🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qannas
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (c.3000–1500 BCE) · EB Euphrates urban → Middle Bronze Amorite
Euphrates terrace walled city (3000–1500 BCE) in Hadidi bend, now under Lake Assad.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (c.3000–1500 BCE) · EB Euphrates urban → Middle Bronze Amorite
Euphrates terrace walled city (3000–1500 BCE) in Hadidi bend, now under Lake Assad.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Windmill Hill
Neolithic long barrow on the Ridgeway (c. 3600 BCE) with two phases: early mortuary enclosure and later trapezoidal mound covering cruciform chamber of sarsen and oolite.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Kushite (3rd c BCE – 4th c CE; Lion Temple c. 300 BCE) · Kushite (Meroitic, King Arnekhamani)
Vast Kushite labyrinth (180×150 m Great Enclosure with 55 columns) and Lion Temple of Apedemak with vivid reliefs of king and lion-god, possibly elephant training ground; Hintze ex...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Makurian Christian (c. 500–1500 CE; cathedral 707 CE) · Makurian Nubian Christian
Annex quarter south of Old Dongolo's famous cruciform church, with 707 CE cathedral (32×28 m) with 6 granite columns, 11th c frescoes of archangels and king portraits, and palace a...
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Megaliths
Coldrum Long Barrow (Coldrum Stones) in Kent, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic attributed to Medway Megaliths culture.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic · Maltese Temple culture (Żebbuġ to Tarxien)
Three-level underground necropolis/sanctuary carved in limestone, 10.6 m deep, halls including Oracle Room with acoustic resonance. Only prehistoric underground temple in world.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Mesolithic to Harappan (7000–1900 BCE) · Mesolithic to Harappan (Sindh lithic tradition)
Rohri Hills is a 1200×850 m chert quarry complex (7000 BCE–2000 BCE) atop the Sukkur limestone plateau, 40 ha of Harappan blade mines with 200+ pits (6 m deep) and debitage cones (10 m high)…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Armorican Late Neolithic
Gallery dolmen (allée couverte) at Trégastel, Côte de Granit Rose (c. 3200–2600 BCE), 11 m long gallery in pink granite with 16 orthostats and capstones, entrance flanked by portal stones, tumulus…
🇫🇷 France · Rock shelter
Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) · Gravettian / Noailles
Rock shelter at Brassempouy, Landes, famous for Gravettian occupation (29,000–22,000 BP) yielding the Dame de Brassempouy ivory Venus (23,000 BP) and eight other ivory figurines, with rich Gravettian…
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Akan gold trade (c. 1000–1750 CE; peak 14th–17th c) · Akan (Bron) / Hausa Wangara merchants
Sprawling 45 ha Akan trading city with four ethnic quarters (Brong, Kramo Wangara Muslim, artisans, market), producing brass crucibles and glass beads for gold–kola caravans to Jen...
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Bonnannaro / Nuragic
Li Lolghi Giants' Tomb in Sardinia, Olbia-Tempio, Italy is a Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Bonnannaro / Nuragic culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Arzachena Culture (Ozieri)
Li Muri Necropolis in Sardinia, Olbia-Tempio, Italy is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Arzachena Culture (Ozieri) culture.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group (TRB)
TRB West Group hunebed D13 at Eext (c. 3350 BCE), 18 m enclosure with 4 capstones on heath, one of 53 Drenthe hunebeds.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Fortress
Second Intermediate to Saite (c. 1800–525 BCE; Hyksos–Ramesside fortress) · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian (Ramesside)
Wadi Tumilat gate fortress claimed as biblical Pithom/Succoth, with Hyksos glacis and Ramesside Tjeku fortress of Seti I (Pr-Atum). Excavated by Naville, Petrie and Polish mission...
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Submerged 65 — Greece Region 5 in Greece Region 5, Greece is a Bronze Age submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Axumite (1st c BCE – 7th c CE; Adulis port 1st c CE Periplus) · Axumite / South Arabian / Greco-Roman trade
Axumite Mediterranean port in Zula Bay where Paribeni and Sundström found Axumite church (5th c), Roman wine amphorae and glass, linking Axum to Roman trade; Periplus harbour descr...
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker (TRB) — Emsland Group
TRB passage grave at Barnstorf (c. 3500 BCE), Emsland-type hunebed 22 m long enclosure with chamber and cup-marked capstone, in Lower Saxon plain. Excavated 19th century with funnel beakers and amber.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Eastern Wei–Northern Qi–Tang (Six Dynasties to Tang) · Eastern Wei Xianbei sinicized; Tang Shanxi Buddhist
Shanxi 25 caves 534–907: south peak Cave 11 Maitreya assembly with thin-line and Japanese-return Bodhisattva.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Kozareva Mogila — buried prehistoric tell/village at Burgas Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Koprivec Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Ruse Province.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Căscioarele-Ostrovul Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Călărași County.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Grek Amele — buried prehistoric tell/village at Diyarbakır Province.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom early 4th Dynasty · Old Kingdom Egyptian (Memphite)
South bank companion wing (62 m) to Sadd el-Kafara Old Kingdom unfinished dam (2703 BCE): spillway side with mason marks.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age 1200 BCE - 300 BCE · Late Bronze to Iron Age Hebridean
1200 BCE - 300 BCE nucleated roundhouse village (12 houses) at Cladh Hallan, South Uist with composite peat-preserved mummies (1500 BCE).