🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Alignment-Brancaster Ancient City
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Alignment-Brancaster Ancient City in Ancash, Peru is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Bono Manso – Brong Capital & Rock Domes
Bono state (c. 1200–1723 CE; sacked by Asante) · Akan (Bono / Brong)
First Akan walled capital, Bono Manso's laterite wall (1.9 km) encloses iron workshops and overlooks granite rock domes with shrine caves, sacked 1723 by Asante, memory in Techiman...
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kondapur — Satavahana Town
Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) · Satavahana
Kondapur — Satavahana Town in Telangana, Sangareddy, India is a Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) ancient city attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Pukará de Quitor
Late Intermediate–Late Horizon 1300–1540 CE · Atacameño (Likan Antai)
Atacameño clifftop fortress above Rio Grande with 4 km walls and 1540 Spanish battle site.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Jaina Island
Jaina Island is a pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site and artificial island in the present-day Mexican state of Campeche.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Nen Chua Port (Takeo Port)
Funan Oc Eo culture (1st–7th century CE, Funan port peak 2nd–6th) · Funan (Oc Eo) → Chenla
Funan canal port (1st–7th cent) — 12 ha brick port 14.5 km from Oc Eo city via canal, 10 km from modern sea.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Óc Eo Archaeological Site
Oc Eo–Funan culture 200 BCE–700 CE → Chenla · Austro-Asiatic Funan / Indianised Buddhist-Hindu
Funan port-city of Mekong Delta (c.200 BCE–12th c. CE) on ancient Austro-Asiatic maritime Silk Road, 450 ha moated and canal-grid city linking Mekong to coast 10 km inland — Roman medallions…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Rimah — Tall al-Rimah (Qattara)
Ninevite 5 to Neo-Assyrian (2800 BCE–600 BCE; peak OB 1800–1700 BCE) · EBA → Old Babylonian (Qattara, Shamshi-Adad) → Kassite → Neo-Assyrian
Shamshi-Adad winter capital Qattara 1775 BCE — Oates temple palaces & 400 tablets.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Erlitou – Xia Capital
Early Bronze Age (~1900–1500 BCE; Xia to early Shang) · Erlitou ( Xia, early Bronze Age Chinese)
300-ha rammed-earth palace enclosure on the Luo River where 11,000 m² Palace No.1 and a bronze foundry document the transition from Longshan Neolithic to bronze kingship.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Sonpur — Gandak Early Historic
Early Historic (600 BCE–400 CE) · NBP
Sonpur — Gandak Early Historic in Bihar, Saran, Gandak, India is a Early Historic (600 BCE–400 CE) ancient city attributed to NBP culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Yellow Jacket Pueblo
Pueblo II–III 1050–1300 CE (Mesa Verde phase) · Ancestral Pueblo (Mogollon-Mesa Verde)
Largest Mesa Verde town: 600 rooms, 170 kivas, 22 m Great Kiva and Chaco-style great house.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Uzundara Fortress
Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian (c. late 4th–2nd cent BCE, Achaemenid precursor debated) · Greco-Bactrian (Alexander successor kingdom)
Greco-Bactrian frontier phrourion — 13-tower stone fortress locking Bactria–Sogdiana pass on Susiztag ridge.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Enkomi — Alasia Copper Port Urban Palace Cypriot
Late Bronze Alasia (1600–1050 BCE) Enkomi palace 1450 BCE copper port of Alasia letters Amarna · Cypriot Alasia (Mycenaean-Cypriot Late Bronze) Amarna copper Alashiya, 1180 Sea Peoples destruction
Enkomi SCE Schaeffer 1934 Alasia 1600–1180.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Ancient City of Hunstanton Plateau
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Ancient City of Hunstanton Plateau in Ancash, Peru is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) ancient city attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Huapalcalco
Late Formative–Epiclassic 450 BCE–900 CE (Tula antecedent) · Toltec-Chichimec / Teotihuacano
Transition pyramid with Archaic cave paintings and early Toltec atlante precursors between Teotihuacan and Tula.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Indrapura (Champa)
Indrapura or Đồng Dương was the capital city of the kingdom of Champa from 875 AD until 982, or until 12th century AD. It was built and ruled under the reign of Buddhist king Indravarman II (r.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Amioun
Amioun (Arabic: أميون, romanized: Amyūn; Greek: Αμιούν) is the capital of the predominantly Greek Orthodox Koura District (from the Greek word χώρα (Khôra) which etymologically means "space,"…
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Tell Ain Dara
Late Bronze – Iron Age II (Syro-Hittite) · Hittite – Syro-Hittite (Aramaean)
Syro-Hittite temple (1300–740 BCE) with 1-m footprints and sphinxes — Solomon's Temple parallel, destroyed 2018.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kanmer — Kutch Harappan
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Kanmer — Kutch Harappan in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan culture.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Tegdaoust (Aoudaghost) East Kasbah
Medieval Ghana Empire / Almoravid (9th–13th c. CE) · Soninke (Ghana Empire) / Sanhaja
Artisan kasbah east of Aoudaghost with copper-bead workshops.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Ancient city
Augusta Raurica Roman Colony
Roman (44 BCE–400 CE) · Roman (Colonia Augusta Rauracorum)
Best-preserved Roman colonial city on the Rhine, founded 44 BCE and monumentalized under Augustus.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Kot Diji — Khairpur
Early Harappan (3300–2600 BCE) · Kot Diji
Kot Diji — Khairpur in Sindh, Khairpur, Pakistan is a Early Harappan (3300–2600 BCE) ancient city attributed to Kot Diji culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Dharanikota
Dharanikota is a village in Palnadu district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the site of ancient Dhanyakataka, which was the capital of the Satavahana dynasty that ruled in the Deccan…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Lachish
Early Bronze to Babylonian destruction 587 BCE · Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite
Major Canaanite city-state and Judahite fortress second only to Jerusalem (Joshua, Hezekiah, Sennacherib's 701 BCE reliefs at British Museum).