🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Village of Chashma Dara
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Village of Chashma Dara in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) ancient village attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Visby City Walls and Medieval Defences
High Middle Ages (c.1150–1400 CE) · Gotlandic Hanseatic / Medieval Scandinavian
3.4 km medieval ring wall encircling Hanseatic Visby, best preserved in Scandinavia, built 13th–14th c. limestone with 27 towers, gate towers and caponier.
🇮🇳 India · Cave
Jwalapuram — Toba Ash Layer
Middle Palaeolithic (74000 BCE) · Middle Palaeolithic
Jwalapuram — Toba Ash Layer in Andhra Pradesh, Jurreru Valley, India is a Middle Palaeolithic (74000 BCE) cave attributed to Middle Palaeolithic culture.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Rock art
Rock Art of Citadel Glen
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Rock Art of Citadel Glen in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock art attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site
Caddoan Mississippian 800–1300 CE (Early Caddo) · Caddoan (Hasinai)
Southernmost Caddoan Mississippian center with three mounds, plaza and El Camino trace.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Panel Qasr Ancient City
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Panel Qasr Ancient City in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) ancient city attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Canhasan
Pottery Neolithic to Early Bronze · Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Three mounds (Canhasan I, II, III) spanning Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic-Early Bronze (c.6000–3000 BCE) on the south Konya Plain, bridging Çatalhöyük to Mersin-Yumuktepe.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Cave
Kala Town Grotto
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Kala Town Grotto in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) cave attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Longmen — Binyang Central Cave North Wall
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Longmen — Binyang Central Cave North Wall in Henan, Luoyang, Longmen, China is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tradi…
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Messak Settafet Rock Art
Neolithic Pastoral ~8000–2000 BP · Pastoral Neolithic Saharan
Fezzan escarpment's elephant and giraffe engravings marking Holocene Sahara greening.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nineveh
Neolithic to Abbasid (6000 BCE–present; Assyrian capital 705–612 BCE) · Assyrian / Babylonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Parthian
Great Assyrian capital under Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) extended by Ashurbanipal (668–630 BCE), Nineveh at fall (612 BCE) was world's largest city (~15 km walls, 100,000 inhabitants).
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Megalith
Tre Wall Dolmen
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Tre Wall Dolmen in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Tubusuctu
Roman to Byzantine (27 BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Tubusuctu (Tiklat) on the Soummam River was Augustus' veteran colony for Legio? Set on fertile Soummam plain beneath Djurdjura, with orthogonal Hippodamian plan 1,000×400 m. Remains: punic?
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Horum Höyük
Late Chalcolithic to Islamic (peak MBA–Hittite) · Halaf-Ubaid → Kura-Araxes → Yamhad → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Major Euphrates terrace tell (220 × 180 m, 18 m high) on the Sajur tributary near Nizip, rescue-excavated 1990s ahead of...
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Quarry
Quarry of Mogor Gate Grey
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Quarry of Mogor Gate Grey in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) quarry attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient city
White South Ancient City
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
White South Ancient City in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chia Sabz
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.4000–2700 BCE) · Seimareh valley Chalcolithic → Transcaucasian Early Bronze
Seimareh cemetery mound 15 ha (140 EB cist graves, bronze daggers, c.4–3 ka) in Seimareh valley.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Kherua Masjid — Sherpur
Sultanate (15th c. CE) · Bengal Sultanate
Kherua Masjid — Sherpur in Bogra District, Sherpur, Bangladesh is a Sultanate (15th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Bengal Sultanate culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Kin Biniola Chaco Outlier — buried ancestral tell/village at New Mexico.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Chauvet Cave
Aurignacian, Upper Paleolithic (~37,000–33,000 BCE) · Aurignacian hunter-gatherer
Sealed Aurignacian cave above the Ardèche gorge containing the earliest known figurative art, with over 430 animal representations including woolly rhinoceros, cave lions, panthers and megaloceros…
🇨🇱 Chile · Cave
Sanctuary-Wall Grotto
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Sanctuary-Wall Grotto in Coquimbo, Chile is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) cave attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Submerged site
Sunken City off Spur Bal
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Sunken City off Spur Bal in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) submerged city attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Trelleborg Viking Ringfort (Slagelse)
Viking Age (c.980–1000 CE, Harald Bluetooth) · Danish Viking Age
Archetypal Viking ring fortress west of Slagelse on Zealand, 136.5 m diameter circular earthwork with four cardinal gates, internal quadrants with 16 longhouses and outer bailey, built c.980 under…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Hamoukar South Town — Jazira Urban Anomaly
Late Chalcolithic to EJ III (4500–2100 BCE; peak LC sprawl 3800 BCE) · LC northern Mesopotamian → Uruk → Ninevite 5
LC sprawl 4000 BCE battle town 3500 BCE — sling-bullet warfare horizon (Gibson).