🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Ephesus Terrace House 2 Hall of Muses
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ephesus Terrace House 2 Hall of Muses in Izmir, Selçuk, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Inga Stone Itacoatiara North Glyph
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Inga Stone Itacoatiara North Glyph in Paraíba, Ingá, Brazil is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pineland Archeological Site (Calusa Complex)
Caloosahatchee I–V (100–1710 CE, major 500–1500) · Caloosahatchee (Calusa kingdom)
Capital water-court capital (Randell Complex) of Calusa chiefdom (100–1500 CE, historic to 1710): 5 sand-shell mounds up to 9 m high (Brown's Mound 50×45 m), Adam's Mound, Randell Mound, Low Mound…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Snaketown Ballcourt South Compound
Pre-Classic Hohokam (400–1100 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Pioneer–Colonial–Sedentary: Vahki–Sacaton phases)
Snaketown Ballcourt South Compound is the southern ballcourt village of Snaketown — the archetypal Pre-Classic Hohokam canal town 30 miles southeast of Phoenix on the Gila north terrace (protected…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Spiro Mounds
Mississippian Spiro phases Harlan–Sprio 950–1450 CE (Craig Mortuary climax 1200–1400) · Caddoan Mississippian (Spiroan, ancestors of Wichita/Caddo)
Premier Mississippian and Caddoan necropolis and ceremonial center on Arkansas River: 12 mounds (Craig Mound – 10 m high, hollow burial chamber or ‘Spirit Lodge’ with shell-carved ‘Great Mortuary’…
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Ulu Kurgan (Bolshoy Kurgan) — Bashkir Steppe Sarmatian Royal Mound (Bashkortostan)
Late Sarmatian (1st c BCE–1st c CE, Prokhorovka to Alan transition) · Late Sarmatian (Bashkir Prokhorovka–Alan transition)
Bashkir steppe Sarmatian chieftain mound (30 BCE–60 CE) 42 m with scale-armour horse and Parthian faience.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Uluburun Late Bronze Age Shipwreck
Late Bronze Age (14th c. BCE, c. 1320±15 BCE) · Canaanite/Cypriot/Mycenaean international (hull possibly Levantine)
1320 BCE merchantman off Grand Cape — 10 t copper, tin and exotic cargo revealing Bronze Age world-system.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Çatalhöyük Building 52 Mural Room
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Çatalhöyük Building 52 Mural Room in Konya, Çatalhöyük, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Tomb U-j Chamber 3
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Tomb U-j Chamber 3 in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Harla Necropolis Cairn Field East Sector
Medieval (800-1500 CE) · Harla
Harla Necropolis Cairn Field East Sector in Harari, Harar, Ethiopia is a Medieval (800-1500 CE) tumulus attributed to Harla.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Megiddo Palace 6000 North Orthostat
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Megiddo Palace 6000 North Orthostat in North, Megiddo, Israel is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 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.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Tiwanaku Akapana East Terrace
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tiwanaku Akapana East Terrace in La Paz, Tiwanaku, Bolivia is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Troy VIh Pillar House East
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Troy VIh Pillar House East in Çanakkale, Hisarlık, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Visby Walls
High–Late Medieval Hanseatic 1160–1400 (Visby Hanseatic florescence 12th–14th c) · Gotlandic Hanseatic (Gutar–German Hansa Visby, Valdemar IV)
Visby City Walls (Ringmuren) — Hanseatic medieval town wall (late 13th–14th c, with 12th c earth predecessor) encircling Visby Old Town 3.4 km circumference, 11 m high, 27 towers, 3 gates…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Fourknocks Passage Tomb
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Meath passage tomb with wide cruciform chamber, timber-roofed instead of cairn, and profuse engraved art including anthropomorphs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Nazca Cantalloc Aqueduct Spiral 7
Formative (1000 BCE–500 CE) · Formative hydraulic
Nazca Cantalloc Aqueduct Spiral 7 in Ica, Nazca, Peru is a Formative (1000 BCE–500 CE) hydraulic attributed to Formative hydraulic.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Pikimachay Cave (Pikimachay Ayacucho)
Pleistocene? contested 20,000 BP + secure Early Holocene 9,000 BCE – Formative 1800 BCE · Pacaicasa – Ayacucho Preceramic → Wari?
Deep limestone cave 30 m entrance, 13 m depth in Ayacucho basin: stratified sequence spanning Pleistocene to Formative with contested earliest layers (Pikimachay phase 20,000–12,000 BP lithic…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Sabratha Theatre Pulpitum Frieze
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sabratha Theatre Pulpitum Frieze in Zawiya, Sabratha, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Barnhouse Stone Age Village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Birka
Viking Age Scandinavian 750–975 (8th–10th c) · Scandinavian Viking Age (Svear) — Svear–Gotlandic emporium
Birka (Björkö) — Scandinavian Viking Age emporium (c.750–975 CE) on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, 30 km west Stockholm, Sweden's oldest town and UNESCO 555 (with Hovgården Adelsö estate).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Carn Brea Inner Rampart
Iron Age (600–100 BCE) · Iron Age
Carn Brea Inner Rampart in Cornwall, Carn Brea, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (600–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen de Kercado
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Tumulus culture)
Tumulus-capped passage grave (6.5 m passage) on Kercado ridge with hafted axe carving — Carnac tumulus evolution exemplar.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Nok Village Taruga Terrace Furnace 5
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nok Village Taruga Terrace Furnace 5 in Kaduna, Nok, Nigeria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.