🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Ancient city
Penjikent (Ancient Panjakent)
Early Medieval Sogdian (5th–8th century CE) · Sogdian (easternmost Sogd)
Easternmost Sogdian Silk Road city — 13.5 ha frescoed shahristan with Rustam murals and Mount Mug letters.
🇦🇺 Australia · Archaeological wonder
Port Royal Submerged Street North — Bonaparte Shelf (Broome)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Port Royal Submerged Street North in Bonaparte Shelf, Australia is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Rusuccuru
Phoenicio-Punic to Medieval (5th c. BCE–16th c. CE; Roman peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Rusuccuru (modern Dellys) is a Phoenician–Roman port on Algeria's Kabyle coast, founded 5th c. BCE as Carthaginian fish-salting station.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki
Trypillia C1 (Cucuteni B2) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia mega-site phenomenon)
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement (c.3850–3700 BCE, 450 ha, perhaps 15,000 inhabitants) — largest city in Europe at that time, larger than Uruk contemporary — with concentric burnt houses (2,700…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Alamgirpur
Late Harappan (c.3300–1300 BCE, easternmost Harappan) · Harappan–Bara
Easternmost Indus Valley site (Parasaram-ka-Khera) — Harappan frontier on Hindon/Ganga Doab.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Hegra
Lihyan to Nabataean to Roman Arabia Petraea · Nabataean Arab
Second capital of Nabataean kingdom after Petra (1st c. BCE–106 CE), with 131 rock-cut monumental tombs with decorated façades (Qasr al-Farid loner tomb iconic), Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Ganweriwala
Mature Harappan (c.2500–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Fifth largest Harappan metropolis (80.5 ha) — un-excavated twin mounds anchoring Cholistan's 414 Harappan sites.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Salango — Manteño Port and Temple
Valdivia to Manteño (3500 BCE–1532 CE) continuous · Valdivia–Manteño sequence
Salango — Manteño Port and Temple in Manabí Province, Ecuador is a Valdivia to Manteño (3500 BCE–1532 CE) continuous ancient-city attributed to Valdivia–Manteño sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Khuera — Südstadt (South Town)
EBA to Late Roman (3100 BCE–400 CE; peak EBA 2700 BCE) · EBA Jazira (Khabur zone) → Amorite → Roman
EBA rounded-town south annex 2700 BCE — palace F quarter and Roman overlay.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Olous Submerged City Blocks South
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Olous Submerged City Blocks South in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient city
Shallow Ancient City
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Shallow Ancient City in Coquimbo, Chile is a Moche (100–800 CE) ancient city attributed to Moche culture.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Ai Khanoum — Hellenistic Lower Agora Extension
Hellenistic Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (300–145 BCE) · Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (Euthydemus)
Ai Khanoum — Hellenistic Lower Agora Extension in Takhar Province, Afghanistan is a Hellenistic Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (300–145 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (Euthydemus).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Lehun
Iron to Nabataean (c.900 BCE–200 CE; peak Moab 900–600, Nabataean 100 BCE–100 CE) · Moabite → Nabataean → Roman
Lehun (Khirbat al-Lehun) is a Moabite hilltop fortress-citadel (1 ha) with casemate wall, extramural Iron II town (3 ha) and Nabataean temple platform on the Ke...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Qasr Burquʿ
Late Roman/Byzantine to Umayyad · Roman/Byzantine → Umayyad Arab
Black basalt desert castle (qasr) on the shores of seasonal Burqu Lake and Roman strata — possibly Byzantine Valentinian outpost incorporated into Umayyad qusur (~700 CE) — isolated in Harra basalt…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Shortugai
Mature Harappan (c.2500–1800 BCE) · Harappan colony (Indus diaspora on Oxus)
Northernmost Harappan colony on Oxus (Darqad) — lapis procurement hub 250 km from Badakhshan mines.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Jokha
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (c.3500–1750 BCE; peak Umma 2600–2004 BCE) · Sumerian (Umma) → Akkadian → Ur III → Isin-Larsa
Tell Jokha is ancient Umma, fierce rival of Lagash (Girsu) in Early Dynastic border wars — Stele of Vultures (Eannatum c.2450 BCE) and the Umma–Lagash Gu'edena...
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kanmer (Bakarkot)
Early to Late Harappan (c.3000–1700 BCE, five phases) · Harappan (Sindhi–Kachchhi)
Harappan island fort Bakarkot in eastern Kachchh — five-phase Harappan–medieval citadel.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kurganzol Fortress
Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian (c.3rd–2nd cent BCE) · Greco-Bactrian
Greco-Bactrian hilltop watch-post visually linked to Uzundara — frontier limes above Kugitang valley.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sapinuwa
Hittite Empire (c.1600–1200 BCE; peak Sapinuwa 1500–1200 BCE as second capital) · Hittite (Old → Empire)
Sapinuwa (Ortaköy, Çorum) is the Hittite Empire's second capital and military–religious administration — Building A with 3000+ Hittite cuneiform tablets (larges...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Teotenango
Epiclassic–Postclassic 900–1521 CE · Matlatzinca (Otomanguean)
Volcano-plug fortified Matlatzinca capital with 2 km perimeter wall, jaguar relief and Aztec barracks 1474.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Alişar Höyük Lower Terrace
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA–Phrygian) · EBA → Hittite → Phrygian → Lydian → Byzantine
Central Anatolian plateau capital lower town — Hittite karum to Phrygian burn.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Ceys Channel — Jerash (Gerasa) Hadrianic Water Conduit
Roman Hadrianic (129 – 130 CE) with Byzantine reuse · Roman Gerasene Gerasa Decapolis under Hadrian
9 km Hadrianic Ceys Channel 130 CE to Gerasa reservoir above Cardo at 610 m.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thala (Plateau Fortress)
Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
High-plateau Jugurthine citadel (1,017 m) with Byzantine pentagon fort.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Dwarka Gomati Submerged Wall East
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Dwarka Gomati Submerged Wall East in Pavlopetri Coast, Greece is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.