🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kom Ombo
Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: كوم أمبو; Coptic: ⲙ̄ⲃⲱ əmbō or ⲛ̄ⲃⲱ ənbō; Ancient Greek: Ὄμβοι Omboi or Ὄμβος Ombos; or Latin: Ambo and Ombi) is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom…
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Ottoman (300 BCE – 1923 CE) · Persian / Ionian Greek / Pontic / Roman / Genoese
Persian princess city 300 BCE — double bays Büyük and Küçük Liman divided by islet with 90 m mole at −2 m.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka Shilikty southern overhang (650–580 BCE) · Saka southern Shilikty granite spur
3 rock-shelter kurgans beneath 12 m granite overhang: talus gneiss chamber 5.8 m spall mound with mirror 18 cm 610 BCE.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Hellenistic to Byzantine 250 BCE–450 CE · Hellenistic Balqa then Roman Decapolis chora
Walled twin cisterns 22×12×6 m 2,800 m³ with 420-m channel + 18 m dam closing gully — Hellenistic cistern-city 580×320 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Kom Ombo (Egyptian Arabic: كوم أمبو; Coptic: ⲙ̄ⲃⲱ əmbō or ⲛ̄ⲃⲱ ənbō; Ancient Greek: Ὄμβοι Omboi or Ὄμβος Ombos; or Latin: Ambo and Ombi) is an agricultural town in Egypt famous for the Temple of Kom…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Ubaid – Early Uruk (5000–3500 BCE) · Ubaid–Susa A Susiana
Ubaid – Early Uruk (5000–3500 BCE) tell of Ubaid–Susa A Susiana in Khuzestan Province, Susiana (c.5000 BCE).
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Neolithic–Chalcolithic, Vinča–Tordos to Gradac phases · Vinča culture (Danubian Neolithic)
5700–4500 BCE Vinča tell—type site of Old Europe with early copper and 2,000 masks.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Mississippian (c.1000–1450 CE) – Thruston phase Middle Cumberland · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland culture)
The Fewkes Group (Boiling Springs, 40Wm1) is a fortified Middle Mississippian town on the Harpeth River near Brentwood, Tennessee, at 210 m.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo IV (Ancestral Puebloan post-Mesa Verde, 1285–1400 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan (Hopi ancestor — Homolovi Cluster)
Homolovi I (Homolovi State Park — Sunset Mesa Pueblo) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Navajo County, Winslow–Little Colorado, Homolovi State Park, United States — Largest Homolovi…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Late Roman to Ottoman (4th–19th c. CE) · East Roman (Byzantine) Constantinople
Valens 971-m double-tier bridge head of 426-km Thracian late Roman water network 373 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Old Kingdom to Byzantine (2700 BCE – 700 CE) · Pharaonic / Roman Egyptian
Southern terrace Nile harbour of Akoris at Tihna — 50 m quay revetment and tomb forecourt quay.
🇶🇦 Qatar · Rock art
Jebel Jassassiyeh (Arabic: جبل الجساسية, romanized: Jabal al Jasāsīyah) is an area with early petroglyphs, residential ruins and pottery remnants (from the 15th century) in northeast Qatar.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Pharaonic to Late Byzantine (380 BCE – 8th c. CE) · Egyptian-Greek / Greco-Roman / Byzantine
Canopic Isis oracle town adjoining Heracleion — sanctuary and quays 5–8 m down in Abu Qir Bay.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tagar culture 700-400 BCE · Tagar (Minusinsk Basin)
700 BCE Tagar royal kurgans (8 mounds, 40-85 m) on Yenisei terrace co-located with 3,000-panel rock-art cliff at Shalobolino.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (580 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan / Sarmatian
Eastern necropolis terrace of Kepoi in Taman Gulf east — 90 cist graves at –2 m and 60 m wall.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (2900–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Humberhead fen communities)
45-m Late Neolithic corduroy trackway (2900–2500 BCE) over Hatfield pool to platform — earliest in Britain.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Ancient city
Early Middle Ages (650–850 CE) · Swedish Gotlandic and Danish Vikings + Curonians
Grobin (Grobiņa) Viking Age Scandinavian Settlement in Kurzeme, Grobiņa town and surroundings, Latvia is a Early Middle Ages (650–850 CE) Swedish Gotlandic and Danish Vikings + Curonians site built c.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Hydraulic works
Iron Age II (Judahite Kingdom, late 8th c. BCE) · Judahite Israelite (Hezekian Jerusalem)
Biblical 533-m S-tunnel 701 BCE two teams meet with 90 cm offset for Assyrian siege.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic (c.1200–1519 CE) Totonac – Aztec contested · Totonac
Quiahuiztlan crowns the dramatic Cerro del Bernal ridge above Villa Rica–La Antigua, north of Veracruz city.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (270 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Egyptian
Western fishing lagoon of Soknopaiou Nesos — 65 m lee basin with jetty, now dry silt at Dime west.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Antonine (Lycia) · Lycian Greek and Roman Lycia
Lycian League capital oracle Ionic 6×11, winter seat of Delos Apollo equal to Delphi.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
Samosdelka (Russian: Самосделка) is a fishing village in the Astrakhan Oblast of southern Russia, approximately 40 km south-southwest of the city of Astrakhan, in the Volga River delta area of the…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Vindhyan Neolithic (7000–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000 BCE) · Vindhyan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara) → Chalcolithic
Belan Valley Neolithic type-site (c.7000–2000 BCE) on the Belan River 80 km southeast of Prayagraj (Allahabad) — Koldihwa (with Mahagara adjacent) excavated 1973–76 by G.R. Sharma and J.M.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Kurgan
Early Iron Age (Scythian Classic Royal) · Royal Scythian (Pontic Scythia)
Iconic Royal Scythian kurhan (45 m asl, 47°19′34″N 34°20′21″E 47.3269,34.3392 12 km southeast of Bol'shaia Znamenka, Vasil'evka Raion) excavated by Veselovski 1912-13 under 18 m high mound (4th-mill.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Sarmatian (Sauromatian) · Sarmatian (eastern Ural–Aral)
Sarmatian ridge cemetery 38 km from Aktobe: 17 mounds with Greek kylix sherd and eagle gold.
