🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Chuya Steppe — Kosh-Agach Geoglyph Petroglyphs
Iron Age to Medieval · Pazyryk-Scythian, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Kosh-Agach Chuya steppe 1750 m with 800 petroglyphs, Pazyryk deer-stone stag and 80-ibex super-panel.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Formative Olmec (c.1500–500 BCE); Early–Middle Formative 1500–700 BCE (Olmec apogee 900–500 BCE), Late Formative 500–100 BCE, Epiclassic 500–900 CE · Olmec (Gulf Coast style) → Highland central Mexican Formative (Tlatilco–Olmec) → Late Formative Morelos
Olmec Highland hill-carved ceremonial terraces (c.1500–500 BCE) with 9 Olmec relief panels outside Gulf heartland (Grove).
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Iron Age to Medieval · Pazyryk-Scythian, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Kosh-Agach Chuya steppe 1750 m with 800 petroglyphs, Pazyryk deer-stone stag and 80-ibex super-panel.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) · Lepenski Vir Culture
Lepenski Vir Terrace Lower Dwelling 12 — Eastern Outlier in Danube Gorge, Donji Milanovac, Serbia is a Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Lepenski Vir Culture.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Mesolithic (Maglemosian/Boreal) · Northern European Early Mesolithic forest foragers (Maglemose)
8040 BCE Scots pine dugout—world's oldest preserved boat, fire-hollowed Mesolithic canoe.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Helladic to Classical (2500 – 373 BCE) · Early Helladic / Achaean Greek
Early Helladic town 3–5 m buried under Boura plain beneath Classical Helike tsunami horizon — EH apsidal houses at –4 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Helladic to Classical (2500 – 373 BCE) · Early Helladic / Achaean Greek
Early Helladic town 3–5 m buried under Boura plain beneath Classical Helike tsunami horizon — EH apsidal houses at –4 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Iron Age Neo-Hittite (732–650 BCE) with EBA substrate · Neo-Hittite Luwian–Phoenician (Adana plain)
Karatepe-Aslantaş (Azatiwataya) Open-Air Citadel is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Osmaniye Province, Kadirli District, Ceyhan River, Taurus foothills, Turkey — Northern Cilician gateway…
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Neolithic pastoral to Recent (2500 BCE–1000 CE) · Pastoral Cushitic → Somali
Gorge system of 10 shelters with Somaliland's most naturalistic pastoral bovines, giraffes and elongated humans.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Early Scythian (Kuban group) · Early Scythian (Kubano–Chernogorovka) proto-Scythian elite
7th-c. BCE 30-m Maikop-Mounded Scythian tent-canopy grave with iron-shod poles and 22 horse sacrifice.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) · Lepenski Vir Culture
Lepenski Vir Terrace Lower Dwelling 12 — Western Terrace in Danube Gorge, Donji Milanovac, Serbia is a Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Lepenski Vir Culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Quaternary geology Holocene wind tafoni onto Miocene andesite geology, no cultural horizon Holocene natural / fringe claim Pre-Columbian hypothetical · Natural andesite tafoni and wind hoodoos / fringe attribution to Masma culture (Ruzo unvalidated)
Marcahuasi second plateau amphitheatre 3950 m — 80 m hoodoo ring and 15 m 'Fortune Altar' mesa, wind-faceted andesite claimed as Lemurian carvings, geology tafoni.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Mississippian (c.1050–1250 CE) Early–Middle Mississippian Stirling phase · Mississippian (Cahokia)
The Mitchell Site (11S2) is a Middle Mississippian mound-and-village suburb of Greater Cahokia on the Horseshoe Lake meander opposite Collinsville, Illinois.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Etruscan Archaic to Roman (c. 700 BCE – 300 CE) · Etruscan / Roman
Etruscan iron-smelting harbour drowned under Baratti slag beach – quay blocks at –1 to –2 m.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
West cirque of Saimaluu-Tash at 3120 m with 1072 boulders, Andronovo ploughing and shaman processions.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Dynastic III through Mitanni (2900–1300 BCE) · Early Dynastic (Nabada) → Akkadian → Ur III → Old Babylonian → Mitanni
Tell Beydar (Nabada) — Eastern Palace Sector is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur headwaters, Darbasiyah plain, Syria — Early Dynastic city-state Nabada — eastern…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Old Kingdom to New Kingdom (2500 – 1400 BCE) · Middle Kingdom Egyptian
12th dynasty pharaonic harbour at Mersa Gawasis — limestone anchor shrine with Senusret stele at –1 m and 8 cedar anchors at –1.5 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Old Kingdom to New Kingdom (2500 – 1400 BCE) · Middle Kingdom Egyptian
12th dynasty pharaonic harbour at Mersa Gawasis — limestone anchor shrine with Senusret stele at –1 m and 8 cedar anchors at –1.5 m.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (c.1100–1250 CE) Northern Sinagua – Cohonina transition · Northern Sinagua
Walnut Canyon National Monument preserves 300+ Northern Sinagua cliff dwellings (c.1100–1250 CE) set in shallow alcoves under the Kaibab Limestone rim of a 122m-deep canyon 12 km east of Flagstaff,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Late Antique (4000 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian Predynastic / Early Dynastic / Saite / Ptolemaic
Wadjet cobra city — Early Dynastic palace 3400 BCE and Sebennytic harbour 500x200 m now sebkha at +2 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Intermediate – Late Horizon (c.200 BCE–1532 CE, Wari peak 600–1000 CE) · Wari – Qotakalli – Inca
Choqepukio occupies the flat valley floor at the Huacarpay lagunas gateway to the Cusco Basin, 21 km southeast of Cusco.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval (Mongolian Bronze to Göktürk) · Karasuk, Deer Stone-Khirigsuur and Turkic pastoralists
Arkhangai basalt gorge with 800 deer-style and Turkic petroglyphs along volcanic river.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery
Hoabinhian late 6000 BP → Da But Neolithic transition · Da But — Hoabinhian→Neolithic cemetery transition on Ma plain
Con Co Ngua Cemetery — Da But cemetery (6000–5500 BP, late Hoabinhian-Neolithic transition) on limestone knoll at Ha Trung 35 km N Thanh Hoa, excavated 1979–98 and 2013 by V.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Holocene natural / possibly Late Holocene human (unvalidated) · Unassigned Huarpes / Comechingón? / Jesuit?
Erosive 4000 ha Potrero de la Aguada amphitheatre inside Quijadas range — 40–80 m low stone walls bracketing stream forks, culture debated.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze IV through Iron Age (EB IV, Iron Hazrek, Neo-Assyrian) · EB Syrian → Aramaean Hazrek → Neo-Assyrian
Tell Afis (Afis / Hazrek) — Royal Platform Quarter is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Idlib Governorate, Idlib District, Orontes valley east, Syria — Aramaean Hazrek kingdom capital — Zakkur…
