🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gusir Hoyuk Tigris Upper
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris PPN
Gusir Hoyuk Tigris Upper at Siirt, Upper Tigris, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Upper Tigris PPN tradition, built c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Shubayqa Natufian Bread Site Azraq
Natufian · Azraq Natufian
Shubayqa Natufian Bread Site Azraq at Azraq Basin, Shubayqa, Jordan is a Natufian ancient village of the Azraq Natufian tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart
EB IV to Iron Age (2500 BCE–800 BCE) · EB IV Amorite → Middle Bronze Yamhad → Late Bronze Hittite/Mittani → Iron Age Luwian
Tell Tuqan Southern Rampart is the 12-m-high earthen rampart sealing the 35-ha Middle Bronze walled city 35 km east of Maarrat al-Numan.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Beidha Neolithic Village Petra Corridor
PPNB to Late Neolithic · PPNB Jordan
Beidha Neolithic Village Petra Corridor at Ma'an, Beidha, Jordan is a PPNB to Late Neolithic ancient village of the PPNB Jordan tradition, built c.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Horvat Galil Late Natufian Hamlet
Late Natufian · Galilean Natufian
Horvat Galil Late Natufian Hamlet at Upper Galilee, Israel is a Late Natufian ancient village of the Galilean Natufian tradition, built c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan
PPNA to PPNB · Jordanian Highlands PPN
Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan at Zarqa, Kharaysin, Jordan is a PPNA to PPNB ancient village of the Jordanian Highlands PPN tradition, built c.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Los Millares Fortified Settlement
Chalcolithic · Los Millares culture
Los Millares Fortified Settlement at Andalusia, Almería, Spain is a Chalcolithic ancient village of the Los Millares culture tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Mureybet Mound Euphrates Deep Sequence
Natufian to PPNA · Natufian / PPNA
Mureybet Mound Euphrates Deep Sequence at Middle Euphrates, Raqqa, Syria is a Natufian to PPNA ancient village of the Natufian / PPNA tradition, built c.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Pyramid
Wankarani Mound-Pyramid (Highland Bolivia)
Early Horizon to Early Intermediate (Late Formative) · Wankarani (highland Altiplano)
Altiplano tell-pyramid at Wankarani — 80×60 m artificial village mound 8 m high c.1200–270 BCE at 3950 m, highest Andean mound village before Tiwanaku.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Baia-Hamangia Tell
Middle Neolithic to Late Neolithic (Hamangia I–IV) · Hamangia (Black Sea Neolithic)
Type-site Hamangia culture (c.5250–4550 BCE, Middle Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic) on Goloviţa lagoon: low tell plus flat cemetery famous for 'The Thinker' (Gânditorul) and Woman seated figurines —…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Zeytinli Bahçe Step Trench East
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (9700–3500 BCE) · PPN → Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic
Zeytinli Bahçe Step Trench East is the eastern step-trench sounding of Zeytinli Bahçe on the Euphrates left bank 5 km north of Birecik — the Neolithic step-trench key from PPN (9700 BCE) to Late…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Türlü Höyük
EB I–III → MBA → LBA → Iron Age (3000–700 BCE) · Syro-Anatolian EBA (Euphrates tradition) → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite
EB walled town (3000–2300 BCE) with 20 ha lower town — Carchemish-Aleppo plain urban gateway, Mitanni/Hittite contested.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kurban Höyük Dam Salvage Zone
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3800–2300 BCE) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Ninevite V → Early Dynastic
Kurban Höyük Dam Salvage Zone is the 6-ha lower terrace on the Euphrates left bank, salvaged before Atatürk Dam raised the lake 15 m over the valley.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Yumuktepe Mersin Re-evaluation Trench
Neolithic to Byzantine (6300 BCE–1300 CE) · Neolithic Mersin XXXIII → Chalcolithic Ubaid → EBA Cilician → Iron → Byzantine
Yumuktepe Mersin Re-evaluation Trench is the southern sounding of Yumuktepe — the Neolithic type-site for Cilician chronology (Garstang Mersin XXXIII–I, 6300–1300 CE) within modern Mersin.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Aşağı Pınar
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–4800 BCE) · Fikirtepe → Karanovo I–III / Starčevo
Thracian tell bridging Anatolian Neolithic to Balkans (Karanovo sequence).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Höyücek Höyük
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur-Antalya (Hacilar-associated)
Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic lakeside shrine-village (c.6500–5500 BCE) in Burdur Lake District, famous for 'Martyrium' burnt shrine phase with mother-goddess and leopard reliefs, and hoard of…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Kurgan
Mykhailivka (Mikhaylovka) — Yamnaya type site
Lower Eneolithic → Repin → Classic Yamnaya (Pit Grave) · Sredny Stog / Trypillia → Repin → Yamnaya (Pit Grave culture)
Yamnaya triple settlement on Dnieper (3600–2600 BCE) — Lower Trypillian fort, Middle Repin–Yamnaya ditch and Upper Yamnaya town with adjacent Pit Grave kurgans, birthplace of Yamnaya culture.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Pokrovka — Srubnaya (Timber Grave) Cemetery
Late Bronze Age; Srubnaya post-Catacomb · Catacomb → Srubnaya (Timber Grave) → Andronovo influence
Ilek River Srubnaya cemetery (1800–1200 BCE) with timber-framed ‘srub’ grave chambers, grooved pottery and Late Bronze steppe pastoral expansion.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Wadi Hammeh 27 Jordan Valley Natufian
Late Natufian · Natufian Jordan
Wadi Hammeh 27 Jordan Valley Natufian at Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Late Natufian ancient village of the Natufian Jordan tradition, built c. 12500 BCE for semi-subterranean natufian base camp.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension
Hassuna to Iron Age (6500 BCE–800 BCE) · Hassuna/Samarra → Halaf → Ninevite V → Mittani → Iron Age Aramean
Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension is the 9.8-ha southern skirt of Tell Mohammed Diyab on the upper Khabur plain — a 30-m tell with one of the longest Neolithic-to-Iron sequences in inland Syria…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hirbemerdon Tepe
EBA to Iron Age (Karaz → Mitanni → Assyrian) · Karaz (Kura-Araxes) → Mitanni Hurrian → Assyrian Iron
Tigris ritual mound (2800 BCE–Iron) with LBA pillared cult hall — bell-ritual and Mitanni seals on EBA Karaz village, Ilısu Laneri project.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Mons Porphyrites
Roman Imperial (18 CE–4th c. CE; peak Hadrianic 130–200 CE) · Roman
Mons Porphyrites (Jabal Abu Duhhan) is the world's only imperial porphyry source, 950 m Red Sea mountain, producing purple leucocratic andesine porphyry monolithic columns and sarcophagus of…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
New Nara Platform A — Nara, Asuka (54-24)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
New Nara Platform A — Nara, Asuka (54-24) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Iron Age (regional) ancient village of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Tepecik Hoyuk Bor Village Neolithic
Neolithic to EBA · Bor Plain
Tepecik Hoyuk Bor Village Neolithic at Niğde, Tepecik, Turkey is a Neolithic to EBA ancient village of the Bor Plain tradition, built c. 6500 BCE for long sequence village with animal pens.