🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Amnisos – Minoan Harbour of Knossos
Minoan to Byzantine (c. 2000 BCE – 6th c. CE) · Minoan / Mycenaean / Greek
Knossos' Minoan harbour at Amnisos — villa frescoes and 70 m quay now –1 to –3 m in surf below Eileithyia cave.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Río Bec
Late Classic (Río Bec style florescence) · Maya (Río Bec)
Type site for Río Bec architectural phenomenon (c.550–900 CE) — most dispersed large Classic Maya city 50 km², 6 km² core with 6+ plaza groups (A–F, Central Group Structure V-N 13...
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Nausharo
Kot Diji I (3000–2700) → Transitional II (2700–2500) → Harappan III (2500–2100 BCE) · Kot Diji / Early Harappan → Mature Harappan (Bolan culture)
Early Harappan → Mature Harappan village (c.3000–2100 BCE) 6 km south of Mehrgarh on the Bolan terrace, Balochistan — 5 ha mound excavated 1985–96 by J-F. Jarrige (French Archaeological Mission).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kausambi (Ancient Kosambi)
Mahajanapada 600 BCE → Mauryan → Gupta 4th c CE · Vatsa Janapada → Mauryan → Sunga–Gupta (Middle Ganga)
Kausambi (Kosambi) — capital of Vatsa Mahajanapada (c.600 BCE–300 CE) on Yamuna 56 km SW Prayagraj, excavated 1949–56 by G.R. Sharma (Allahabad University).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Rock art
Bilbao Cotzumalhuapa
Middle to Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) · Cotzumalhuapa
Bilbao Cotzumalhuapa in Escuintla, Guatemala is a Middle to Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) rock art attributed to Cotzumalhuapa culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo Grande (S'edav Va'aki)
Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic (450–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Salt River branch)
Classic Hohokam great-house platform-mound town (c.450–1450 CE) at heart of modern Phoenix — largest Hohokam platform mound in Salt River valley, controlling 30 km Grand Canal system irrigating 70…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Aktobe Tortoba East Satellite Kurgans (Kobda District Eastern Cluster)
Early Sarmatian (600–400 BCE) · Sarmatian / Prot. Sauromatian
Eastern satellite cluster 10 km east of Tortoba core (Kobda District, Aktobe, 165 m) with 12 kurgans 18–52 m diam, 2–6 m high on low Emba-Uil interfluve steppe.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Cedar-Bank Works
Early to Middle Woodland (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Adena – early Hopewell
Paired Adena (1000–100 BCE) and Hopewell-era enclosures on left bank of Scioto 5 mi north of Chillicothe: large 350-m-diameter circular enclosure (12 ac) with interior ditch and 1.5 m embankment plus…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Thimlich Ohinga
Late Iron Age (15th–19th c CE) · Luo (Bantu-Luo Nilotic) / Gusii
UNESCO Luo walled town Thimlich Ohinga — 4-m dry-stone walls enclosing hill settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Saki Tatanami Kofun Cluster
Kofun Middle 4th–6th c CE (Yamato middle) · Mid-Kofun Yamato — Saki royal cemetery north Heijo
Saki Tatanami Kofun Cluster — massive 4th–6th c CE Kofun cemetery (7 km long, 120+ mounds) at Saki–Tatanami hills 4 km north Heijo Palace, northern Nara basin edge, surveyed 1970s–90s by Nara…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Yaxhá
Preclassic–Late Classic · Maya (Eastern Petén)
Lacustrine Maya city (600 BCE–900 CE) on north shore of Lake Yaxhá, with 500+ structures: North Acropolis 23 m twin pyramids, Main Plazas, South Acropolis, twin ballcourts, island...
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mitathal
Sothi → Mature → Late Harappan / OCP 3000–1500 BCE · Indus Valley (Sothi–Harappan Eastern Domain)
Key Indus Eastern Domain type-site (c.3000–1500 BCE) on the Drishadvati–Sarasvati divide at Bhiwani, Haryana — two mounds (A 23 ha citadel, B 10 ha lower town) excavated 1968 by Suraj Bhan revealing…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pollock Works Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell (200 BCE–300 CE) · Hopewell
Hopewell enclosure pair on Scioto River terrace 9 km southwest of Chillicothe: large sub-square 160×140 m (3 ha) with 1.2 m embankment and interior ditch, conjoined at corner to 80 m diameter circle…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Shushtar Band-e Ahmadi Weir (Shushtar Ahmadi Bridge-Dam)
Safavid with Sasanian spolia · Safavid Khuzestan
Band-e Ahmadi: 180-m Safavid 1680 bridge-dam 4 km south of Shushtar UNESCO, 12 arches.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Towosahgy State Historic Site
Late Mississippian (Medley–Dorena phases) · Mississippian (Bootheel)
Fortified Late Mississippian center (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and bastioned palisade on Bootheel terrace.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Go Thap (Óc Eo–Funan)
Óc Eo 100 BCE–300 CE → Funan 200–600 CE → Chenla 600–800 CE → Khmer influence 800–1200 · Óc Eo–Funan (pre–Angkorian Mekong hydraulic with Indianization)
Mekong Delta Óc Eo–Funan secondary city (100 BCE–600 CE) at Go Thap Tháp Mười — 400 ha with Vishnu Garuda and 20 km canal to Oc Eo.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park
Late Woodland – early Mississippian, Plum Bayou 650–1050 CE · Plum Bayou (aboriginal ancestors of Quapaw? Coles Creek related, not Caddo Mississippian)
Best-preserved Plum Bayou-culture platform-mound center (650–1050 CE) – 18 mounds (two tallest 15 m and 12 m) arranged geometrically around rectangular plazas and an earthwork embankment with…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Kyzyl-Tobe North Kurgan (Uil River North Frontier Outpost)
Middle Sarmatian · Sarmatian frontier
Kyzyl-Tobe north outpost: 18-m isolated kurgan with rampart overlooking Uil River ford.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Hiraizumi (Chūson-ji)
Heian–Kamakura 1087–1189 CE (Fujiwara Ōshu) · Northern Fujiwara (Ōshu) — Frontier Pure Land Buddhist
Hiraizumi — northern Fujiwara capital (1087–1189 CE) 35 km south Morioka, Iwate Hiraizumi, excavated 1950s–2010s.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Fortress
Chilhudzhra
Sogdian 5th–8th c → Samanid–Karakhanid 10th–13th c · Sogdian → Samanid Islamic (Zeravshan valley)
Chilhudzhra (Fortress of Forty Daughters) — Sogdian–Islamic mountain fortress (5th–13th c CE) 60 km east Panjakent, Zeravshan valley Fann foothills, excavated 1960s–80s Negmatov and Pulatov.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Sesklo Neolithic Settlement — Thessaly
Early to Late Neolithic (c.5800–3300 BCE) · Thessalian Neolithic (Sesklo–Dimini sequence)
Sesklo (Early to Middle Neolithic c.5800–4400 BCE, Chalcolithic to 3300 BCE) is Thessaly's classic tell settlement 8 km west of Volos, a 13-m stratigraphic mound (Sesklo A acropolis 100 × 80 m) plus…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yautepec
Late Postclassic (Aztec/Morelos) · Aztec (Tlahuica–Xochimilca provincial)
Aztec provincial capital (1350–1521 CE) in Morelos — palace, pyramid and 150 ha town at Yautepec valley floor.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Maheshwar (Mahishmati)
Maheshwar I Chalcolithic 1400–600 BCE → II Early Historic 600 BCE–400 CE → IV Holkar 1760 CE · Maheshwar Chalcolithic → Satavahana → Holkar Maratha
Historic Mahishmati–Maheshwar city on Narmada (1400 BCE–1760 CE) — Chalcolithic below Holkar fort and Maheshwari textile loom.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Eastern Rajasthan Ridge Inner — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-38)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Rajasthan Ridge Inner — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-38) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.