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🇮🇩 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…
🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex
Late Neolithic (3600-3200 BCE) · Temple Period
Ggantija North Temple Forecourt in Malta, Gozo, Malta is a Late Neolithic (3600-3200 BCE) temple complex attributed to Temple Period.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Neolithic to Early Medieval (c.3400 BCE–1200 CE) · Neolithic → Iron Age La Tène → Early Medieval Gaelic
Ireland's paramount ceremonial landscape (142 ha) — Neolithic tomb, Lia Fáil kingship stone and Iron Age royal enclosure complex.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nineveh Kuyunjik Palace Relief Panel 12 in Nineveh, Kuyunjik, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) · Early Harappan (Rehman Dheri culture, Kot Diji–Harappan)
Rehman Dheri Mound — Gomal Plain in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dera Ismail Khan, Gomal plain (Rehman Dheri), Pakistan is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) pyramid/mound…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) · Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE)
Stubline in Belgrade District, Obrenovac, Kolubara Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE)
Tell Zaidan (Zaidan) in Ar-Raqqah Governorate, Balikh Valley, near Raqqa, Syria is a Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3500 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
Ruined 110 m long Cotswold-Severn chambered cairn on Cheshire border — four portal stones survive of vast ridge cairn.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Bronze Age 2000–900 BCE → Iron Age 900 BCE–200 CE · Ban Chiang — Khorat Bronze–Iron paddy culture (UNESCO 575)
Ban Chiang Udon Thani — Iron Age–Bronze Age paddy cemetery-mound (3000 BCE–200 CE, 6 ha) at Ban Chiang 50 km E Udon Thani on Khorat Plateau, UNESCO 575, excavated 1974–75 by C. Gorman–P.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Benin City Earthwork Emotan Sector Moat Iya in Edo, Benin City, Nigeria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (O'odham ancestral) Classic Period (Soho–Civano phases)
Casa Grande Hohokam South Compound is the Classic Period platform-mound village south of the Casa Grande Great House — the iconic 4-story caliche Great House (1350 CE) on the Gila River.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (6th c BCE–7th c CE; Roman peak 2nd c) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
10-ha causeway port with unique twin Antonine and Old Forums and Djerba lagoon mole.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze III through Medieval (EBA, MBA, LBA Izziya, Iron Age, Classical, Byzantine) · Cilician coastal / Hittite (Izziya) → Syro-Cilician → Classical Greek/Roman
Coastal tell (Bronze Age Izziya, Classical Issos) — 5 kyr harbour sequence from EB III to Medieval, Alexander battlefield anchor.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Hakra/Kunal (5000–3300) → Early Harappan (3300–2600 BCE) · Kunal culture → Early Harappan (Hakra-Ghaggar)
Pre-Harappan Hakra-type village (c.5000–2600 BCE) on the Sarasvati paleochannel near Ratia — type-site for Kunal culture, cultural ancestor of Rehman Dheri. Excavated 1986–91 by J.S. Khatri & M.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Maes Howe Peripheral Cairn in Orkney, Mainland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Buried city
Late Intermediate to Inca (c.1250 – 1430 CE) · Atacameno / Tastileño / Inca phase
Tastil's northern Quebrada del Toro–Rosario ridge extension — 400 m double wall, terraced fields and chullpa towers linking two valleys 3340 m.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Early Medieval Viking Age 704–900 (Denmark's oldest town dendro 704) · Danish Viking Age (South Jutland emporium — Frisian–Frankish contact)
Ribe — Viking Age emporium and Denmark's oldest town (dendro 704–710 market 8th c foundation, peak 700–900), on Ribe River 5 km from Wadden Sea tidal flats, southern Jutland. Excavated M.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom · 4th Dynasty Egypt (Sneferu to Khufu horizon)
North wing 55 m of world's oldest large dam (Old Kingdom) breached during construction.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Submerged site
Portolan chart phantom (1424–1508 CE) · Portuguese–Venetian cartography / Phantom
Azores Satanazes phantom 1424 – Devil archipelago at 33.5°N 29°W, no bank, pure chart error.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 650–100 BCE) · Ionian Greek
Archaic olive-oil harbour – ashlar quay at –0.5 m off Liman Tepe, Urla.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c BCE–5th c CE; peak 7th–6th c BCE) · Phoenician / Mauretanian / Portuguese
Tiny purple island with earliest Atlantic Phoenician 7th c BCE outpost for murex dye – 'Tyr's Atlantic anchor'.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Bronze Age (1800-800 BCE) · Nuragic Culture
Nuraghe Arrubiu Bastion D Annex in Sardinia, Nuoro, Italy is a Bronze Age (1800-800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Nuragic Culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Tomb 72 in Luxor, Hierakonpolis, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic pastoral-hunting
Wisad south kite chain: 7 desert kites (8500–6200 BCE) on Black Desert basalt, 6 km SSE of pools.
