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🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE, pre-Uruk) · Late Chalcolithic north Mesopotamian
Tell Hazna Mound — Syria Balikh in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh Valley (Tell Hazna I), Syria is a Late Chalcolithic (3500–3000 BCE, pre-Uruk) pyramid/mound site attributed to Late Chalcolithic north…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antiquity (610 BCE – 6th c. CE) · Milesian Greek / Thracian / Roman / Byzantine
610 BCE Milesian colony whose harbours are now –6 m and linked to the vanished island Kianida of Ptolemy's map.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic (Norte Chico Supe) · Caral-Supe culture (Norte Chico)
Supe mouth fishing-pyramid town Áspero (3000–1800 BCE): six low shicra-bag pyramids (Huaca Alta 10 m, Huaca de los Sacrificios with D-shaped offering) maritime twin of Caral.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka Tigraxauda peak · Saka Tigraxauda royal
Boralday Royal 15: 92-m triple-circle Saka mound with 180 gold appliqués, park core.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
500 BCE–1542 CE (Preclassic through Postclassic to Contact; apogee CIassical 600–950) · Maya (northwestern Yucatán, Dzibilchaltún polity)
Northern Maya lowland megasite spanning 17 km² (largest in Yucatán by area, 8,400 structures, 1,300 vaulted buildings) occupied extraordinarily from Middle Preclassic 500 BCE to Conquest ~1542 CE…
🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Tortosa (Arabic: كاتدرائية طرطوس) was a Catholic cathedral in the city of Tartus, Syria.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tomb
Late Bronze Age I–II (c.1500–1000 BCE; peak 1300–1100 BCE) · Caspian highland Amarlou/Gilan local — Amardian? (pre-Median); strongly Iranian plateau but northern forest littoral
53-tomb Gilan gold necropolis with winged-bull rhyta and Marlik Gold Cup — Mycenae of the Caspian.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom, 18th–19th Dynasty, ~1345 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Amarna and Ramesside)
Akhenaten fortified temple-town on Nile west bank (c.1345 BCE), 200×100 m fortress with Aten temple.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Hadhrami Old South Arabian · Hadhramawt kingdom
220-m Hadhrami diversion dam (700 BCE–400 CE) on Wadi Jirdan tributary — Hadramawt palm irrigation.
🇻🇪 Venezuela · Earthwork
Late Pre-Columbian to modern hypotheses contested Late Intermediate (?)/1930s (?)? · Pemón / Wayaka? / miner (contested)
Tepui foot earthen mound 6 m and 45 m dry wall at Kukenán 1350 m — Pemón dyke vs landslide hummsock vs miner claim, 1200 CE Wayaka ware scatter.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (3600–1400 BCE; peak Kura-Araxes 3000–2500 BCE) · Urmia Chalcolithic → Kura-Araxes (Transcaucasian) → Early Urmia Bronze
Lake Urmia Kura-Araxes lakeside tell with black burnished round houses and metal workshops.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Bronze Age to Classical (c. 3000 – 373 BCE) · Mycenaean / Achaean Greek
Classical Achaean capital submerged by 373 BCE earthquake-tsunami, rediscovered 2001 buried beneath coastal plain near Rizomylos.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Preclassic–Classic · Maya (Ixcun stela cult)
Dolores valley stela city (600 BCE–900 CE) near Guatemalan-Belize border with 8 photogenic carved stela altars including Stela 1 3.2 m tall — tallest Petén north stela with 9.16.0....
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Early Natufian to MPPNB (14,600–9000 BP) · Natufian → PPNA → PPNB (Levantine Badia)
Harra playa Natufian village that produced world's earliest bread (14,400 BP).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Ancient Egypt · Ancient Egypt
Leontopolis is the Koine Greek name of a city that may correspond to either the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya ("the Jewish tell").
🇿🇲 Zambia · Rock art
Later Stone Age to Iron Age (2000 BCE–1500 CE) · Batwa / Bantu
700 Later Stone Age paintings at Mwela Rocks near Kasama — Kasama–Isoka bush gallery.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Iron Age Sahel / Nok contemporary (550–350 BCE) · Gajiganna culture
12-ha 550 BCE Gajiganna proto-city with 5-m ditch and early Sahelian iron furnace.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Late to Final Jomon (2300–400 BCE) · Late Jomon (Tsugaru region)
Late Jomon megalithic cemetery (c.2300–1700 BCE) on Hakkoda foothills in Aomori City — massive ring-ditch stone circle 35 m dia.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
C-Group, Classic Kerma, New Kingdom, Meroitic–Medieval · Nubian C-Group to Christian Nubian
Double cemetery across Nile at Debeira East (Sudan) and West, excavated by Scandinavian Joint Expedition and Adams (1961–64) before High Dam.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Ed Dur, also known as Al Dour and Ad Dour (Arabic: ٱلدُّوْر, romanized: Ad-Dūr, lit. 'The Houses') is an ancient Near Eastern city, today located in Umm Al Quwain, United Arab Emirates.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1200–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Los Muertos–Pueblo Grande cluster)
Los Muertos Tempe Hohokam Settlement South is the southern canal village of Los Muertos — one of the largest Classic Period Hohokam canal villages on the Salt River south bank opposite Pueblo Grande.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Last royal tomb of the 4th Dynasty (c.2503–2498 BCE), built for Shepseskaf son of Menkaure, deliberately as gigantic mastaba (99.6x74.4 m, 18 m high) rather than true pyramid — a break in pyramid…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Medieval–Modern cartography (1367 Pizzigani – 1906) · Italian Majorcan–Bristol cartographic
Much-copied Atlantic crescent since 1367 — crescent concave east at 46N 20W surviving to Admiralty 1906.
