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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Phoenician to Ottoman (7th c BCE–present) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Islamic
Phoenician Emporion under Tripoli with 163 CE tetrapylon arch of Marcus Aurelius and silted harbour.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Late Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
Central tributary gorge of the Tamgaly (Tanbaly) UNESCO landscape 170 km NW Almaty, comprising 4.5 km of northwest-facing Chu-Ili schist panels with ~800 engravings.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Thalai-adi — Ancient Harbour North Quay (Jaffna, Sri Lanka) in Northern, Jaffna, Thalai-adi, Sri Lanka is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) subme…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EB I–III → MBA → LBA → Iron Age (3000–700 BCE) · Syro-Anatolian EBA (Euphrates tradition) → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite
EB walled town (3000–2300 BCE) with 20 ha lower town — Carchemish-Aleppo plain urban gateway, Mitanni/Hittite contested.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Hierakonpolis — Locality 6 Ancillary Ceremonial Enclosure (Kom el-Ahmar) in Aswan, Hierakonpolis, Kom el-Ahmar, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BC…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient city
Neolithic to Medieval · Irish Celtic
Hill of Tara Royal Enclosure Meath at Meath, Brega, Ireland is a Neolithic to Medieval ancient city of the Irish Celtic tradition, built c. 3200 BCE for royal capital with mound of hostages 15 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Karahan Tepe — Pillared Hall Ancillary Room E in Şanlıurfa, Karahan Tepe, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed t…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Pueblo Bonito — North Wall Ancillary (Chaco Canyon) in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, United States is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 …
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (c.2500–1700 BCE) · Cumbrian Late Neolithic–Bronze Age (Beaker)
Birkrigg stone circle (Late Neolithic–Early Bronze Age c.2500–1700 BCE), also called the Druid's Temple, is a double concentric circle 26 m outer and 9 m inner on Birkrigg Common limestone moor 2 mi…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early–Late Classic · Maya (Kaan–Chenés frontier)
First Kaan (Snake) capital (300–900 CE) — 28-m Kinichná Acropolis with wooden lintel inscriptions.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A · Mureybetian / Jerf Ahmar PPNA
Two PPNA villages (East and West, 9500–8700 BCE) on the Middle Euphrates now submerged under Lake Tishrin, famous for the earliest communal buildings with subterranean benches, decorated plaquettes…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Middle Stone Age (120–55 ka) · Early Homo sapiens (MSA I–Howiesons Poort)
Klasies River Main site (KRM) is 5 caves/shelters on Tsitsikamma coast (34°06′29″S 24°23′24″E) with 120–55 ka MSA deposits containing anatomically modern human fossils (KRM 13400 mandible 115 ka),…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom · 3rd Dynasty Egyptian
Layer Pyramid Khaba Zawiyet Aryan at Zawiyet el-Aryan, Egypt is a Old Kingdom pyramid of the 3rd Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c. 2600 BCE for layer pyramid unfinished step pyramid 5 layers.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
The Pedra Pintada or "Painted Rock" is a large rock formation in the state of Roraima, Brazil.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Pierres Plates — South Cairn Passage (Locmariaquer) in Brittany, Morbihan, Locmariaquer, France is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) meg…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Uruk to Mitanni · Tell Brak / Nagar
Tell Brak Nagar Central Mound at Hassakeh, Tell Brak, Syria is a Uruk to Mitanni ancient city of the Tell Brak / Nagar tradition, built c. 3900 BCE for major urban centre 130 ha with eye temple.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Byzantine (6300 BCE–1300 CE) · Neolithic Mersin XXXIII → Chalcolithic Ubaid → EBA Cilician → Iron → Byzantine
Yumuktepe Mersin Re-evaluation Trench is the southern sounding of Yumuktepe — the Neolithic type-site for Cilician chronology (Garstang Mersin XXXIII–I, 6300–1300 CE) within modern Mersin.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Abydos South — Ahmose Pyramid Ancillary Temple in Sohag, Abydos, Ahmose Pyramid, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–4800 BCE) · Fikirtepe → Karanovo I–III / Starčevo
Thracian tell bridging Anatolian Neolithic to Balkans (Karanovo sequence).
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Central Dwarka Ridge East — Dwarka (58-14) at Dwarka, India is a Early Historic (regional) submerged city of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Dion — Sanctuary of Isis North Ancillary (Pieria) in Central Macedonia, Pieria, Dion, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex …
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Eythra is a former settlement near Leipzig, Germany. It is archaeologically important because it is one of the sites of Europe's oldest civilisation.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Burdur-Antalya (Hacilar-associated)
Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic lakeside shrine-village (c.6500–5500 BCE) in Burdur Lake District, famous for 'Martyrium' burnt shrine phase with mother-goddess and leopard reliefs, and hoard of…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Mohenjo-daro — Great Bath Ancillary Drain in Sindh, Larkana, Mohenjo-daro, Pakistan is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed t…
