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🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
New Nara Platform A — Nara, Asuka (54-24) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Iron Age (regional) ancient village of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic inland megalithic
Inland Brittany's 400-stone alignment — 500 m rows of quartzite menhirs (to 4.5 m) buried under forest, restored 1990s.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Talaiot of Son Oliver with Radial Ribs in Balearic Islands, Menorca, Ciutadella, Spain is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic a…
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Caesarea Maritima — Sebastos Harbour North Mole in Haifa, Caesarea Maritima, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attribute…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Central Khajuraho Sanctuary B — Khajuraho (60-45) at Khajuraho, India is a Iron Age (regional) contested of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 CE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Medieval to Early Modern (13th–19th c; library peak 17th–18th c) · Berber / Arab / Alkhalid
13th c scholar-ksar with 20-m square minaret and 5 manuscript libraries 1400+ codices.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Late Postclassic (Aztec) · Aztec (Tlahuica)
Lakeside Aztec temple center (1200–1521 CE) on Lake Coatetelco — 8-m pyramid on island causeway.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Hetty Peglers Tump Uley Barrow at Gloucestershire, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Cotswold-Severn tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for 54 m transepted barrow 2 chambers.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late–Terminal Classic · Maya (Eastern Yucatan Chenes–Puuc)
Newly revealed palace city (600–1050 CE) SE of Tizimín — 55-m-long Group C palace.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Cuzco Sanctuary North — Cuzco (55-28) at Cuzco, Peru is a Chalcolithic (regional) earthwork of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Earthwork
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Khajuraho Village B — Khajuraho (60-19) at Khajuraho, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) contested of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for village and associated settlement.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Proto-Hassuna, Hassuna, Samarran (6500–5500 BCE) · Hassuna culture
Between two wadis south-west of Mosul, this 1943–44 excavation by Seton Lloyd and Fuad Saffar defined the Hassuna culture — earliest ceramic Neolithic in northern Iraq — through 15 building levels.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic (Norte Chico late to crisis) · Norte Chico / Caral-related (Vichama culture)
Late Preceramic city Vichama (3800–1700 BCE) Huaura Valley: 28 m Building A pyramid famed for 1700 BCE drought/starvation friezes gaping figures — Late Preceramic collapse mural.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic to PPNA (c.15,000–11,000 BP) · Kebaran → Natufian → PPNA
Jordan Valley Natufian–PPNA rock-shelter cluster (c.15–11 ka, Kebaran→Natufian hamster, early barley).
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Acripus or Akripos (Ancient Greek: Ἄκριπος) was a town of ancient Aetolia, near the border of Acarnania.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNB · Taş Tepeler PPNB
Ayanlar Hoyuk PPNB Domestication at Şanlıurfa, Hilvan, Turkey is a PPNB ancient village of the Taş Tepeler PPNB tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for ppnb village caprine/cattle domestication.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early to Late Bronze Age · Bronze Age Ulster (Donegal tradition)
44.5 m Donegal hilltop circle — 64 stones around platform cairn, one of Ireland's largest, Beltane-associated.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Byblos — Southern Harbour Ancillary Breakwater in Mount Lebanon, Byblos, Lebanon is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed t…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age to Romano-British · Dumnonian
Chysauster Romano-British Village at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Romano-British ancient village of the Dumnonian tradition, built c. 100 BCE for courtyard houses with fogou.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Fayum — Shaduf North Field Canal Ancillary (Fayum, Egypt) in Fayum, Fayum Depression, Egypt is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attr…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Great Hattusa Temple I — Hattusa (60-25) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) archaeological wonder of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 CE for temple and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA to PPNB · Taş Tepeler
Kocan Tepe West Tek Tek Ridge at Şanlıurfa, Tek Tek West, Turkey is a PPNA to PPNB temple complex of the Taş Tepeler tradition, built c. 9200 BCE for uninvestigated t-pillar ridge quarry.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk) through Middle Bronze Age; EBA I–III urban · Uruk → EBA Euphrates urban → MBA Syro-Anatolian
Euphrates bend urban tell (c.3500–1600 BCE) with EBA II–III walled lower town — Chicago Atatürk Dam salvage type-site.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Northern Meroe Sanctuary West — Meroe (53-36) at Meroe, Sudan is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
