🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chakhmaqlu Tepe
Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) · NE Iran Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) tell of NE Iran Chalcolithic in North Khorasan, Jajarm (c.4500 BCE).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Dougga (Thugga)
Numidian to Byzantine (6th c BCE–6th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Numidian / Carthaginian / Roman / Byzantine
Hilltop Numidian–Roman city covering 70 ha, Dougga is Tunisia's best-preserved Roman town with Capitol, theatre, Ataban mausoleum and Punic sanctuary.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku)
Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) · Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE)
Hawikuh Pueblo (Hawikku) in New Mexico, Cibola County, Zuni, Six Middle Villages, United States is a Pueblo IV → Spanish contact (1200–1680 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo IV → Spanish contact…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Helan Mountains Suyukou South Rock Art
Early Bronze to Yuan · Qiang, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Mongol (Helan corridor pastoralists)
South Suyukou gully 4 km south of Helankou with 600 shamanic mask petroglyphs.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Ignatievka Cave (Yamazy-Tash)
Upper Palaeolithic to Medieval (18 ka BCE – 15th c. CE) · Upper Palaeolithic South Ural (Mal'ta-related) with Mesolithic and Iron Age ritual visitors
South Ural ice cave with Venus-mammoth charcoal paintings 14 ka and red dot calendar.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Karaoba Kurgan Field (West Kazakhstan Sarmatian Steppe)
Early to Middle Sarmatian to Parthian · Western Sarmatian (Aorsian–Alan fringe)
Salt-dome kurgan field 88 km east of Oral: 23 stepped mounds around Permian diapir with Parthian coin.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Kizil Caves — Western Valley Extension (Western Kizil)
Early Medieval Central Asian (Tocharian B) · Tocharian Buddhist (Kucha Kingdom) with Gandhara influence
Kucha Tocharian western 42-cave valley 400–700 CE diamond ceilings and lapis blue, German-removal archive.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Klasies River Cave 1A Howiesons Poort Layer
Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) · Upper Palaeolithic
Klasies River Cave 1A Howiesons Poort Layer in Eastern Cape, Klasies River, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic (35000–12000 BP) cave attributed to Upper Palaeolithic.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly II — Kungei Gorge Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to Turkic · Andronovo-Fedorovo, Saka, Turkic
Kungei secondary gorge 800 m north of Tamgaly UNESCO site with 400 Middle Bronze sun-head petroglyphs.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Duurlig Nars Xiongnu Cemetery – Khentii
Late Iron Age, Xiongnu Empire · Xiongnu (Hunnu) northern imperial elite
Xiongnu elite shaft tombs in Khentii pine forest—Han silk 'Chanyu servant' inscription and lapis 4,000 km trade chain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Ile-Ife
Yoruba Early/Middle Period (1st mill.–16th c; classical 12th–15th c) · Yoruba (Ifè)
Yoruba city producing hyper-naturalistic brass heads and potsherd pavements with unique locally-made High-Lime glass beads.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Fortress
Nitra
Early Medieval Slavic 770–907 (Pribina 828 → Svatopluk 870–894) · Slavic Principality of Nitra (Pribina) → Great Moravia (Svatopluk)
Nitra (Nitra Castle and Martin's Hill — Martins Hill 220 m) — Slavic princely seat of Principality of Nitra (late 8th–9th c Pribina c.828 church — first Christian church north of Danube) and Great…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Nysa on the Maeander — Temple of Apollo and Library Terrace
Hellenistic to Roman · Seleucid, Pergamene, Carian
Maeander university city with Apollo temple, bouleuterion-library of Strabo and 100-m theatre tunnel, Hellenistic.
🇩🇪 Germany · Submerged site
Rungholt Submerged Wadden Church Foundations
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Rungholt Submerged Wadden Church Foundations in Schleswig-Holstein, Rungholt, Germany is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sai Island Pyramid & Temple Complex
Kerma Classic to Napatan (2500–300 BCE) · Kerma / Egyptian / Kushite
Strategic Nile island town with Kerma tumuli and Napatan small pyramids — Egyptian fortress-temple city 1550 BCE on 12 km Sai Island between 2nd–3rd cataracts.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Torihama Shell Midden
Incipient→Early→Middle Jomon 10000–1000 BCE (Jomon hunter-fisher-gatherer with peat preservation) · Jomon (Wakasa Bay Incipient–Early Jomon, Neolithic without agriculture)
Early–Middle Jomon shell midden and wetland village (c.12000–3000 BP, 10000–1000 BCE) at Torihama lowland wetland near Lake Mikata, Wakasa, Fukui — 2 ha peat midden excavated 1962–85 by Wakasa Mikata…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 — Eastern Outlier
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 — Eastern Outlier in Central Anatolia, Konya, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 — Western Terrace
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Catalhoyuk South Area Midden Trench 5 — Western Terrace in Central Anatolia, Konya, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7400-6000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Gadara Aqueduct (Qanat Fir'aun) — Decapolis Long Aqueduct
Roman Imperial (1st–3rd c. CE) · Decapolis Greco-Roman city league (Gadara, Adraa, Abila)
Hadrianic 170-km 94%-underground qanat from Daraa to Gadara, longest tunnel aqueduct antiquity.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Kaunos Temple of Demeter and Rock Tombs Terrace
Classical to Roman (Carian to Lycian) · Carian, Lycian, Hellenistic Rhodian
Kaunos Dalyan Demeter terrace with 4th BCE altar and 6 Lycian temple-tombs, Carian-Greek border sanctuary.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Las Aldas
Late Preceramic – Initial Period (c.2500–1000 BCE) – Casma-Sechín · Casma-Sechín (Preceramic to Initial)
Las Aldas is a monumental U-shaped temple-plaza on a coastal eolian terrace at Casma, Ancash, at 30 m above the Pacific.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Raddusch
Early Medieval Sorbian Wendish 880–950 (6th c origin, 9th–10th peak) · Sorbian (Wendish Lusatian, *Lusici*) — Lower Sorbian Spreewald
Raddusch (Slawenburg Raddusch, Sorbian *Raduš*) — Slavic (Sorbian/Wendish) circular rampart fort (9th–10th c, with 6th c predecessor, peak Lusatian Sorbs 880–950) 10 km north Vetschau in Spreewald…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE; Iron Age and Early Historic overlay · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic → Iron Age
Type-site of Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (3000–1500 BCE) — 'copper city' Tambavati on Ahar River at Udaipur.