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🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600–8200 BCE) · PPN hunter-gatherer (Göbeklian)
Germuş hill excavated by Schmidt 1995–, 20 enclosures with T-pillars and animal reliefs,intentionally backfilled 8200 BCE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon megalithic at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Geoglyph
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic geoglyph at Central Anatolia.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Uruk to Early Bronze (3400–2400 BCE) · Late Uruk / Early Syrian
Bi'a hinterland mound excavated alongside Tuttul project, yielding Uruk contact ceramics and Early Bronze village phasing.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman
Olive press village with Roman counterweights and vats still visible among olive groves, typical of High Tell oleoculture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late Middle Kingdom (late 12th Dynasty c.1800 BCE) Amenemhat IV?/Sobekneferu? · 12th–13th Dynasty transitional late Middle Kingdom
Mazghuna South excavated by Petrie 1910 report Ernest Mackay 1911, unfinished late 12th structure with massive quartzite.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (3180–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware Orkney
Skara extension excavated by Clarke 1928–30 and recent erosion exposures, middens with pottery, bone tools and dyke wall.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Uruk (3800–3200 BCE) temple; city 4200 BCE · Northern Uruk / Ninevite 5
Tell Brak excavated by Mallowan 1930s and Oates 1976–, Eye Temple with thousands of Eye Idols, proto-Zagros trade centre.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Pyramid
Classical · Classical
Classical pyramid at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Geoglyph
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan geoglyph at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Sahel olive road vicus with long press row and cisterns, typical Bydacena oleoculture landscape feeding Hadrumetum port.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇫🇷 France · Pyramid
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite pyramid at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Commagene (80–50 BCE Antiochus I) · Commagene Greek-Persian syncretism
Arsameia excavated by Dörner & Young 1935–64, inscription records founding by Arsames c.230 BCE and Antiochus reshaping.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age ancient-village at Haryana.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chachapoya late (1300–1470 CE) · Chachapoya later Inca fringe
Abiseo Gran Pajatén discovered by Savoy 1963, excavated 1985, mosaic fretwork with human heads, UNESCO 1990 Rio Abiseo.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) + Early Bronze · Late Chalcolithic Jazira (Hamoukar) → Southern Uruk intrusion
Hamoukar excavated by Gibson & Reichel 1999–, earliest urban battle c.3500 BCE, sling bullets and southern Uruk colony.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Chalcolithic (3000–2000 BCE) · Alcalar / Bell Beaker
Algarve's leading Chalcolithic centre excavated by Estácio da Veiga 1880s, with slate plaques, copper tools and ivory.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic ancient-village at Hidalgo.
🇫🇷 France · Tell
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic tell at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
PPN (9000–8500 BCE) · Göbeklian
Sayburç 2021 discovery just S of Göbekli, relief 5-figure panel with leopard and ithyphallic man excavated by Özdoğan.