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🇵🇰 Pakistan · Rock art
Mauryan (260 BCE) Ashoka edicts · Mauryan (Ashoka)
Shahbaz Garhi — Ashokan Rock Edict Outlier Quarry in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Mauryan (260 BCE) Ashoka edicts rock_art attributed to Mauryan (Ashoka).
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Chalcolithic (Tarxien phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Four interconnected temples with spiral reliefs, animal friezes and 2.7 m mother-goddess statue fragment. Most decorated of Maltese temples, adjacent to Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ghana terminal to Almoravid capital (11th c. CE Almoravid capital 1050–1147) · Sanhaja Berber Almoravid (Ibn Yasin)
Azougui excavated by de Moraes Farias 1970s, Almoravid birthplace 1053, stone city 10 ha.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya · Maya (Mutal polity)
Tallest temple-pyramid in Tikal, atop 7 m supporting platform, roof comb; from summit see canopy and other temples. Part of vast Classic Maya city (16 km²) with ~3000 structures.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman Imperial (92 CE temple; bridge 250 CE) · Phrygian → Roman Imperial
Kütahya Roman city excavated by Naumann 1930–, best preserved Zeus temple in Anatolia, copy of Diocletian's Price Edict 301 CE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Classical to Hellenistic (5th–3rd BCE harbour) · Classical Greek / Halieian
Verified – Halieis Porto Cheli Classical harbour 5 m down, Tiryns Mycenaean port successor. American School Halieis 1965 Jameson excavated submerged town walls, mole 150 m at 4–6 m due to Argolic…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (Mayapan) · Maya (Yucatán)
Mayapan — walled last Maya capital 1220–1440.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Woodland Plum Bayou 650–1050 CE (Baytown-Coles Creek to Mississippian transition) · Plum Bayou (Baytown/Coles Creek, Late Woodland Arkansas)
Premier Late Woodland platform mound center: 18 mounds (tallest Mound A 12 m) enclosing 16 ha plaza with embankment ditch and astronomical causeway aligned to 1-degree solar solstice.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Medieval to Ottoman (12th–20th c CE) · Beja–Ottoman Swahili-type coral city
Suakin — Coral Port City in Red Sea State, Sudan is a Medieval to Ottoman (12th–20th c CE) ancient-city attributed to Beja–Ottoman Swahili-type coral city.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Mature Harappan (2650–1450 BCE) · Harappan
Dholavira Eastern Reservoir Extension in Gujarat, India is a Mature Harappan (2650–1450 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇬🇷 Greece · Hydraulic works
Classical (5th–4th c. BCE) · Athenian
Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza in Attica, Greece is a Classical (5th–4th c. BCE) hydraulic attributed to Athenian.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf–Early Dynastic (c.5700–2500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Ninevite 5
Jaghjagh tell 10 m high (Halaf–ED, Ninevite 5 silos) north of Tell Hawa.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Satavahana (200 BCE–200 CE) · Buddhist Hinayana
Bhaja Caves — Karla Adjacent Hinayana Monastery in Maharashtra, India is a Satavahana (200 BCE–200 CE) rock_cut attributed to Buddhist Hinayana.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, c.2645 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished step pyramid of Sekhemkhet (c.2645 BCE, 3rd Dynasty), southwest of Djoser. Henri Zakaria Goneim 1951-54 excavated alabaster sarcophagus (empty) and gold armlets.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Achaemenid · Persian Achaemenid
Ceremonial capital of Achaemenid Empire (515–330 BCE) with Apadana, Throne Hall, Treasury on terrace with relief of tribute bearers. Burned by Alexander 330 BCE, preserved by burial.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Buddhist (500 BCE–300 CE) to Gupta · Sakya Buddhist (Kapilavastu polity)
Piprahwa is a 5th century BCE–300 CE stupa–monastery claimed as Kapilavastu's relic site, where Peppé (1898) found the inscribed stone casket with Buddha's bone relics, now in Indian Museum Kolkata.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Lycian / Hellenistic (500 BCE–100 CE) · Lycian–Hellenistic
Antiphellos — Habessos Theatre Terraces in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian / Hellenistic (500 BCE–100 CE) temple-complex attributed to Lycian–Hellenistic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Early Dynastic (4000–2686 BCE) · Naqada culture (Egyptian Predynastic)
Predynastic town south of Naqada with copper-axe cemetery.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Municipium on Fahs plain with forum, amphitheatre earthwork and aqueduct feeder.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo IV Glaze A (1350–1480 CE) · Ancestral Tano (Rio Grande Puebloan) Mogollon-influenced
Pottery Mound excavated by Hibben 1953–61, murals similar to Hopi kachinas 100 km west.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (12000–8650 BCE) · PPNA
Tell Qaramel — PPNA Sanctuary in Aleppo Governorate, Queiq plain, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (12000–8650 BCE) temple complex attributed to PPNA culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Lycian / Karian (4th c. BCE) · Carian–Lycian border Kaunos
Kaunos — Rock Tomb Annexe at Dalyan Lake Channel in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Lycian / Karian (4th c. BCE) rock_cut attributed to Carian–Lycian border Kaunos.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid-Zakarian (10th c. St Gregory 10th; 1184 Surb Astvatsatsin 1248 with gavit) · Bagratid → Zakarian (10th–13th c.) Armenian
Haghartsin forest 10th–13th excavated 1990–2010.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE–200 CE) · Syracusan
Helorus — Syracusan Outpost in Sicily, Greece is a Archaic to Roman (700 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Syracusan.
