🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gusir Höyük
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B to Pottery Neolithic (9300–5500 BCE) · Upper Tigris PPN (Northern Fertile Crescent)
PPNA–PPNB lakeside village at Tigris–Botan confluence documenting crop domestication pathway.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Harran — City of Sin, Sabians and Beehive Houses
Early Bronze to Medieval Islamic (c.2500 BCE–1271 CE Mongol sack; peak Old Assyrian karum and Sasanian–Umayyad) · Semitic Harranian → Assyrian → Babylonian (Nabonidus) → Parthian/Roman → Arab Sabian–Islamic
Moon-god Ehulhul city of Carrhae — Nabonidus terrace, Crassus battle plain and beehive-house university.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sedeinga Pyramid Field — Napatan Queens
Meroitic (but Napatan tradition), c.700 BCE–300 CE · Kushite / Napatan
Sedeinga 2 km west of Soleb on desert ridge: ~80 small pyramids (6-8 m base, 7-10 m high) with chapels for Kushite Napatan queens, princesses and children.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sabi Abyad Neolithic Mound — Balikh
Late Neolithic (Halaf–Hassuna), c.6200-5800 BCE (Neolithic, burn layer) · Halaf
Tell Sabi Abyad Balikh Valley (Raqqa): 5 ha tell (mound 10 m high) excavated by Peter Akkermans (Leiden/Amsterdam 1986–): Operation I Burnt Village 6000 BCE — intact burned houses with 3D preserved…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Céide Fields
Early to Middle Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Céide Ware)
10 km² Neolithic field walls and tombs preserved under blanket bog — world's oldest enclosed landscape, c.3500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Pucllana
Early Intermediate Lima (200–700 CE) with Middle Horizon Wari intrusive 500–700 CE · Lima (Ichma predecessor of Pachacamac) with Huari (Wari) superstructure
Seven-storey adobe pyramid (500×100 m, 25 m high) in Miraflores, Lima, built bookcase-style (small vertical adobe bricks placed on edge like books) to resist earthquakes, with Wari cemetery above.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Amara West Temple Town — Ramesside Center
New Kingdom, 19th-20th Dynasties, c.1300-1050 BCE (Seti I–Ramesses II) · Ancient Egyptian
Amara West walled town on island 70 km north of Sai: palatial administrative capital of Kush under viceroy (King's Son of Kush) from Seti I to Ramesses IX.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Khirbat en-Nahas
Chalcolithic through Nabataean; Iron Edomite peak · Feinan Chalcolithic → EBA → Edomite Iron → Nabataean
Feinan copper smelting metropolis (10 ha slag fields, Iron Edomite fortress) — Chalcolithic to Nabataean copper metropolis, biblical Punon with 100k tons 10th c. BCE slag.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hermopolis Magna (El-Ashmunein)
Old Kingdom to Islamic (2600 BCE–8th c CE; peak Middle and New Kingdom) · Ancient Egyptian / Greek
Thoth metropolis 15 ha with twin pylon-city and baboon colossi of Thutmose III in quartzite.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Boncuklu Hoyuk Konya Plain Village
Early Neolithic · Konya Plain PPN
Boncuklu Hoyuk Konya Plain Village at Konya Plain, Karaman, Turkey is a Early Neolithic ancient village of the Konya Plain PPN tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
El Brujo
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon · Moche (North Coast)
Moche polychrome pyramid complex (100 BCE–750 CE) with Lady of Cao tattooed queen burial and 30-m muraled Huaca.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Submerged site
Godavaya — Ancient Port North Jetty (Sri Lanka)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Godavaya — Ancient Port North Jetty (Sri Lanka) in Southern, Hambantota, Godavaya, Sri Lanka is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city …
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Inner Djenné-Jeno Fortress A — Djenné-Jeno (57-49)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Inner Djenné-Jeno Fortress A — Djenné-Jeno (57-49) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 CE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Lubbock Lake Landmark
Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (Clovis to Puebloan) · Clovis, Folsom, Plano, Archaic, Late Prehistoric
11,000-year stratified Paleo-Indian site — Clovis mammoth kill to Folsom bison beds on Yellow House Draw, Texas.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gusir Hoyuk Upper Tigris PPN
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris PPN
Gusir Hoyuk Upper Tigris PPN at Siirt, Upper Tigris, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Upper Tigris PPN tradition, built c. 9300 BCE for agglutinated settlement on tigris.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Aşağı Pınar
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–4800 BCE) · Fikirtepe → Karanovo I–III / Starčevo
Thracian tell bridging Anatolian Neolithic to Balkans (Karanovo sequence).
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Western Nara Fortress II — Nara, Asuka (54-33)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Western Nara Fortress II — Nara, Asuka (54-33) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Rock art
Southern Bayuda Terrace West — Bayuda (57-30)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Southern Bayuda Terrace West — Bayuda (57-30) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe La Prisgiona
Late Bronze Age · Nuragic
Gallura nuraghe with meeting hut village near Arzachena in granite hill country, c.14th century BCE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Royal Aleppo Sanctuary I — Aleppo (53-28)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Royal Aleppo Sanctuary I — Aleppo (53-28) at Aleppo, Syria is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Little Aleppo Village North — Aleppo (53-49)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Little Aleppo Village North — Aleppo (53-49) at Aleppo, Syria is a Early Historic (regional) pyramid of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Sacred Cuzco Enclosure East — Cuzco (55-27)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Cuzco Enclosure East — Cuzco (55-27) at Cuzco, Peru is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Royal Nara Reservoir B — Nara, Asuka (54-18)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Nara Reservoir B — Nara, Asuka (54-18) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 200 CE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Central Meroe Village A — Meroe (56-50)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Central Meroe Village A — Meroe (56-50) at Meroe, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for village and associated settlement.