Attica)
Azenia (Ancient Greek: Ἀζηνία) was a deme of ancient Attica between Anaphlystus and Sunium. It was probably situated in the bay of which Sunium forms the eastern cape.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Aulae (Lycia)
Aulae or Aulai (Ancient Greek: Αὐλαί) was a town of ancient Lycia, noted by Stephanus of Byzantium. Its site is unlocated.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Caeno
Caeno or Kaino (Ancient Greek: Καινώ) was a town of ancient Crete, which, according to the legend of the purification of Apollo by Carmanor at Tarrha, is supposed to have existed in the neighbourhood…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Choquequirao
Inca Imperial 1450–1530 Neo-Inca to 1572 · Inca (Pachacuti? Topa Yupanqui)
Inca cloud-city with white stone llamas paving terraces above Apurimac canyon.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Eshkaft-e Siahoo
Eshkaft-e Siahoo (Persian: اشکفت سیاهو), meaning "Black Cave" in the regional dialect, was used by Neolithic humans as a rock shelter between 12,000 and 10,000-years ago.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uzappa
Roman (1st–7th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Colonia with circus and amphitheatre on imperial saltus.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Kawa — Temple T Taharqa Nile Town
Egyptian New Kingdom to Napatan (1450 BCE temple T foundation; Taharqa 680 BCE Temple T) · Egyptian → Napatan Kushite (Gematon)
Kawa excavated by Griffith & Macadam 1929–31 and Welsby 1990s, Taharqa shrine to Amun Gematon.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ptolemais — Palace of Columns Cliff Peristyle Hellenistic
Hellenistic (Ptolemy III 246 BCE) → Roman, Palace of Columns 1st c. CE · Hellenistic Ptolemaic port palace and Roman later
Ptolemais Kraeling 1960s, Palace Columns 165 m peristyle.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Achil Complex
Late Intermediate 1100–1470 CE Chachapoya · Chachapoyas
Remote fortified town on Achil ridge between Utcubamba and Huabayacu tributaries of Marañón: 60 circular houses, watchtower 8 m diameter on ridge apex, and 150 m defensive wall with parapet.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Bi'a — Tuttul Palace Terrace
Early Bronze III to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Eblaite / Amorite Mariote
Bi'a excavated by Einwag & Otto 1981–, 2400 BCE Early Dynastic palace with Tuttul/Dagan texts, later Amorite palace of Yasmah-Adad.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Gunugus
Gunugus or Gunugu (Punic: 𐤂𐤍𐤂𐤍, gngn) was a Berber and Carthaginian town in northwest Africa in antiquity.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ouadane — Chinguetti-Linked Caravan Ksar
Medieval Almoravid foundation 1147 CE, gold-salt era · Berber Almoravid → Mali gold trade
Ouadane 1147 Almoravid ksar, caravan to Chinguetti 100 km.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Pikillacta — Wari Planned Citadel Cuzco Basin
Wari (550–1100 CE) Cuzco expansion · Wari
Lucre Pikillacta excavated by McEwan 1990s, only Wari city completed, abandoned 1100.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Borremose
Borremose is a raised bog in central Himmerland, Denmark south east of the town of Aars. The name translates directly as 'Borre'-bog, where 'Borre' might well be a derivation of the old word burgh…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Hurvat Amudim
Hurvat Amudim or Sde Amudim was an ancient village, now an archaeological site, in Israel, located south-east of the Beit Netofa Valley, on the eastern side of Highway 65 between Golani Interchange and Kadarim Junction.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Arsinoe (Gulf of Suez)
Arsinoe (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη) or Arsinoites or Cleopatris (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπατρίς) or Cleopatra, was an ancient city at the northern extremity of the Heroopolite Gulf (Gulf of Suez), in the Red Sea.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Ayodhya
Ayodhya (Hindi: Ayodhyā, pronounced [ɐˈjoːd̪ʱjɐː] ) is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Dalisandus in Pamphylia
Dalisandus or Dalisandos (Ancient Greek: Δαλισανδός) was an ancient city and bishopric in eastern Pamphylia, in Asia Minor (Anatolia, Asian Turkey) and remains a Latin titular see.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
El Chal
El Chal is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site located in the upper San Juan River valley of the southeastern Petén Basin region, Guatemala.