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🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Neolithic to Iron Age (5500 BCE – 800 BCE, Sialk I–VI) · Iranian plateau (Sialk culture)
Tepe Sialk Pyramidal Mound — Kashan in Isfahan Province, Kashan suburb, Tepe Sialk, Iran is a Neolithic to Iron Age (5500 BCE – 800 BCE, Sialk I–VI) pyramid/mound site attributed to Iranian plateau…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze · Badia Late Neolithic with EB reuse
Maitland west slope: 4 kites descending 45-m mesa scarp from Maitland's historic fort hill.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Ancient city
Sogdian 5th–8th c → Early Islamic 8th–9th c CE · Ustrushana Sogdian (Shahriston) → Samanid
Bunjikat — capital of Ustrushana (5th–9th c CE) 40 km SE Khujand, excavated 1940s–90s Negmatov (Tajik Academy).
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Fortress
Medieval–Renaissance Lithuania 1323–1655 (Gediminas → Vasa) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Gediminid–Jagiellonian–Vasa)
Vilnius Lower Castle (Valdovų rūmai) — stately Renaissance palace of Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Gediminas c.1323 foundation, 15th–17th c Renaissance florescence Sigismund Old–Vasa) at foot of…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Middle Kofun 5th c CE (Yamato apex) · Yamato middle Kofun (Mozu group)
Daisenryo Kofun — largest kofun in Japan (486 m long, 35 m high) and one of world's largest tombs (equal Great Pyramid footprint), built mid 5th c CE (c.425–475) for Emperor Nintoku per tradition, on…
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Ancient city
Sogdian 6th–12th c → Kara-Khanid 10th–12th · Sogdian oasis — Chuy Valley Silk Road Sogdian–Turk
Navekat Krasnaya Rechka City — Sogdian Silk Road city (6th–12th c CE) at Krasnaya Rechka on Chu Valley road west of Ak-Beshim, excavated 1980s by VE Nasyrov and Koen–Goryacheva.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Old Babylonian (Isin-Larsa) 1950–1750 BCE · Babylonian (Isin-Larsa)
Old Babylonian fortified administrative town (c.1900–1750 BCE, Isin-Larsa to Hammurabi era) now Tell Harmal on Baghdad's eastern edge, dominated by central 25x25 m raised temple platform (ziggurat…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient temple
Sunga 2nd c BCE Indo-Greek diplomatic · Sunga–Indo-Greek — Bhagavata Garuda cult
Heliodorus Garuda Pillar — 6.4-m Garuda-column erected c.150–113 BCE by Heliodorus, Greek ambassador of Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to Sunga king Bhagabhadra, as Garuda-dhvaja before Vasudeva…
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Temple complex
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Western Great Zimbabwe Hilltop South — Great Zimbabwe (57-11) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Early Historic (regional) temple complex of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇦🇺 Australia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Murujuga — Submerged Petroglyph Terrace (Dampier, Australia) in Western Australia, Murujuga, Dampier, Australia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 …
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Southern Pavlopetri Ridge B — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-13) at Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece is a Early Historic (regional) submerged city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk Expansion) · Uruk-influenced North Mesopotamian (Nagar)
Late Chalcolithic Eye Temple platform at Tell Brak (Nagar) c.3800 BCE: 40×30 m earliest monumental terrace with alabaster eye idols — millennium precursor to ziggurat.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Arabah/South Levantine LPPNB (Basta–Ba'ja horizon)
LPPNB cliff-gorge two-storey village with siq entry, burned houses and children's mass-grave.
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient village
Middle Bronze Age Sintashta (2100–1800 BCE) · Sintashta (Indo-Iranian, Andronovo predecessor)
Fortified Bronze Age proto-town (c.2100–1800 BCE, Sintashta culture, late Middle Bronze) — type-site for Sintashta–Petrovka–Arkaim 'Country of Towns' (20 fortified settlements).
🇮🇷 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
late 3rd Dynasty, c.2650 BCE (Khaba) · Ancient Egyptian (Khaba)
Unfinished layer pyramid Z1 at Zawiyet el-Aryan between Giza and Abu Rawash: 84 m base, 5–7 layers intended, now 20 m high rubble mound of limestone with pink granite foundation.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Essaouira — Ancient Anchorage North (Mogador, Morocco) in Marrakech-Safi, Essaouira, Mogador, Morocco is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submer…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Old Babylonian / Isin-Larsa Period · Amorite Babylonian (Larsa)
Amorite ziggurat of sun-god Shamash at Larsa (Tell Senkerah) c.1950–1760 BCE: 70 × 40 m Ebabbara complex, capital of Isin-Larsa kingdom before Hammurabi.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Hellenistic–Late Roman Republican (ship c.80–60 BCE; mechanism c.150–80 BCE) · Greek / Roman trade – Pergamene-Rhodian sculpture cargo
70 BCE Roman freighter off Antikythera at 45 m that yielded the geared Antikythera Mechanism.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Outer Chaco Canyon Village West — Chaco Canyon (55-39) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian (Isin-Larsa contemporary) · Sumerian-Akkadian Eshnunna kingdom
Akkadian-Old Babylonian city-state of Eshnunna (c.3000–1760 BCE) controlling Diyala basin between Sumer and Elam, famous for the Laws of Eshnunna (c.1930 BCE, ~60 laws predating Hammurapi by two…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Akkadian (3000–2150 BCE) · Sumerian–Akkadian (Diyala/ Akkadian frontier)
Southern Diyala town of Early Dynastic to Akkadian period dominated by 60x55 m Temple of Shara built on high mudbrick terrace (proto-ziggurat) with massive enclosure and two shrines (Shrine I and II)…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Underground city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Saqqara Ridge II — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-45) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) underground city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Djenné-Jeno Necropolis Central — Djenné-Jeno (57-03) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
