🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Earthwork
Glen Spur Earthwork
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Glen Spur Earthwork in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) earthwork attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell el-Pit-Gill
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Tell el-Pit-Gill in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) tell attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Tel Floodplain Höyük
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Tel Floodplain Höyük in Ancash, Peru is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) tell attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Lowfield Thwaite Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Lowfield Thwaite Earthwork in Ohio, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Tell
Tell el-Stan Knoll
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Tell el-Stan Knoll in Alentejo, Portugal is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) tell attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Okolhuitz — Chenes–Rio Bec Hybrid Mound
Late Classic (550–850 CE) · Maya — Chenes/Rio Bec transitional
Transitional site noted by Nondédéo between Chenes Santa Rosa Xtampak sphere and Rio Bec core, its main structure shows Chenes stone mosaic masks on north façade and Rio Bec plain tower fragments on…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Tell
Tell el-Scar Ridge
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Tell el-Scar Ridge in Alentejo, Portugal is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tell attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chogha Sefid
Neolithic (Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, c.7500–5800 BCE) · Deh Luran early Neolithic (Zagros)
Deh Luran tell 5 m high (c.7500–5800 BCE, Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, goat lentil) in Deh Luran plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sapinuwa
Hittite Empire (c.1600–1200 BCE; peak Sapinuwa 1500–1200 BCE as second capital) · Hittite (Old → Empire)
Sapinuwa (Ortaköy, Çorum) is the Hittite Empire's second capital and military–religious administration — Building A with 3000+ Hittite cuneiform tablets (larges...
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Brak — Eye Temple High Mound (Ancient Nagar)
Late Chalcolithic to Bronze Age, c.3500–2300 BCE · Uruk / Nagar (Hurrian)
Northern high mound at Tell Brak — Eye Temple platform (Late Chalcolithic, c.3500–3300 BCE) and later Nagar palace high mound (c.2500 BCE).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Hillat el-Arab — Tomb 4 (Early Kushite Tumulus)
Kerma Classic to Early Napatan, c.1700–600 BCE (reused) · Kushite (Kerma → Napatan)
Kerma-classic tumulus Tomb 4 at Hillat el-Arab (c.1700–1500 BCE, early Kushite Kerma horizon) — 20 m diameter tumulus with mudbrick vaulted chamber and subsidiary burials, horse and cattle bucrania…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Miqne-Ekron
MB to Iron Age (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE; Philistine Ekron 1200–604 BCE) · Canaanite → Philistine (Ekron) → Judah → Assyrian
Tel Miqne is Philistine Ekron, one of the Pentapolis (Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, Gaza). Lower town 20 ha with 110 olive-oil installations (largest ancient o...
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Kunal — Pre-Harappan Treasure Mound
Pre-Harappan Hakra to Early Harappan (3500–2500 BCE) · Kunal–Hakra ware
Kunal — Pre-Harappan Treasure Mound in Haryana, India is a Pre-Harappan Hakra to Early Harappan (3500–2500 BCE) tell attributed to Kunal–Hakra ware.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Assur (Qal'at Sherqat)
Old Akkadian to Middle Assyrian, c.2600–1200 BCE · Assyrian
Ziggurat of Assur at Qal'at Sherqat — holy city of Ashur, earliest Assyrian capital (c.2600–614 BCE, core Old Akkadian/Ur III, restored Shamshi-Adad I, Shalmaneser I).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzurum Province.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Susa Acropolis
Ubaid to Islamic (c.4200 BCE–1300 CE; peak Elamite–Achaemenid) · Susa I–II → Elamite → Achaemenid → Parthian–Sasanian → Islamic
Elamite and Achaemenid acropolis (14 ha, 25 m high) at Susa, capital of Elam and Darius I winter capital. French excavat...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sarissa
Hittite (c.1600–1180 BCE; peak 1500–1200 as weather-god city) · Hittite (Empire, weather-god cult)
Sarissa (Kuşaklı) on a windswept 1600-m ridge is the Hittite sacred city of the weather-god — planned Hittite city with 2-km wall, dam and granary, built under...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Satellite Pyramid of Neferefre — Abusir
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, Neferefre, c.2460 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Small cult pyramid east of unfinished Pyramid of Neferefre (Raneferef) at Abusir (5th Dynasty, c.2460 BCE). 21.3 m base, limestone core with casing foundation trench.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Gilund — Mewar Ahar Settlement
Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Gilund — Mewar Ahar Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Bagh Mound — Narmada Terrace Settlement
Chalcolithic (1500–700 BCE) · Malwa–Jorwe
Bagh Mound — Narmada Terrace Settlement in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Chalcolithic (1500–700 BCE) tell attributed to Malwa–Jorwe.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Hesi — Petrie's Stratigraphic Tell
EB III to Arab (2600 BCE–1500 CE) · Early Bronze → Persian → Islamic layered
Shfela type-site excavated by Petrie 1890, Bliss 1891–93 and Fargo, first potsherd dating in Levant.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Ojiyana — Banas Mound Hamlet
Chalcolithic Ahar (3000–1500 BCE) · Ahar culture
Ojiyana — Banas Mound Hamlet in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic Ahar (3000–1500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar culture. Small Ahar mound 3 m with white-painted Ahar pottery and microliths.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Toptepe
Neolithic-Chalcolithic (c.6000-3500 BCE) · Kırklareli–Karanovo to Gumelnița-Karanovo VI
Toptepe — buried neolithic-chalcolithic tell/village at Kırklareli Province.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Queen Khuit II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2328 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost queens pyramid east of Pepi I for Khuit II (not Teti Khuit), wife of Pepi I, 21 m canon. French-Swiss mission found canopic chest fragment with queen's titulary and bead net.