🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Malia Palace
Minoan 1900–1450 BCE · Minoan
Third Minoan palace with mysterious kernos stones for ritual offerings.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Menouthis Bay — Canopic Annex
Ptolemaic to Early Byzantine (332 BCE–641 CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian–Greek
Menouthis Bay — Canopic Annex in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt is a Ptolemaic to Early Byzantine (332 BCE–641 CE) submerged-city attributed to Ptolemaic Egyptian–Greek.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Kalbak-Tash II Yaloman Central Panel
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
Central Yaloman terrace 200 m above Chuya at 723 km tract, a 40-m-wide sandstone cliff with 180 peckings of Kalgutinsky elk, Saka deer-masks and Turkic horsemen.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Byblos — Seaside Neolithic Harbour
Neolithic to Phoenician (5000–1200 BCE) · Byblos culture
Byblos — Seaside Neolithic Harbour in Keserwan-Jbeil, coast, Lebanon is a Neolithic to Phoenician (5000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Byblos culture culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park
Early Hindu 8th–11th c + Gujarat Sultanate 1484–1535 CE · Rajput / Chalukya Hindu + Gujarat Sultanate Islamic
Concentrated ensemble of 8th–16th c heritage within 1,329 ha: Chalukya hill fort and Lakulisa temples on Pavagadh (737 m cone), and Sultanate Champaner – pre-Mughal Islamic city (1484–1535) of Mahmud…
🇫🇷 France · Earthwork
Mont Lassois — Vix Princely Tomb Hillfort
Hallstatt D (550–450 BCE) · Hallstatt Celtic (Vix princess)
Châtillonnais hillfort famous for Vix princess tomb 1953, largest Greek bronze krater (1100 L), gold torc 480 g, excavated by Joffroy.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Tre'r Ceiri Hillfort Lleyn Peninsula
Iron Age (200 BCE–100 CE) · Ordovices
Mountain-top hut-village hillfort on Yr Eifl summit, intact curtain wall to chest height, excavated 1906/1956, views to Snowdonia and Ireland.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Brak — Nagar Outer City Eye Temple
Ubaid to Mitanni (6500–1200 BCE) · Uruk/Mitanni
Tell Brak — Nagar Outer City Eye Temple in Hasakah Governorate, Khabur plain, Syria is a Ubaid to Mitanni (6500–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Uruk/Mitanni culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Temple complex
Balagrae (El Beida / Bayda) – Asclepeion
Greek / Roman · Greek (Cyrenean)
Healing sanctuary of Asclepius with spring valley, temple, incubation theatre, stoa and sacred spring under eucalypts. Annual Asclepieia games; Pausanias lists oracle.
🇬🇷 Greece · Hydraulic works
Diolkos Slipway — Isthmus of Corinth
Archaic to Roman (600 BCE–146 BCE) · Corinthian Greek
Diolkos Slipway — Isthmus of Corinth in Corinthia, Greece is a Archaic to Roman (600 BCE–146 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Corinthian Greek.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Batash
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Philistine Timnah c.1200–600) · Canaanite → Philistine (Timnah) → Judah
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah in Sorek Valley — Samson's Timnah (Judges 14) and Philistine border town between Ekron and Gezer. Mazar/Kelm 1977–89 revealed MB g...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kazel — Ancient Sumur
Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–500 BCE) · Canaanite/ Sea Peoples
Tell Kazel — Ancient Sumur in Tartus Governorate, Akkar plain, Syria is a Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–500 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite/ Sea Peoples culture.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Awdaghust — Ghana-Berbér Caravan Town Telegraph
Ghana Empire satellite (800–1350 CE peak Awdaghust near Al Bakri) · Sanhaja Berber → Ghana Empire → Almoravid
Tegdaoust excavated by Robert & Mauny 1960–70, Ghana southern frontier caravan town 800–1350.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Kamid el-Loz — Beqaa Palace
Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–1200 BCE) · Egyptian-Hittite
Kamid el-Loz — Beqaa Palace in Beqaa Governorate, Kumidi palace, Lebanon is a Middle Bronze to Iron (1900–1200 BCE) tell attributed to Egyptian-Hittite culture.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Fortress
Koy-Krylgan Kala — Khorezm Fortress
Achaemenid to Kushan (400 BCE–400 CE) Khorezm · Khorezmian
Koy-Krylgan Kala — Khorezm Fortress in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan is a Achaemenid to Kushan (400 BCE–400 CE) Khorezm fortress attributed to Khorezmian.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thibaris (Henchir Hamamet)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Medjerda road vicus with forum, baths and Christian basilica with mosaic epitaphs, controlling Siliana valley grain.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Batan Grande — Huaca La Merced (Sicán Capital)
Middle Sicán (Lambayeque), c.750–1050 CE, peak 900–1050 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque)
Huaca La Merced (Huaca Sialupe) in Batan Grande — Sicán capital pyramid (c.750–1050 CE, Middle Sicán).
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Temple complex
Po Nagar Tower B — Nha Trang North Shrine
Champa (8th–13th c. CE) · Cham (Po Nagar cult)
Po Nagar Tower B — Nha Trang North Shrine in Khanh Hoa Province, Vietnam is a Champa (8th–13th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Cham (Po Nagar cult).
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Chogha Gavaneh — Central High Mound
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, c.7000–800 BCE (massif c.3200 BCE) · Halaf / Ubaid / Uruk / Kura-Araxes
Central high mound at Chogha Gavaneh (7th–6th millennium BCE Neolithic to Bronze Age high platform, 15 m high, 80 m diameter).
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
La Bastida de Totana — Argaric Fortified City
El Argar Bronze Age (2200–1550 BCE) · El Argar
Totana hill city excavated by Lull & Micó since 2009, type-site of Argaric urbanism, with fortified acropolis and extramural cemeteries.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
El Kab North Wadi Necropolis
Predynastic to New Kingdom (3500–1086 BCE) · Predynastic / Egyptian (New Kingdom)
Governor tombs north of El Kab with predynastic rock-art bank.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Garagay Archaeological Complex — Lima Temple with Polychrome Reliefs
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Kızılbel Tomb
Persian period (c.525 BCE; chamber c.525–500 BCE) · Persian-period Lycian (Elmalı dynasty under Achaemenid satrapy)
Persian-period painted chamber tomb (525 BCE) with 2.5 m banquet frieze under tumulus at Elmalı.
🇮🇱 Israel · Fortress
Hazeva Fort — Arava Fortress Line
Iron Age II to Roman (900 BCE–300 CE) · Judahite then Nabataean–Roman
Hazeva Fort — Arava Fortress Line in Southern District, Israel is a Iron Age II to Roman (900 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Judahite then Nabataean–Roman.