🇾🇪 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.
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🇾🇪 Yemen · Ancient city
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
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
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
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
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).
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Late Neolithic Bau Tro 3000–1800 BCE (Hoabinhian substrate) · Hoabinhian → Bau Tro Neolithic (central coast)
Đồng Hới Bau Tró dune lake — central-coast Late Neolithic (3000–1800 BCE, slot-tooth ware) on Quang Binh dunes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c.3000–1900 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Grooved Ware / Beaker)
Grime's Graves (c.3000–1900 BCE, peak c.2600 BCE) is a 36-hectare Neolithic flint-mining pockfield in Breckland heath near Brandon, with 433 shaft pits visible as dimples and one deep public pit 9.5…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · PPN pastoralists
58-kite chain (8000–5500 BCE) along Harrat al-Sham — cross-border spine of kite province.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman · Aiolian Greek
Aliağa dune harbour Apollo 700 BCE with 600-m mole and 20k theatre, largest Aiolian port (Hesiod origin).
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Funan 1st–12th c CE → Chenla → Post-Funan · Funan (Austroasiatic–Indianized) → Mekong–Champa transit
Funan canal city expanded — 11 canals and Ba Thê hill with Roman coin at Óc Eo, An Giang (1st–12th c).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Islamic (280 BCE – 1400 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Ayyubid
Quseir/Myos Hormos southern twin basin — Roman concrete mole and Ayyubid jetty 0.3–1.2 m submerged south of main harbour.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works
Iron Age to Early Islamic (Assyrian to Islamic) · North Arabian oasis / Assyrian sphere
Al-Jawf depression (580 m, 29°51′N 40°00′E central Sirhan) qanat field tapping western Widyan tributaries (900-1100 m) and basalt plateau 800-900 m to supply Dumat al-Jandal (ancient Adummatu) at…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yayoi 400 BCE–400 CE (Middle Yayoi peak 100 BCE–200 CE) · Yayoi (Kinki Nara Basin)
Nara Basin double-moated Yayoi city (400 BCE–400 CE) — 110k m2 with 30 granaries and bronze foundry at Tawaramoto.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic to Initial Period (Kotosh tradition) · Kotosh / Lauricocha (highland)
High-altitude pyramidal temple at Piruru — 20 m stone platform pyramid c.2000 BCE at 3800 m, two temples, Kotosh tradition at Lauricocha.
🇳🇴 Norway · Tumulus
Viking Age (Early, c.900–910 CE) · Norwegian Viking (Viken petty kingdom)
The Tune ship (c.900 CE, built c.910 burial) is a Viking Age karve longship, 18.7 m surviving (originally ~22 m), broad and fast, found in 1867 on the Båthaugen mound on Rolvsøy island in the former…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Ur III / Isin-Larsa · Sumerian
E-mah ziggurat of Ninhursag at Adab (Tell Bismaya) — 50 m square platform c.2600 BCE, place of the Indiana-Jones-associated Banks 1903–04 excavations.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic 4000 BCE → Bronze Age → Silla 6th–9th c CE · Korean Neolithic → Bronze Age → Silla (Unified Silla)
Cheonjeon-ri — Neolithic–Silla rock art panel (c.4000 BCE–9th c CE palimpsest) 30 km west Ulsan, Ulju County, Daegok-cheon stream bank, excavated 1970–73 Mun Myeong-dae.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Northern breakwater of Gorgippia at Anapa Bay north — 150 m ashlar mole at –2 m and warehouse podium.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early–Middle Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Anglesey (passage grave tradition)
Eastern Anglesey portal dolmen with colossal 25-tonne capstone (6.5 x 5.5 m) — one of Wales's heaviest.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Northern Dynasties (Western Wei to Northern Zhou) · Northern Zhou Buddhist (Yuwen court patronage)
North-face shaded Maitreya pensive niche preserving straw-plastic polychrome.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2400–1900 BCE, Lothal dockyard phase) · Harappan (Gujarat coastal, Lothal A–B)
Lothal Mound — Gujarat Harappan Port in Gujarat, Ahmedabad District, Sabarmati estuary (Lothal dockyard), India is a Mature Harappan (2400–1900 BCE, Lothal dockyard phase) pyramid/mound site…
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Early Medieval Great Moravia 800–907 Mojmirid Veligrad phase · Great Moravian Slavs (Veligrad core, Mojmir I–Svatopluk)
Staré Město (Veligrad) — core of Great Moravian Veligrad agglomeration (8th–10th c, peak 833–907) on Morava terrace at Uherské Hradiště, with Staré Město–Uherské Hradiště–Modrá 250 ha complex.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern fish-salting harbour of Tyritake at Kamysh-Burun south — 16 vats at –1.5 m and 70 m quay at –2 m.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern fish-salting harbour of Tyritake at Kamysh-Burun south — 16 vats at –1.5 m and 70 m quay at –2 m.