🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Oven Cluster West — Basin of Mexico (Mexico City)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Oven Cluster West in Basin of Mexico, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Medieval culture.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Oven Cluster West in Basin of Mexico, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Medieval culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman
Lagoon annex east of Paraetonium with fish weir and warehouse strip.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Plastered Floor House Cluster South in Dnieper, Ukraine is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Rampart Buried Gate West in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Archaeic-Classical 651–409 BCE · Greek (Megaran colonists)
Largest Greek archaeological park with colossal unfinished Temple G.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to Sassanian (5th c. BCE core; 260 CE Band-e Mizan by Valerian captives) · Sassanian with Roman engineering
Band-e Mizan – upstream regulator weir of Shushtar Hydraulic System (Khuzestan): 390m limestone weir across Karun splitting into Gargar canal (40 mills) vs Shatit, built 260 CE by Roman captives of…
🇲🇱 Mali · Hydraulic works
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Thimlich Ohinga Enclosure North in Djenné, Mali is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) hydraulic attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Hydraulic works
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Baray Hydraulic Reservoir North in Angkor, Cambodia is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) hydraulic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Beothuk Wigwam Post North in Atacama, Chile is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Geoglyph
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Beothuk Wigwam Post North in Steppe, Kazakhstan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Ptolemaic to Roman (275 BCE–600 CE) · Ptolemaic Trogodytica trade port
Berenike Trogodytica Eastern Ridge — Red Sea Port Ridge in Red Sea Governorate, Egypt is a Ptolemaic to Roman (275 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Ptolemaic Trogodytica trade port.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Microlithic to 2,000 BCE (c.6000–2000 BCE painting) · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
Brandberg (Daureb) Massif – Namibia's granite massif with 1,000+ shelters; White Lady shelter (Maack Shelter) polychrome painting (c.2000 BCE) of white lady with bow, oryx, tasselled figures.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Castro de Viladonga in Galicia, Lugo, Spain is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Cedar Plank House Remnant West in Nazca, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient village attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in Atacama, Chile is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Cup-Mark Boulder South in Cederberg, South Africa is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Classical culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–500 CE) · Seleucid / Olba priest-kings
Diocaesarea (Uzuncaburç) — Olba Zeus Temple in Mersin Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–500 CE) temple-complex attributed to Seleucid / Olba priest-kings.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Drowned Harbour Mole West in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient village
Preceramic (9000–5000 BCE) · El Inga Preceramic (Fishtail points)
El Inga — Quito Obsidian Workshop in Pichincha Province, Ecuador is a Preceramic (9000–5000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to El Inga Preceramic (Fishtail points).
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
Nabataean–Roman (100 BCE–300 CE) · Nabataean then Roman (Petra–Gaza road)
En Hazeva — Nabataean–Roman Road Station Annex in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean–Roman (100 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Nabataean then Roman (Petra–Gaza road).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Late Antiquity / Byzantine 532–537 CE, Ottoman additions 1453– · Byzantine Greek to Ottoman Islamic
Justinian's 537 CE dome on pendentives – seminal Byzantine basilica-monsoon turned mosque.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Khami Ruins Outlier in Nok Valley, Nigeria is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Medieval culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian 1050–1400 CE (Kincaid phase) · Mississippian (Caborn-Welborn)
19-mound Mississippian town on Ohio River, 1050–1400 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 3rd Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished late-3rd Dynasty layer pyramid (Z1) of King Khaba, 84 m square base with 14 inclined limestone layers forming steep stepped core, intended 42–45 m high but left as stump 20 m high with…