🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Port Bank Petroglyph Field
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Port Bank Petroglyph Field in Sicily, Italy is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock art attributed to Andean Formative culture.
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🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Port Bank Petroglyph Field in Sicily, Italy is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock art attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to EBA (5800–2200 BCE; ditch phase 4600 BCE) · Karanovo I–VI → Karanovo VI–Gumelniţa → Ezero
Massacre tell 4600 BCE — 30 perimortem skeletons in ditches (Katincharov).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Iron Age (c.900–600 BCE; Mannean–Median–Scythian 750–600) · Mannean → Median → Scythian (Ziwiyeh treasure)
Ziwiyeh is the looted but famous Iron citadel (fortified manor) above a Mannean deposit — 1947 treasure (gold pectoral with Winged genie, ivory plaques with Scy...
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ancient City of Ness-Rath in Ohio, United States is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) ancient city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Medieval-Bono (13th–18th c. CE) · Brong-Akan (Bono)
North craft quarter of Begho gold entrepôt with gold-weights and bloomery.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Fortress
Medieval Akan (Bono) (11th–18th c. CE) · Akan (Bono–Adansi)
Granite dome fortress refuge of Bono state with white dot art shelters.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic–Chalcolithic–Iron Age 2500 BCE–600 CE · Neolithic Gangetic / Narhan culture precursor
Lowland Neolithic–Chalcolithic mound (2500 BCE–140 CE) at Ganga–Ghaghara confluence, Saran, Bihar, with 42 ft cultural deposit and continuous sequence Neolithic → Chalcolithic → Iron Age →…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Earthwork Ancient City in County Kerry, Ireland is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇫🇷 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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) Marmara Neolithic tell at Bursa Province, Iznik Basin – fikirtepe hamlet on former lake terrace (dims Mound 120 m diam, 4 m Fikirtepe deposits).
🇺🇸 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.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor Yasodharapura 889–928 · Hindu Shaiva (Linga)
Mountain-temple on 65 m natural Bakheng hill (c.889–910 CE, Yasovarman I) at centre of first Angkor capital Yasodharapura, five-tier pyramid with 108 shrines plus central quincunx representing Mt.
🇱🇾 Libya · Pyramid
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Pyramid of Tel Floodplain in Fezzan, Libya is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) pyramid attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Fortress
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Shallow Fortress in County Kerry, Ireland is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) fortress attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Shikarpur — Kutch in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient village attributed to Harappan culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hillfort
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Source Hillfort in Oruro, Bolivia is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) hillfort attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB South Levantine (Ghouta)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB South Levantine (Ghouta) tell at Damascus Basin, Ghouta fringe – eb walled town on damascus oasis fringe (dims Mound 8 ha, wall 8 m thick).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA I to Old Syrian (3500–1600 BCE; peak Eblaite Palace G 2400 BCE) · EBA Eblaite → Eblaite Syrian → Old Syrian (Yamhad)
Eblaite capital lower town 2400 BCE — 17k tablets south quarter & Temple of Rock.
🇫🇷 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.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Ancient City of Mount Winton in Piauí, Brazil is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Nazca culture.