🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell — Targovishte Ritual House Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa
Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).
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🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa
Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).
🇮🇳 India · Earthwork
Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) · Southern Neolithic
Tekkalakota — Bellary in Karnataka, Bellary, India is a Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) earthwork attributed to Southern Neolithic culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Jazira I–V (3100–2100 BCE) · Early Jazira Hurrian precursor → Akkadian
EJ II Nabada planned insula 2420 BCE — tablet sealings & kiln quarter (Lebeau).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Acheulean (1200000 BP) · Acheulean
Isampur — Hunsgi Acheulean in Karnataka, Hunsgi, India is a Acheulean (1200000 BP) ancient village attributed to Acheulean culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period Casma-Sechín 1800–900 BCE · Casma/Sechín (Moxeke–Pampa de las Llamas polity)
Second platform of earliest planned city in Peru: 30 m Moxeke pyramid with warrior friezes over 200 compounds grid.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Temple complex
Khmer Angkor (10th–13th century CE, Jayavarman VII peak late 12th) · Khmer (Mahayana Buddhist under Jayavarman VII)
Largest Khmer temple in Thailand — Prasat Phimai facing Angkor on Ancient Highway (10th–13th cent).
🇱🇾 Libya · Buried city
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Cist Port Buried Settlement in Fezzan, Libya is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) buried city attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Submerged site
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Sunken City off Cairn Khirbet in Balochistan, Pakistan is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) submerged city attributed to Harappan culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) · Aegean Neolithic
Neolithic–Early Bronze (6850–3000 BCE) Aegean Neolithic tell at Izmir Province, Kemalpaşa – longest continuous aegean neolithic sequence (dims Mound 15 m high, levels I–IVb over 45 building horizons).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8700–7500 BCE; phases I–III) · PPNB Levantine (Ghuta facies)
PPNB Ghuta village 8700 BCE — plastered skulls & earliest barley (Stordeur).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Iron (c.4000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Proto-Elamite 3200–2800, Middle Elamite 1500–1100) · Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite → Middle Elamite (Anshan) → Persian Anshan
Malyan (Tal-e Malyan) is ancient Anshan — the great Elamite highland capital (130 ha) with Proto-Elamite tablets (3200 BCE, second after Uruk), Banesh phase mon...
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Corsican Megalithic → Torréen (Bronze Age)
Corsican valley site with Torréen statue-menhirs bearing sculpted swords and faces protected by cyclopean towers, 3500-1200 BCE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Migration to Viking Age (c.200–1050 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Vendel–Viking
Small island (48 ha) in Lake Mälaren's Helgö, 5 km long, excavated 1954–74 (Holmqvist, Lundström) revealing 800 years of craft (bronze, iron, jewel, glass) and long-distance imports: Coptic bronze…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Iron Age to Early Modern (200–1800 CE) · Ekoi / Ejagham (Legbok)
Ikom Monoliths are >300 basalt volcanic monoliths 1–1.8 m tall arranged in 30 circles (each 6 m Ø with 12 phallic pillars) around Ikom and Alok, dated 1st–18th c CE, uniquely carved with facial…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kushite Napatan (c. 700 BCE–300 CE; field pyramids c. 300 BCE–100 CE) · Kushite (Napatan 25th Dynasty descendants)
Hill of Jebel Barkal sacred mountain (98 m flat-topped sandstone pinnacle) with 10+ small Kushite pyramids of Napatan kings (c.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
St Johns IIc–Mississippian 1050–1562 CE (midden 3000 BCE onward) · St Johns (Timucua ancestors)
St Johns platform mound 6.7 m with 300 m causeway and 6000-year midden, contacted 1562 by French.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Poitou-Charentes Atlantic
Necropolis of four tumuli (B and C registered MH 1992) at Benon, Poitou-Charentes, trapezoidal passage graves, c.4000 BCE.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Tumulus
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Tumulus of Canal Enclosure in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Moche (100–800 CE) tumulus attributed to Moche culture.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Urartian 776 BCE to Orontid Hellenistic (to 2nd c. BCE) · Urartu → Orontid Armenia → Hellenistic
Two citadels (D-A Mound): Argishti I fortress Argishtikhinili built atop Metsamor EB hill, rock-cut canal from Araxes still visible, later Hellenistic wall with Aramaic ostraca of Erivan, mythic…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Neolithic/Bronze Age
Four-stone chlorite row (to 2.8 m) with 70 cup marks, adjacent cairns and ploughed henge in Kilmartin Glen.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Passage grave near Locmariaquer, Morbihan, part of Locmariaquer-Carnac megalithic concentration, c.4000 BCE.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Pyramid
Angkorian Koh Ker period 928–944 CE (Jayavarman IV brief capital) · Khmer (Angkorian Koh Ker)
Brief Angkor capital under Jayavarman IV (928–944): Prasat Thom 36 m high 7-tier sandstone-faced pyramid 55 × 55 m base, steep stair east with giant garuda and yama free-standing sculptures, summit…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Formative 1400 BCE–300 CE (Escalera phase) · Mixe-Zoque (Chiapa de Corzo tradition) / Olmec–Maya bridge
Zoque Olmec–Maya capital with Mound 5 22 m and Stela 2 Long Count 36 BCE, earliest date in Mesoamerica.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Pueblo II–III (1050–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Cliff-point Great House 1050 CE — oval arc & solstice pictograph.