🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Menkaure
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Smallest of three Giza pyramids, Menkaure, with granite lower casing and three subsidiary queens' pyramids.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Smallest of three Giza pyramids, Menkaure, with granite lower casing and three subsidiary queens' pyramids.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Jemdet Nasr to EB III (c.3100–2300 BCE) · Uruk-derived → EBA Euphrates → Akkadian sphere
Major Early Bronze I–III town (14 ha, 12 m high) on the Euphrates Tabqa bend, excavated by Mauritz van Loon. EB I–II pro...
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus of Bougon F0 in Deux-Sèvres, France is a Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) megalithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus of Bougon F0 in Deux-Sèvres, France is a Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) megalithic.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Bagasra — Pipal Harappan Town in Gujarat, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan. Harappan walled town 2 ha on Bagasra plain with bone industry.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Helladic to Late Minoan · Minoan-influenced / Mycenaean
World's oldest known submerged town (c.3500–2800 BCE, occupation to 1000 BCE), submerged by earthquakes c.1000 BCE, with intact streets, two-storey houses, tombs, garden terraces off islet; never…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Samarran to Halaf (c.6200–5000 BCE) · Samarran → Hassuna–Halaf (Basmusian)
Dokan Samarran-Hassuna village (6200–5000 BCE) on Dokan southeast plain.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Dolmen de Menga Annex in Andalusia, Spain is a Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2328 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost queens pyramid east of Pepi I for Khuit II (not Teti Khuit), wife of Pepi I, 21 m canon. French-Swiss mission found canopic chest fragment with queen's titulary and bead net.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Carnac / Gulf Morbihan
Small eroded passage cairn 300 m southeast of Gavrinis, Gulf of Morbihan (c. 3800 BCE), 18 m diameter cairn with short passage and engraved orthostat fragment, part of Gavrinis-Er Lannic alignment…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Second Intermediate to New Kingdom (c. 1600–1450 BCE) · Theban Egyptian (17th–18th Dynasty)
17th Dynasty war capital south palace (80×50 m) with workmen's village 150 houses.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun (5th c. CE) · Hida / Etchu Kofun
Tateyama alpine kofun excavated 1970s, house-shaped sarcophagus like later Asuka type.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Iron Age (800 BCE–400 CE) · Irish Iron Age
Tullaghoge Fort in County Tyrone, Ireland is a Iron Age (800 BCE–400 CE) megalithic.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Early Historic (600 BCE–300 CE) · Painted Grey Ware–Sunga
Qila Mubarak Mound — Patiala in Punjab, India is a Early Historic (600 BCE–300 CE) tell attributed to Painted Grey Ware–Sunga. Citadel mound under Qila Mubarak with PGW and Sunga terracottas.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Rapa Nui Period 900–1500 CE; ahu construction 1000–1600 CE · Rapa Nui (Polynesian)
Remote Polynesian island 3,700 km west of Chile with nearly 900 basalt moai monoliths (up to 10 m, 86 t, one unfinished 270 t) carved 900–1500 CE at Rano Raraku tuff quarry and erected on stone ahu…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ninevite 5 to Islamic (c.3000 BCE–1200 CE; peak Akkadian–Mitanni) · Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
Multi-period Jazira tell (12 ha, 15 m high) in the Khabur triangle, Polish-Syrian excavations by Piotr Bieliński. Sequen...
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Middle Palaeolithic to Natufian (c.60000–12000 BCE) · Mousterian (Neanderthal) → Aurignacian → Kebaran → Natufian
Deep Mount Carmel cave with 15 m stratified sequence from Middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian, Neanderthal ‘Kebara 2’ pelvis...
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) · Canaanite
Khirbet et-Tell Outlier in West Bank, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3300-1200 BCE) tell.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Vinča
Vinča culture settlement at Pločnik (c. 5500–4700 BCE) on Toplica River terrace, renowned for earliest copper metallurgy (c. 5000 BCE), pit houses and Vinča figurines.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Hilltop municipium with cyclopean walls and Augustan arch.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan (650 BCE Queen pyramid small) · Kushite Napatan queen
Kurru KU14 excavated by Reisner, queen of Aspelta.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Megalith
Tiwanaku (300-1000 CE) · Tiwanaku
Puma Punku South Platform in Tiwanaku, Bolivia is a Tiwanaku (300-1000 CE) megalithic.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age · Eblaite (Semitic)
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Idlib Governorate, Syria is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age ancient city attributed to Eblaite (Semitic) culture.