🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Kit's Coty House
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Remnant chamber of Medway long barrow above River Medway — three sarsens supporting 3.5 m capstone.
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🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Tepe Sarab ware (c.7000–5000 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic (Sarab culture)
Small but culturally seminal tell near Kermanshah at Sarab pass with Braidwood 1947 type-site red-painted Sarab ware, proto-domestic goat bones, and pisé hamlets preceding Jarmo and Hassuna…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Medway Early Neolithic
Remnant chamber of Medway long barrow above River Medway — three sarsens supporting 3.5 m capstone.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Parthian Arsacid 3rd c BCE–3rd c CE (peak 1st c BCE–1st c CE) · Parthian / Arsacid
Parthian ceremonial and administrative capital (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) of two tells: Old Nisa (Mithridatkert fortress 14 ha with 43 towers, wine rhytons and ivory rhytons inscribed Arsacid) and New Nisa…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor (10th–11th c. CE) · Khmer (Suryavarman I)
Phimeanakas North Terrace — Royal Palace Annex in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia is a Angkor (10th–11th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Suryavarman I).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Period (664–525 BCE) · Saite Egyptian (26th Dynasty)
Sais Submerged Workshop — Rosetta Branch in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt is a Late Period (664–525 BCE) submerged-city attributed to Saite Egyptian (26th Dynasty).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (2700–732 BCE) · Canaanite/Israelite
Tel Hazor — Upper Galilee in Northern District, Hula Valley, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (2700–732 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Israelite culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Hassuna (6000–5800 BCE) · Hassuna culture
Tell Hassuna — Nineveh Plain Type Site in Nineveh Governorate, Tigris plain, Iraq is a Hassuna (6000–5800 BCE) tell attributed to Hassuna culture culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf to Middle Ages (c.5800 BCE–1200 CE; Halaf-Ubaid transition type) · Halaf → Ubaid → Uruk → Early Bronze → Medieval
Altınova Halaf-Ubaid type mound (5800 BCE) 1 km from Norşuntepe, now under Keban Lake.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Ancient city
Chalcolithic → Iron Age 500 BCE–300 CE · Iron Age Gangetic (NBPW)
Wari-Bateshwar — twin-village Early Historic port-city (Chalcolithic levels, Iron Age 500 BCE–300 CE) 70 km NE Dhaka, discovered 1933 Hanif Pathan, excavated 2000–10 Rahman.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
EBA (3500–1600 BCE archive 2500 BCE) · Eblaite
Ebla — Tell Mardikh South Palace in Idlib Governorate, plain, Syria is a EBA (3500–1600 BCE archive 2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Eblaite culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500 BCE) partly submerged · Morbihan
Er Lannic Double Cromlech in Brittany, Morbihan, Gulf of Morbihan, France is a Late Neolithic (3500 BCE) partly submerged megalithic attributed to Morbihan culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan, c.538–519 BCE · Kushite Napatan
Pyramid Bar.2 at Jebel Barkal north cemetery for King Amaninatakilebte (c.538–519 BCE, Napatan 27th Dynasty contemporaneous with Persian Egypt).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Urartian (733–713 BCE Tiglath-Pileser tributary) · Urartian
Kayalidere — Urartian Mountain Fortress in Muş Province, Turkey is a Urartian (733–713 BCE Tiglath-Pileser tributary) fortress attributed to Urartian.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Swahili (11th–16th c. CE) · Swahili
Mtambwe Mkuu — Pemba Island Swahili Town in Pemba Island, Tanzania is a Swahili (11th–16th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) intensive · Harappan
Rohri Hills Flint Quarry Mound — Wadi Reach in Sindh, Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) intensive hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Fortress
Hephthalite to Ghaznavid (500–1000 CE) · Bamyan fortress town (Hephthalite)
Shahr-i Zohak — Bamiyan Fortress Extension in Bamyan Province, Afghanistan is a Hephthalite to Ghaznavid (500–1000 CE) fortress attributed to Bamyan fortress town (Hephthalite).
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan frontier port
Sutkagen Dor — Makran Harappan Fort/Port in Balochistan, Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan frontier port.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Early Neolithic (3700 BCE) to Iron Age · Neolithic causewayed / Hillfort
The Trundle in West Sussex, South Downs, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3700 BCE) to Iron Age earthwork attributed to Neolithic causewayed / Hillfort culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Iron Age (16th–19th c. CE) · Luo (Kabuoch)
Thimlich Ohinga — Kakuku Enclosure in Migori County, Kenya is a Late Iron Age (16th–19th c. CE) ancient-village attributed to Luo (Kabuoch).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Medieval (peak EB III–Urartian) · Ubaid → Kura-Araxes → EBA Keban → Urartian → Medieval
Keban Dam salvage tell on the Euphrates (Karasu) near Baskil, excavated 1970s by Veli Sevin. Famed for EB III royal cist...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Umayyad (300 BCE–750 CE) · Seleucid / Roman Decapolis
Abila of the Decapolis — Quweilbeh in North Jordan, Jordan is a Hellenistic to Umayyad (300 BCE–750 CE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid / Roman Decapolis.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Neolithic to Iron Age (4000 BCE–400 BCE) · Neolithic miners / Iron Age
Cissbury Ring in West Sussex, South Downs, United Kingdom is a Neolithic to Iron Age (4000 BCE–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic miners / Iron Age culture.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age
Viking ringfort 120 m diameter near Hobro, North Jutland, contemporary with Trelleborg (Harald Bluetooth), with identical four-gate geometry and 16 houses plus a cemetery of 30 graves including wagon…
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Kalachuri (520–550 CE) · Shaivite Hindu
Jogeshwari Caves — Mumbai Cave Temple in Maharashtra, India is a Kalachuri (520–550 CE) rock_cut attributed to Shaivite Hindu.
