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🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) · PPN Culture
Atlitz Yam Submerged Courtyard North Wall — Eastern Outlier in Haifa District, Atlit, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) submerged city attributed to PPN Culture.
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (5500-4500 BCE) · Butmir Culture
Butmir Neolithic Settlement Trench North — Eastern Outlier in Sarajevo, Ilidza, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Late Neolithic (5500-4500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Butmir Culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500-7500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Cayonu Tepesi Skull Building Annex in Southeastern Anatolia, Diyarbakir, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500-7500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Heracleion Central Temple Amun-Gereb Statue Base in Alexandria, Heracleion, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age · Late Chalcolithic pastoral proto-urban
Wadi Rajil north 80-m ×5-m basalt rubble with 10 ha reservoir, oldest dam-system part 3000 BCE Jawa desert town.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
King's Harbour Submerged Plane Wreck Dorset in Dorset, King's Harbour, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇳🇨 France · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic alias (1876 Velocity line → 1999 Times Sable vs 2008 Google Sandy) · French hydrography → English translation → WDBII → Times Atlas
Times Atlas phantom alias revealing database translation duplication – Sandy Island's English ghost twin.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200-7400 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Asikli Hoyuk Terrace Trench 12 South — Western Terrace in Central Anatolia, Aksaray, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200-7400 BCE) tell attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Early Iron Age, Scythian period · Scythian-agrarian (Budini, possibly Geloni Greeks per Herodotus)
4,400-ha 7th-c. BCE Scythian mega-hillfort—largest in Europe, Herodotus's wooden Gelonus candidate.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Mauryan 3 c. BCE → Kushan 1–4 c. → Hepthalite 5–6 c. → Turk Shahis 7–9 c. · Gandharan Buddhist → Kabul Shahi Buddhist with metallurgic substrate
Copper-and-Buddhist hill city 40 km SE Kabul (3 c. BCE–9 c. CE) — 400 Buddha statues and 100 ha monasteries atop world's copper shafts.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Thonis-Heracleion Submerged Stele of Nectanebo in Alexandria, Heracleion, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Middle–Late Kofun 400–600 CE (Kyushu regional) · Kyushu Chikuho Kofun (northern Kyushu style)
Ushivika Kofun — unrecorded southwestern keyhole? round kofun (c.5th–6th c CE, middle–late Kofun) on Chikuho plain between Iizuka and Keisen, Fukuoka, reported 2018 Chikuho mound survey.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Preclassic to Late Classic (350 BCE – 900 CE) · Maya (Yaxha)
Yaxha North Acropolis in Petén, Guatemala is a Late Preclassic to Late Classic (350 BCE – 900 CE) ancient city attributed to Maya (Yaxha) culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Late Iron Age forest (Igbo Early Period 800–1000 CE) · Igbo (proto-Igbo) Nri cultural nucleus
9th-c tripartite forest elite complex with 700+ lost-wax bronzes including roped pot and regalia requiring highest wax virtuosity.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Eastern Outlier in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ain Ghazal Courtyard Shrine East Terrace — Southern Extension in Amman Governorate, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (2000–500 BCE) · Andronovo-related Chemurchek, early nomadic Saka/Xiongnu
Northern Tianshan schist cliff 120-m with masked shaman fertility dance 1000 BCE.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Southern Extension in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes
Metsamor Fortress Citadel North Bastion — Northern Annex in Armavir Province, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Sauromatian to Early Sarmatian) · Sauromatian / Early Sarmatian (Prokhorovka)
40+ Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian kurgans (600–200 BCE) — 'Amazon' female warrior necropolis on Ilek River.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Chalcolithic (2500-2000 BCE) · Irish Chalcolithic
Poulnabrone Exclave Wedge Terrace — Southern Extension in The Burren, County Clare, Ireland is a Chalcolithic (2500-2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Chalcolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Iron Age (Chalcolithic, EBA Kura-Araxes, MBA, Iron Urartian) · Caucasian–Kura-Araxes → Eastern Anatolian → Urartian
Sos Höyük (Pasinler / Upper Euphrates Chalcolithic) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Erzurum Province, Pasinler District, Pasinler plain, Turkey — High plateau mound at Euphrates headwaters…
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Western Terrace in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Bir el Ater (Arabic: بئر العاتر) is a city located in far eastern Algeria. It is located towards the border with Tunisia, around 87 kilometers south of Tebessa and just beyond the Sahara.
