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🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Megiddo — North Palace Ancillary Gate (Tell Megiddo) in Northern, Megiddo, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Aceramic Neolithic to Late Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic · Central Anatolian (Aşıklı → Çatalhöyük related)
Major Aceramic to Chalcolithic tell (c.7500–5500 BCE) on Çiftlik Plain at Göllü Dağ obsidian source — Cappadocian Neolith obsidian factory.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Thubursicum Bure (modern Téboursouk) controls the Khalled–Siliana pass, a Berbero-Roman municipium with Massylian roots.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom Early Dynastic to 3rd–4th Dynasty (2686–2600 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Zawiyet el-Maiyitin (Pyramid of Zawiyat el-Maiytin) is a small 3rd–4th Dynasty provincial step pyramid 15 m square base, 17 m high originally, 3 steps, on eastern desert slope opposite Minya, built…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) · Minoan
Akrotiri — West House Annex North Room (Thera) in South Aegean, Cyclades, Santorini, Greece is a Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Apamea — North Colonnade Insula (Orontes) in Hama, Apamea, Qalaat al-Madiq, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Viking Age (750–975 CE) · Scandinavian Viking Age
Viking Age emporium on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, founded c.750 CE and abandoned c.975, with fortified town area (Borg), harbour, cemeteries of over 3,000 graves and famous chamber grave Bj 581.
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient city
Caucasian Albania to Sasanian to Islamic (c.100 BCE–19th c.; peak Sasanian 6th c.) · Caucasian Albanian → Sasanian Persian → Khazar → Arab → Shirvanshah → Russian
Sasanian 3.6 km double-wall Caspian Gates with Naryn-Kala citadel sealing Caucasus passage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (3500–1550 BCE) · North Syrian Chalcolithic → EBA Amuq → MBA Yamhad/Alalakh
Gedikli Karahöyük North Mound is the northern satellite of the Gedikli Karahöyük complex on the Islahiye plain — famed for its 200-grave EBA cemetery linking Amuq–Cilicia–Euphrates.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf–Ubaid (c.6000–3800 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid (Amuq A–D)
South Amik Halaf–Ubaid village (c.6000–3800 BCE, geometric painted ware, stamp seals) on former lakebed.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Late Mississippian (Lilbourn phase) · Mississippian (Bootheel)
Bastioned Late Mississippian town (1100–1350 CE) near New Madrid — 6-m mound with 3-ha palisaded village.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Medinet Habu — Migdol Gate Ancillary Bastion (Thebes) in Luxor, Medinet Habu, Egypt is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron…
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Gravettian to Solutrean ~29–20 ka BP · Gravettian hunter-gatherer
Quercy cave with Spotted Horses and 307 hand stencils, 25 ka Gravettian masterpiece.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 6th c. CE) · Punic / Caesarian Roman
Caesar's 46 BCE supply port opposite Thapsus — Punic mole slabs now under Monastir fishing lagoon at –1 to –2 m.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Gonur / Togolok phase BMAC 2300–1700 BCE · Bactria–Margiana (Oxus) civilization
BMAC (Bactria–Margiana) monumental temple-fortress (c.2300–1700 BCE) on Murghab alluvium, satellite of Gonur Tepe, built of mud-brick with central fortified court 30×40 m, fire temple, part of Viktor…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Dara (Anastasiopolis) — Cistern West Arch in Mardin, Dara, Turkey is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to Hydraulic cultur…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Eildon Hill North — Ancillary Rampart Enclosure in Scotland, Scottish Borders, Melrose, United Kingdom is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attribute…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 3rd Dynasty (Huni, c.2630–2613 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Huni / early 4th Dynasty)
Small step pyramid (Huni, c.2630 BCE, 18.46 m base, 3 steps, 5.10 m high today) on rocky crest of Elephantine Island (Yebu) at First Cataract.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (560 BCE – 1453 CE) · Megarian Greek / Heraclean tyranny / Mithridatic
560 BCE Megarian tyrant harbour — 220 m ashlar mole now –1 to –4 m under Ereğli coal pier off Acheron cave.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortified settlement
Late Bronze to Iron Age (1300–400 BCE) · Late Bronze fortified
Heuneburg — Outer Settlement Quartier Southwest in Baden-Württemberg, Herbertingen, Germany is a Late Bronze to Iron Age (1300–400 BCE) fortified settlemen…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Yoruba Oyo Empire (14th–1835 CE; capital 16th–1835) · Yoruba (Oyo)
Old Oyo (Oyo-Ile, Katunga) is the 16th–19th c. capital of Oyo Empire, 10 km triple earthen walls enclosing 6,000 ha savanna plain with 17 palace compounds (Kobi), council houses and reservoirs.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ubaid to Hellenistic (3500 BCE–200 BCE; peak Neo-Assyrian 856–610 BCE) · EBA → Mitanni → Syro-Hittite → Aramean Bit-Adini → Neo-Assyrian
Kar-Shalmaneser lower town 856 BCE — Aramean to Assyrian glazed palace.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Late Chalcolithic–Uruk (4500–3000 BCE) pre-Uruk urbanism · Local North Syrian (Hamoukar culture)
Tell Hamoukar — Early Urban Center South Extension in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Late Chalcolithic–Uruk (4500–3000 BCE) pre-Uruk urbanism ancient-city attributed to Local North Syrian…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron Age → Hellenistic (3000–100 BCE) · Euphratean → Hittite → Neo-Hittite/Assyrian
Euphrates tell (EB–Iron, Hittite-Assyrian) — 18 m island mound, Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
