🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Belovode — Vinča Copper Settlement
Late Neolithic · Vinča
Vinča settlement at Belovode (c. 5400–4600 BCE) in eastern Serbia, with 80 ha scatter and early copper smelting furnaces (c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Khirbat Hamra Ifdan (KHI) – Faynan Copper Workshop
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze III (3600–2000 BCE; peak EB II–III 3100–2500 BCE) · Faynan Early Bronze (Levantine copper culture) → EB III urban
Wadi Faynan Early Bronze copper factory — 12 ha with furnace strata and 10 t slag mounds.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Timna Valley Copper Mines
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (~4500 BCE – 800 BCE; peak New Kingdom Egyptian 14th–12th century BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom, Midianite/Edomite and early Arabah nomadic
Three-sided sandstone valley north of Eilat where 10,000 shafts and 1.5 million tonnes of slag mark one of the world's earliest industrial landscapes.