🇰🇷 South Korea · Buried city
Buried City of Castle
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Buried City of Castle in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) buried city attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Buried city
Buried City of Baraka Circle
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Buried City of Baraka Circle in Petén, Guatemala is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) buried city attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Buried city
Buried City of New Sura
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Buried City of New Sura in Ancash, Peru is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tatarlı Höyük
EBA → MBA → LBA → Phrygian → Persian (2600–500 BCE) · Anatolian EBA → Assyrian Colony fringe → Phrygian
EBA–Iron steppe tell (2600–500 BCE) — Haymana corridor walled town, Gordion-Hattusa buffer.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu al-Kharaz
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu al-Kharaz — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇸🇾 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.
🇦🇺 Australia · Buried city
Gulf of Khambhat Wooden Anchor North
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Gulf of Khambhat Wooden Anchor North in Bonaparte Shelf, Australia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Varna Necropolis
Late Chalcolithic / Copper Age · Varna culture (Karanovo VI/Gumelnița)
Chalcolithic cemetery (4600–4200 BCE) with world's oldest worked gold hoard — 3,000 gold objects, 6.5 kg, in Grave 43 (status male with gold penis sheath) and 294 other graves, demonstrating earliest…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Khambhat Paleochannel Structure North
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Khambhat Paleochannel Structure North in Alexandria Coast, Egypt is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Buried city
Kenchreai Harbour Mole East — Florida Shelf (Miami)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Kenchreai Harbour Mole East in Florida Shelf, United States is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇮🇳 India · Buried city
Cleopatra Palace Crypt South — Dwarka Coast (Dwarka)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Cleopatra Palace Crypt South in Dwarka Coast, India is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Tikal Twin Pyramid — Yucatán (Merida)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Tikal Twin Pyramid in Yucatán, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Tumulus Cemetery Buried 16 — Italy Region 4
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Tumulus Cemetery Buried 16 — Italy Region 4 in Italy Region 4, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇯🇴 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.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ur
Ubaid to Persian (c.3800 BCE–300 BCE; Early Dynastic/Ur III peak 2600–2000 BCE) · Sumerian / Akkadian / Babylonian / Persian
Sumerian city-state of the moon god Nanna (Sîn), Ur famous for Woolley's excavations 1922–34: Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu (2112 BCE) best-preserved ziggurat, Royal Cemetery with Standard of Ur, Pu-abi's…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Beşik-Sivritepe
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Beşik-Sivritepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Urdoviza
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Urdoviza — buried prehistoric tell/village at Dobrich Province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tepecik (İnegöl)
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepecik (İnegöl) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Bursa Province.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Narmouthis — Southern Crocodile Temple Quarter at Medinet Madi
Middle Kingdom to Coptic (1840 BCE – 600 CE) · Middle Kingdom Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Southern temple quarter of Narmouthis — Amenemhat III Renenutet temple and crocodile pools at Medinet Madi buried 2.5–5 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Phalasarna – Uplifted Classical Harbour of West Crete
Classical to Late Roman (333 BCE – 365 CE) · Greek / Hellenistic / Roman
333 BCE closed harbour of Phalasarna now stranded +6.6 m above sea by the AD 365 Crete earthquake — rock-cut basin and canal uplifted overnight.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Helike — Bouras Plain Western Borehole Field
Early Bronze Age to Classical (3000 – 373 BCE) · Mycenaean / Achaean Greek
Western lagoon core field of Helike — 28 boreholes at 3–6 m with 373 BCE tsunami sand sealing Classical city.
🇬🇷 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector)
Mississippian (Lohmann 1050–1100 through Moorehead 1200–1275, Stirling 1050–1150) · Mississippian (Cahokia Stirling phase capital)
Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Illinois, St.
🇲🇽 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…