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🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Iron Age to Early Medieval (c.1000 BCE–1100 CE) · Iron Age Gaelic → Early Medieval Uí Néill
Donegal hilltop royal cashel (23.5 m diameter) on Greenan Mountain — northern Uí Néill kingship inauguration fort.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic (Middle to Late) · Upper Palaeolithic Altai-Sayan hunter-gatherers (Mal'ta-Afontova tradition)
Mongolia's Palaeolithic blue cave with ostrich-mammoth paintings 38–20 ka.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland to Early Mississippian (Swift Creek–Cartersville) · Woodland (Swift Creek) / Early Mississippian
Moated Swift Creek town (300 BCE–650 CE) with 3 mounds and circular ditch on Etowah River, Georgia.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Classical literature (350 BCE Theopompus – quoted 2nd c. CE Aelian) · Chian Greek paradoxography
Theopompus 350 BCE satirical Atlantic island with two million-man cities — direct parody of Plato's Atlantis two generations later.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5 in Kirkuk, Yorghan Tepe, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sechin Bajo Plaza Circular in Ancash, Sechín Bajo, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Nomadic · Andronovo-Fedorovo, Saka, Turkic
South terrace 600 m south of Tamgaly UNESCO core with Late Bronze chariot stratigraphy.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) · Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip
Tell Asharna in Hama Governorate, Orontes Valley, Asharna plain, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) settlement attributed to Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze II (3400–2600 BCE; Ninevite 5) · North Mesopotamian Ninevite 5 (Khabur) → EJ 2
Khabur granary acropolis with 200+ beehive silos — Early Bronze dry-farming surplus hub.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis in Oaxaca, Yagul, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Middle Yayoi zenith) · Yayoi Saga — Northern Kyushu rice chiefdom (Himiko candidate)
Yoshinogari Saga Moated Settlement — Japan's largest Yayoi moated village and Himiko Yamatai candidate (300 BCE–300 CE, 40 ha inner enclosure) on Yoshinogari hills at Chikugo River north Kyushu,…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Genoese (c. 600 BCE – 1460 CE) · Paphlagonian / Persian / Hellenistic (Amastris) / Roman / Byzantine / Genoese
Queen Amastris's twin-bay double harbour – western mole 80 m at –2.5 m and eastern mole 60 m at –3 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Nasca-Huari Transition to Middle Horizon · Huarpa–Wari (Lucanas)
Chaviña south pampa: 20 spiral/camelid figures on Lucanas ignimbrite fan at 3,280 m.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Old Babylonian to Kassite (Middle Bronze) · Kassite / Highland Zagros
Zagros highland ziggurat at Choga Gavaneh c.1800 BCE — 60 m square mudbrick platform 15 m high with Kassite pottery linking Babylonia to Sialk highland line.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Byzantine (1100 BCE – 600 CE) · Aeolian/Ionian Greek and Roman (Pergamene)
Hermogenes' pseudodipteral Artemis temple 150 BCE — Vitruvian beautiful after Ephesus.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mawangdui Han Tomb 1 East Chamber in Hunan, Changsha, China is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic 2100–1600 → Chalcolithic 1600–1000 BCE · South Bihar Neolithic — Taradih facies (Magadha Neolithic)
Taradih Bihar Neolithic Settlement — Neolithic settlement (2100–1000 BCE) 3 km south Bodh Gaya on Falgu River, excavated 1991–94 by A.K. Prasad (Magadha University, Bodh Gaya Circle).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field
Migration → Vendel Period 550–790 → Viking Age to 10th c · Vendel Period Svear (Tiundaland) — type eponym Vendeltid
Vendel (Vendel parish Tierp) — boat-grave field (Vendel Period 550–790 + Viking 14 graves total 1881–83 H.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Late Neolithic (Wartberg culture, 3400–2800 BCE) · Wartberg (Funnel Beaker–Wartberg late group)
The Altendorf grave (Wartberg culture, late Neolithic c.3400–3000 BCE), on the Altenburg ridge near Naumburg 24 km southwest of Kassel, was a 17-m gallery grave chamber 17.5 m long inside a 17 × 5 m…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Early Formative Alto Ramírez I–II · Alto Ramírez upper-valley
Upper Azapa precordillera: 18 steep-slope figures at 980 m marking valley bottleneck to highlands.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) · Maya (Cancuen – Pasión port)
Cancuen in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala is a Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) ancient city attributed to Maya (Cancuen – Pasión port) culture.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway Step 33 in Copán, Honduras is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dholavira Citadel North Gate in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Ikikoku under Wei Zhi Wa federation) · Yayoi Iki–Tsushima maritime (Wa – Wei Himiko federation)
Wei Zhi Ikikoku maritime capital (300 BCE–300 CE) at Harunotsuji Iki — 100 ha with 2 km moat, 47 Han mirrors and plaza warehouse.
