🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Hashihaka Kofun — Earliest Keyhole Tomb
Early Kofun (mid-3rd c. CE c. 250 CE) · Yamato early Kofun (Himiko? Queen)
Makimuku Hashihaka excavated around moat 1990s, 280 m earliest Kofun predating Daisen by 180 yrs.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Nausharo — Harappan Transitional Colour Pottery Phase
Harappan Transitional (2800–2600 BCE Nausharo I–III) · Amri-Nal → Kili Gul Mohammad → Harappan
Nausharo excavated by Jarrige, painted pottery transition and figurine workshop.
GR · Submerged site
Pheia – Submerged Harbour of Olympia at Agios Andreas
Mycenaean to Late Roman (LH III – 5th c. CE harbour) · Mycenaean / Elean / Olympic
Olympia seaport — Homeric Pheia harbour basin and Pontikokastro islet now 4–6 m under Katakolo Bay.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Balnuaran of Clava Cairns
Early Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE) · Clava cairn tradition (Inverness Bronze Age)
Group of three Bronze Age circular chamber tombs (c. 2000 BCE) at Balnuaran of Clava, defining Clava cairn type: two passage graves with corbelled chambers and a central ring cairn, each within a…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Cemetery
Harappa — Cemetery R-37 Bara Mound
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE; Cemetery R-37 2600–2000) · Harappan Harappa
Harappa cemetery excavated by Wheeler 1946 and Dales, 200 graves with coffins and steppe DNA later.
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Qaleh Rostam
Neolithic to Achaemenid (c.7000 BCE–330 BCE; Achaemenid fortress c.550 BCE) · Neolithic Bakhtiari → Achaemenid pastoral fortress
Bolaghi valley Achaemenid route fortress (550 BCE) over Neolithic knoll between Pasargadae and Persepolis.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Rakhigarhi — Harappan Granary Mound 7
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan (Rakhigarhi — largest Indus site 550 ha)
Haryana Harappan excavated by Nath & Shinde, largest Indus city exceeding Mohenjo-daro.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Pipers — St Buryan
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Cornish Late Neolithic
The Pipers — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age megalithic attributed to Cornish Late Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Tregiffian Burial Chamber — St Buryan
Late Neolithic (1900 BCE) · Scillonian-Cornish
Tregiffian Burial Chamber — St Buryan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1900 BCE) megalithic attributed to Scillonian-Cornish.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Hadidi — Azana
Bronze Age (2400–1200 BCE) · Mari-Ebla
Tell Hadidi — Azana in Aleppo Governorate, Euphrates, Syria is a Bronze Age (2400–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Mari-Ebla culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell el-Mazar — Jordan Valley Tumuli
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (3400–600 BCE) · Canaanite / Ammonite
Tell el-Mazar — Jordan Valley Tumuli in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (3400–600 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Ammonite.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Huandacareo — La Nopalera
Postclassic Tarascan (1200–1528 CE) · Purépecha
Huandacareo — La Nopalera in Michoacán, Mexico is a Postclassic Tarascan (1200–1528 CE) ancient-city attributed to Purépecha.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Hesi — Petrie's Stratigraphic Tell
EB III to Arab (2600 BCE–1500 CE) · Early Bronze → Persian → Islamic layered
Shfela type-site excavated by Petrie 1890, Bliss 1891–93 and Fargo, first potsherd dating in Levant.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell el-Umeiri — Ammonite Capital Hinterland
Early Bronze Age to Persian (3200–332 BCE) · Ammonite
Tell el-Umeiri — Ammonite Capital Hinterland in Amman Plateau, Jordan is a Early Bronze Age to Persian (3200–332 BCE) tell attributed to Ammonite.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sultantepe — Assyrian Library Archive Tell
Late Assyrian (750–610 BCE) · Neo-Assyrian provincial
Harran plain tell excavated by Lloyd & Gökçe 1951–52, yielding 600 tablets including Gilgamesh and astrological omens.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Tell el-Ajjul
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Hyksos–Egyptian anchorage 1750–1550) · Hyksos → Egyptian (Thutmosis III) → Philistine
Tell el-Ajjul near Gaza is the Hyksos–Egyptian port-town (likely ancient Sharuhen of Ahmose sack, or Gaza) with gold hoards — Petrie 1930–34 yielded 1200 gold o...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Totometla Barrio — Teotihuacan Obsidian Workshop
Classic (250–550 CE) · Teotihuacan
Totometla Barrio — Teotihuacan Obsidian Workshop in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic (250–550 CE) ancient-village attributed to Teotihuacan.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Wat Banan Hill Temple — Rear Sanctuary
Angkor (11th c. CE) · Khmer
Wat Banan Hill Temple — Rear Sanctuary in Battambang Province, Cambodia is a Angkor (11th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Gochang — Jungnim-ri Dolmen Cluster
Korean Bronze Age (1000–500 BCE) · Mumun / Korean Bronze dolmen builders
Gochang Jungnim-ri excavated 1980s, largest capstone 5.6 m, UNESCO 2000 with Hwasun, Ganghwa.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol — Moche Largest Adobe Mound
Moche (100–800 CE) 340 m long · Moche
Moche Spanish flooded mine 1602 removed 2/3, 340 m mound traced by Moseley.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Magarsus — Athena Magarsia Temple
Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) · Hellenistic Mallus–Magarsus
Magarsus — Athena Magarsia Temple in Adana Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) temple-complex attributed to Hellenistic Mallus–Magarsus.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Arqa
Neolithic to Crusader (c.6000 BCE–1300 CE; peak EB–Iron) · Halaf → EBA Levantine → Amorite → Egyptian–Canaanite → Phoenician → Crusader
Coastal plain tell near the Akkar river, French-Lebanese excavations by Jean-Paul Thalmann since 1978. Continuous Neolit...
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn Mainland Orkney
Neolithic (c.3000 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Well-preserved hill-slope cairn with low crawl entrance, excavated 1901 yielding eight human skulls and dog burials, above Bay of Firth.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mane Braz — Erdeven Megalithic Necropolis
Neolithic (4500–3000 BCE) · Morbihan Neolithic
Erdeven forest necropolis stretching 2 km inland from Kerzerho alignments, with 1000+ menhirs and 50 dolmens surveyed by FOR.