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9,978 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Fortress
Roman to Byzantine (2nd–7th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Frontier fortlet on steppe ridge with Roman farm and Byzantine quadrangle fort (80×60 m) reusing inscriptions, on Thelepte–Cillium road.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Neolithic (3700–3500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Papa's famous early houses excavated by Traill & Kirkness 1929–30, dated 3700 BCE, older than Skara Brae, preserved under machair dunes.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3250 BCE) · Orcadian Grooved Ware
Mainland Orkney cairn excavated by Renfrew 1972–74, yielding 157 adults and children, dated to Early Neolithic with Grooved Ware sherds.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Bronze Age Nuragic (1600–1100 BCE) · Nuragic
Sardinia's 'Sardinian palace' excavated by Taramelli 1933–38, restored 3-storey keep with corbel vault and concentric corridor bastion.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.2900 BCE) · Maes Howe tradition
Finest Maes Howe-type cairn on Sanday, excavated 1867, with six side chambers off central cell and cross-shaped plan, near beach dunes.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Roman (4th c BCE – 6th c CE) · Punic / Roman
Coastal Sahel village near Pheradi Maius harbour, with Punic bottle cisterns and Roman house mosaics, controlling coastal lagoon salt.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
PPN (9600–8600 BCE) · Göbeklian
Tek Tek pillar site excavated since 2019, part of 12-site Taş Tepeler, yielding giant human figure holding phallus and vulture pillar.
🇫🇷 France · Earthwork
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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom Amenemhat III (1855–1808 BCE) + Labyrinth temple Herodotus description · 12th Dynasty (Hawara)
Hawara excavated by Petrie 1888–89, Labyrinth lost Herodotus-Strabonic description, quartzite chamber with 110 t lid lowered on sand.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Eblaite to Ottoman; University 8th–12th c. CE · Umayyad / Abbasid (Harran School)
Plain city excavated by Lloyd & Brice 1951–56 and recent Harran University, birthplace of al-Battani, Sabian moon temple underlying.
🇫🇷 France · Ancient village
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon ancient-village at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze III to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Eblaite / Amorite Mariote
Bi'a excavated by Einwag & Otto 1981–, 2400 BCE Early Dynastic palace with Tuttul/Dagan texts, later Amorite palace of Yasmah-Adad.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Roman to Artuqid (200 BCE–1400 CE); tombs Roman · Roman / Artuqid
Tigris cliff town rescue excavations 2000–19, Roman tombs and Artuqid palaces now under Ilısu Lake with relocated Zeynel Bey tomb.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic megalithic at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNB (8700–7500 BCE) · PPNB (Aswadian)
Damascus oasis village excavated by de Contenson 1960s–2008, oldest plastered skulls with wheat/barley and domestication evidence.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon ancient-village at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon ancient-village at Central Anatolia.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (2600–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Solitary outlier 80 m beyond Ring of Brodgar ditch, thought to mark northern lunar minor standstill sightline from henge centre.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3500 BCE) · Morbihan megalithic
Flagship Morbihan passage grave, capstone once part of broken Grand Menhir of Er Grah, decorated with hook and hatchet carvings.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA to Early PPNB (10900–9500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic A / Qaramelinian
Qaramel excavated by Mazurowski 1999–, oldest towers in Syria, PPNA round houses with skull cult and lithics older than Jericho.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman Imperial (92 CE temple; bridge 250 CE) · Phrygian → Roman Imperial
Kütahya Roman city excavated by Naumann 1930–, best preserved Zeus temple in Anatolia, copy of Diocletian's Price Edict 301 CE.
