🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yoshinogari — Yayoi Moated Settlement Northern Inner Enclosure
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi (Wa)
Saga Yoshinogari excavated 1986–, 2000+ pit houses, Chinese Han mirrors and bronze daggers, moat chief graveyard.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient port
Isla Cerritos
Classic · Maya/Andean
Isla Cerritos — offshore port island with dike.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Gerisa — Yarkon Gardens
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine
Tel Gerisa — Yarkon Gardens in Yarkon, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Philistine.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Qashish — Jezreel Crossing
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) · Canaanite / Israelite
Tel Qashish — Jezreel Crossing in Jezreel Valley, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (2000–600 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Israelite.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Sharuhen (Tell el-Ajjul)
Middle Bronze to Egyptian New Kingdom (2000–1150 BCE) · Hyksos / Egyptian
Hyksos rampart fortress (15 m thick) besieged 3 years by Ahmose.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tetitla Apartment — Teotihuacan
Classic (450–650 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tetitla Apartment — Teotihuacan in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic (450–650 CE) ancient-city attributed to Teotihuacan. Apartment with eagles and jaguars murals, pulque gods and Tlaloc processions.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Sayburç — Leopard Relief Enclosure
PPN (9000–8500 BCE) · Göbeklian
Sayburç 2021 discovery just S of Göbekli, relief 5-figure panel with leopard and ithyphallic man excavated by Özdoğan.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Thamallula (Theniet Belezma)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Pass fort on northern Aurès road, Thamallula guards the Belezma gap with courtyard fortress and road village.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortified city
Old Jarma — Medieval Citadel over Garama
Garamantian to Early Islamic (500 BCE–1500 CE layered) · Garamantian → Arab Jarma
Jarma excavated by Daniels, Islamic layered above Garamantian capital mound.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Idebessos — Lycian Tower City
Lycian Classical (500 BCE–300 BCE) · Lycian
Idebessos — Lycian Tower City in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian Classical (500 BCE–300 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Lycian.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tomb
Tabachines Shaft Tombs — Atemajac
Late Formative (300 BCE–400 CE) · Western Mexico
Tabachines Shaft Tombs — Atemajac in Jalisco, Mexico is a Late Formative (300 BCE–400 CE) tomb attributed to Western Mexico. Cluster of 11 shaft tombs at Atemajac valley with box tombs intrusive.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mozan — Urkesh Palace and Temple Terrace
Third to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Hurrian (Urkesh)
Khabur excavations by Buccellati 1984–, Hurrian royal archives, stone lions and underworld pit abi.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Necropolis
Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis — West Industrial Zone
Late Chalcolithic (Varna Culture) · Varna Culture (Gumelnița-Karanovo)
Chalcolithic cemetery in western Varna industrial zone (c. 4560–4450 BCE) with 294 graves, yielding world's oldest gold treasure (3,000+ gold artifacts, 6 kg).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Caesarea Mauretaniae (Cherchell)
Phoenician / Numidian / Roman · Mauretanian / Roman
Splendid royal capital of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene (25 BCE) then capital of Mauretania Caesariensis, with harbour, great theatre, amphitheatre and museums of Greek copies.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Seh Gabi
Halaf to Ubaid-Chalcolithic (c.5600–3800 BCE) · Halaf-related → Seh Gabi/Dalma → Ubaid Kangavar
Kangavar Halaf-Dalma type mound (5600–3800 BCE) with Seh Gabi painted ware north of Islamabad.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Jerablus Tahtani
Ubaid to Early Bronze (c.5000–2200 BCE; EB II centre) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Bronze Euphrates / Carchemish periphery
Euphrates ford town (5000–2200 BCE) with EB II wall 5 km south of Carchemish.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Antela da Herdade da Candieira — Redondo Cromlech Door Frame
Neolithic (4200 BCE) Redondo Candieira rectangular cromlech 15 × 12 m door-framed 4 m · Redondo Neolithic Candieira cluster 4200
Candieira door cromlech.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish IV — Garynahine Stone Circle
Late Neolithic (2900–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic Hebridean
Lewis's Callanish IV, 3 km S of Callanish I, with elliptical setting and cairn, excavated depression 1960s.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Arykanda — Cliff Terrace City Lycia
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Lycian → Roman
Lycian cliff city excavated by Bayburtluoğlu 1971–, tombs of Arykanda princes and basilica with mosaics.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Pergamon (Pergama)
Hellenistic to Roman · Attalid / Roman
Pergamon (Pergama) in Izmir Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Roman ancient city attributed to Attalid / Roman culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 1457).
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Ojiyana — Banas Mound Hamlet
Chalcolithic Ahar (3000–1500 BCE) · Ahar culture
Ojiyana — Banas Mound Hamlet in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic Ahar (3000–1500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar culture. Small Ahar mound 3 m with white-painted Ahar pottery and microliths.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Pampa de las Llamas
Classic · Maya/Andean
Pampa de las Llamas — 700 collcas storage city.