🇳🇬 Nigeria · Fortress
Gobir Citadel of Gidan Sabon Birni
Sokoto period (19th c. CE; Gobir resistance) · Hausa (Gobir)
Late Gobir fortified birni (4.2 km) after 1808 fall of Al Kalawa.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Tyre — Al-Mina Phoenician Port
Phoenician to Roman (2750 BCE–300 CE) · Phoenician
Tyre — Al-Mina Phoenician Port in South Governorate, Phoenician coast, Lebanon is a Phoenician to Roman (2750 BCE–300 CE) ancient city attributed to Phoenician culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Castellum Tingitanum (El Asnam / Chlef)
Roman (1st–7th c CE) · Roman (Mauretania Caesariensis)
Cheliff valley fortified village with Donatist basilica, inscription of martyrdom 304 CE, and earthquake-prone castellum walls.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai South Sluice — Grand Anicut Vennar Distributary Head
Chola Early historic to Medieval (100 – 1030 CE) · Tamil Chola hydraulic statecraft
South Vennar regulator of 2nd-c Chola anicut with Rajendra I inscriptions 1012 CE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Stratonikeia — Lagina Sanctuary Road
Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) · Seleucid Stratonikeia
Stratonikeia — Lagina Sanctuary Road in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid Stratonikeia.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Agrab Tepe
Urartian (8th–6th c. BCE; Argishti/Rusa) · Urartu
Small but classic Urartu hydraulic fortress damming a karstic spring valley NW of Khoy: cyclopean dam wall, rectangular fort, storage pithoi, Haldi-temple pebble mosaic, with red polish Urartu ware…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Kamarina — Sicilian Colony
Archaic to Roman (598 BCE–853 CE) · Syracusan Greek
Kamarina — Sicilian Colony in Sicily, Greece is a Archaic to Roman (598 BCE–853 CE) ancient-city attributed to Syracusan Greek.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uzappa (Ksour Abd el Melk)
Roman to Byzantine (1st–7th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Dorsal pass town with Byzantine fortress reusing temple blocks, forum and basilica; controls Kairouan–Gafsa road.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Tigre (Itzamkanac) Archaeological Zone
Maya Classic and Chontal Postclassic · Maya (Chontal Acalan)
Chontal capital pyramid 25 m, Cuauhtémoc execution 1525.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Group of Monuments at Hampi (Vijayanagara)
Vijayanagara Empire 1336–1565 CE (Sangama to Tuluva) · Vijayanagara Hindu (Telugu-Kannada)
Ruined imperial capital of Vijayanagara Empire (1336–1565 CE) sprawling 25 km² on Tungabhadra River among boulder hills.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Naqada South Town (Khattara Settlement)
Predynastic to Early Dynastic (4000–2686 BCE) · Naqada culture (Egyptian Predynastic)
Predynastic town south of Naqada with copper-axe cemetery.
🇸🇾 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.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Methone Pieria – Submerged Archaic Harbour in Thermaic Gulf
Archaic to Classical (733 BCE – 354 BCE Philip sack) · Eretrian Greek / Methonean
Verified – Methone Thermaic Gulf earliest Greek alphabetic harbour (Methone Pieria Eretrian colony 733 BCE) with archaic harbour mole 200 m at 2–3 m due to Thermaic silt?
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Teleilat Ghassul — Jordan Valley
Chalcolithic (4500–3900 BCE) · Ghassulian
Teleilat Ghassul — Jordan Valley in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Chalcolithic (4500–3900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Ghassulian culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell Jemmeh — Yurza
Chalcolithic to Persian (4000–332 BCE) · Canaanite / Assyrian / Philistine
Tell Jemmeh — Yurza in Northern Negev, Israel is a Chalcolithic to Persian (4000–332 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Assyrian / Philistine.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sianu
Middle Bronze to Iron Age (c.2000–500 BCE; floruit LBA-Iron) · Canaanite / Ugaritic periphery → Phoenician → Neo-Assyrian
Coastal capital of Siyannu kingdom (2000–500 BCE) between Ugarit and Amurru at Jableh.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Túcume — 26 Pyramids
Sicán to Inca (1000–1532 CE) · Sicán / Chimú / Inca
Túcume — 26 Pyramids in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Sicán to Inca (1000–1532 CE) pyramid attributed to Sicán / Chimú / Inca.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Halutza — Elusa Western Quarter
Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–636 CE) · Nabataean (Elusa/Elusates)
Halutza — Elusa Western Quarter in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean to Byzantine (300 BCE–636 CE) ancient-city attributed to Nabataean (Elusa/Elusates).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Tel Anafa — Hellenistic Stuccoed Villa Quarter
Hellenistic (125–80 BCE) over Iron Persian tell · Phoenician Hellenistic (Sidonian merchants)
Hula tell excavated by Weinberg & Berlin 1968–86, 125 BCE stuccoed luxury house with Doric stucco columns.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Dan — Laish / Leslie
Bronze to Iron Age (4500–733 BCE) · Canaanite/Israelite
Tel Dan — Laish / Leslie in Northern District, Upper Galilee, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (4500–733 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Israelite culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Hazor — Upper Galilee
Bronze to Iron Age (2700–732 BCE) · Canaanite/Israelite
Tel Hazor — Upper Galilee in Northern District, Hula Valley, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (2700–732 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Israelite culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Tombos — Egyptian-Kushite Quarry Frontier Town
New Kingdom Egyptian fortress (1550–1070 BCE) granite quarry → Napatan · Egyptian New Kingdom colonial
Tombos excavated by Smith & Buzon, Egyptian garrison with Nubian burials mixing.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Ancient city
Wari-Bateshwar
Chalcolithic → Iron Age 500 BCE–300 CE · Iron Age Gangetic (NBPW)
Wari-Bateshwar — twin-village Early Historic port-city (Chalcolithic levels, Iron Age 500 BCE–300 CE) 70 km NE Dhaka, discovered 1933 Hanif Pathan, excavated 2000–10 Rahman.