🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Bir el Ater
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.
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🇹🇷 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.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
South Indian Neolithic (2500–1000 BCE) → Megalithic Iron (1000–300) → Mauryan (260 BCE) → Satavahana · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic → Mauryan (Ashoka)
Southern Deccan Neolithic–Megalithic–Mauryan hill complex (c.2500 BCE–300 CE) at Brahmagiri granite dome near Molakalmuru, Chitradurga — 1 km outcrop with Neolithic ash-mound, Megalithic cists and…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Roman Iron Age → Migration 200–700 (Funen central place peak 300–500) · Funen Iron Age (Fyn central place; pre-Danish Gutar, ‘god's home’ sanctuary)
Gudme (Gudmehjem ‘God's Home’, Gudme–Lundeborg) — Iron Age central-place and beach market (Roman Iron Age 200–500 → Vendel 500–700, peak 300–500 Gundestrup?
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Serra da Capivara Toca do Boqueirão Panel in Piauí, Serra da Capivara, Brazil is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Southern Extension in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Early Bronze Age Humber (Ferriby–Hanson Logboat tradition)
Three sewn-plank boats (2030–1680 BCE) — Europe's earliest plank vessels in Humber estuary silts.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) · Early Helladic
Lerna House of Tiles Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension in Peloponnese, Argolis, Greece is a Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Helladic.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Han · Luoyue / Lạc Việt (ancient Zhuang ancestors), Dian periphery
West bank cliff opposite main Hua Mountain with bronze-drum anthropomorph sequence.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Archaeological wonder
Lower Paleolithic 800–500 ka (Acheulean-like) · Acheulean-like (An Khê culture, Homo erectus)
Early Paleolithic settlement (c.800,000–500,000 BP) at An Khê valley, Gia Lai — oldest Paleolithic site in Vietnam and Southeast Asia outside Java, discovered 2014 by Vietnamese–Russian Nishcheta…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Eastern Outlier in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500-2500 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Grotte des Fees Dolmen Arles Annex — Eastern Outlier in Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France is a Late Neolithic (3500-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Kageras is a late medieval era fort in Sudan. Located in Upper Nubia, it lies on the eastern side of the Nile, about halfway between the third and second cataract.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age I–III (c.3500–2000 BCE) with Late Chalcolithic base · Western Anatolian EBA (Eskişehir phase, Troy I–II contemporary)
EBA II–III walled plateau town (c.3500–2000 BCE) with monumental compound and planned lower town — Eskişehir plain urbanism type-site.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (2900-1750 BCE) · Mari Culture
Mari Palace Western Annex Drain — Southern Extension in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (2900-1750 BCE) ancient city attributed to Mari Culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age Funan precursor 500 BCE–200 CE → Funan–Chenla · Mekong Iron Age (Prohear) → Funan (proto-Khmer)
Iron Age mass burial and settlement terrace (c.500 BCE–200 CE) at Prohear in Prey Veng near Mekong, southern Cambodia — circular mound 0.8 ha excavated 2008–11 by Andreas Reinecke (German–Cambodian)…
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Late Intermediate pre-Inca hypothetically Chachapoya fringe or colonial hypothesis Late Intermediate contested · Chachapoyas fringe / possibly 19th c. coffee retaining (unvalidated)
Megalithic andesite wall 80×3.2 m on Caynarachi terrace 1100 m — polygonal dry coursing with chamfer notch, terrace 40×30 m, ware 800–1400 CE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) · Early Helladic
Lerna House of Tiles Annex Courtyard — Northern Annex in Peloponnese, Argolis, Greece is a Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Helladic.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Phoenician to Classical (c. 800–397 BCE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian
Phoenician lagoon island with 1 km submerged causeway at –0.5 m and cothon harbour, Stagnone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Shetland Neolithic
Stanydale Temple Annex Shetland — Southern Extension in Shetland, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Shetland Neolithic.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE) · Canaanite
Tel Kabri Palace Storage Annex West — Northern Annex in Galilee, Western Galilee, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 BCE) ancient city attributed to Canaanite.
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Early Islamic (560 BCE – 643 CE) · Greek Cyrenean / Ptolemaic / Roman
Overlapping Greek harbours of Euesperides (560 BCE) and Berenice (247 BCE) preserved as lagoon moles and fish-tanks under Benghazi lagoon.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Ancient city
Gupta to Pala–Sena (450–1200 CE) · Gupta to Pala–Sena (Varendra)
Largest Bangladeshi walled city—120 ha, 4 concentric ramparts (6 km outer), 5th–12th c Gupta–Pala–Sena.
