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🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Medieval (c.528 BCE – 1399 CE) · Megarian Greek / Byzantine
Megarian Black Sea polis UNESCO — western Quarantine Bay harbour and street grid now 1–3 m submerged at Sevastopol.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Neolithic to Medieval (Hongshan to Liao-Jin) · Hongshan, Lower Xiajiadian, Ordos and Khitan Liao
Eastern Yinshan steppe granite with 3000 Neolithic–Khitan images, Hongshan–Yinshan bridge.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Bronze Age to Iron Age · Fenland Bronze Age / Iron Age (East Anglian)
Fen-edge timber trackway (18 m asl, 52°21′N 00°03′E approx 51.78,0.65 Many River fen edge) bridging the prehistoric fen causeway zone between dryland and Flag Fen basin (Flag Fen Bronze Age 1300 BCE)…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Small queens pyramid immediately north of the Pyramid of Teti at Saqqara, built for Queen Iput I, daughter of Unas and wife of Teti, mother of Pepi I.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze (Kelteminar-Bozashy) · Ustyurt steppe Kelteminar
Central Asian steppe-kite province on the Ustyurt chalk plateau (160 m, 44°12′N 54°12′E) in the 40 m deep Karynzharyk karst depression (Ustyurt Biosphere).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic · Hisma Neolithic pastoralists
21 Late Neolithic sandstone kites (6000–4500 BCE) against Wadi Rum inselbergs — southernmost Levantine corridor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Horizon (600–800 CE), Recuay–Wari · Recuay (Pashash)–Wari (Huari)
Three-storey subterranean-tower pyramid-mausoleum (12 m high, 18x18 m square) of Recuay (Pashash) then Wari-Tiwanaku horizon (600–800 CE) in Callejón de Huaylas at 3400 m, built of dressed white…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) · Caral-Supe (Norte Chico)
Caral-Supe in Lima, Peru is a Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Caral-Supe (Norte Chico) culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom (viceregal Kush) to early Napatan · Egyptian / Kushite (Napatan)
Napatan pyramid cemetery 5 km N of Jebel Barkal — 20 tombs 1400–300 BCE with small steep pyramids 5–8 m bridging New Kingdom viceregal and Kushite Kush.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Bronze Age, Classic Kerma (c.1750–1500 BCE, contemporary with Egyptian Second Intermediate Period–early New Kingdom) · Kerma culture (Nubian, Kingdom of Kush — pre-Napatan)
Tumulus KIII is among the largest royal tumuli in the Kerma Eastern and Western cemeteries capping the Kerma capital of the Dongola Reach (≈150 ha, oldest sub-Saharan city).
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Neolithic to Pastoral Iron Age (3500 BCE–700 CE) · Nderit fisher/foragers → Early Pastoral Elmenteitan
Turkana megalithic cairn cemetery Lothagam — 3.5 ka pastoral monumental graves west of lake.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician to Late Antiquity (7th c BCE – 7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Two-kilometre strand city on Djerba's southeastern causeway shore, Meninx was the island's Phoenician emporion turned Roman civitas capital, famed for murex purple second only to T...
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Majes valley
35+ broad trapezoidal geoglyphs (600-900 CE) on Pampa de Majes with 600-m highways converging on cairn huacas.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Submerged site
Colchian Early Iron to Hellenistic (c. 6th – 2nd c. BCE) · Colchian / East Greek Milesian
Colchian dunes village and Greek emporion — timber quay –1 to –3 m in surf and 300-grave cemetery 120 m reclaimed by sea since 5th c. BCE.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
Trușești in Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania is a Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Formative (500 BCE – 400 CE) · Atacameño (Likan Antai)
Tulor Village in Antofagasta, Chile is a Formative (500 BCE – 400 CE) ancient village attributed to Atacameño (Likan Antai) culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian
Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Archaic Greek to Islamic (6th c BCE–7th c CE; Hellenistic–Roman peak) · Greek / Ptolemaic / Roman / Jewish / Byzantine
Ptolemaic queen-city beneath Benghazi with salt-marsh promontory, Jewish menorah mosaic and silted harbour.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Classic Veracruz (600 – 900 CE) · Classic Veracruz
El Zapotal in Veracruz, Mexico is a Classic Veracruz (600 – 900 CE) temple complex attributed to Classic Veracruz culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Chalcolithic (Ubaid-related Late Chalcolithic 5500–4000 BCE window) · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic (Aksaray-Melendiz)
Middle Chalcolithic rocky citadel (5200–4800 BCE) — fortified island town on Melendiz obsidian route, Gülçur type-site.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Late Pleistocene Hoabinhian (71–11 ka) → Early Holocene → Neolithic 3600 BCE · Hoabinhian (Southeast Asian hunter-gatherer) → Neolithic Austroasiatic
Hoabinhian–Neolithic rockshelter (c.80000–5000 BP) on Sampov karst hill near Battambang, Cambodia — 1 ha shelter with stratified Hoabinhian lithics (cobble tools, sumatraliths, edge-ground axes),…
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Mississippian (Middle–Late, Thruston–Dallas) · Mississippian (Western Valley)
Largest mound-count site in TN (51 mounds, 1100–1500 CE) above Duck–Buffalo confluence; source of Duck River Cache.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, c.1890 BCE (Senwosret II / Sesostris II) · Ancient Egyptian (Senwosret II)
Pyramid of Senwosret II at Illahun (El-Lahun) desert edge Faiyum: 48 m high mudbrick pyramid (107 m base) with limestone casing, northern annex enclosure and 8 queen's pyramids (including Queen…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Chalcolithic (c.3000–2500 BCE) · Algarve Chalcolithic (Los Millares–Vila Nova de São Pedro group)
Alcalar (Chalcolithic 3000–2500 BCE) is a fortified hilltop settlement and 18-mound necropolis crowning the Alcalar ridge between Portimão and Lagos, Algarve, with the massive Monument 7 tholos: a…