🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Village of Gateway
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Village of Gateway in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)
Classic Teotihuacan (Tlamimilolpa) · Teotihuacano (multi-ethnic)
One of 2,000 apartment compounds that made Teotihuacan (100 BCE–550 CE, 200,000 inhabitants — largest city in Americas) a planned grid city.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient village
Syke-Strath Ancient Village
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Syke-Strath Ancient Village in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) ancient village attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Village of Spring Black
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Village of Spring Black in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Moche (100–800 CE) ancient village attributed to Moche culture.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Vinča-Belo Brdo
Early to Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (Starčevo→Vinča) · Vinča culture (Old Europe)
Type-site of the Vinča culture (5700–4500 BCE), the most advanced Neolithic-Copper Age tell in Southeast Europe: 9 m cultural layer, 13 habitation horizons, figurines (Lady of Vinča), proto-writing…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Çatalhöyük
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (PPNB-derived) · Anatolian Neolithic (Catalhoyuk East/West)
Largest Neolithic proto-city (7500–5700 BCE) with 18 settlement levels, mud-brick houses entered via roofs, wall paintings, bull bucrania and earliest landscape painting. Population up to 8,000.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Tells Stratified Sequence North
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Tells Stratified Sequence North in Thracian Plain, Bulgaria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Charnel House Cemetery East — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Charnel House Cemetery East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Gobero Cemetery Paleolake — Matmata (Gabes)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Gobero Cemetery Paleolake in Matmata, Tunisia is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Durrington Walls and Woodhenge
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Wessex
Massive Neolithic henge enclosure (c. 2600 BCE), 500 m diameter, largest in Britain, with southern timber circle and dense Late Neolithic settlement (1000+ pits, houses).
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Ancient village
Swifterbant S3 Settlement
Middle Neolithic (Swifterbant) · Swifterbant
Swifterbant culture river dune settlement S3 (c. 4300–4000 BCE) on buried levee in former Flevoland wetland, with pottery, antler, bone and early cereal evidence.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pecos Pueblo (Aquio)
Pueblo II–IV → Spanish contact (1100–1838 CE) · Pueblo II–IV → Spanish contact (1100–1838 CE)
Pecos Pueblo (Aquio) in New Mexico, San Miguel County, Pecos Valley, Sangre de Cristo, United States is a Pueblo II–IV → Spanish contact (1100–1838 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II–IV → Spanish…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Arroyo Hondo Pueblo
Pueblo IV (1300–1425 CE) · Pueblo IV (1300–1425 CE)
Arroyo Hondo Pueblo in New Mexico, Santa Fe County, Arroyo Hondo, Sangre foothills, United States is a Pueblo IV (1300–1425 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo IV (1300–1425 CE) culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Lowry Pueblo
Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE) · Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE)
Lowry Pueblo in Colorado, Montezuma County, Canyons of Ancients, United States is a Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE) culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Din Lligwy Hut Circle Settlement
Late Iron Age – Romano-British (c.100 BCE–500 CE) · Romano-British / Late Iron Age Welsh
Polygonal-walled Romano-British hut-circle village (~500 CE) with two roundhouses on limestone ridge above Lligwy Bay.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient village
Botai (Botay)
Eneolithic (Copper Age) Botai (3700–3100 BCE) · Botai horse hunters-herders (Central Eurasian steppe)
Eneolithic mega-village (c.3700–3100 BCE, Botai culture) — type-site for earliest horse domestication evidence (ongoing debate): 15-ha semi-subterranean house hamlet (150 houses 30–70 m², 6-m deep…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Qermez Dere
Terminal Natufian / Khiamian to PPNA (12,200–10,500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian PPNA (Proto-Neolithic piedmont)
North Iraq PPNA village with radial spoke houses and pillar cult building foreshadowing Göbekli.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Dobrovody
Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia B1–B2 (c.4100–3700 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia, Tomashivka group)
Dobrovody (Dobrovodi) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3700 BCE, 150–250 ha, 700+ houses, up to 16,200 estimated inhabitants per 2014 research) west of Dobrovody village, Cherkasy, on loess…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sesebi Temple-Fortress (Akhenaten)
Amarna to post-Amarna New Kingdom to Napatan · Egyptian (Amarna) / Kushite
Akhenaten’s fortified Nubian temple town c.1350 BCE at Sesebi — walled 200×250 m with four temples and external Napatan mini-pyramids.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
ʿAin Ghazal
PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian
Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.
🇺🇦 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Köşk Höyük
Neolithic–Late Chalcolithic (6000–3200 BCE) · Central Anatolian (Cappadocian) Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Bor Plateau Neolithic village with painted floors, earliest copper and plastered skulls.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Shubayqa 1 (Shubayqa)
Early Natufian to MPPNB (14,600–9000 BP) · Natufian → PPNA → PPNB (Levantine Badia)
Harra playa Natufian village that produced world's earliest bread (14,400 BP).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Outer Rajasthan Reservoir Central — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-25)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Outer Rajasthan Reservoir Central — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-25) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.