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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Natufian to Neolithic · Epi-Palaeolithic / Neolithic
Tell Abu Hureyra Euphrates at Euphrates, Raqqa, Syria is a Natufian to Neolithic ancient village of the Epi-Palaeolithic / Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Mitanni (4000 BCE–1300 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic → Ninevite V → Hurrian Akkadian → Mittani (Hurrian Urkesh)
Tell Mozan (Urkesh) Satellite Mound is the 6.2-ha southern suburb 800 m south of Tell Mozan — the Hurrian capital Urkesh, city of Kumarbi at the Taurus piedmont.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic to Early Postclassic (300–1200 CE, walls 900–1200) · Maya (Tojolabal / highland Chiapas)
Fortified Late Classic–Postclassic Maya capital (300–1200 CE, fortification 900–1200) crowning limestone hilltop 250 m above Comitán valley: 60+ structures, walled core (60 ha) with 4.5-m-thick…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Iron II (Late Bronze–U/A Mannaean; peak Hasanlu IVB Iron II c.1050–800 BCE) · Late Bronze Hurrian–Mitanni substrate → Iron Age Mannaean (Indo-Iranian hint) under Urartian pressure → Assyrian fringe
Solduz hill-citadel torched c.800 BCE — 150 massacre-victims around the Gold Bowl.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Three Rivers — Petroglyph Ancillary Ridge North (New Mexico) in New Mexico, Three Rivers Petroglyph, United States is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (300…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Hopewell)
Hopewell earthworks (200 BCE–400 CE) on Little Miami — 300-m Great Enclosure and pipestone pipes at Cincinnati.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3600–3200 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Unstan Ware)
Unstan cairn (c.3600–3200 BCE, Early Neolithic) is a unique hybrid stalled-Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on a Loch of Stenness promontory 2 mi NE of Stromness, 13 m long dividing into five stalls…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Yayoi late 3rd c → Kofun 4th–6th c CE · Yayoi–Kofun transition — Suo Bay Kitakyushu
Ushivika Kofun Cluster — late Yayoi to Kofun burial cluster (3rd–6th c CE, 11 mounds) on Suo Bay terrace at Kanda, north Kyushu, surveyed 1970s–90s.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (Aztec/Morelos) · Aztec (Tlahuica–Xochimilca provincial)
Aztec provincial capital (1350–1521 CE) in Morelos — palace, pyramid and 150 ha town at Yautepec valley floor.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Adulis — South Storehouse Quay North (Second Sector, Eritrea) in Northern Red Sea, Adulis South Storehouse, Eritrea is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late PPN to Late Neolithic · PPN / Azraq pastoralists
18 wetland-margin kites (7000–5000 BCE) around Azraq Qa salt flat.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic–Postclassic (Coyotlatelco–Aztec) · Toltec–Colhua / Basin Postclassic
Toltec-Colhua capital (600–1400 CE) on Lake Xochimilco — 8 pyramids beneath Cerro de la Estrella, Mexica legitimacy ancestor.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Inner Pavlopetri Village Inner — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-30) at Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece is a Neolithic (regional) submerged city of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Early to Late Natufian (13,500–11,500 BP) · Natufian
Natufian rockshelter with earliest escarpment plant cultivation and cult basin prefiguring PPN shrines.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Maheshwar I Chalcolithic 1400–600 BCE → II Early Historic 600 BCE–400 CE → IV Holkar 1760 CE · Maheshwar Chalcolithic → Satavahana → Holkar Maratha
Historic Mahishmati–Maheshwar city on Narmada (1400 BCE–1760 CE) — Chalcolithic below Holkar fort and Maheshwari textile loom.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Greco-Roman to Byzantine · Ptolemaic / Byzantine
Marea Lake Port Mareotis Alexandria at Marea, Lake Mareotis, Egypt is a Greco-Roman to Byzantine ancient city of the Ptolemaic / Byzantine tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Alexandria Enclosure Inner — Alexandria, Pharos (58-01) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Medieval (regional) submerged city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Royal Alexandria Ridge A — Alexandria, Pharos (58-48) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Early Historic (regional) submerged city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir I — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-33) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Neolithic → EB → MB → LBA Amarna → Iron → Persian → Crusader (7000 BCE–1300 CE) · Levantine (Amorite → Egyptian/Hittite → Phoenician → Crusader)
Akkar plain tell-town (Neolithic–Crusader) — EB rampart, Amarna Irqata, Phoenician and Crusader castle on 30 ha.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 700–100 BCE) · Ionian Greek / Persian
Ionian wine harbour – 110 m Archaic mole at –1 m off Sığacık.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Sogdian–Hephthalite 4th–8th c CE (Bukhara Khudats) · Sogdian Bukhara (Zeravshan oasis) → Early Islamic
Varakhsha — palace-city of Bukhara Khudats (4th–8th c CE) 40 km west Bukhara, excavated 1937–58 Shishkin and Tolstov.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Iron Age – Viking Age · Late Iron Age / Vendel-Viking Småland
Visingsö island ship settings to 35 m in Lake Vättern — Late Iron Age ships plus mounds in oak woodland grave fields.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Seleucid to Byzantine (c. 280 BCE – 1200 CE) · Seleucid Greek / Carian / Byzantine
Maeander river harbour 18 km inland – quay buried 5 m at Kuyucak plain.
