🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Dholavira Citadel North Gate
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dholavira Citadel North Gate in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Karanis — Lake Moeris Harbour Pier (Kom Aushim)
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (c.260 BCE – 450 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian
Peak Fayum metropolis on Lake Moeris — harbour pier and quay 1–3 m under lake-edge reeds, papyrus capital of Arsine.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Thmuis (Tell el-Timai) – Submerged Mendesian Canal Port
Late Dynastic to Arab (c. 600 BCE – 640 CE) · Egyptian / Persian / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Mendesian Nile canal port – quay 120 m and grain horrea at –0.5 m on migrated Mendesian branch.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
An Khe Paleolithic Site
Lower Paleolithic 800 ka → Hoabinhian late Pleistocene · Vietnamese Paleolithic — Ba River Acheulean-like (An Khe facies) predating Hoabinhian
An Khe Paleolithic Site — Lower Paleolithic chopper–chopping tool site (c.800 ka Acheulean-like bifaces) on Ba River terrace at An Khe 50 km E Pleiku, Gia Lai highland pass, discovered 2014…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Castillo de Huarmey — Wari Burial Pyramid and Mausoleum
Middle Horizon, Wari Empire (600–900 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Dramatic ridge mound 4 km from sea, long known as Castillo, surprising 2013 discovery by Milosz Giersz and Roberto Pimentel of intact Wari royal burial complex sealed beneath 5 tons of rubble — first…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Sparlösa Runestone — Vårgårda
Vendel–Viking transition (c.800 CE) · Swedish (Västergötland Geatish)
The Sparlösa stone (c.800 CE), 1.77 m Västergötland gneiss standing 177 cm tall beside Sparlösa church north of Vara, is Sweden's second most famous runestone after Rök, inscribed on four sides and…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ebla Palace G West Wing
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ebla Palace G West Wing in Idlib, Tell Mardikh, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Kyrykoba Kurgan Field — Sarmatian Royal Cemetery (Aktobe, West Kazakhstan)
Early to Middle Sarmatian (Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian, 500–350 BCE) · Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian (Prokhorovka transitional)
40+ Sarmatian royal mounds (5th–4th c BCE) with 820-g gold torque and Amazon warrior — West Kazakh Ural steppe.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Qatna Royal Tomb AnteChamber
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Qatna Royal Tomb AnteChamber in Homs, Mishrifeh, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Tion (Tios / Tieion) – Submerged Milesian Mole on Filyos River
Archaic to Byzantine (c. 600 BCE – 800 CE) · Milesian Greek / Paphlagonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Milesian Black Sea mole – 40 m ashlar river-sea mole at –2.5 m off Filyos delta.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village
Campen Plank Road – Emsland Bog Trackway (Landegge)
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt C) · Ems-Hunte Iron Age (Pre-Roman)
1.2-km split-oak corduroy (668 BCE) across Campen Moor — earliest Emsland Bohlenweg.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Lauriya Areraj
Mauryan (Ashokan, 244 BCE) with Gupta–Pala overlay · Mauryan Ashokan
Companion Ashokan lion pillar (244 BCE, 36.5 ft) to Lauriya Nandangarh, with moated stupa mound 200 m south.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Senuwar
Neolithic (2500–2000) → Chalcolithic (2000–1300) → Iron Age (1300–600 BCE) · Vindhyan–Kaimur Chalcolithic (Senuwar culture)
Multi-period Chalcolithic–Neolithic mound (c.2500–600 BCE) on Kudra River at foot of Kaimur scarp near Sasaram, Bihar — 3.2 ha with 6.5 m deposit excavated 1986–90 by B.P. Singh (BHU).
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Tianlongshan North Manshan Grottoes
Tang (post-An Lushan) · Late Tang Jiedushi patronised Buddhist
North spur 8-cave late Tang group with Tianlong's only caitya pillar and wet-drape naturalism.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Alabanda Temple of Apollo Isotimos
Hellenistic to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Çine plain 6×12 Ionian Apollo Isotimos 200 BCE with 8 architraved columns, Chrysaoric capital.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Pietrele Tell
Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) · Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE)
Pietrele Tell in Teleorman / Giurgiu region, Danube plain, Pietrele village, Romania is a Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Dam East Wadi Dhana Barrage
Sabaean to Himyarite · Kingdom of Saba (Sabaean South Arabian) then Himyar
480-m east rockfill barrage of Great Marib Dam at Balaq Hills gap.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) – Decapolis Port on Jordan Valley Escarpment
Natufian to Byzantine (c. 10000 BCE – 749 CE) · Natufian / Chalcolithic / Canaanite / Hellenistic Decapolis / Roman / Byzantine
Decapolis wadi harbour city – revetment 30 m at –1 m in Wadi Jirm below escarpment terraces.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Siswal Mound — Haryana Saraswati
Chalcolithic to Early Harappan (3800–2600 BCE, Siswal A–B) · Siswal culture (Hakra–Sothi horizon)
Siswal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Hisar District, Chautang (Saraswati tributary) bank (Siswal type-site), India is a Chalcolithic to Early Harappan (3800–2600 BCE, Siswal A–B)…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mactaris (Makthar)
Numidian to Byzantine (8th c BCE-10th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Highland city with dolmens and schola.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Leilan — Shekhna Mound Khabur
Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Akkadian provincial, Old Assyrian)
Tell Leilan — Shekhna Mound Khabur in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle (ancient Shekhna/Shubat-Enlil), Syria is a Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Chersonesos Taurica — Quarantine Bay Western Harbour Submerged
Archaic to Late Medieval (c.528 BCE – 1399 CE) · Megarian Greek / Byzantine
Megarian Black Sea polis UNESCO — western Quarantine Bay harbour and street grid now 1–3 m submerged at Sevastopol.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Fortress
Convent of Christ (Tomar)
The Convent of Christ of Tomar (Portuguese: Convento de Cristo de Tomar), also called Convent of Christ (Convento de Cristo) or Monastery of Christ (Mosteiro de Cristo), is a former Catholic convent…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Lothagam
Neolithic to Pastoral Iron Age (3500 BCE–700 CE) · Nderit fisher/foragers → Early Pastoral Elmenteitan
Turkana megalithic cairn cemetery Lothagam — 3.5 ka pastoral monumental graves west of lake.