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🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Sacred Great Zimbabwe Ridge North — Great Zimbabwe (57-08) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Neolithic (regional) ancient city of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Pioneer to Classic (300 BCE–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Sonoran Desert farmers)
Type-site and capital of Hohokam Culture (c.300 BCE–1450 CE, Pioneer to Classic) — 2 km² canal-irrigated village with 2 ballcourts, platform mounds, and 100 km of canals off Gila River irrigating…
🇺🇸 United States · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Watson Brake — Mound B Ancillary Platform (Ouachita) in Louisiana, Ouachita Parish, Watson Brake, United States is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500…
🇨🇳 China · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Yue Harbour — North Breakwater Ancillary (Yangtze, China) in Zhejiang, Hangzhou Bay, Yue Harbour, China is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) subm…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Afrasiab — Buried Palace Fresco North (Samarkand, Ancillary) in Samarkand, Afrasiab Buried, Uzbekistan is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried …
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
New Kingdom, 19th-20th Dynasties, c.1300-1050 BCE (Seti I–Ramesses II) · Ancient Egyptian
Amara West walled town on island 70 km north of Sai: palatial administrative capital of Kush under viceroy (King's Son of Kush) from Seti I to Ramesses IX.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Great Alexandria Village B — Alexandria, Pharos (58-44) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) submerged city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic through Nabataean; Iron Edomite peak · Feinan Chalcolithic → EBA → Edomite Iron → Nabataean
Feinan copper smelting metropolis (10 ha slag fields, Iron Edomite fortress) — Chalcolithic to Nabataean copper metropolis, biblical Punon with 100k tons 10th c. BCE slag.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
32-tonne Herefordshire Cotswold-Severn tomb — nine uprights under 25 m mound on Golden Valley ridge.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic to Eneolithic (5000–3500 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodjadermen–Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Pietrele Tell Central Platform is the central terrace of the Pietrele mega-tell — a 10-m Gumelnița tell in southern Romania with one of the thickest Eneolithic sequences in the Balkans.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Preah Vihear — Ancillary Gopura North (Dangrek) in Preah Vihear, Dangrek, Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple comp…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Royal Khajuraho Temple Central — Khajuraho (60-36) at Khajuraho, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Henan Necropolis B — Henan, Erlitou (54-14) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Early Medieval · Irish Monastic
Skellig Michael Monastery Kerry Atlantic at Kerry, Skellig Islands, Ireland is a Early Medieval ancient village of the Irish Monastic tradition, built c.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Southern Siem Reap Necropolis Central — Siem Reap (54-47) at Siem Reap, Cambodia is a Medieval (regional) temple complex of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Middle Stone Age to Pastoral Neolithic (46,000–3000 BP) · MSA → LSA → Savanna Pastoral Neolithic
Mau Escarpment Twilight Cave Enkapune Ya Muto — 40,000-year-old ostrich eggshell beads at 2,400 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Harbet Suvar PPN Village Tek Tek at Şanlıurfa, Harbet Suvar, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Taş Tepeler PPN tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; Hittite peak · Cilician Plain → Hittite Kizzuwatna frontier → Rough Cilicia Luwian
Göksu terrace tell with Chalcolithic–Byzantine sequence — Hittite pithos warehouses (Ura?), Luwian seals and buried industrial zone on plateau road.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Little Saqqara Platform A — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-27) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom · 12th-13th Dynasty Egyptian
Mazghuna North Pyramid Amenemhat IV at Mazghuna, Dahshur South, Egypt is a Middle Kingdom pyramid of the 12th-13th Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Postclassic Late · Maya K'iche' Quiché
K'iche' empire capital Q'umarkaj (Utatlán) 1400–1524 CE: hilltop plaza with Temple of Tohil 12 m pyramid and 23 palaces, Popol Vuh city burned 1524.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Sorath Harappan 2500–1700 BCE (Rojdi A→B→C) · Sorath Harappan (Possehl) — interior Saurashtra variant
Rojdi — Sorath Harappan farming village (2500–1700 BCE) 15 km SE Gondal, interior Saurashtra, excavated 1982–86 by G.L. Possehl and B. Raval (Penn–Gujarat State Dept).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.550-850 CE (Río Bec, Late Classic) · Maya (Río Bec)
Río Bec Group V Structure V-N central pyramid: 20×15 m base, 18 m high with false twin towers, steep stair (55°) to ornamented temple with Chaak masks and medial moulding.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bronze Age to Commagene Kingdom (3000 BCE–72 CE) · Bronze Age Kummuh → Hittite → Neo-Hittite Kummuh → Commagene (Mithridatic)
Samsat Höyük Submerged Citadel Approach is the drowned approach ramp and lower town of Samosata — capital of Hittite Kummuh and later Commagene Kingdom under Antiochus I.
