🇲🇦 Morocco · Temple complex
Dar al-Muwaqqit
A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the…
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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early to Middle Woodland (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Adena – early Hopewell
Paired Adena (1000–100 BCE) and Hopewell-era enclosures on left bank of Scioto 5 mi north of Chillicothe: large 350-m-diameter circular enclosure (12 ac) with interior ditch and 1.5 m embankment plus…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Temple complex
A Dar al-Muwaqqit (Arabic: دار المؤقت), or muvakkithane in Turkish, is a room or structure accompanying a mosque which was used by the muwaqqit or timekeeper, an officer charged with maintaining the…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortified city
Late Roman–Byzantine (505 CE–1071 CE) · Eastern Roman (Byzantine) vs Sasanian Persian
Justinian border megafort with 3.5 km walls, earliest arch dam and 18 m deep rock-cut Great Cistern.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Temple complex
The Grand Mosque (Arabic: مسجد دبي الكبير) is a mosque in Dubai, Emirate of Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom — late 8th Dynasty / First Intermediate Period, c.2150 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Khui)
Unfinished 146 m mudbrick pyramid of ephemeral king Khui at Dara (c.2150 BCE), largest provincial First Intermediate monument.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Second Intermediate to New Kingdom · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian
Tell Heboua Frontier Fort Ways of Horus at Sinai, Tell Heboua, Egypt is a Second Intermediate to New Kingdom ancient city of the Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Marana community)
Marana Hohokam Mound Phoenix Basin is the Los Robles platform mound community on the Santa Cruz River north of Tucson — Fish's Marana community (1150–1450 CE) showing Classic Hohokam platform…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Indus Valley Civilisation, Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Indus Valley (Harappan)
Mohenjo-daro Citadel Mound — Larkana in Sindh, Larkana District, Indus west bank, Pakistan is a Indus Valley Civilisation, Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Indus…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (600 – 800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Wiracochapampa in La Libertad, Peru is a Middle Horizon (600 – 800 CE) ancient city attributed to Wari (Huari) culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Iron Age (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Gallaeci Bracari, Celtic)
Castro de Santa Trega (Iron Age c.600–0 BCE, revived 100 BCE–100 CE) crowns the 341-m Santa Tegra mountain at the Miño–Atlantic confluence overlooking Portugal, a 7-hectare terraced castro-city of…
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Hadramawt Kingdom (500 BCE–400 CE) · Hadrami
Hadrami spate diversion (8 m high, 180 m) on Wadi Jirdan west distributary 4 km upstream of Shabwa paleo-delta (720 m), with 3 km earthen bund canal and field system 120 ha still visible as ‘fossil’…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Bronze Age veneer → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Iron Age) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian (Ashurnasirpal II–Ashurbanipal)
Assyrian imperial capital Tušhan (883–611 BCE) — 32 ha citadel + lower town with palace, palace ware and Tigris quay, burned at Median fall, Upper Tigris frontier.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El-Gabal el-Ahmar (Arabic: الجبل الأحمر) is a quarry located today within the boundaries of modern-day Cairo, near Nasr City. The name means "The Red Hill".
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Postclassic 900–1521 CE (Mitla peak 1200–1520, Post-Monte Albán valley floor relocation) · Zapotec + Mixtec (Mixe-Zapotec, later Aztec tributary; Zapotec Lyobaa)
Postclassic Zapotec-Mixtec mortuary city and living palace center (900–1521 CE) abutting Monte Albán collapse population shift to valley floor: unparalleled geometric fret mosaic (grecas) facades…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to MBA (Uruk, EBA, MBA) · Late Uruk → Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) → MBA Hurrian
Keban salvage tell with Chalcolithic–MBA stratified sequence — Uruk enclave, Transcaucasian (Karaz) and early Mitanni levels before Euphrates dam flooding.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Eneolithic (5200–3800 BCE) · Boian → Gumelnița (KGK VI)
Sultana-Malu Roşu Southern Extension is the southern terrace-cemetery zone south of the Sultana-Malu Roşu Gumelnița tell on the Mostiștea high terrace.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antiquity (610 BCE – 6th c. CE) · Milesian Greek / Thracian / Roman / Byzantine
610 BCE Milesian colony whose harbours are now –6 m and linked to the vanished island Kianida of Ptolemy's map.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell (100 BCE–500 CE) · Hopewell tradition
Unusual Hopewell (100 BCE–500 CE) enclosure complex at confluence of Paint Creek and North Fork, comprising nine geometric elements—four circles, two squares, crescents and parallel walls—covering 26…
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Early Medieval Great Moravia 780–907 (Mojmirid) · Great Moravian Slavs (Mojmirid dynasty, Carolingian imports)
Pohansko — Great Moravian agglomeration (late 8th–10th c, peak 830–900) 3 km south Břeclav at Dyje–Morava confluence, 28 ha central fort + 2 suburbs = 50 ha total.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Umayyad (Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik) · Umayyad steppe palace culture
Hayr Gharbi: 16-km Umayyad 727 CE limestone canal from Harbaka Dam to steppe palace 34.52N 38.12E.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Middle PPNB to Halaf-Ubaid (8500–5500 BCE) · Middle Euphrates PPNB → Halaf
Middle Euphrates PPNB–Ubaid sequence tell with fingerprint-on-figurine craft study.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Sarmatian (500–300 BCE) · Early Sarmatian / Aorsi
Tört Oba (‘Four Mounds’) group near Zhirenkopa village at northwest Aktobe Oblast threshold to Orenburg steppe (145 m), studied by Samashev 2010.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Eretria (; Greek: Ερέτρια, Erétria, Ancient Greek: Ἐρέτρια, Erétria, literally 'city of the rowers') is a town in Euboea, Greece, facing the coast of Attica across the narrow South Euboean Gulf.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–2000 → Malwa 1700–1400 BCE → Early Historic · Kayatha culture (type-site) → Malwa Chalcolithic
Kayatha Choti Kali Sindh Mound — Kayatha culture type-site (2400–2000 BCE earliest agriculture in Malwa) and successive Kayatha → Ahar → Malwa → Early Historic sequence on Malwa plateau, discovered…
