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🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Ridge Grotto Buried Settlement in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) · Euphrates EB – Mitanni
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) Euphrates EB – Mitanni tell at Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Dam zone – twin northern town with tell banat across euphrates branch (dims 15 ha northern citadel with Mittani temple).
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Imperial (100 BCE–500 CE Baiae resort) subsided bradyseism -7 m post-Roman · Roman Imperial luxury littoral (Marius → Augustus → Nero → Hadrian)
Baiae Underwater excavated by Lamboglia & Scognamiglio, Nymphaeum 1968.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) · Satavahana
Dhulikatta — Buddhist Stupa Fort in Telangana, Karimnagar, India is a Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Geoglyph
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Plain Geoglyph in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNB to Late Neolithic (8200–5300 BCE) · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic Yaumoukian /Halaf
PN white-ware hill village 7000 BCE — Veisselle Blanche & deformed skulls (Contenson).
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
The Berdín Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Berdín; Galician: Pazo de Berdín) is located in the village of Doiras, in Boal, Asturias, Spain.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Bukhara — Ark Citadel East Gate in Bukhara, Ark, Uzbekistan is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age fortified culture. …
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age to Modern (c. 400–1900 CE; ritual ongoing) · Iron Age (Early Kano) / Hausa / Fulani
Dala Hill (Goron Dutse pair) is Kano's 534-m granite inselberg nucleus where Kano city was founded by Dala Iron Age smiths (c. 400 CE) before Hausa walling, with 999-step stair.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient village
Geoksyur period (Namazga I–III) Chalcolithic–Early Bronze · Anau cultures (Jeitun→Geoksyur→Altyn)
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age tell cluster (4500–3000 BCE) forming proto-urban oasis with 10 villages up to 10 ha each, the largest Namazga-period centre in Kopet Dag piedmont before BMAC.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tumulus
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Low Burial Mound in Ancash, Peru is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hillfort
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Otteburg Inner Rampart — Bernburg Center in Saxony-Anhalt, Bernburg, Germany is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Hallstatt / Early Iro…
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Tang → Yuan → Ming Yongle peak → Qing · Taoist (Zhenwu / Xuanwu school)
Taoist sacred mountain complex on 72 peaks 800–1612 m, 9 palaces, 36 convents and 72 cliff temples built primarily 1412–1424 under Ming Yongle emperor (200,000 artisans) as political legitimation…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Nabataean to Roman (1st c BCE–106 CE annexation; tombs 1st c CE) · Nabataean / Roman / Thamudic
Southernmost major Nabataean city on incense route, Hegra preserves 111 rock-cut tombs with facades akin to Petra (but freestanding massifs), hydrological wells, and Roman annexation inscriptions.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ridge-Scar Buried Settlement in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) buried city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition (Turner phase)
Hopewell enclosure-mound group source of copper effigies and mica tombs on Little Miami terrace.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hillfort
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Bailey Hill Fort in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) hillfort attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Geoglyph
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Geoglyphs of Varna Mogor Ach in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4000–3500 BCE; medieval chapel atop) · Armorican / Channel Neolithic (Norman Neolithic)
Jersey's paramount Neolithic monument crowns a 12-m artificial mound containing a cruciform passage grave with a 12-m roofed chamber aligned so equinox sunrise illuminates the rear cell.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost queens pyramid of Pepi II, belonging to Queen Wedjebten, likely mother of a late Pepi II prince.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Buried city
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Tre Mains Buried Settlement in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) buried city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Earthwork
Late Iron Age (1500–1820 CE; peak 1700–1820) · Eastern Sotho (Bokoni)
Bokoni (Koni) terraces in Mpumalanga escarpment are 150 ha dry-stone agricultural terraces 16th–19th c., built by Eastern Sotho Bokoni people on hillslopes with road causeways and stock kraal…
🇸🇾 Syria · Rock-cut
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Emesa — South Rock-Cut Tomb Niche (Homs) in Homs, Homs Old City, Emesa, Syria is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tra…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopewell 1–500 CE (Middle Woodland, peak 100–400 CE) · Hopewell tradition (Scioto Hopewell)
Finest Hopewell enclosure: 13-acre (5.3 ha) flat-topped earthen-walled enclosure (1,211 m perimeter, 1–1.8 m high) near Scioto River enclosing 24 conical, elongated and effigy mounds.
