🇮🇹 Italy · Tumulus
Highfield-Narrow Wadi Burial Mound
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Highfield-Narrow Wadi Burial Mound in Sicily, Italy is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) tumulus attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Cave
Khet-Vale Cave
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Khet-Vale Cave in Sicily, Italy is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) cave attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Mine Tel Dolmen
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Mine Tel Dolmen in Sicily, Italy is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) megalithic attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient technology
Orichalcum – Atlantean Red Metal (Hypothetical Metallurgy)
Plato 360 BCE description; metal 8th–5th c. BCE brass production · Greek (Platonic) + Sicilian Greek brass workers
Plato's orichalcum second-to-gold — 2015 Gela wreck 40 brass ingots proved high-zinc cementation brass, not superconductor.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica — Rock-Cut Necropolis
Late Bronze to Iron Age (1300–650 BCE) · Sikel (Siculi)
Pantalica — Rock-Cut Necropolis in Sicily, Italy is a Late Bronze to Iron Age (1300–650 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sikel (Siculi).
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Port Bank Petroglyph Field
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Port Bank Petroglyph Field in Sicily, Italy is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock art attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Quarry
Quarry of Marsh
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Quarry of Marsh in Sicily, Italy is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) quarry attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Ras Kara Rock-Cut Complex
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Ras Kara Rock-Cut Complex in Sicily, Italy is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) rock_cut attributed to Nazca culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Rock Art of Torr Workshop Midfield
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Rock Art of Torr Workshop Midfield in Sicily, Italy is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) rock art attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Rock-Cut Tombs of Butte Easton Tall
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Rock-Cut Tombs of Butte Easton Tall in Sicily, Italy is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Rock-Cut Tombs of Henge Nara Ditch
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Rock-Cut Tombs of Henge Nara Ditch in Sicily, Italy is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Harappan culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Geoglyph
Roxby Geoglyph
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Roxby Geoglyph in Sicily, Italy is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Pyramid
Tepe-Cross Pyramid
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Tepe-Cross Pyramid in Sicily, Italy is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) pyramid attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Thapsos — Mycenaean Emporium
Middle Bronze Age (1500–1200 BCE) · Sikels with Mycenaean contact
Thapsos — Mycenaean Emporium in Sicily, Italy is a Middle Bronze Age (1500–1200 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Sikels with Mycenaean contact.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tumulus
Thapsos — North Cist Grave Field (Priolo)
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Thapsos — North Cist Grave Field (Priolo) in Sicily, Priolo Gargallo, Italy is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hallstat…
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Aitna Atlantis – Sicilian Mirror Atlantis (Schulten–Etna Variant)
Claim 9600 BCE (Etna 500 ka volcano) · Pseudo Sicilian / Volcanology
Pseudoarchaeology – Schulten 1927 Tartessos–Sicily Aitna (Etna) Atlantis mirror misplaces Plato's island to Sicily Etna plain; Hausmann 1990s Sicilian Atlantis.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Helorus – Submerged Quay of the Sicilian Greek Port
Archaic to Late Antique (700 BCE – 400 CE) · Greek Syracusan / Roman
Syracusan colony 700 BCE — 120 m submerged ashlar quay at −3 m on the Tellaro mouth where Athenians landed in 413 BCE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Selinunte Archaeological Park
Archaeic-Classical 651–409 BCE · Greek (Megaran colonists)
Largest Greek archaeological park with colossal unfinished Temple G.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge
Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) · Sicel Culture
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge in Sicily, Syracuse, Italy is a Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sicel Culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Northern Annex
Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) · Sicel Culture
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Northern Annex in Sicily, Syracuse, Italy is a Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sicel Culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Southern Extension
Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) · Sicel Culture
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Southern Extension in Sicily, Syracuse, Italy is a Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sicel Culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Eastern Outlier
Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) · Sicel Culture
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Eastern Outlier in Sicily, Syracuse, Italy is a Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sicel Culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Western Terrace
Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) · Sicel Culture
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge — Western Terrace in Sicily, Syracuse, Italy is a Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sicel Culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Agrigento Valley of the Temples
Archaeic-Classical Greek 6th–5th c. BCE, peak 480–406 BCE · Greek (Doric Greeks from Gela/Rhodes-Crete)
Greek city ridge with best-preserved Doric temple in world: Concordia.