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🇵🇹 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.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (800 BCE – 1522 CE) · Dorian Greek / Hellenistic / Roman / Venetian
Dodecanese butterfly island — 80 m mole and quays at −3 m beneath Querini castle hill and at Kaminakia Bay 36.5171N.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Bilbao is a Mesoamerican archaeological site about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the modern town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the Escuintla department of Guatemala.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland (Hopewell) · Hopewell (Ohio Scioto)
Hopewell circular enclosure (100 BCE–400 CE) near Bourneville — 120-m ring and 5-m log-tomb mound at Chillicothe.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Central Pavlopetri Platform West — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-11) at Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece is a Early Historic (regional) submerged city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic · Extremadura Megalithic (Tagus basin Chalcolithic)
Extremadura's 'Spanish Stonehenge' — oval chamber + 144-stone ovoid enclosure in Valdecañas reservoir, visible only in drought.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4300 BCE–1400 CE) · Chalcolithic → EB → MBA → Hittite → Hellenistic → Islamic
Lidar Höyük Euphrates Terrace is the 8.5-ha southern alluvial terrace below Lidar Höyük main mound on the Euphrates right bank — excavated by Hauptmann before the Atatürk reservoir rose.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative (800 BCE–600 CE) · Tarapacá / Alto Ramírez
Horst-block ridge (3,820 m) 2.2 km northwest of Salar de Huasco on uplifted fault block with shattered ignimbrite and quartzite pavement.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian (Shiloh phase, 1000–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Western Tennessee)
Fortified Mississippian town (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and 2 km palisade on Tennessee River bluff, Shiloh.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Heian–Kamakura 1087–1189 CE (Fujiwara Ōshu) · Northern Fujiwara (Ōshu) — Frontier Pure Land Buddhist
Hiraizumi — northern Fujiwara capital (1087–1189 CE) 35 km south Morioka, Iwate Hiraizumi, excavated 1950s–2010s.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Byzantine (c.1850 BCE – 600 CE) · Egyptian Middle Kingdom / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum southern temple town Medinet Madi — Middle Kingdom Renenutet temple with canal harbour quay 1–2 m under silt near Lake Moeris lagoon.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Middle to Late Chalcolithic (Petreşti A-B) · Petreşti (Vinča → Gumelniţa contemporary Transylvanian)
Type-site of Petreşti painted ware culture (c.5000–3500 BCE, Middle to Late Chalcolithic) — Transylvania's Late Neolithic polychrome (red-white-black geometric) rivalling Cucuteni, on Sebeș River…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age I-III to Iron Age; lignite-sealed · Western Anatolian EBA (Yortan-like) → MBA Hittite influence
Western Anatolian EBA proto-urban tell (170×185 m) with EBA I-III fortified town, early tin-bronze and mass burial, rescued ahead of coal mining.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Ottoman (5th c BCE-16th c CE; peak 1st-4th c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Rock citadel of Venus with baths.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Carthage — Circular Harbour North Quay (Second Sector, Tunisia) in Tunis, Carthage, Circular Harbour, Tunisia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Pharos Lighthouse — Submerged Ancillary North (Alexandria, Second Sector) in Alexandria, Pharos Lighthouse Submerged Second, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Class…
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Iron Age to Roman (8th c. BCE–68 CE; peak Hasmonaean–Herodian) · Israelite → Hasmonaean/Essene (Yahad) sect (possibly Sadducean debate) → Roman destruction
Essene terrace settlement feeding 11 cliff caves that yielded 972 Dead Sea Scrolls.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Al-Hebbariyah, Hebbariyeh, Hebbariya or Hebariya (Levantine Arabic: الهبّارية, romanized: al-Hebbāriyeh) is a municipality situated in the Hasbaya District of the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Underground city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Central Derinkuyu Terrace II — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-19) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Chalcolithic (regional) underground city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3000 BCE–700 BCE) · EBA Syrian → Mittani → Hittite → Iron Age Neo-Hittite
Tell Hadidi Northern Fortification is the north casemate wall-tower line of Tell Hadidi (Azu) — the Late Bronze city Azu across the Euphrates from Tell es-Sweyhat.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Saka (Saka Tigraxauda) · Saka Tigraxauda (Almaty Saka)
Boralday west: 7 Saka mounds 45–72 m extending park 4 km toward Almaty plain.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early Harappan → Mature Harappan 3500–2000 BCE · Indus Valley (Sothi-Siswal / Harappan)
Largest Harappan necropolis in Haryana (c.2600–2000 BCE) at Daksh Khera near Farmana, Rohtak — 18.5 ha settlement plus 1.2 ha cemetery mound with 70 burials (extended, flexed, secondary) excavated…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Fortress
Hephthalite–Sogdian 5th–8th c CE → Samanid 9th–10th c · Sogdian Samarkand (Zarafshan) → Samanid
Kafir-Kala — Sogdian dihqan (landlord) fortress-palace (5th–8th c CE) 12 km SE Samarkand, Dargham canal, excavated 1970s–2000s Berdimuradov (Samarkand Institute).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Underground city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Lower Saqqara Necropolis East — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-32) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Early Historic (regional) underground city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
