🇲🇲 Myanmar · Quarry
Quarry of Varna-Ring
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Quarry of Varna-Ring in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) quarry attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient village
Real Alto — Valdivia Type Site
Valdivia (3500–1500 BCE) Early Ceramic Neolithic · Valdivia culture (earliest ceramics)
Real Alto — Valdivia Type Site in Santa Elena Province, Ecuador is a Valdivia (3500–1500 BCE) Early Ceramic Neolithic ancient-village attributed to Valdivia culture (earliest ceramics).
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Salango — Manteño Port and Temple
Valdivia to Manteño (3500 BCE–1532 CE) continuous · Valdivia–Manteño sequence
Salango — Manteño Port and Temple in Manabí Province, Ecuador is a Valdivia to Manteño (3500 BCE–1532 CE) continuous ancient-city attributed to Valdivia–Manteño sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Khuera — Südstadt (South Town)
EBA to Late Roman (3100 BCE–400 CE; peak EBA 2700 BCE) · EBA Jazira (Khabur zone) → Amorite → Roman
EBA rounded-town south annex 2700 BCE — palace F quarter and Roman overlay.
🇺🇸 United States · Submerged site
Atlit Yam Well Extension North — Florida Shelf (Miami)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Atlit Yam Well Extension North in Florida Shelf, United States is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Classical culture.
🇦🇺 Australia · Buried city
Gulf of Khambhat Wooden Anchor North
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Gulf of Khambhat Wooden Anchor North in Bonaparte Shelf, Australia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
La Jolla Submerged Midden South
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
La Jolla Submerged Midden South in Doggerland, United Kingdom is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Legananny Portal Tomb
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb tradition
Tripod portal tomb on drumlin near Castlewellan, County Down, massive capstone on three slender portals, c.3500 BCE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Olous Submerged City Blocks South
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Olous Submerged City Blocks South in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Paquimé Casas Grandes Compound — Mississippi Valley (St Louis)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Paquimé Casas Grandes Compound in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Quarry
Quarry of Marsh
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Quarry of Marsh in Sicily, Italy is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) quarry attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sillustani
Late Intermediate to Inca 1200–1450 CE · Colla (Aymara) succeeded by Inca
12-m funerary towers in finely jointed stone above lake - Andes highest chullpas.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Varna Necropolis
Late Chalcolithic / Copper Age · Varna culture (Karanovo VI/Gumelnița)
Chalcolithic cemetery (4600–4200 BCE) with world's oldest worked gold hoard — 3,000 gold objects, 6.5 kg, in Grave 43 (status male with gold penis sheath) and 294 other graves, demonstrating earliest…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Ai Khanoum — Hellenistic Lower Agora Extension
Hellenistic Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (300–145 BCE) · Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (Euthydemus)
Ai Khanoum — Hellenistic Lower Agora Extension in Takhar Province, Afghanistan is a Hellenistic Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (300–145 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (Euthydemus).
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bedsa Caves
Satavahana early historic · Hinayana Buddhist
Twin-cave-cluster Buddhist refuge (100 BCE–100 CE) on forested Sahyadri spur between Bhaja and Karla, celebrated for best-preserved early rock-cut chaitya hall besides Karla — daylight-illuminated…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ekornavallen Grave Field
Middle Neolithic to Viking Age · Funnel Beaker → Bronze Age → Iron Age Scandinavia
3000-year grave field with Neolithic Girommen passage grave, Bronze cairn, Iron Age settings and Viking ship in one meadow.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Kok Charoen
Neolithic (c.1500–1000 BCE, late)
Late Neolithic slope village (1500–1000 BCE) — forest-clearance pottery on Khao Wong fringe.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Lehun
Iron to Nabataean (c.900 BCE–200 CE; peak Moab 900–600, Nabataean 100 BCE–100 CE) · Moabite → Nabataean → Roman
Lehun (Khirbat al-Lehun) is a Moabite hilltop fortress-citadel (1 ha) with casemate wall, extramural Iron II town (3 ha) and Nabataean temple platform on the Ke...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Necropolis
Necropolis of Dara-Wadi
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Necropolis of Dara-Wadi in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Moche (100–800 CE) necropolis attributed to Moche culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Plastered Floor House Cluster South — Ohio Valley (Columbus)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Plastered Floor House Cluster South in Ohio Valley, United States is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Qasr Burquʿ
Late Roman/Byzantine to Umayyad · Roman/Byzantine → Umayyad Arab
Black basalt desert castle (qasr) on the shores of seasonal Burqu Lake and Roman strata — possibly Byzantine Valentinian outpost incorporated into Umayyad qusur (~700 CE) — isolated in Harra basalt…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Sanauli (Sinauli)
Late Harappan / Copper Hoard & Ochre Coloured Pottery (c.2200–1800 BCE) · Late Harappan–OCP / Copper Hoard Culture
Royal Late Harappan cemetery with India's first Bronze Age chariots (2200–1800 BCE) at Sinauli.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Shortugai
Mature Harappan (c.2500–1800 BCE) · Harappan colony (Indus diaspora on Oxus)
Northernmost Harappan colony on Oxus (Darqad) — lapis procurement hub 250 km from Badakhshan mines.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Taputapuātea Marae Complex
Early Marae 1000–1500 CE classical Polynesian (peak 1350–1773) · Polynesian / Ra'iātean (Ma'ohi)
Polynesia's most sacred marae center (1000–1773 CE) on 31 ha lagoon peninsula tip Taputapuatea, with 60×45 m marae Taputapuatea (stone national marae) and 16 other marae including Hauviri and Opoa,…