🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hacınebi Tepe South — Lower Slopes
Late Chalcolithic 3800–3100 BCE (Phases A–B2) then Roman farmstead · Late Chalcolithic → Uruk contact/colonial → Roman
Uruk contact citadel lower town — Late Chalcolithic B2 Uruk colony (3600 BCE).
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Heraion of Samos
Archaic to Roman ~900 BCE–300 CE · Samian Greek (Ionian)
Polycrates' 109 m giant Ionic Heraion - largest attempted Greek temple on Samos plain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Perge — South Gate Courtyard Niche
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Perge — South Gate Courtyard Niche in Antalya, Aksu, Perge, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age urb…
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Wold-Ditch
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Sanctuary of Wold-Ditch in Ohio, United States is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Sidon
Neolithic to present (c.4000 BCE–present; Bronze Age city from 3000 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Third great Phoenician city-state, Sidon was famed for glassmaking, purple dye, and as mother-city of Tyre.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Spruce Hill Earthworks
Middle Woodland / Late Woodland debated · Hopewell tradition or Fort Ancient tradition
Hilltop stone-walled enclosure 42 ha above Paint Creek; Hopewell vs Fort Ancient debate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Brak — Nagar/Nawar Mound
Halaf–Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic (6th–4th mill. BCE) through Mitanni to Late Bronze Age (c.6000–1200 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Halaf/Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic, Mitanni-Hurrian)
Tell Brak (ancient Nagar/Nawar) is the largest prehistoric mound in northeastern Syria (main mound 60 ha, 43 m high; outer town 130 ha), occupied 6th–2nd mill.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Hoyuk)
EBA through Iron Age; MBA peak · Yamhad (Aleppo) vassal; Syro-Hittite → Assyrian
MBA palace city (Zalwar?) with basalt lion gate, cuneiform archive and planned lower town — Yamhad-period vassal capital in Islahiye corridor.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Umm ar-Rasas (Kastron Mefaa)
Roman to Umayyad (3rd–8th c CE; Byzantine peak 5th–8th c) · Roman / Byzantine / Ghassanid / Umayyad
Desert frontier city on Via Nova Traiana, Umm ar-Rasas contains Roman castrum, five Byzantine churches with superb mosaic floors, and the intact 14×6 m mosaic map in St Stephen's Church (718 CE) –…
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Down-Henge
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ancient City of Down-Henge in British Columbia, Canada is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Berel — Kurgan 11 Ancillary Timber Chamber (Kazakhstan)
Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) · Scythian / Saka
Berel — Kurgan 11 Ancillary Timber Chamber (Kazakhstan) in East Kazakhstan, Berel, Kazakhstan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) kurgan attributed to S…
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tomb
Gonur Depe — Royal Necropolis Tomb 3220
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Gonur Depe — Royal Necropolis Tomb 3220 in Mary, Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed to Old–New Kingdom Egy…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Kisurra (Tell Abu Hatab)
Early Dynastic–Old Babylonian (c.2700–1700 BCE) · Sumerian → Amorite Kisurra kingdom
Twin mound Abu Hatab (Kisurra) in the Euphrates back-marshes: Isin-Larsa era kingdom squeezed between Isin and Larsa, palatial archives (EB Kisurra texts), and ED IIIb votive stone of King Ibaya.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Lascaux Cave
Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean/Magdalenian, ~17,000–15,000 BCE) · Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer (Magdalenian)
Sealed Upper Paleolithic cave on the Vézère renowned as the 'Sistine Chapel of Prehistory' for about 600 parietal paintings and nearly 1,500 engravings executed with astonishing naturalism.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
Classical 429–400 BCE · Ancient Greek Arcadian (Phigalian)
Iktinos' mountain Apollo temple mixing all three orders with earliest Corinthian capital.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
High Bank Works — Octagon Northeast Corner
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
High Bank Works — Octagon Northeast Corner in Ohio, Ross County, High Bank, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthwork attr…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Ingoldisthorpe-Low Ancient Village
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Ingoldisthorpe-Low Ancient Village in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kavuşan Höyük
Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze (c.6000–1500 BCE) · Hassuna-Halaf → Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware
Large Tigris terrace tell (320 × 280 m, 15 m high) in the Ilısu reservoir zone, excavated 2002–2011 by G. Kozbe and Halu...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kawa Temple T (Taharqo Sanctuary)
New Kingdom founder (Amenhotep III c.1380 BCE) revived 25th Dynasty Taharqo 690 BCE to Meroitic · Kushite (Napatan 25th Dynasty, Taharqo) Egyptianised
Large Kushite temple complex on east bank north of Dongola plain, with Temple T (Taharqo, 690 BCE, 40×30 m sandstone pylon), Temple A (Amenhotep III) and extensive town with pyramidal tombs south.
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock-cut
Naqsh-e Rostam — North Tomb Facade (Pars, Achaemenid)
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Naqsh-e Rostam — North Tomb Facade (Pars, Achaemenid) in Fars, Marvdasht, Naqsh-e Rostam, Iran is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attribute…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Lachish
Neolithic to Persian (c.5000–400 BCE; peak Judah fortress 900–586 BCE) · Canaanite → Judahite fortress → Assyrian → Persian
Tel Lachish is the great Judahite fortress-city (second after Jerusalem), famed for 701 BCE Sennacherib siege ramp — Assyrian reliefs at Nineveh show Lachish ba...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Sora Cave of Swimmers
Early to Mid Holocene (6000–3000 BCE) · Saharan pastoral Neolithic (Gilf Kebir)
Wadi Sora (Wadi Sura) Cave of Swimmers (Cave II) in Gilf Kebir is Saharan pastoral rock art 6000–3000 BCE, famous for 1933 Almasy discovery of 'swimming' floating figures (actually swimming in wadi…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient village
Alvastra Pile Dwelling
Middle Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Funnel Beaker (TRB)
Neolithic pile dwelling (c.3000 BCE) of the Funnel Beaker culture on the former shore of Lake Vättern, with piles preserved in peat, pottery, flint and cemeteries.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol and Huaca de la Luna
Moche (Mochica) 100–800 CE (Huaca de la Luna 100–600 CE; Sol 450–600 CE peak) · Moche (Moche culture)
Twin massive adobe pyramid complexes of Moche state (100–800 CE): Huaca del Sol 43 m high (185 × 41 m base, largest pre-Columbian adobe mass in Americas, 143 million bricks stamped with maker's…