🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sukas — Shuksi Port
Neolithic to Iron (6000–1180 BCE) · Canaanite/Phoenician
Tell Sukas — Shuksi Port in Latakia Governorate, coast, Syria is a Neolithic to Iron (6000–1180 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Phoenician culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tepantitla Palace / Tetitla Apartments, Teotihuacan (detailed)
Teotihuacan Classic · Teotihuacan
Tepantitla Palace / Tetitla Apartments, Teotihuacan (detailed) in State of Mexico, Mexico is a Teotihuacan Classic ancient village attributed to Teotihuacan culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Horseshoe Canyon — Barrier Canyon Great Gallery
Barrier Canyon Style (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Barrier Canyon archaic (pre-Fremont)
Horseshoe Great Gallery recorded by Schaafsma 1970s, Archaic Barrier Style before Anasazi.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Hovenweep National Monument
Pueblo III 1200–1300 CE · Ancestral Puebloan
Six Pueblo tower villages 1200–1300 CE, Square Tower.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Wari Capital Core — Ayacucho Enclosure
Middle Horizon (500–1000 CE) · Wari Empire
Wari Capital Core — Ayacucho Enclosure in Ayacucho Region, Peru is a Middle Horizon (500–1000 CE) ancient-city attributed to Wari Empire.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Numeira — Dead Sea Plain
Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) · EBA
Numeira — Dead Sea Plain in Karak Governorate, Dead Sea plain, Jordan is a Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) ancient city attributed to EBA culture.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Piklihal — Lingasugur Ash Mound
South Indian Neolithic (2500–1000 BCE) · South Indian Neolithic pastoralist
Piklihal — Lingasugur Ash Mound in Karnataka, India is a South Indian Neolithic (2500–1000 BCE) megalithic attributed to South Indian Neolithic pastoralist.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound
Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) · Neolithic to Roman
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound in Mersin Province, Cilicia, Turkey is a Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) tell attributed to Neolithic to Roman culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Callipolis — Gelibolu Fortress Wall Extension
Byzantine–Genoese (1200–1350 CE) · Byzantine then Genoese
Callipolis — Gelibolu Fortress Wall Extension in Çanakkale Province, Turkey is a Byzantine–Genoese (1200–1350 CE) fortress attributed to Byzantine then Genoese.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
El-Kurru Pyramid KU.9 — Tabo? Extension
Napatan Kushite (750–300 BCE) · Kushite (25th Dynasty)
El-Kurru Pyramid KU.9 — Tabo? Extension in Northern State, Sudan is a Napatan Kushite (750–300 BCE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (25th Dynasty).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Kabah Archaeological Zone
Maya Late Classic 300–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc, Uxmal polity)
Palace of Masks 250 Chaac masks, 18 km sacbé 800–950 CE, UNESCO 1996.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Cave
Peri Ali Beg Cave — Rawanduz Gorge
Middle Paleolithic to Neolithic (80000–7000 BCE) · Zagros Paleolithic (Hazar Merd group)
Peri Ali Beg Cave — Rawanduz Gorge in Erbil Governorate, Iraq is a Middle Paleolithic to Neolithic (80000–7000 BCE) cave attributed to Zagros Paleolithic (Hazar Merd group).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mardikh (Ebla)
Bronze Age · Mesopotamian
Ebla Bronze Age palace mound 60 ha tell, Royal Palace G (2400 BCE) 16,000 cuneiform tablets, Upper town acropolis.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Phaistos Palace
Minoan 1900–1400 BCE, peak Neopalatial · Minoan
Minoan hilltop palace where undeciphered Phaistos Disc was found in 1908.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Batán Grande — Sicán Pyramids
Middle Sicán (750–1100 CE) · Sicán (Lambayeque)
Batán Grande — Sicán Pyramids in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Middle Sicán (750–1100 CE) pyramid attributed to Sicán (Lambayeque).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Avebury
Late Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest megalithic stone circle in Europe (11.5 ha), enclosing outer bank and ditch and two inner circles. Village of Avebury sits partially within the monument.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Kadesh
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (c.4000–600 BCE; peak Late Bronze Kadesh kingdom 1500–1200) · Chalcolithic → EB → Mittani → Hittite vassal → Assyrian
Kadesh (Tell Nebi Mend) on Orontes is the Late Bronze city of the Battle of Kadesh (1274 BCE) — largest chariot battle (Hittite Muwatalli II vs Egyptian Ramesse...
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Padri — Gulf of Cambay Harappan Salt Village
Early Harappan to Mature (3200–2000 BCE) · Pre-Harappan Padri ware then Harappan
Padri — Gulf of Cambay Harappan Salt Village in Gujarat, India is a Early Harappan to Mature (3200–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Pre-Harappan Padri ware then Harappan.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Altyn Depe — South Craft Quarter
Bronze Age BMAC (3200–2000 BCE) · Namazga V – Altyn Depe
Altyn Depe — South Craft Quarter in Ahal Province, Turkmenistan is a Bronze Age BMAC (3200–2000 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Namazga V – Altyn Depe.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Naachtun Northern Pyramid
Late Classic · Maya
Maya super city Naachtun in Mirador Basin, triadic pyramids, Structure XXVII 30 m high pyramid, lidar 2022.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Tralleis — Aydın Terrace City West Annex
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–1200 CE) · Hellenistic (Tralles)
Tralleis — Aydın Terrace City West Annex in Aydın Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–1200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Hellenistic (Tralles).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Xpujil Group B
Late Classic Rio Bec 600–900 CE · Maya (Rio Bec)
Group B 500 m south of Xpujil’s iconic Structure I (three-temple pyramid): twin-tower Structure II 9 m high with Rio Bec false stairs, courtyard and vaulted residential palace.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Pontnewydd Cave
Neanderthal (230k–225k BP) · Neanderthal (Mousterian)
Pontnewydd Cave in Denbighshire, Elwy Valley, Wales, United Kingdom is a Neanderthal (230k–225k BP) cave attributed to Neanderthal (Mousterian) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Ramad — Damascus Basin
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) · PPNB
Tell Ramad — Damascus Basin in Rif Dimashq, Damascus basin, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) tell attributed to PPNB culture.