🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Toricos — Southern Harbour at Toretae Cape
Archaic to Byzantine (6th c. BCE – 600 CE) · Toretae / Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern harbour of Toricos — rubble mole and galley slipway at 2–4 m off Gelendzhik Tonkiy Cape.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Korgantas South Ridge Satellite Kurgan (Korgantas South Ridge Cluster)
Korgantas transition (420–340 BCE) Saka to Hun · Korgantas (post-Tasmola) Karkaraly south ridge
4 Korgantas satellites 16–28 m south ridge 890 m with antenna 18 m and side-niche catacomb — Nura watershed sentinels.
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Waqrapukara
Late Intermediate – Inca (c.1100–1532 CE) · Kana – Colla – Wari – Inca
Waqrapukara (Quechua waqra horn + pukara fortress) is a spectacular condor-shaped citadel perched at 4,110 m on the Apurímac canyon rim near Pomacanchi, Cusco.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Upper Xingu Kayabi Geoglyph Complex (Pará)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Xingu polyglot / Kayabi) · Upper Xingu archaeological tradition / Kayabi
Southern Amazon forest geoglyph province distinct from Acre-Urubamba: 14 circular and rectangular enclosures (120-320 m) on Xingu headwater interfluvia (260 m, 9°45′S 52°21′W), documented by Mendeley…
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
El Pilar
Middle Preclassic – Terminal Classic (c.800 BCE–1000 CE) Lowland Maya · Maya (Lowland)
El Pilar straddles the Belize-Guatemala international boundary on a 340m-high escarpment 12 km north of San Ignacio, Belize.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Earthwork
Asveja Lake Hillfort and Dubingiai Castle Complex
Middle Ages (14th–17th c. with Iron Age hillfort predecessor) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Vytautas, Radvila family)
Asveja Lake Hillfort and Dubingiai Castle Complex in Vilnius County, Molėtai–Dubingiai, Asveja lake bridge area, Lithuania is a Middle Ages (14th–17th c.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Arpa River Petroglyphs — Vayots Dzor
Early Bronze to Medieval (Kura-Araxes to Orbelian) · Kura-Araxes to medieval Armenian–Seljuk caravaneer
Vayots Dzor Arpa gorge 400 leopard–goat and caravan cup-marks 3000 BCE–1332 CE linking Ughtasar high to Silk Road Selim.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Helan Mountains South Gorge — Helankou South Rock Art Park II
Bronze Age to Medieval · Xiongnu, Xianbei, Dangxiang Tangut, Mongol
Helankou south branch with 312 panels, Western Xia sun masks and tiger-bharal frieze, 1000 BCE–1200 CE.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Cave
Cueva de los Tayos
Paleo-Indian to Shuar (10,000 BCE – present, pseudoarchaeology 1970s) · Shuar / Pseudohistory (von Däniken)
Cueva de los Tayos in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador is a Paleo-Indian to Shuar (10,000 BCE – present, pseudoarchaeology 1970s) cave attributed to Shuar / Pseudohistory (von Däniken) culture.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Philippovka Kurgans – Sarmatian Gold Necropolis
Iron Age Sarmatian (Prokhorovka culture) · Early Sarmatian (Sauromatian–Prokhorovka)
29 Sarmatian chief mounds (400–300 BCE)—26,000 gold appliqués and scale-armored elite on the Ural steppe.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Temple of Artemis at Kyzicos? Actually Temple of Hadrian (Hadrian Temple) at Kyzikos, Erdek
Roman Imperial (Hadrianic) · Roman Mysia (Kyzikos neocorate)
Hadrian's isthmus temple 50×92 m colossus on Kapıdağ isthmus, largest Marmara temple.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Adulis (Adulis Bay & Gulf of Zula)
Pre-Aksumite to Late Aksumite to Early Islamic (500 BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–6th c) · Pre-Aksumite D'MT → Aksumite (South Arabian/Eritrean)
40 ha Aksumite–Roman Red Sea port of Periplus linking elephant ivory to Mediterranean with temple and 4th-c basilica plus trilingual Monumentum Adulitanum.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gobekli Tepe Karahan Quarry Outlier — Western Terrace
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Karahan Quarry Outlier — Western Terrace in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Jinderis (Jindires / Gindaros) — Hilltop Stronghold
Chalcolithic through Roman (Chalcolithic, EBA, Iron, Hellenistic-Roman Gindaros) · Afrin chalcolithic → Amuq EBA → Aramaean → Hellenistic-Roman Gindaros
Tell Jinderis (Jindires / Gindaros) — Hilltop Stronghold is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Aleppo Governorate, Afrin District, Afrin River plain, Kurd-Dagh, Syria — Afrin plain hilltop tell…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Salar de Uyuni Hill Figures & Salt-Flat Geoglyphs
Formative to Middle Horizon (Lípez–Intersalar) · Lípez / Intersalar–early Tiwanaku
25+ hill and salar-margin geoglyphs (800 BCE–800 CE) guiding Lípez salt caravans at 3,656 m.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Zuojiang Huashan North Ningming Rock Art
Warring States to Western Han · Luoyue / Zhuang ancestors
North Mingjiang tributary cliffs with 210 frog-men and scaffold postholes.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jabal Ithnayn East Col Kites (Twin Peaks Eastern Pass)
PPNB Late to LN (7000–5500 BCE) · Ithnayn twin-cone pass trappers (Maitland–Kheshabiyeh fringe)
6 pass-straddling kites 740 m: 900 m walls ascend 38° cone slopes to dual opposing pens in 420 m col — only ridge-break kite system.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Wittmoor Bog Trackways I & II (Hamburg Rhineland)
Early Iron Age (Jastorf / La Tène) · North German Early Iron Age
Dual Iron Age bog trackways (25 m asl) southeast through Wittmoor (Moor 53°42′00″N 10°04′10″E 53.699984N 10.069399E per Wikipedia No II 1904 Wolff discovery) and parallel No I 500 m northeast.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Lepenski Vir Terrace Lower Dwelling 12 — Eastern Outlier
Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) · Lepenski Vir Culture
Lepenski Vir Terrace Lower Dwelling 12 — Eastern Outlier in Danube Gorge, Donji Milanovac, Serbia is a Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Lepenski Vir Culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Mitchell Site
Mississippian (c.1050–1250 CE) Early–Middle Mississippian Stirling phase · Mississippian (Cahokia)
The Mitchell Site (11S2) is a Middle Mississippian mound-and-village suburb of Greater Cahokia on the Horseshoe Lake meander opposite Collinsville, Illinois.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash West Valley — Fergana Range High Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
West cirque of Saimaluu-Tash at 3120 m with 1072 boulders, Andronovo ploughing and shaman processions.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Walnut Canyon National Monument
Sinagua (c.1100–1250 CE) Northern Sinagua – Cohonina transition · Northern Sinagua
Walnut Canyon National Monument preserves 300+ Northern Sinagua cliff dwellings (c.1100–1250 CE) set in shallow alcoves under the Kaibab Limestone rim of a 122m-deep canyon 12 km east of Flagstaff,…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Mahagara
Neolithic (6500–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000) → Iron Age · Vindhyan Belan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara)
Complementary Belan Valley Neolithic–Chalcolithic settlement (c.6500–2000 BCE) 5 km downstream of Koldihwa on the Belan River near Mahagara village — excavated together with Koldihwa (1975–77) by G.R.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Erythrae (Erythrai) — Temple of Athena Polias and Sibyl Rock
Archaic to Byzantine (1100 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek (Erythraean)
Erythraean peninsula Athena cliff temple and Sibyl throne opposite Chios.