🇹🇳 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.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Meninx (Djerba) – Phoenician-Roman Port
Phoenician to Late Antiquity (7th c BCE – 7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Two-kilometre strand city on Djerba's southeastern causeway shore, Meninx was the island's Phoenician emporion turned Roman civitas capital, famed for murex purple second only to T...
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Pampa de Majes Geoglyphs
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Majes valley
35+ broad trapezoidal geoglyphs (600-900 CE) on Pampa de Majes with 600-m highways converging on cairn huacas.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Trușești
Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE)
Trușești in Botoșani County, Trușești, Jijia Plain, Romania is a Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5500–3500 BCE) culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Laang Spean Cave
Late Pleistocene Hoabinhian (71–11 ka) → Early Holocene → Neolithic 3600 BCE · Hoabinhian (Southeast Asian hunter-gatherer) → Neolithic Austroasiatic
Hoabinhian–Neolithic rockshelter (c.80000–5000 BP) on Sampov karst hill near Battambang, Cambodia — 1 ha shelter with stratified Hoabinhian lithics (cobble tools, sumatraliths, edge-ground axes),…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Bab edh-Dhra
EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) · EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE)
Bab edh-Dhra in Karak Governorate, Wadi Araba, Dead Sea SE, Jordan is a EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) settlement attributed to EB I–IV walled town (3300–2100 BCE) culture.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Bata — Lagoon Harbour at Novomyshastovskaya (Batskoe Gorodishche South)
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Southern lagoon harbour of Maeotian Bata at Kuban Liman — 80 m timber quay at –1.5 m and fish weir.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Bata — Lagoon Harbour at Novomyshastovskaya (Batskoe Gorodishche South) — v2
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Southern lagoon harbour of Maeotian Bata at Kuban Liman — 80 m timber quay at –1.5 m and fish weir.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Kepoi — Central Ashlar Quay in Taman Gulf (Mid-Bay) — v2
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Central bay quay of Kepoi in Taman Gulf mid-bay — 100 m ashlar quay at –2 m and Aphrodite terrace at –1 m.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Lixus
Phoenician to Early Islamic (8th c BCE–8th c CE; peak Mauretanian-Roman) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Mauretanian / Roman
Phoenician tell 8th c BCE of Hesperides legend with garum factories, hybrid theatre-amphitheatre and Helios mosaic.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Maroneia – Submerged Wine Harbour of Thrace
Archaic to Roman (c. 600 BCE – 400 CE) · Chian Greek / Thracian / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Homeric wine port – rock-cut bollards and 30 m boulder mole at –2 m off Agios Charalambos beach.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Medvednjak
Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) · Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE)
Medvednjak in Šumadija District, Smederevska Palanka, Jasenica Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C–D → Bubanj (5400–4500 BCE) culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Semna West Fortress (Middle Kingdom Nubian Frontier Fort)
Egyptian Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian (Middle Kingdom)
Massive L-shaped mudbrick fortress of 12th Dynasty Sesostris III (c.1878–1840 BCE), southernmost of four forts guarding the Semna Cataract narrows at the Egyptian-Nubian border (along with Kumma…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Tebtunis — Submerged Harbour and Canal Bridge (Kom Umm el-Brigat)
Middle Kingdom to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum southern Tebtunis on Bahr canal mouth — quay and bridge harbour basin 1–2 m under field silt, cartonnage papyrus source.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Tyritake – Submerged Fish-Salting Town at Arshintsevo
Archaic to Late Roman (550 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Bosporan fish-sauce factory town — 30 salt-cisterns with anchovy bones, lower industrial strip now 1–2 m underwater off Kerch spit.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Ancient city
Zafar Stone Gate Tower 4
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Zafar Stone Gate Tower 4 in Ibb, Zafar, Yemen is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
El Shincal de Quimivil – Southernmost Inca Capital
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1471–1536 CE, abandoned post-1536) · Inca (Topa Inca – Diaguita / Calchaquí conquest)
Inca provincial capital (1470–1536) in Catamarca, the southernmost planned Inca city in the empire, founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui to govern Calchaquí valley Diaguita conquest: fully orthogonal Inca…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Presaddfed Burial Chamber
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey
Twin Neolithic chamber tombs in single long cairn near Presaddfed — west chamber with 5 m capstone best preserved.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Titriş Höyük
Early Bronze Age II–III through Middle Bronze (c.2600–2200 BCE peak; MBA sparse) · EBA Syro-Mesopotamian urban (Khabur-Euphrates city-state)
43 ha EBA orthogonal planned city (2600–2200 BCE) with 2.5 km wall and suburbs — largest Euphrates east-bank urban centre.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Ahicchatra
Mahajanapada 600 BCE → Gupta 4th–6th c CE · Northern Panchala Mahajanapada → Mauryan → Gupta
Ahicchatra — capital of Northern Panchala Mahajanapada (c.600 BCE–1100 CE) near Ramnagar, Bareilly district, excavated 1940s–60s by ASI (V.K. Sinha).