🇮🇳 India · Tell
Gilund — Mewar Ahar Settlement
Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Gilund — Mewar Ahar Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Chuera — Steinbau Terrace and High Temple
Early Dynastic to Late 3rd Millennium, c.3000–2200 BCE · Early Dynastic Sumerian (Khabur)
Kleine Antentempel and Steinbau 1 high terrace at Tell Chuera (ancient Harran? c.3000–2200 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇬🇷 Greece · Fortress
Tower of Aegosthena — Porto Germeno
Classical–Hellenistic (4th c. BCE) · Megarian/Athenian
Tower of Aegosthena — Porto Germeno in Attica, Greece is a Classical–Hellenistic (4th c. BCE) fortress attributed to Megarian/Athenian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Öküzini Cave
Upper Palaeolithic to Early Neolithic (c.21,000–6000 BCE; intensive 17,000–11,800 cal BP) · Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Early Neolithic
Epipalaeolithic flagship 900 m from Karain (17–11.8 ka) with engraved plaquettes and marine network.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Bagh Mound — Narmada Terrace Settlement
Chalcolithic (1500–700 BCE) · Malwa–Jorwe
Bagh Mound — Narmada Terrace Settlement in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Chalcolithic (1500–700 BCE) tell attributed to Malwa–Jorwe.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Ranigumpha — Khandagiri Rear Cave Cluster
Mauryan to Gupta (200 BCE–500 CE) · Jain (Kharavela)
Ranigumpha — Khandagiri Rear Cave Cluster in Odisha, India is a Mauryan to Gupta (200 BCE–500 CE) rock_cut attributed to Jain (Kharavela).
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tell
Togolok 1
BMAC Bronze Age (c.2400–1600 BCE; Togolok phase 2200–1800) · BMAC (Togolok temple of Gonur)
Togolok 1 is the BMAC temple-fort satellite of Gonur — 140-m square enclosure with corner towers, central bastioned cult fortress and fire ritual basin. Sariani...
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Bagh Caves — Mahishmati Buddhist Vihara
Gupta to Vakataka (380–600 CE) · Buddhist Mahayana
Bagh Caves — Mahishmati Buddhist Vihara in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Gupta to Vakataka (380–600 CE) rock_cut attributed to Buddhist Mahayana. 9 Buddhist rock-cut viharas with 4th c.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell el-Ghassil
Middle Bronze to Iron Age (c.1800–600 BCE; 11 levels) · MB IIB → Late Bronze → Iron I–II (Bekaa Canaanite-Phoenician)
Bekaa agrarian tell with 11 levels (1800–600 BCE) and womb-burial inside AREC farm near Baalbek.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Thorikos Theatre and Laurion Mines
Late Neolithic to Roman · Athenian
Thorikos Theatre and Laurion Mines in Attica, Greece is a Late Neolithic to Roman ancient-city attributed to Athenian. Earliest rectilinear theatre (525 BCE) above silver mines that financed Athens.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tlajinga Workshops — Teotihuacan South
Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tlajinga Workshops — Teotihuacan South in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) ancient-village attributed to Teotihuacan.
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter
Asprochaliko Rock Shelter
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic · Mousterian / Gravettian
Large limestone rock shelter in the Louros River valley, Epirus, excavated by Higgs (1964) revealing Mousterian to Upper Palaeolithic layers spanning 100,000–26,000 years BP.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Balathal — Banas Valley Settlement
Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Balathal — Banas Valley Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Kerameikos Cemetery and Dipylon Gate — Athens
Late Bronze Age to Late Antique · Athenian
Kerameikos Cemetery and Dipylon Gate — Athens in Attica, Greece is a Late Bronze Age to Late Antique ancient-city attributed to Athenian.
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Klisoura Cave 1
Middle Palaeolithic to Mesolithic · Mousterian / Aurignacian / Epigravettian
Collapsed karstic cave and rockshelter in the Klisoura Gorge, Argolis, with 5 m deep trench divided into 14 stratigraphic units covering Middle Palaeolithic to Mesolithic (40,000–9,000 BP).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Değirmentepe
Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic (c.4200–3400 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Ubaid-related (Değirmentepe) → Late Chalcolithic Transcaucasian
Ubaid tripartite chiefly centre (4200 BCE) copying Mesopotamian temple plan north of Malatya.
🇬🇷 Greece · Fortress
Phyle Fortress — Parnes Foothills
Classical (404 BCE) · Athenian
Phyle Fortress — Parnes Foothills in Attica, Greece is a Classical (404 BCE) fortress attributed to Athenian.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dyffryn Ardudwy Burial Chamber
Early to Middle Neolithic · Irish Sea Neolithic
Double portal dolmen in Snowdonia foothills with two capstones sharing a mound near Cardigan Bay.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
La Campana — Colima Capital
Classic (100–500 CE) · Capacha / Colima
La Campana — Colima Capital in Colima, Mexico is a Classic (100–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Capacha / Colima.
🇬🇷 Greece · Fortress
Oenoe Fortress — Myoupolis
Classical (5th c. BCE) · Athenian
Oenoe Fortress — Myoupolis in Attica, Greece is a Classical (5th c. BCE) fortress attributed to Athenian.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
St Lythans Burial Chamber
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold
Portal dolmen near Cardiff with 35-tonne capstone on three orthostats, remnant of Severn-Cotswold long cairn.
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Kleidi Cave
Upper Palaeolithic (Epigravettian) · Epigravettian
Epigravettian rock shelter in the Voidomatis Gorge, Konitsa, excavated 1983–1990 revealing Late Glacial hunter-gatherer occupations (16,000–10,000 BP) with microliths, faunal remains and early art…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Huandacareo — La Nopalera
Postclassic Tarascan (1200–1528 CE) · Purépecha
Huandacareo — La Nopalera in Michoacán, Mexico is a Postclassic Tarascan (1200–1528 CE) ancient-city attributed to Purépecha.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Aşvan Kale
Chalcolithic to Medieval (c.5000 BCE–1400 CE; fortified from Early Bronze) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze (Transcaucasian) → Hittite → Urartian → Roman-Byzantine
Keban rescue fort (7 ka) on Murat River — Transcaucasian EB and Byzantine fort now under reservoir.