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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Formative to Classic (800 BCE–300 CE) · Mezcala / Olmec derived
Cuetlajuchitlán — Balsas Canyon City in Guerrero, Mexico is a Late Formative to Classic (800 BCE–300 CE) ancient-city attributed to Mezcala / Olmec derived.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan Kushite (750–300 BCE) · Kushite (25th Dynasty)
El-Kurru Pyramid KU.9 — Tabo? Extension in Northern State, Sudan is a Napatan Kushite (750–300 BCE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (25th Dynasty).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age I–II (c.3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Lycian (Elmalı-Karataş) → Southwest Anatolian
Lycia's largest EB village with 180 pithos jar cemetery (3000 BCE) at Elmalı.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Cave
Middle Paleolithic to Neolithic (80000–7000 BCE) · Zagros Paleolithic (Hazar Merd group)
Peri Ali Beg Cave — Rawanduz Gorge in Erbil Governorate, Iraq is a Middle Paleolithic to Neolithic (80000–7000 BCE) cave attributed to Zagros Paleolithic (Hazar Merd group).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Bronze Age · Mesopotamian
Ebla Bronze Age palace mound 60 ha tell, Royal Palace G (2400 BCE) 16,000 cuneiform tablets, Upper town acropolis.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan–Hephtalite (200–500 CE) · Kabul Buddhist (Kushan–Hephthalite transition)
Tepe Maranjan — Kabul Stupa Hill in Kabul Province, Afghanistan is a Kushan–Hephtalite (200–500 CE) temple-complex attributed to Kabul Buddhist (Kushan–Hephthalite transition).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Old Kingdom · Kushite
Meroitic north cemetery at Meroe (Beg N 1–20) c.300 BCE–350 CE steep pyramids 6–20 m base, Beg N9 Tabirqo etc.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Bronze Age (1350–950 BCE) · Deverel-Rimbury
Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre in Cambridgeshire, The Fens, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age (1350–950 BCE) ancient village attributed to Deverel-Rimbury culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Minoan 1900–1400 BCE, peak Neopalatial · Minoan
Minoan hilltop palace where undeciphered Phaistos Disc was found in 1908.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
EB to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE; peak Canaanite–Philistine 1600–600) · Canaanite → Philistine? → Judah (Shephelah)
Tel Burna is Shephelah unfortified town (maybe Libnah?) excavated by Itzhaq Shai/Ariel University since 2009; LB courtyard palace, Iron Judahite silos and culti...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (1800–586 BCE) · Canaanite/Judahite
Tel Lachish — Shefela in Southern District, Shefela, Israel is a Bronze to Iron Age (1800–586 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/Judahite culture.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Swahili (12th–14th c. CE) · Swahili
Tumbatu Ruins — Zanzibar North in Zanzibar Island, Tanzania is a Swahili (12th–14th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili. Island town abandoned abruptly mid-14th c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Palaeolithic to Iron Age (40000–500 BCE) · Creswellian / Neolithic
Wookey Hole Cave in Somerset, Mendip Hills, United Kingdom is a Palaeolithic to Iron Age (40000–500 BCE) cave attributed to Creswellian / Neolithic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Roman (160–400 CE) · Roman (Severan)
Arbeia Roman Fort in Tyne and Wear, North East England, United Kingdom is a Roman (160–400 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman (Severan) culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) · Roman
Baalbek — Heliopolis Trilithon & Temple in Baalbek-Hermel, Beqaa, Lebanon is a Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) temple complex attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Pre-Harappan to Mature Harappan (3000–1700 BCE) · Harappan
Banawali Secondary Mound — Fatehabad Outlier in Haryana, India is a Pre-Harappan to Mature Harappan (3000–1700 BCE) tell attributed to Harappan.
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
Urartian (685–612 BCE Rusa II) · Urartian Kingdom
Bastam — Urartian Fortress in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran is a Urartian (685–612 BCE Rusa II) fortress attributed to Urartian Kingdom.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Sicán (750–1100 CE) · Sicán (Lambayeque)
Batán Grande — Sicán Pyramids in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Middle Sicán (750–1100 CE) pyramid attributed to Sicán (Lambayeque).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex
Roman (75–270 CE) · Romano-British (Atrebates)
Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Roman (75–270 CE) temple complex attributed to Romano-British (Atrebates) culture.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Tell
Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak · Mundigak–Helmand
Mundigak — Kandahar Bronze Age Mound in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan is a Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak tell attributed to Mundigak–Helmand.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Bronze to Iron II (c.1400–800 BCE) · Central Plateau Iron Age (grey ware → red ware) → Median precursor
Iron Age I–II fortified town (12 ha, 12 m high) on the Qazvin plain, excavated by E.O. Negahban. Early Iron (c.1400–900...
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Late Shang Dynasty c.1300–1046 BCE (Anyang period) · Shang Chinese
Late Shang capital (1300–1046 BCE) on Huan River, premier Bronze Age urban site of East Asia covering 30 km² with palatial foundations, royal tombs (Fu Hao intact 76), 150,000 oracle bones with…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Windmill Hill / Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest megalithic stone circle in Europe (11.5 ha), enclosing outer bank and ditch and two inner circles. Village of Avebury sits partially within the monument.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Gilund — Mewar Ahar Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic (3000–1700 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
