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🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Kondoa Irangi — Rock Paintings Ancillary Panel (Kolo) in Dodoma, Kondoa, Kolo, Tanzania is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art att…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3800–2300 BCE) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Ninevite V → Early Dynastic
Kurban Höyük Dam Salvage Zone is the 6-ha lower terrace on the Euphrates left bank, salvaged before Atatürk Dam raised the lake 15 m over the valley.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Predynastic (Naqada I Amratian to III Protodynastic) · Naqada (Upper Egyptian protodynastic)
Type-site of Predynastic Upper Egypt — Naqada I–III cultures (c.4000–3000 BCE) that unified Egypt: eponymous cemeteries N7000+ graves at Naqada, Ballas, Nubt town (gold-worker's town of Seth).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, ~2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Minor step pyramid north of Nubt/Ombos near Naqada (c.2630 BCE), 18.39 m base, near Naqada culture type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
New Hattusa Fortress Outer — Hattusa (60-23) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Ubaid to Islamic · Sumerian → Akkadian → Babylonian → Kassite
Holy city of Sumer and Akkad, seat of Enlil (Lord Air) whose Ekur temple gave legitimacy to kingship — 'king without Nippur is no king'.
🇬🇷 Greece · Earthwork
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Northern Delphi Hilltop Inner — Delphi (60-39) at Delphi, Greece is a Early Historic (regional) contested of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Northern Luxor Reservoir Central — Luxor, Thebes (53-26) at Luxor, Thebes, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) tell of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Yonaguni Necropolis I — Yonaguni (58-46) at Yonaguni, Japan is a Medieval (regional) submerged city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for necropolis and associated settlement.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Outer Henan Citadel A — Henan, Erlitou (54-27) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 200 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Pueblo Bonito — North Wall Ancillary (Chaco Canyon) in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, United States is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 …
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Takht-e Soleyman — Azargoshnasb Fire Temple North Iwan in West Azerbaijan, Takht-e Soleyman, Iran is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple com…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age
Paired Kilmartin circles (13 m and 12 m) tracing timber-to-stone transition c.3000–1000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c.2500–1700 BCE) · Cumbrian Late Neolithic–Bronze Age (Beaker)
Birkrigg stone circle (Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age c.2500–1700 BCE), also called the Druid's Temple, is a double concentric circle 26 m outer and 9 m inner on Birkrigg Common limestone moor 2 mi…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity (4th Dyn – 4th c. CE) · Egyptian (Delta Libyan dynasties)
Bastet cat-goddess capital – island red-granite temple and 100,000 cat mummies on 14 m tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Herodian to Crusader (22 BCE – 1265 CE) · Judean / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Herod's colossal Roman harbour Sebastos now submerged 5 m; one of earliest hydraulic-concrete harbours.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Late Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE) · Cypriot / Levantine itinerant tinker-trader
1200 BCE tin-trader that pioneered underwater archaeology – first scientific wreck excavation 1960.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Castlerigg — Borrowdale Cairn Knot (Northwest Outlier) in England, Cumbria, Keswick, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE)…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Chankillo — Tower 13 North Observatory (Casma, Thirteen Towers) in Ancash, Casma, Chankillo, Peru is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple com…
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Doliana — Submerged Quarry North Slope (Paros, Greece) in South Aegean, Paros, Doliana, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged cit…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic · Brú na Bóinne Neolithic
Dowth Passage Tomb Brugh na Boinne at Meath, Brú na Bóinne, Ireland is a Neolithic megalithic of the Brú na Bóinne Neolithic tradition, built c. 3200 BCE for 85 m mound 2 passages winter sunset.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early–Late Classic · Maya (Kaan–Chenés frontier)
First Kaan (Snake) capital (300–900 CE) — 28-m Kinichná Acropolis with wooden lintel inscriptions.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris PPN
Gusir Hoyuk Upper Tigris PPN at Siirt, Upper Tigris, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Upper Tigris PPN tradition, built c. 9300 BCE for agglutinated settlement on tigris.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Southern English Neolithic
Hambledon Hill Causewayed Complex at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Southern English Neolithic tradition, built c. 3650 BCE for major causewayed enclosure complex.
