🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Kaya Jibana — Kilifi Badlands
Mijikenda (16th c. CE) · Mijikenda (Jibana)
Kaya Jibana — Kilifi Badlands in Kilifi County, Kenya is a Mijikenda (16th c. CE) ancient-village attributed to Mijikenda (Jibana).
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Tar-Khaniala — Salt Range Harappan Outwork
Kot Diji–Harappan (3000–1900 BCE) · Harappan frontier
Tar-Khaniala — Salt Range Harappan Outwork in Punjab, Pakistan is a Kot Diji–Harappan (3000–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan frontier. Salt Range Harappan mound with bituminous Harappan pottery.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Neba'a Chaate
PPN to Iron Age (c.7800 BCE–600 BCE; Neolithic foundational) · PPN → Neolithic → Chalcolithic → Bronze-Iron Bekaa
Bekaa spring mound (7800 BCE–600 BCE) with PPN plaster horizon under Bronze tell near Zahle.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Agadez & Takedda (Niger) – Air-Copper Oasis Twins
Late Medieval / Tuareg / Songhai · Tuareg (Kel Air) / Songhai tributary
Paired Saharan stations: Agadez (c.1400 Tuareg sultanate capital with 27 m mudbrick minaret) and medieval Takedda copper industrial estate (14th c, Ibn Battuta 1353: 'copper mine of Takadda') 150 km…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Huntichmul East Complex
Terminal Classic Puuc 800–1050 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Huntichmul East Complex north of Puuc Route: 70 m long vaulted palace with Puuc junquillo columns, sacbe linking to Sayil Group 2 km west. Mapped by Pollock 1980; 8 mounds remain unexcavated.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Rusadir
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Mauri
Punic-Roman cape town beneath Melilla with dye vats and tophet.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Burgata — Sharon
Iron Age I–II (1200–600 BCE) · Israelite / Phoenician
Tel Burgata — Sharon in Sharon Plain, Israel is a Iron Age I–II (1200–600 BCE) tell attributed to Israelite / Phoenician. Israelite settlement with ash pits and Phoenician storage jars.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Temple complex
Adji Kui — Murghab BMAC Sanctuary
BMAC (2100–1700 BCE) · Oxus (Gonur phase)
Adji Kui — Murghab BMAC Sanctuary in Mary Province, Turkmenistan is a BMAC (2100–1700 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Oxus (Gonur phase).
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Kanmer — Kutch Harappan Fort
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Kanmer — Kutch Harappan Fort in Gujarat, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan. Fortified Harappan town with 2 m walls and bead workshops near Little Rann.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Kyaneai — Theatre Hill Outer Necropolis
Lycian (500 BCE–200 CE) · Lycian
Kyaneai — Theatre Hill Outer Necropolis in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian (500 BCE–200 CE) rock_cut attributed to Lycian. Outer sarcophagi field beyond theatre of Kyaneai with 100+ sarcophagi.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Habuba Kabira
Late Uruk/Jemdet Nasr (c.3500–3000 BCE) · South Mesopotamian Uruk colonial
Classic Late Uruk colony (c.3500–3000 BCE) on the Euphrates, 18 ha walled town with tripartite temples, administrative t...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Shemshara
Hassuna to Islamic (c.6200 BCE–1200 CE; archive Late Bronze c.1800 BCE) · Hassuna → Halaf → Ubaid → MBA Shamshera kingdom → Islamic
Dokan MBA palace mound with 150-tablet Shamshera kingdom archive (1800 BCE) on Lower Zab.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Karkabhat — Chhattisgarh Megalith Circle
Iron Age (700–200 BCE) · Chhattisgarh megalithic
Karkabhat — Chhattisgarh Megalith Circle in Chhattisgarh, India is a Iron Age (700–200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Chhattisgarh megalithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Isinda — Lycia Upland City
Lycian Classical (500 BCE–300 BCE) · Lycian
Isinda — Lycia Upland City in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian Classical (500 BCE–300 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Lycian. Walled Lycian upland city at Belenli pass with rock tombs and agora.
🇨🇩 Congo (DRC) · Rock art
Matupi Cave (Ituri) – 40-ka Rainforest Foragers
Later Stone Age · Rainforest foragers (pre-Bantu)
10 m stratified rainforest sequence proving equatorial forest foraging since 40 ka (charcoal, palm nuts, phytoliths, toolkit).
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Takalghat — Asolamendha Stone Circle
Iron Age (800–300 BCE) · Vidarbha
Takalghat — Asolamendha Stone Circle in Maharashtra, India is a Iron Age (800–300 BCE) megalithic attributed to Vidarbha.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Iris
Middle Bronze to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE–600 CE) · MBA Canaanite → Late Bronze coastal → Iron → Hellenistic
Jableh plain farming tell (1800 BCE–600 CE) with Hellenistic amphora kiln north of Jableh.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Tilla — Adina Masjid Mound
Pre-Harappan to Gandhara (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Gandhara prehistoric to Gandharan
Tilla — Adina Masjid Mound in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Pre-Harappan to Gandhara (3000 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Gandhara prehistoric to Gandharan.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Tregeseal Stone Circle — St Just
Late Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic
Tregeseal Stone Circle — St Just in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic megalithic attributed to Cornish Neolithic.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Abthugni
Numidian to Vandal (3rd c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Christian
Municipium with theatre, circus and martyr basilica (303 CE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Godrevy Headland Hut Circles
Bronze Age · Cornish Bronze Age
Godrevy Headland Hut Circles in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age ancient-village attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇨🇩 Congo (DRC) · Archaeological wonder
Ishango (Lake Edward) – Harpoon & Ishango Bone
Later Stone Age Ishango · Ishango LSA fisher-foragers
Lakeshore fishing village (25–20 ka LSA) famed for 25,000 barbed bone harpoons and Ishango Bone – baboon fibula with tally marks (perhaps 20 ka lunar calendar or arithmetic, oldest maths artefact,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Machu Picchu
Late Horizon (Inca Imperial, ~1450–1530 CE) · Inca (Quechua)
15th-century Inca citadel perched at 2,430 m on a narrow saddle between Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu peaks above the Urubamba Valley.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Oinoanda — Lycian Bridge at Kemerarasi
Roman (200 CE) · Roman Lycian
Oinoanda — Lycian Bridge at Kemerarasi in Burdur Province, Turkey is a Roman (200 CE) hydraulic attributed to Roman Lycian. Roman segmental arch bridge 30 m over Xanthos tributary at Kemerarasi gorge.