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🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Predynastic to Ptolemaic (4000 BCE–30 BCE) · Egyptian Delta cult centre
Buto — Lagoon Harbour Annex in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt is a Predynastic to Ptolemaic (4000 BCE–30 BCE) submerged-city attributed to Egyptian Delta cult centre.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
13th Dynasty (c.1760 BCE Khendjer) · 13th Dynasty late Middle Kingdom
Khendjer excavated by Jequier 1929, twin quartzite-roofed vault, fragment 'kanopen?' Recorded context — Period: 13th Dynasty (c.1760 BCE Khendjer); Culture: 13th Dynasty late Middle Kingdom; Field…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture · Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan)
Tell es-Sawwan — Samarra Bowl Village in Salah ad-Din, Iraq is a Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture tell attributed to Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan).
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE) · Khmer (Suryavarman II)
Beng Mealea — Outer Eastern Enclosure in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia is a Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Suryavarman II).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE?) · Cornish Bronze Age
Mên-an-Tol — Morvah in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE?) megalithic attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
River Cut Section West in Susiana, Iran is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Bronze Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tell
Late Bronze to Early Iron (c.1500–500 BCE; Yaz I–III Iron 1200–500, Achaemenid Yaz III) · Margiana (BMAC) → Yaz I (Early Iron handmade) → Yaz II–III (Median–Achaemenid)
Yaz Depe in Murghab delta is type-site of Yaz I–III Iron culture (c.1200–500 BCE) — Early Iron fortified village with handmade painted Yaz ware, successor to BM...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic (25190–10200 BCE) · Kebaran-Natufian
Azraq Oasis — Epipalaeolithic Aggregation in Zarqa Governorate, Azraq Basin, Jordan is a Epipalaeolithic (25190–10200 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kebaran-Natufian culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) · Dumnonii
Carn Euny Ancient Village and Fogou in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Earthwork
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Essaouira Rock Carving in Burr, Senegal is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Hillfort
Iron Age (400 BCE–500 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age
Massive coastal hillfort on Grogarnsberget limestone plateau (65 m) above Katthammarsvik, with 1200 m stone wall 4 m high enclosing 45 ha, double walls at north.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Period to Ptolemaic (550–133 BCE) · Egyptian / Greek Canopic port
Heracleion East Annex — Thonis Suburb in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt is a Late Period to Ptolemaic (550–133 BCE) submerged-city attributed to Egyptian / Greek Canopic port.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
TRB hunebed D49 at Ellertshaar (c. 3350 BCE) on Drenthe plateau, 10 m chamber with 4 capstones in heathland. Excavated by van Giffen showing funnel beakers and erratic granite provenance.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Neolithic Halaf-Transitional (6200–5200 BCE) · Halaf-Transitional / Hassuna/Samarra
Balikh tell excavated by Akkermans 1986–2010, Burned Building 6000+ small finds, Halaf-Ubaid transition type-site.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Iron Age to Early Medieval · Dal Riata Scots
Dunadd Fort — Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Early Medieval hillfort attributed to Dal Riata Scots.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8000 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Karahan Tepe — Urfa Plain in Şanlıurfa Province, Tek Tek Mountains, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Wari Middle Horizon 550–800 CE · Wari (Huari Empire)
50 ha Wari grid city 12 m walls 550–700 CE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Lydian Archaic to Roman (550 BCE – 400 CE) · Lydian to Hellenistic to Roman Sardian
100 m Lydian–Hellenistic Artemis temple on Pactolus gold terrace.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Old Babylonian (c.2000–1750 BCE; peak c.1800 BCE) · Isin-Larsa → Old Babylonian (Amorite-Eshnunna)
Best-preserved Old Babylonian planned town (2.25 ha, 150×150 m orthogonal walled) with twin temples (Šara, Bēlet-Agade), admin complex (3000 tablets including a...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ubaid to Persian (c.3800 BCE–300 BCE; Early Dynastic/Ur III peak 2600–2000 BCE) · Sumerian / Akkadian / Babylonian / Persian
Sumerian city-state of the moon god Nanna (Sîn), Ur famous for Woolley's excavations 1922–34: Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu (2112 BCE) best-preserved ziggurat, Royal Cemetery with Standard of Ur, Pu-abi's…
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Alte Burg is a large Celtic hilltop fortification, or hillfort, that may have been used as a cult or assembly site for the regional population.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic · Maya
Massive Late Classic Maya pyramid Structure II at Calakmul (c.600 CE) 55 m high base 120×100 m, twin temples, burial of Yuknom Yich'aak K'ak.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Geometric to Hellenistic-Roman 8th c. BCE–395 CE; temple 510 BCE · Ancient Greek (pan-Hellenic)
Apollo's oracle sanctuary on Parnassus - spiritual center of ancient Greek world.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Cumbrian
Largest circle in northern England — 59-stone oval with 3.6 m outlier Long Meg bearing cup-and-ring spirals.
