🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Baʿja
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Arabah/South Levantine LPPNB (Basta–Ba'ja horizon)
LPPNB cliff-gorge two-storey village with siq entry, burned houses and children's mass-grave.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tomb
Marlik Tepe
Late Bronze Age I–II (c.1500–1000 BCE; peak 1300–1100 BCE) · Caspian highland Amarlou/Gilan local — Amardian? (pre-Median); strongly Iranian plateau but northern forest littoral
53-tomb Gilan gold necropolis with winged-bull rhyta and Marlik Gold Cup — Mycenae of the Caspian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Sagalassos
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (classical antiquity to c.640 CE earthquake) · Pisidian → Hellenistic → Roman Imperial → Byzantine
Pisidian highland Roman city at 1,600 m with restored Antonine Nymphaeum and cliff theatre.