🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Akrotiri West House Annex Theran
Late Minoan (1700-1500 BCE) · Minoan
Akrotiri West House Annex Theran in Cyclades, Santorini, Greece is a Late Minoan (1700-1500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Iron Age (Sarmatian / Sauromatian) · Sarmatian (Sauromatian)
Twin royal Sarmatian kurgans (85 m asl, 51°11′48″N 52°10′37″E per 51.196575N 52.176884E) on the Ural-Mugodzhar steppe east of Ural River.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Late Minoan (1700-1500 BCE) · Minoan
Akrotiri West House Annex Theran in Cyclades, Santorini, Greece is a Late Minoan (1700-1500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Satavahana to Kadamba–Chalukya (100 BCE–1400 CE) · Satavahana to Kadamba (Karnataka early historic)
Kadamba capital (345 CE)—100 ha Varada bend with 4-km rampart, oldest Karnataka city, 1st–14th c continuous.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Nabataean to Roman (120 BCE–180 CE) · Nabataean Ma'an desert oasis then Roman Arabia Petraea
East Alikhan qanat 2.8 km 44 shafts 18 m mother: Nabataean 120 BCE vaulted subterranean with Roman 180 repair 8 L/s.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) · Irish Neolithic
Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Cluster K in County Sligo, Ireland is a Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Neolithic.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tumulus
Early Medieval (800-1000 CE) · Igbo-Ukwu
Igbo-Ukwu Workshop Mound South Annex in Anambra, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria is a Early Medieval (800-1000 CE) tumulus attributed to Igbo-Ukwu.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Southern Neolithic 2800–1200 BCE → Megalithic 1000 BCE · Southern Neolithic Ash Mound → Megalithic
Giant 15 m ash mound (2800–1200 BCE) at Kudatini Ballari — three-burnt dung lenses with megalithic circle on summit.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Byblos Royal Tomb VIII Shaft in Mount Lebanon, Byblos, Lebanon is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Necropolis
The Cemitério de São João Batista (lit. 'Saint John the Baptist's Cemetery') is a municipal necropolis originally owned and operated by the Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro (Holy House of…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Daphnus or Daphnous (Ancient Greek: Δαφνοῦς) was a city on the Euboean Sea, originally belonging to ancient Phocis, which thus extended from the Corinthian Gulf to the Euboean sea.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Rock art
Late Preclassic to Late Classic (400 BCE – 800 CE) · Cotzumalhuapa
El Baul in Escuintla, Guatemala is a Late Preclassic to Late Classic (400 BCE – 800 CE) rock art attributed to Cotzumalhuapa culture. Cotzumalhuapa core with Bilbao, El Baúl, El Castillo.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Harappa Mound F Granary Annex in Punjab, Sahiwal, Pakistan is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (c.580 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek
Taman 'Gardens' Aphrodite polis — eastern necropolis and lower quarter 1–3 m submerged 3 km east of Phanagoria.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya, Catacomb
Southernmost sandstone outlier of Kamyana Mohyla island-hill, a low dome 200 m south of the main conglomerate mass exposing 12 shallow grottoes along Petryn Gully.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Larsa Fresco House Wall Painting in Dhi Qar, Tell as-Senkereh, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Qin 214 BCE to Tang 825 CE (Lingqu North pound) · Qin imperial (Shi Huang–Shi Lu) Lingqu Yue conquest hydraulic
North pound extension 1.2 km ×8×1.5 m with 3 Qin granite pound-locks 8×4 m ×1.0 m lift — earliest locks globally 214 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Cappadocia Göreme Dark Church Narthex in Nevşehir, Göreme, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Scientific 1864–1912 (Sclater), Tamil revival 1890s–1940s (Kandam literature) · Tamil Sangam myth + Victorian zoogeography
Tamil Lemuria south of Cape Comorin — Sclater's 1864 lemur bridge remade as 49-Sangam drowned continent.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) · Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE)
Stubline in Belgrade District, Obrenovac, Kolubara Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to Sasanian · Achaemenid / Sasanian (with Roman prisoners)
390-m Karun diversion weir (5th c BCE /260 CE) — head of Shushtar mills system.
🇲🇹 Malta · Rock-cut
Late Neolithic (3600-2500 BCE) · Temple Period
Hal Tarxien Hypogeum Extension North in Malta, Paola, Malta is a Late Neolithic (3600-2500 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Temple Period.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Hakra/Kunal (5000–3300) → Early Harappan (3300–2600 BCE) · Kunal culture → Early Harappan (Hakra-Ghaggar)
Pre-Harappan Hakra-type village (c.5000–2600 BCE) on the Sarasvati paleochannel near Ratia — type-site for Kunal culture, cultural ancestor of Rehman Dheri. Excavated 1986–91 by J.S. Khatri & M.
