🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Cactus Hill
Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)
Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Outer Djenné-Jeno Mound East — Djenné-Jeno (57-33)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Outer Djenné-Jeno Mound East — Djenné-Jeno (57-33) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Kanlıdivane (Kanytelis / Neapolis)
Hellenistic to medieval (c.400 BCE–1200 CE) · Olbian priest-kings → Isaurian pirates → Roman → Byzantine
Sinkhole-city Kanytelis: 60 m chasm with rim temples, three basilicas and tower-tomb skyline.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Dilbat
Early Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c.3000–539 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB → Kassite → NB
Dilbat (Tell al-Deylam, ancient Dulbat) is a 30-ha Sumerian town 30 km south of Babylon on the Arahtu canal, centre of the grain-goddess Uraš and later Nabu of...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Suberde (Göğrem Su Göleti)
Aceramic Neolithic to Early Pottery Neolithic · Central/West Anatolian Neolithic
Aceramic Neolithic lakeside tell (c.7500–6500 BCE) on terrace of Lake Suğla near Karadağ, excavated 1965–71 by Jacques Bordaz.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Volodymyrivka
Chalcolithic Trypillia BI (4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia BI (Tomashivka central)
Volodymyrivka — Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3800 BCE, 100 ha, 800 houses) on Synyukha River, Kirovohrad, SBDI central cluster between Nebelivka and Dobrovody.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Surkotada
Mature Harappan 2600–1700 BCE · Indus Valley (Harappan)
Small fortified mature Harappan town (2600–1700 BCE) in Kutch, 1.4 ha with stone-built citadel and residential area sharing fortification like Kalibangan. Excavated 1964–68 by J.P.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Rock art
Red Town Petroglyph Field
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Red Town Petroglyph Field in County Kerry, Ireland is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Malhar — Chhattisgarh Urban Centre
Early Historic (350 BCE–500 CE) · Kalchuri
Malhar — Chhattisgarh Urban Centre in Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India is a Early Historic (350 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Kalchuri culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Can Hasan III
Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic
Small Neolithic mound (80 m diameter, 4 m high) on the Konya Plain, excavated by David French 1960s as the earliest of t...
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Hillfort
Nemyriv Scythian Hillfort
Early Scythian (7th–6th century BCE) · Scythian (Forest-Steppe)
Largest Scythian-period fortified settlement between Dnieper and Dniester (110 ha) on both banks of a Boh tributary at Sazhky–Nemyriv, with double earthen ramparts 6 km perimeter (8 m high, 32 m…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bagasra — Amreli
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Sorath Harappan
Bagasra — Amreli in Gujarat, Amreli, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Sorath Harappan culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Rock art
Wadi Khirbet Rock Shelter
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Wadi Khirbet Rock Shelter in Oruro, Bolivia is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Begho North Quarter (Brong-Akan Gold Sector)
Medieval-Bono (13th–18th c. CE) · Brong-Akan (Bono)
North craft quarter of Begho gold entrepôt with gold-weights and bloomery.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Fortress
Bono Manso Rock Citadel (Adansi–Bono Hill Fort)
Medieval Akan (Bono) (11th–18th c. CE) · Akan (Bono–Adansi)
Granite dome fortress refuge of Bono state with white dot art shelters.
🇱🇾 Libya · Pyramid
Pyramid of Tel Floodplain
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Pyramid of Tel Floodplain in Fezzan, Libya is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) pyramid attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle
Late Neolithic (2500–1500 BCE) · Recumbent builders
Easter Aquhorthies Stone Circle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (2500–1500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Recumbent builders.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karahöyük (Elbistan)
Early Bronze Age to Medieval (peak MBA–Hittite–Iron) · EB Anatolian → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Tabal → Armenian Medieval
Large Elbistan Plain mound (300 × 250 m, 22 m high) dominating the Ceyhan headwaters, second only to Tilmen in the plain...
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Chanhudaro
Harappan to Jhukar (2500–1700 BCE, industrial bead and shell) · Harappan → Jhukar-Chanhudaro
Harappan industrial town (2500–1700 BCE) — 7 ha faience and shell-bangle workshop on Indus left bank.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Tiantishan Grottoes
Sixteen Kingdoms Northern Liang 412–439 · Northern Liang Buddhist (Xiongnu–Han)
Hexi Corridor prototype grottoes where Northern Liang Buddhism seeded Yungang's later scheme.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ri Cruin Cairn
Early Bronze Age · Beaker
Outlier kerb cairn at south end of Kilmartin linear cemetery, Beaker period, with lime-kiln reuse.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Drehem
Ur III (c.2112–2004 BCE; peak Shulgi–Ibbi-Sin c.2050 BCE) · Ur III state (Third Dynasty of Ur)
Ur III state cattle redistribution centre Puzrish-Dagan (Drehem) — Shulgi's royal livestock agency (c.2050 BCE) processing thousands of cattle/sheep for Ur and...
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kampyr Tepe
Hellenistic to Kushan (c.300 BCE–3rd cent CE, candidate Alexander 329 BCE) · Greco-Bactrian → Kushan
Hellenistic–Kushan Oxus fortress — candidate Alexandria on the Oxus (329 BCE) with 'Pompeii' preservation.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Ganweriwala
Mature Harappan (c.2500–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Fifth largest Harappan metropolis (80.5 ha) — un-excavated twin mounds anchoring Cholistan's 414 Harappan sites.