🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Qatna Royal Tomb AnteChamber
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Qatna Royal Tomb AnteChamber in Homs, Mishrifeh, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Takamatsuzuka Tumulus
Asuka Late 645–710 CE · Yamato–Asuka with Tang Kaiyuan import
Asuka Tang-style painted round tomb (700 CE) at Takamatsuzuka — 23 m with Asuka bijin court ladies in Tang dress National Treasure.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kannas (Tell Kannâs)
Late Uruk to Early Dynastic I–II (3500–2500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Uruk → Early Bronze (EJ 1–2)
Euphrates levee town with Uruk planned lower town and EB fortification beside Habuba.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Avdat Nabataean Wine Press 7
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Avdat Nabataean Wine Press 7 in South, Avdat, Israel is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village
Campen Plank Road – Emsland Bog Trackway (Landegge)
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt C) · Ems-Hunte Iron Age (Pre-Roman)
1.2-km split-oak corduroy (668 BCE) across Campen Moor — earliest Emsland Bohlenweg.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Caracol Caana Summit Palace
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Caracol Caana Summit Palace in Cayo, Caracol, Belize is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇴 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.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Lauriya Areraj
Mauryan (Ashokan, 244 BCE) with Gupta–Pala overlay · Mauryan Ashokan
Companion Ashokan lion pillar (244 BCE, 36.5 ft) to Lauriya Nandangarh, with moated stupa mound 200 m south.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Teleilat Ghassul
Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) · Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE)
Teleilat Ghassul in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea N, Jordan is a Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) settlement attributed to Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) culture.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Ancient city
Vilnius Lower Castle and Cathedral Square
Middle Ages to Early Modern (13th–18th c. with 5th c. hillfort substratum) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Vilnius Lower Castle and Cathedral Square in Vilnius County, Vilnius Old Town, Gediminas Hill foot, Lithuania is a Middle Ages to Early Modern (13th–18th c. with 5th c.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Lejre
Migration → Viking Age 500–1000 (Hall Complex 600–700 Skjöldungar) · Zealand Iron Age–Viking (Skjöldungar/Scylding) — Beowulf Heorot Heorot analog
Lejre (Gammel Lejre, Lejre Royal Complex) — Iron Age → Viking Age central-place and hall complex (c.500–1000, hall 600–700 peak) 8 km west Roskilde on Lejre River, Zealand's Beowulf Heorot candidate…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Pietrele Tell
Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) · Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE)
Pietrele Tell in Teleorman / Giurgiu region, Danube plain, Pietrele village, Romania is a Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Lindenmeier Site
Folsom Paleo-Indian (10,600 – 10,200 BCE) · Folsom
Lindenmeier Site in Colorado, United States is a Folsom Paleo-Indian (10,600 – 10,200 BCE) ancient village attributed to Folsom culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Abada
Samarra through Ubaid 3 (c.5500–4100 BCE); Samarra, Hajji Muhammad, Ubaid 3 · Samarra (Choga Mami) → Hajji Muhammad → Ubaid 3 Hamrin facies
Samarra–Ubaid transition village (c.5500–4100 BCE) with tripartite houses and Iran–south assimilation — Hamrin Samarra outpost.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Toro
Yayoi Early 300 BCE → Middle 100 BCE → Late 100–300 CE → Kofun · Yayoi (Tōkai–Suruga paddy culture)
Textbook Yayoi paddy (300 BCE–300 CE) at Toro Shizuoka — 370 waterlogged paddy plots with wooden spades and weir on Abe fan.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Konar Sandal (Jiroft – Marhashi)
Early to Middle Bronze (2500–1800 BCE; peak 2400–2200 BCE) · Jiroft / Kerman Bronze Age (Proto-Elamite derived, Halil Rud)
Jiroft twin citadels — 21 m windowed fortress and chlorite workshop centre of Marhashi.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mansar
Vakataka–Gupta (250–550 CE) · Vakataka (Deccan) – Gupta contemporaneous
Vakataka–Gupta palace city (5th–6th c)—38×38 m palace, Shiva–Vishnu temple, 170×40 m dammed reservoir at Nagpur.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Dam East Wadi Dhana Barrage
Sabaean to Himyarite · Kingdom of Saba (Sabaean South Arabian) then Himyar
480-m east rockfill barrage of Great Marib Dam at Balaq Hills gap.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Dur-Katlimmu
Middle Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (c.1800 BCE–300 CE), peak Assyrian 800–600 BCE · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian → Parthian
Lower Khabur Assyrian capital 55 ha (600 tablets, Red House archive, canal) 70 km NE Deir ez-Zor.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Hillfort
Apuolė
Late Iron Age Curonian (5th–13th c) Viking Age horizon 853 · Curonian (Baltic Western) — Rimbert's Apulia
Apuolė (Apulia) — Curonian hillfort (5th–13th c, florescence 850s, attacked 853 by Vikings per Rimbert's Vita Ansgarii) on Luoba tributary, Skuodas District, oldest Lithuanian settlement mentioned in…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Iput I — Queen of Teti
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Small queens pyramid immediately north of the Pyramid of Teti at Saqqara, built for Queen Iput I, daughter of Unas and wife of Teti, mother of Pepi I.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Caral-Supe
Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) · Caral-Supe (Norte Chico)
Caral-Supe in Lima, Peru is a Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Caral-Supe (Norte Chico) culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Trușești
Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
Trușești in Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania is a Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Bab edh-Dhra
EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) · EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE)
Bab edh-Dhra in Karak Governorate, Wadi Araba, Dead Sea SE, Jordan is a EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) settlement attributed to EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) culture.