🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Areni-1 Upper Gallery Petroglyphs
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I · Late Chalcolithic Syunik-Areni, Kura-Araxes early
Upper chamber 12 m above Areni-1 winery cave with Chalcolithic lattice petroglyphs.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Karahan Tepe T-Pillar Structure AD in Şanlıurfa, Karahantepe, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I · Late Chalcolithic Syunik-Areni, Kura-Araxes early
Upper chamber 12 m above Areni-1 winery cave with Chalcolithic lattice petroglyphs.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Old Kingdom to New Kingdom (2600 – 1200 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Northern Galala pharaonic anchorage of Ayn Sukhna — sandstone quay at –1.5 m and 100 m slipway for Sneferu Sinai fleet.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Old Kingdom to New Kingdom (2600 – 1200 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Northern Galala pharaonic anchorage of Ayn Sukhna — sandstone quay at –1.5 m and 100 m slipway for Sneferu Sinai fleet.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Dolmen de la Fabière in Occitanie, Lozère, Causse Méjean, France is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Khorsabad Buried Sargon Palace Court VIII in Nineveh, Khorsabad, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Grave 14 in Limpopo, Mapungubwe, South Africa is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Kunal–Kot Diji–Early Harappan 4000–2900 BCE · Kot Diji / Kunal-related Early Harappan (Gomal culture)
Early Harappan planned city (c.4000–2900 BCE) on the Gomal Plain near Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — 22 ha rectangular walled town (550×350 m) with grid street plan, mudbrick fortification…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ur Royal Cemetery PG 800 Death Pit in Dhi Qar, Tell el-Muqayyar, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Early Medieval Slavic 900–1180 (Circipanian Obotrite lake island) · Slavic Circipanian (Obotrite confederacy Tollense lake island)
Behren-Lübchin — Slavic lake island fortress (9th–12th c, Feldberg–Fresendorf phase, peak 10th–12th c Circipanian) on Großer See lake island 12 km southeast Teterow, Mecklenburg Tollense–Peene lake…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Chawaytiri (Hispanicized Chahuaytire, Chahuaytiri) is an archaeological site with rock paintings in Peru.
🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex
Late Neolithic (3600-3000 BCE) · Temple Period
Hagar Qim Terrace Wall South in Malta, Qrendi, Malta is a Late Neolithic (3600-3000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Temple Period.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Fortress
High–Late Medieval Bornholm 1259–1658 (Lund Archbishop Danish struggle) · Medieval Bornholm (Lund Archbishop vs Danish crown, Hammershus feud 1259)
Hammershus — largest medieval fortress ruin in Scandinavia (c.1259 Archbishop Jacob Erlandsen, Lund–Danish struggle 13th c) on Hammeren granite promontory 74 m a.s.l.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Harappa Mound F Granary Annex in Punjab, Sahiwal, Pakistan is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan.
🇲🇱 Mali · Submerged site
Iron Age to Medieval (c. 250 BCE – 1400 CE) · Soninke / Jenné-Jeno / Djenné
Inland Delta harbour mound 25 ha – seasonal wharves 200 m buried 1.5 m at Bani bank, Djenné.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Lower Paleolithic 350 ka → Jorwe Chalcolithic 1400–700 BCE · Deccan Palaeolithic → Jorwe Chalcolithic — Sankalia sequence type-site
Nevasa Pravara Valley Site — Deccan Stone Age to Chalcolithic reference sequence (Lower Paleolithic Acheulian Chirki → Middle Paleolithic → Jorwe Chalcolithic 1400–700 BCE) on Pravara River,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE (Huarpa antecedent 200 BCE–600 CE) · Wari (Huari, Middle Horizon Andean empire, Quechua predecessor, Ayacucho basin)
Capital of Wari Empire (600–1000 CE) – Andean first empire predating Inca by 400 years, 2,000 ha patchwork city with 7 m-high, 2 m-thick walled enclosures (Moraduchayuq, Vegachayuq Moqo),…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Teotihuacan to Aztec (300 – 1521 CE, aqueduct 1554) · Teotihuacano / Aztec / Spanish
Zempoala in Hidalgo, Mexico is a Teotihuacan to Aztec (300 – 1521 CE, aqueduct 1554) ancient city attributed to Teotihuacano / Aztec / Spanish culture.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) · Irish Neolithic
Carrowmore Dolmen Outlier 12 in County Sligo, Ireland is a Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Neolithic.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Chalcolithic 1200–600 BCE → Sunga 200 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Chalcolithic → Sunga → Gupta (Vakataka-Hunas)
Gupta temple city Airikina on Bina river (600 BCE–600 CE) — home to 2.66 m Varaha boar (510 CE) and earliest Sati inscription.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Late Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.1400–717 BCE) with Neolithic–Medieval overburden · Hittite viceregal → Neo-Hittite Luwian/Aramaean
Syro-Hittite capital on Euphrates (90 ha twin-mound, basalt orthostats, Storm-God reliefs) at Turkey–Syria border.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Barclodiad y Gawres Passage Grave in Anglesey, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2900 BCE) · Irish Neolithic
Brú na Bóinne Satellite Cairn Z in County Meath, Ireland is a Late Neolithic (3200-2900 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Neolithic.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Candi Kethek is a terraced megalithic pyramid-shaped 15th-16th century Hindu temple on the northwest slope of Mount Lawu in Anggrasmanis village of Gumeng subdistrict in Jenawi district of…
