🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Kulubá
Late–Terminal Classic · Maya (Eastern Yucatan Chenes–Puuc)
Newly revealed palace city (600–1050 CE) SE of Tizimín — 55-m-long Group C palace.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late–Terminal Classic · Maya (Eastern Yucatan Chenes–Puuc)
Newly revealed palace city (600–1050 CE) SE of Tizimín — 55-m-long Group C palace.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Cuzco Sanctuary North — Cuzco (55-28) at Cuzco, Peru is a Chalcolithic (regional) earthwork of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Earthwork
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Khajuraho Village B — Khajuraho (60-19) at Khajuraho, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) contested of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for village and associated settlement.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Neolithic to Iron Age/Crusader (peak Middle Bronze to Iron II, 2000–733 BCE) · Canaanite (Sidonian) → Israelite (Dan tribe) → Aramaean → Israelite kingdom → Assyrian
Bubbling Jordan spring tell with world's oldest intact triple mudbrick arch (1750 BCE) and House of David stele.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Proto-Hassuna, Hassuna, Samarran (6500–5500 BCE) · Hassuna culture
Between two wadis south-west of Mosul, this 1943–44 excavation by Seton Lloyd and Fuad Saffar defined the Hassuna culture — earliest ceramic Neolithic in northern Iraq — through 15 building levels.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic (Norte Chico late to crisis) · Norte Chico / Caral-related (Vichama culture)
Late Preceramic city Vichama (3800–1700 BCE) Huaura Valley: 28 m Building A pyramid famed for 1700 BCE drought/starvation friezes gaping figures — Late Preceramic collapse mural.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic to PPNA (c.15,000–11,000 BP) · Kebaran → Natufian → PPNA
Jordan Valley Natufian–PPNA rock-shelter cluster (c.15–11 ka, Kebaran→Natufian hamster, early barley).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early to Late Bronze Age · Bronze Age Ulster (Donegal tradition)
44.5 m Donegal hilltop circle — 64 stones around platform cairn, one of Ireland's largest, Beltane-associated.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Byblos — Southern Harbour Ancillary Breakwater in Mount Lebanon, Byblos, Lebanon is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed t…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Fayum — Shaduf North Field Canal Ancillary (Fayum, Egypt) in Fayum, Fayum Depression, Egypt is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attr…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA to PPNB · Taş Tepeler
Kocan Tepe West Tek Tek Ridge at Şanlıurfa, Tek Tek West, Turkey is a PPNA to PPNB temple complex of the Taş Tepeler tradition, built c. 9200 BCE for uninvestigated t-pillar ridge quarry.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk) through Middle Bronze Age; EBA I–III urban · Uruk → EBA Euphrates urban → MBA Syro-Anatolian
Euphrates bend urban tell (c.3500–1600 BCE) with EBA II–III walled lower town — Chicago Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Northern Meroe Sanctuary West — Meroe (53-36) at Meroe, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Baiae Hilltop South — Baiae (58-38) at Baiae, Italy is a Chalcolithic (regional) submerged city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Sicán to Late Sicán (Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque (Moche descendant)
Sicán capital Batán Grande (800–1375 CE): 20 adobe pyramids (Huaca Loro 20 m with Lord of Sicán 2 kg gold mask and 22 sacrifices) in dry forest world-heritage necropolis.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Classic Hohokam 1150–1450 CE (Sedentary to Classic transition) · Hohokam (Ancestral Sonoran Desert, ancestors of O’odham)
Ancestral Sonoran Desert four-story Great House (18 m × 13 m, 4 storeys, 11 rooms, caliche clay walls 1 m thick, internal loopholes) – largest known Hohokam structure, preserved under 1932 modern…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic · Iberian Megalithic
Dolmen de Soto Trigueros at Andalusia, Huelva, Spain is a Neolithic megalithic of the Iberian Megalithic tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for 21 m passage dolmen with rock art 63 orthostats.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic North Central Anatolian → EBA extramural elite cemetery
Horoztepe Höyük Tokat Burial Mound is the extramural-cemetery knoll 200 m from Horoztepe settlement on the Kelkit plain 2 km northeast of Erbaa.
🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Lachish — Fosse Temple North Ancillary (Tell Lachish) in Southern, Lachish, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
New Aleppo Settlement West — Aleppo (53-48) at Aleppo, Syria is a Neolithic (regional) ancient city of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
New Baiae Reservoir I — Baiae (58-25) at Baiae, Italy is a Chalcolithic (regional) submerged city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Neolithic to Mamluk (c.8000 BCE–1500 CE; Decapolis peak 63 BCE–400 CE) · Neolithic → Canaanite → Hellenistic Decapolis → Roman → Byzantine → Islamic
Pella (Tabaqat Fahl) is a 4000-year mound and Decapolis Greco-Roman city in Jordan Valley — with Neolithic village (Sha'ar Hagolan–related) through Canaanite–Eg...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Chalcolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic–Chalcolithic
Qattafi east arm: 6 mesa-lip kites driving gazelles off 40-m basalt mesa to playa.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex
Kushan 1st–4th c CE (Kanishka–Huvishka) · Kushan Bactria Buddhist (Gandhara–Bactrian)
AyrTam — Kushan Buddhist monastery (1st–4th c CE) 17 km east Termez on Amu Darya north bank, discovered 1932 (Stavisky frieze), excavated 1963–82 Stavisky and 1979 Kushan inscription found.