🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kondapur — Satavahana Town
Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) · Satavahana
Kondapur — Satavahana Town in Telangana, Sangareddy, India is a Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) ancient city attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Kurgan Church Geoglyph
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Kurgan Church Geoglyph in Negev, Israel is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Pukará de Quitor
Late Intermediate–Late Horizon 1300–1540 CE · Atacameño (Likan Antai)
Atacameño clifftop fortress above Rio Grande with 4 km walls and 1540 Spanish battle site.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Aphroditopolis (Atfih) Pyramid Field
Predynastic to Late Antique (3500 BCE–7th c. CE) · Egyptian (22nd Upper nome)
Nome capital at Nile bend with cow necropolis and small cenotaph pyramid.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Nen Chua Port (Takeo Port)
Funan Oc Eo culture (1st–7th century CE, Funan port peak 2nd–6th) · Funan (Oc Eo) → Chenla
Funan canal port (1st–7th cent) — 12 ha brick port 14.5 km from Oc Eo city via canal, 10 km from modern sea.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Óc Eo Archaeological Site
Oc Eo–Funan culture 200 BCE–700 CE → Chenla · Austro-Asiatic Funan / Indianised Buddhist-Hindu
Funan port-city of Mekong Delta (c.200 BCE–12th c. CE) on ancient Austro-Asiatic maritime Silk Road, 450 ha moated and canal-grid city linking Mekong to coast 10 km inland — Roman medallions…
🇯🇵 Japan · Necropolis
Black Field Necropolis
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Black Field Necropolis in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Moche (100–800 CE) necropolis attributed to Moche culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Broad Ingoldisthorpe Standing Stones
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Broad Ingoldisthorpe Standing Stones in Alentejo, Portugal is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) megalithic attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇲🇱 Mali · Necropolis
Essouk-Tadmekka South Necropolis
Medieval Trans-Saharan (9th–15th c. CE) · Sanhaja Berber / Tuareg / Andalusian-linked
Bazina ridge south of Saharan caravan city with Andalusian lustre shards.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Hunsgi — Acheulean Factory
Acheulean (700k–200k BP) · Acheulean
Hunsgi — Acheulean Factory in Karnataka, Hunsgi valley, India is a Acheulean (700k–200k BP) ancient village attributed to Acheulean culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Issyk — Golden Warrior Kurgan Ancillary Ditch
Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) · Scythian / Saka
Issyk — Golden Warrior Kurgan Ancillary Ditch in Almaty, Issyk, Kazakhstan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) kurgan attributed to Scythian / Saka. Sys…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Rimah — Tall al-Rimah (Qattara)
Ninevite 5 to Neo-Assyrian (2800 BCE–600 BCE; peak OB 1800–1700 BCE) · EBA → Old Babylonian (Qattara, Shamshi-Adad) → Kassite → Neo-Assyrian
Shamshi-Adad winter capital Qattara 1775 BCE — Oates temple palaces & 400 tablets.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
El Kula Pyramid — Small Step Pyramid near Hierakonpolis
Old Kingdom (3rd Dynasty c.2670–2610 BCE Huni? or Sneferu provincial 7 small pyramids) · Old Kingdom provincial small pyramid (one of 7 provincial pyramids Huni/Sneferu)
El Kula small pyramid surveyed by Junker and Kaiser, one of 7 provincial step pyramids of Huni 3rd Dynasty.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Sonpur — Gandak Early Historic
Early Historic (600 BCE–400 CE) · NBP
Sonpur — Gandak Early Historic in Bihar, Saran, Gandak, India is a Early Historic (600 BCE–400 CE) ancient city attributed to NBP culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi al-Qattafi West Mesa Escarpment Kites (Western Escarpment M-2 Chain)
PPNB (7300–6500 BCE) · PPNB
Western escarpment of Wadi al-Qattafi headwaters (695 m) where wadi initiates in southcentral basalt fields (Toms 2021).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Yellow Jacket Pueblo
Pueblo II–III 1050–1300 CE (Mesa Verde phase) · Ancestral Pueblo (Mogollon-Mesa Verde)
Largest Mesa Verde town: 600 rooms, 170 kivas, 22 m Great Kiva and Chaco-style great house.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Aktobe Karagash North Cluster Kurgans (Karagash Steppe North Apex)
Late Sarmatian to Early Hunnic (100–400 CE) · Late Sarmatian–Alan / Early Hun
North apex cluster on Karagash steppe at Emba River northward bend (220 m) with 8 kurgans 22–44 m, 1.5–4 m high.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Azapa Pampa Algodonal North Geoglyphs (Algodonal Plain)
Late Archaic–Formative (900 BCE–600 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Broad pampa (980 m) at Azapa head, Algodonal plain toward the Lluta divide. Eleven figures: 40-m great lizard, 20-m camelid caravan, and 45-m inverted triangle with internal dots (altiplano style).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Besshatyr East Sholak Foothills Mounds (Sholak Foothill Promontory)
Saka (550–380 BCE) · Semirechye Saka
Promontory outliers on southwestern Sholak foothill piedmont (745 m) 5 km east of Besshatyr core (674 m Silkadv).
🇨🇱 Chile · Rock art
Punta Lobos
Archaic to Late Intermediate 5000 BCE–1500 CE · Chango-Chinchorro maritime
Coastal Changos maritime promise rock art and 4 m shell mounds on Atacama sea cliff, 5000 BCE–1500 CE.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly III — Karatau Ridge Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to Turkic (1400 BCE – 900 CE) · Andronovo to Saka-Scythian to Turkic, Chu valley pastoralists
Karatau outlier with 120+ sun-head and deer panels on basalt knolls SW of main gorge.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Wadi Hammamat Central Quarry Road — Bekhen-stone Quarry
Dynastic to Graeco-Roman (3000 BCE–300 CE) 800 inscriptions · Egyptian royal quarrying (bekhen stone)
Wadi Hammamat Central Quarry Road — Bekhen-stone Quarry in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt is a Dynastic to Graeco-Roman (3000 BCE–300 CE) 800 inscriptions hydraulic attributed to Egyptian royal quarrying…
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Bhasu Vihara — Shibganj
Gupta-Pala (5th–8th c.) · Gupta
Bhasu Vihara — Shibganj in Bogra District, Shibganj, Bangladesh is a Gupta-Pala (5th–8th c.) temple complex attributed to Gupta culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chechar Kutubpur — Bihar
Chalcolithic (2000–1000 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Chechar Kutubpur — Bihar in Bihar, Vaishali, India is a Chalcolithic (2000–1000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Chalcolithic culture.