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🇬🇹 Guatemala · Megalith
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Dolmen de Glen Spur in Petén, Guatemala is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Paracas to Early Nazca ~800 BCE–400 CE · Paracas–Nazca
Nazca-basin boulder petroglyphs bridging Paracas trophy-head art to Nazca geoglyphs.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Early to Middle Holocene (8000–3000 BCE) · Saharan hunter-pastoral (Gilf Kebir tradition)
Jebel Uweinat (1,934m) – tri-border massif (Egypt-Libya-Sudan) with Gilf Kebir hunter-pastoral rock art (8000–3000 BCE): cattle, giraffe, ostrich and archer scenes; Ayrton-McMahon 1900s surveys;…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early to Late Harappan (c.3000–1700 BCE, five phases) · Harappan (Sindhi–Kachchhi)
Harappan island fort Bakarkot in eastern Kachchh — five-phase Harappan–medieval citadel.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.6000–3200 BCE, type-site 5000 BCE) · Kili Gul Mohammad → Togau → Kechi Beg → Damb Sadaat
Type-site for earliest South Asian farming (5000 BCE) — 15 m high Quetta Valley Neolithic mound.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Hellenistic Greco-Bactrian (c.3rd–2nd cent BCE) · Greco-Bactrian
Greco-Bactrian hilltop watch-post visually linked to Uzundara — frontier limes above Kugitang valley.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Jersey Passage Grave
Inland hilltop passage grave on Les Platons, Trinity, Jersey, upland sited, c.3800 BCE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Luma Standing Stones in Sicily, Italy is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Nazca culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Quarry
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Middle Quarry in River Nile State, Sudan is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) quarry attributed to Harappan culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Umayyad c.728–729 CE (Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik) · Umayyad (Syrian desert)
Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi (728–729 Caliph Hisham) – Umayyad desert castle double enclosure whose hydraulic system re-used Byzantine aqueduct (40 km Harbaka dam canal) to store in birka (70m reservoir),…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom c.2700–2600 BCE (Third–Fourth Dynasty) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Sadd el-Kafara (c.2700 BCE) – Old Kingdom's 113m-long, 14m-high masonry embankment dam with 98m base and 500,000 m³ rubble core in Wadi Garawi, 30 km south Cairo.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Santa Cruz Submerged Village West in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hittite Empire (c.1600–1200 BCE; peak Sapinuwa 1500–1200 BCE as second capital) · Hittite (Old → Empire)
Sapinuwa (Ortaköy, Çorum) is the Hittite Empire's second capital and military–religious administration — Building A with 3000+ Hittite cuneiform tablets (larges...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid (5000–4300 BCE) · Ubaid
Ubaid (5000–4300 BCE) Ubaid tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin – ubaid village with grain storages (dims 1.1 ha).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic–Postclassic 900–1521 CE · Matlatzinca (Otomanguean)
Volcano-plug fortified Matlatzinca capital with 2 km perimeter wall, jaguar relief and Aztec barracks 1474.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4000 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA–Phrygian) · EBA → Hittite → Phrygian → Lydian → Byzantine
Central Anatolian plateau capital lower town — Hittite karum to Phrygian burn.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Rock-outcrop court tomb east of Downpatrick, type site for Ballyalton bowls, c.4000 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Barrow Rock Shelter in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Roman culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Quarry
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Burgh Mine in Balochistan, Pakistan is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) quarry attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Caracol Causeway Terminus in Andean Ecuador, Ecuador is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Roman Hadrianic (129 – 130 CE) with Byzantine reuse · Roman Gerasene Gerasa Decapolis under Hadrian
9 km Hadrianic Ceys Channel 130 CE to Gerasa reservoir above Cardo at 610 m.
🇱🇾 Libya · Necropolis
Roman Tripolitanian (1st–6th c. CE) · Tripolitanian (Libyan–Roman pastoral)
Ghirza southern tomb shelf with 20 temple mausolea and bazina.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to EBA II (4900–2300 BCE) · Obed → Late Uruk → EBA Karababa
EBA low mound with Uruk citadel — 4900 BCE to 2300 BCE furnace village.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Precucuteni III – Cucuteni A (c.4800–4300 BCE) · Precucuteni–Cucuteni
Key transition tell at Isaiia–Balta Popii on a low terrace of the Jijia, with 6 m Precucuteni III → Cucuteni A sequence excavated by N. Ursulescu since 1996.
