🇯🇴 Jordan · Buried city
Altar Platform West
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Altar Platform West in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Troy (Hisarlik)
Early Bronze Age to Byzantine (Troy I c.3000 BCE – Troy IX 85 CE–500 CE) · Anatolian / Mycenaean-associated / Greek / Roman
Mound of Hisarlik with 9 settlement layers Troy I–IX (3000 BCE–500 CE) plus Homeric epic city Troy VI/VII.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Helike — Selinous River Mouth Tsunami Horizon
Early Bronze Age to Classical (3000 – 373 BCE) · Achaean Greek, river engineers
Selinous delta tsunamiite of Helike — 45 cm graded tsunami sand at 2.8–4 m with marine forams mixed with fluvial gravel.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress
Classic (Chalchihuites, 350–850 CE, Epiclásico) · Chalchihuites (Zacatecas) → Coyotlatelco contact
La Quemada (Chicomostoc) — Chalchihuites Hilltop Fortress is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Zacatecas State, Villanueva Municipality, Malpaso valley, Cerro La Quemada, Mexico — Hilltop…
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Buried city
Enkomi – Buried Bronze Age Harbour of Alashiya, Mesaoria Plain
Late Bronze Age (1600–1050 BCE) · Cypriot-Alashiyan / Mycenaean / Levantine
Alashiya capital 1600 BCE — Pedieos estuary harbour 400x200 m silted 3 km inland with Cyclopean walls 15 m thick and copper oxhide ingots.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Buried city
Reimerswaal – Drowned City of Zeeland, Oosterschelde
Medieval (1200–1632 CE) · Dutch / Flemish / Zeelandic
Zeeland third city 1374 — 84 m church and brick quays at −3 m in Oosterschelde, drowned 1530–1632 after St Felix flood.
🇩🇪 Germany · Buried city
Rungholt – Drowned Wadden Sea Trading Town, North Frisia
Medieval (1150–1362 CE) · Frisian / Danish
Edomsharde marsh capital drowned 16 Jan 1362 Grote Mandrenke — church terp and harbour channel at −1.5 m in Wadden flats 12 km off Pellworm.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo)
Pueblo IV (Ancestral Puebloan post-Mesa Verde, 1285–1400 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hopi ancestor — Homolovi Cluster)
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Navajo County, Winslow–Little Colorado, Homolovi State Park, United States — Largest Homolovi…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Soknopaiou Nesos — Western Lagoon Anchorage at Dime
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (270 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Egyptian
Western fishing lagoon of Soknopaiou Nesos — 65 m lee basin with jetty, now dry silt at Dime west.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Harran Tell (Harran Plain)
Early Bronze Age through Ummayad Abbasid (c.3000 BCE–750 CE); EBA, MBA, Assyrian, Roman, Islamic · EBA → Assyrian Bit-Adini → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Carrhae → Ummayad Islamic
Bibliographic Harran tell — EBA to Ummayad capital of moon-god Sin (Haran) under medieval beehive city (c.3000 BCE–750 CE).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Tayasal (Nojpetén) – Last Maya Kingdom
Postclassic to Contact (900–1697 CE, capital 1350–1697) · Maya Itzá (Yukatekan-Itza’)
Last independent Maya kingdom (Nojpetén) of the Itzá, final surrender to Spanish 1697 after 195 years resisting conquest: peninsula-town on Lake Petén Itzá's northern arm 300 m out, with causewayed…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karkamış (Carchemish)
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.3000–717 BCE); Neolithic substratum · EBA–MBA Euphrates town → Hittite viceroyalty → Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean
80 ha Euphrates tell — Hittite viceregal capital and Neo-Hittite sculpture city on Turkish-Syrian border (c.3000–717 BCE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Beth Shean (Beisan)
Chalcolithic through Byzantine (c.5000 BCE–749 CE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite/Egyptian, Iron I–II, Hellenistic-Roman-Byzantine · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → New Kingdom Egyptian garrison → Israelite → Decapolis (Scythopolis)
Egyptian garrison tell (1450–1130 BCE) + EBA–Byzantine Beth Shean — 11 cities with Mekal temple and 749 CE earthquake debris (c.5000 BCE–749 CE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
el-Hibeh (Teudjoi / Ankyropolis)
Third Intermediate through Late-Byzantine; TI fortress phase · Theban High Priest (21st) → Libyan 22nd → Saite → Graeco-Roman
Third Intermediate border fortress (1070 BCE) with 12 m bastioned wall on Nile cliff — Theban–Tanite frontier garrison, Amenhotep III temple, priestly necropolis and Hibeh papyri.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Erani
Late Chalcolithic through EB III–MBA (c.3500–2200 BCE); Late Chalcolithic, EB Ia–III Egyptian contact · Ghassulian → EBA I–III Canaanite urban with Naqada IIIb Egyptian colony (1st Dynasty)
25 ha EBA fortified town with Egyptian Colony (Dynasty 0–1) and EB IB wall — S. Yeivin gateway tell to Hebron hills.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Habuba Kabira (Ursu?)
Late Uruk (LC5) southern colony · Uruk (southern Mesopotamian)
Uruk planned colonial city (c.3500–3300 BCE, LC5, contemporary with Jemdet Nasr south) on Euphrates terrace — mother colony that proved Uruk expansion: fully gridded 18-ha walled town built ex novo…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Antinoopolis – Hadrian's Nile Harbour City of Antinous, Sheikh Abada
Roman to Medieval (130–700 CE) · Greek / Roman / Egyptian / Hadrianic
Hadrian 130 CE Greek polis where Antinous drowned — 400x120 m Nile harbour grid city 350 ha with 18 m arch.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets
Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia)
Maydanets (Maidanetske) — giant Cucuteni-Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3600 BCE, 200–260 ha, ~1,575–2,900 houses, 9,000–46,000 estimates) on Talyanka River, Cherkasy.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension
Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Karanovo Tell — Southeast Nova Zagora Type-Site
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–4000 BCE; Karanovo I–VII) · Karanovo I–VII → Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen → Early Bronze Ezero
Type tell 6200–4000 BCE — 12 m Karanovo I–VII 18 horizons (Mikov).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Snaketown (Snaketown Hohokam Village)
Hohokam Pioneer to Classic (300 BCE–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Sonoran Desert farmers)
Type-site and capital of Hohokam Culture (c.300 BCE–1450 CE, Pioneer to Classic) — 2 km² canal-irrigated village with 2 ballcourts, platform mounds, and 100 km of canals off Gila River irrigating…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kilise Tepe
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite peak · Cilician Plain → Hittite Kizzuwatna frontier → Rough Cilicia Luwian
Göksu terrace tell with Chalcolithic–Byzantine sequence — Hittite pithos warehouses (Ura?), Luwian seals and buried industrial zone on plateau road.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Little Saqqara Platform A — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-27)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Little Saqqara Platform A — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-27) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Underground city
Great Lalibela Enclosure North — Lalibela (59-10)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Great Lalibela Enclosure North — Lalibela (59-10) at Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Bronze Age (regional) underground city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.