🇷🇴 Romania · Archaeological wonder
Curtea Nouă
Curtea Nouă (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkurte̯a ˈnowə], New Court) was the residence of the Princes of Wallachia between 1776 and 1812.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Roof Burn Layer East
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Roof Burn Layer East in Danube Plain, Romania is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Sultana-Malu Roșu (Sultana Tell and Eneolithic Flat Necropolis)
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița, 5000–3900 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI) Eneolithic
Sultana-Malu Roșu (Sultana Tell and Eneolithic Flat Necropolis) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Călărași County, Mânăstirea Commune, Mostiștea Lake terrace, Danube plain, Romania —…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Bordușani-Popină (Bordușani Island Tell)
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița → Cernavodă) · Boian → Gumelnița → Cernavodă I
Bordușani-Popină (Bordușani Island Tell) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Ialomița County, Bordușani Commune, Balta Ialomiței island, Danube floodplain, Romania — Danube floodplain island…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Radovanu Tell (Radovanu-Gorgana / Călărași Terrace)
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița → Cernavodă) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI) → Cernavodă
Radovanu Tell (Radovanu-Gorgana / Călărași Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Călărași County, Radovanu Commune, Argeș terrace, Danube plain, Romania — Argeș–Danube Gumelnița terrace…
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Histria (Istrus) Greek Colony on the Black Sea
Archaic Greek to Early Medieval (657 BCE – 7th c. CE) · Milesian Greeks → Getae → Romans → Byzantines
Histria (Istrus) Greek Colony on the Black Sea in Dobruja, Constanța County, Istria commune, Sinoe Lake shore near Danube delta, Romania is a Archaic Greek to Early Medieval (657 BCE – 7th c.
🇷🇴 Romania · Buried city
Buried Dune Field Village South
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Buried Dune Field Village South in Danube Plain, Romania is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Costești-Blidaru Dacian Fortress
Iron Age Dacian (1st c. BCE – 106 CE, La Tène to Trajan) · Dacians (Decebalus, Burebista)
Costești-Blidaru Dacian Fortress in Hunedoara County, Orăștie Mountains, Costești village, Blidaru hill, Romania is a Iron Age Dacian (1st c.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Courtyard House Complex East — Danube Plain (Bucharest)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Courtyard House Complex East in Danube Plain, Romania is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Hârşova Tell
Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)
Hârşova Tell in Constanța County, Danube, Hârșova town, Romania is a Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Hârşova Tell Block M
Late Neolithic to Eneolithic (5500–3500 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelnița → Cernavodă
Hârşova Tell Block M is the eastern lobe of Hârşova tell — the largest tell in Romania (200×60 m base, 11 m high) on the Danube right bank above ancient Carsium.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Măgura Tell (Buduiasca)
Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE) · Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE)
Măgura Tell (Buduiasca) in Teleorman County, Măgura-Buduiasca, Romania is a Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE) settlement attributed to Early Neolithic Starčevo–Dudeşti (6000–5000 BCE)…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Pietrele Tell Central Platform
Late Neolithic to Eneolithic (5000–3500 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodjadermen–Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Pietrele Tell Central Platform is the central terrace of the Pietrele mega-tell — a 10-m Gumelnița tell in southern Romania with one of the thickest Eneolithic sequences in the Balkans.
🇷🇴 Romania · Buried city
Storage Jar Cache East — Danube Plain (Bucharest)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Storage Jar Cache East in Danube Plain, Romania is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Vădastra Tell (Vădastra Type-Site Terrace)
Middle Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița) · Boian → Vădastra → Gumelnița
Vădastra Tell (Vădastra Type-Site Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Olt County, Vădastra Commune, Danube terrace, Oltenia plain, Romania — Vădastra eponymous type-site — stratified…
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Baia-Hamangia Tell
Middle Neolithic to Late Neolithic (Hamangia I–IV) · Hamangia (Black Sea Neolithic)
Type-site Hamangia culture (c.5250–4550 BCE, Middle Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic) on Goloviţa lagoon: low tell plus flat cemetery famous for 'The Thinker' (Gânditorul) and Woman seated figurines —…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Sultana-Malu Roșu North Cemetery
Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Varna
Gumelniţa gold necropolis 4600 BCE — 1500 flat graves with Spondylus (Andreescu).
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension
Eneolithic (5200–3800 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (KGK VI)
Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension is the southern terrace-cemetery zone south of the Sultana-Malu Roşu Gumelnița tell on the Mostiștea high terrace.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Scânteia Cucuteni Settlement
Cucuteni A (c.4600–4200 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
Large Cucuteni A settlement of ~30 ha on the Larga Jijia promontory at Scânteia, excavated by C.-M. Mantu 1985–present.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Isaiia Precucuteni–Cucuteni Settlement
Precucuteni III – Cucuteni A (c.4800–4300 BCE) · Precucuteni–Cucuteni
Key transition tell at Isaiia–Balta Popii on a low terrace of the Jijia, with 6 m Precucuteni III → Cucuteni A sequence excavated by N. Ursulescu since 1996.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Ruginoasa–Dealul Drăghici Cucuteni Palace
Cucuteni A–B (c.4200–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
Famous 'palace' at Ruginoasa–Dealul Drăghici, a 32×16 m Cucuteni A3 burned building with timber lacing, painted floors and 2-storey interpretation, excavated by H. Dumitrescu.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Trușești Cucuteni Settlement on the Jijia
Precucuteni to Horodiștea, peak Cucuteni A–B (4800–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
One of Moldova's largest Cucuteni tells — Țuguieta mound 9 m stratigraphy (Precucuteni III to Cucuteni B1, Horodiștea) at Trușești, excavated by M. Petrescu-Dîmbovița 1951–61.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Cernavodă Tell — Axioupolis Danube Tell
Hamangia to Iron Age (5000 BCE–100 CE; stratotype Cernavodă I 4000–3200 BCE) · Hamangia → Gumelniţa → Cernavodă I–III → Geto-Dacian Iron
Cernavodă stratotype 4000 BCE — namesake Cernavodă I with hamangia base.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Cucuteni
Eneolithic Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5200–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni–Cucuteni (Western Cucuteni-Trypillia)
Cucuteni (Cucuteni-Cetățuia) — eponymous promontory type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1884 by N. Beldiceanu on Dealul Gosan above Cucuteni village, 30 km west Iași.