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🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Late Antique · Roman Byzantine Egyptian
Bagawat Necropolis Kharga Oasis at Western Desert, Kharga Oasis, Egypt is a Late Antique necropolis of the Roman Byzantine Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze to Byzantine · Western Anatolian (Troy I prelude → Hittite Luwian)
Multi-period mega-tell (c.4000 BCE Late Chalcolithic to 1200 BCE Byzantine, peak EBA–MBA) dominating Çivril Plain on Meander headwaters, excavated 1954–59 by Seton Lloyd & James Mellaart then 2007–…
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Bokoro Shoal — Submerged Village North (Okinawa, Japan) in Okinawa, Yonaguni, Bokoro Shoal, Japan is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged …
🇲🇱 Mali · Rock art
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Central Djenné-Jeno Settlement Inner — Djenné-Jeno (57-10) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Chalcolithic (regional) rock art of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Early Neolithic Ireland (Céide Ware)
10 km² Neolithic field walls and tombs preserved under blanket bog — world's oldest enclosed landscape, c.3500 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Underground city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Eastern Saqqara Platform A — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-35) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Medieval (regional) underground city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Megalith
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Teotihuacan Platform B — Teotihuacan (56-03) at Teotihuacan, Mexico is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Rajasthan Mound Outer — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-42) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Classical (regional) ancient village of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → EBA Syrian → Hittite → Islamic Harran
Harran Plain Tell A is a 2.8-ha Halaf–Ubaid mound 8 km northeast of Harran city on the Balikh floodplain — one of Wilkinson's mapped Harran plain tells tracking the shift from dispersed Halaf…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Phoenician to Arab (12th c. BCE – 7th c. CE; Augustinian 354–430 peak) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman
Augustine coastal capital — Numidian-Roman 60 ha city whose Seybouse estuary moles now 1–3 m offshore.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate, Chimú (900–1470 CE) · Chimú
Adjoining Chan Chan’s outskirts three blocks from Mansiche temple in urbanization La Esmeralda, this Chimú adobe pyramid is a U-shaped two-level mass with three terraces, ramps and courtyard…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Lima (200–700 CE) with Middle Horizon Wari intrusive 500–700 CE · Lima (Ichma predecessor of Pachacamac) with Huari (Wari) superstructure
Seven-storey adobe pyramid (500×100 m, 25 m high) in Miraflores, Lima, built bookcase-style (small vertical adobe bricks placed on edge like books) to resist earthquakes, with Wari cemetery above.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Horizon, c.500-700 CE (Lima to Wari, Middle Horizon) · Andean (Lima / Wari)
Huaca Pucllana (Huaca Juliana) in Miraflores, Lima: stepped pyramid 22 m high, 7 platforms made of vertical adobe books (librero technique) — adobitos stacked vertically for seismic resistance.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age IA · Proto-Jawa Ghassulian-Chalcolithic
120-m south spillway with ogee crest and riprap of main Jawa dam — earliest weir hydraulics.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yayoi Early 300 BCE → Middle 100 BCE → Late 100–300 CE → Kofun transition · Yayoi (Yamato central chiefdom)
Yamato 42 ha double-moated Yayoi town (300 BCE–300 CE) at Karako–Kagi — 1.8 km moat with 107 houses and 70 Dotaku molds.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Lascaux — Ancillary Gallery Cheval Tache (Dordogne) in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Dordogne, Montignac, France is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 C…
🇳🇵 Nepal · Temple complex
Shakya to Maurya to Gupta to modern pilgrimage · Shakya (Maya Devi) / Maurya / Buddhist
Birthplace of Siddhartha Gautama, Buddha Shakyamuni (623 BCE tradition), marked by Ashoka's 249 BCE Rummindei pillar with Brahmi inscription 'Buddha Sakyamuni was born here...' — oldest epigraphic…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1000–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Mound Bottom phase)
Major Mississippian town (1000–1350 CE) on Harpeth River meander: 14 platform and burial mounds including 13-m-high Monks-Mound-scale Mound A (90×70 m base) within 10 ha palisaded plaza, plus Pack…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic (early to late Meroitic) · Kushite (Meroitic)
Meroitic royal city and temple town 50 km east of Nile, famed for co-built Temple of Apedemak (Natakamani & Amanitore, 1st century CE) with twin pylons covered in lion-god reliefs, Roman kiosk and…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
New Khajuraho Hilltop East — Khajuraho (60-28) at Khajuraho, India is a Early Historic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Sacred Great Zimbabwe Ridge North — Great Zimbabwe (57-08) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Neolithic (regional) ancient city of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇲🇹 Malta · Tomb
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Sacred Hypogeum Terrace Central — Hypogeum, Paola (59-36) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Early Historic (regional) tomb of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan period (700–300 BCE, peak 600–400 BCE queens field) · Kushite (Napatan, Egyptianised queens of 25th Dynasty)
Napatan queens' necropolis (700–300 BCE) with 35 steep sandstone pyramids 6–10 m base, 12 m high with eastern chapel and descendry to pillared burial chamber, for 25th Dynasty queens and Kushite…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Pioneer to Classic (300 BCE–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Sonoran Desert farmers)
Type-site and capital of Hohokam Culture (c.300 BCE–1450 CE, Pioneer to Classic) — 2 km² canal-irrigated village with 2 ballcourts, platform mounds, and 100 km of canals off Gila River irrigating…
