🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Larkin Mound
Middle Woodland Weeden Island 200–600 CE · Weeden Island / Gulf Hopewell
Crystal River satellite burial mound with Hopewell copper and quartz, Gulf Hopewell southernmost evidence.
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🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Late Antique (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Hill town 20 km from Dougga with Severan arch and aqueduct.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Weeden Island 200–600 CE · Weeden Island / Gulf Hopewell
Crystal River satellite burial mound with Hopewell copper and quartz, Gulf Hopewell southernmost evidence.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Late Roman (1180 BCE Enkomi-Salamis – 648 CE Arab sack) · Teucrid Greek / Cypriot / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Salamis Cypriot kingdom — 10 ha walled city whose 500 m mole at Pediaeus mouth now 1–2 m under Famagusta Bay.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (4300–3800 BCE) · Sheri Khan Tarakai
Sheri Khan Tarakai — Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bannu basin, Pakistan is a Late Neolithic (4300–3800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Sheri Khan Tarakai culture.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient city
Aetokremnos is a rock shelter near Limassol on the southern coast of Cyprus. It is widely considered to host some of the oldest evidence of human habitation of Cyprus, dating to around 12,000 years…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic–Early Ceramic Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) · Zagros Neolithic (Guran)
Aceramic–Early Ceramic Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) Zagros Neolithic (Guran) tell at Lorestan Province, Hulailan Plain, Zagros – campsite-to-village neolithic sequence in zagros (dims Mound 8 m, Guran PHASES a–j).
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (2000–1500 BCE) Collud-Zarcillo with charcoal 1600 BCE, Olmec-style mural earliest Americas · North Coast Initial Period (Cupisnique antecedent with Chavín precursor mural 1500 BCE)
Ventarrón excavated by Alva 2007–, 2000 BCE mural oldest Americas.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient city
Protohistoric Funan to Chenla (c.400 BCE–800 CE, peak 2nd–7th cent CE) · Funan (Mekong Delta Oc Eo–Angkor Borei)
Funan delta capital (400 BCE–800 CE) — 300 ha moated brick city with Phnom Da hill temples and earliest Khmer Vishnu.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (c.5500–4800 BCE) · Ubaid-related Central Anatolian Chalcolithic
Middle Chalcolithic tell (200 m diameter, 8 m high) on the Konya Plain’s southern apron, excavated by David French. Sequ...
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Neolithic to Late Iron (1800 BCE–1500 CE) · Hadjer Lamis / Kotoko ancestral
3-m 115×85 m stratified mound establishing Chad Basin Neolithic-to-Iron sequence 1800 BCE–1500 CE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid to Islamic (5500 BCE–1200 CE; peak EBA 2600–2000 BCE) · Halaf → Uruk → EBA Syro-Anatolian → Mitanni → Neo-Assyrian
EBA burned quarter of 100 ha Kazane mega-tell — Uruk to Neo-Assyrian sequence.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Chalcolithic (Copper Age) · Los Millares culture
Copper Age fortified town near Almería (3200-2200 BCE) with walls, aqueduct and 80 tholos tombs defining Los Millares culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Nagar Pediment Archaeological Complex in Piauí, Brazil is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock-cut
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Stone-Silver Rock-Cut Complex in Ancash, Peru is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) rock_cut attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Akhmim (Arabic: أخميم, pronounced [ʔæxˈmiːm]; Akhmimic Coptic: ⳉⲙⲓⲙ, Coptic pronunciation: [xmiːm]; Sahidic/Bohairic Coptic: ϣⲙⲓⲛ Coptic pronunciation: [ʃmiːn]) is a city in the Sohag Governorate of…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
Hermel (Levantine Arabic: الهرمل, romanized: al-Hermel) is a town in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon. It is the capital of Hermel District. Hermel is home to a Lebanese Red Cross First Aid Center.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic–Late Bronze (4500–1200 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian
Chalcolithic–Late Bronze (4500–1200 BCE) North-Central Anatolian tell at Sinop Province, Black Sea – fortified citadel controlling black sea–central anatolia route (dims Mound 20 m high, fortified plateau 1 ha).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock-cut
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Little Petra (Siq al-Barid) — Painted Biclinium in Ma'an, Siq al-Barid, Jordan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tr…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Jukun Kwararafa (c. 1300–1900 CE; peak 16th–18th c) · Jukun (Kwararafa confederacy)
Capital of the Jukun–Kwararafa Benue empire, Wukari's palace enclosure (400×350 m) houses the Aku Uka sacred kingship shrine and town walls that controlled Benue–Cameroon corridor...
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Late Neolithic to Qin–Han (3000 BCE – 200 CE) · Qiang-related pastoralist Hexi corridor culture
Two-panel deer and archer ochre hillside at Yellow River east bank, 3000–4000 BP.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (Late Republic to Late Antiquity; peak 1st–3rd c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Veteran colonia near Chemtou with monumental Roman bridge and basilica.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Western Jin to Yuan (300 – 1300 CE) · Buddhist Hexi nomad to Tang imperial
Lower cliffs with 420 CE earliest inscribed cave 169 of 169 caves at Liujia Reservoir.
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Knoll Ingoldisthorpe Mound Complex in Negev, Israel is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) earthwork attributed to Hellenistic culture.
