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🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to modern with Iron Age peak · Camunni (Rhaetic-adjacent Alpine) and predecessors
140,000 figures on 2,000 Alpine slabs—world's densest European rock art valley (UNESCO 1979 No.1 Italy).
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Eastern Han (Warring States 400 BCE – Han) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang Baiyue)
Guangxi karst cliffs 38 panels 1900 frog-shaman figures 5th c. BCE–2nd c. CE, UNESCO 1508.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Later Stone Age (Upper Palaeolithic 27 ka) to Historical (27 ka–1400 CE) · San ancestors (Early LSA humans; Howieson's Poort industry)
Cave yielding 27,500 BCE portable painted plaquettes – among world's oldest art, named for 1969 moon landing excavation.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) · PPN Culture
Atlitz Yam Submerged Courtyard North Wall — Northern Annex in Haifa District, Atlit, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (7000-6000 BCE) submerged city attributed to PPN Culture.
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (5500-4500 BCE) · Butmir Culture
Butmir Neolithic Settlement Trench North — Northern Annex in Sarajevo, Ilidza, Bosnia and Herzegovina is a Late Neolithic (5500-4500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Butmir Culture.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Medieval Tamil (Pallava–Chola) · Tamil Dravidian (Pallava and Chola imperial)
Pallava eri tank 2.1×1.4 km 740 CE still irrigating 295 ha via tumpu sluices, inscription-documented.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) · Lepenski Vir Culture
Lepenski Vir Terrace Lower Dwelling 12 in Danube Gorge, Donji Milanovac, Serbia is a Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Lepenski Vir Culture.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Avanti Early Historic 700–500 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic → Avanti (Ujjain) Early Historical
Malwa hillock at Nagda Junction — Banerjee/B.B. Lal's Malwa type (round huts, buff ware, 1.6 km NW of station).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Early Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE; comparable to Carthage early) · Nok Culture (unknown language; possibly proto-Benue-Congo)
500 BCE terracotta heads with triangular eyes and elaborate coiffures plus earliest West African iron furnaces (13 at Taruga 700–400 BCE).
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Archaic to Hellenistic (720 – 300 BCE) · Achaean Greek / Sybarite
Southern stoa quarter of Sybaris 5 m under Crati alluvium — 80 m Doric stoa at –5 m and potters' kilns south of main park.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200-7400 BCE) · Anatolian Neolithic
Asikli Hoyuk Terrace Trench 12 South — Eastern Outlier in Central Anatolia, Aksaray, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200-7400 BCE) tell attributed to Anatolian Neolithic.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval (Andronovo to Göktürk) · Andronovo, Saka (Scythian), Wusun and Turkic nomads
Issyk-Kul glacial boulder field with 2000 petroglyphs 2000 BCE–800 CE and lake panorama.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age · Gobustan hunters, Kura-Araxes, Classical (Roman contact)
South slope of Kichikdash with 1100 boat and aurochs hunt cupule petroglyphs.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Early Medieval (6000 BCE – 800 CE) · Neolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Okunev, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Kok-Pash, Turkic Khaganate
Chuysky gorge 5,000-image palimpsest 6 ka BCE to Turkic across Katun-Chuya confluence.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes
Metsamor Fortress Citadel North Bastion — Southern Extension in Armavir Province, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes.
🇮🇷 Iran (Mu pseudo) · Ancient city
Churchward 1926 Mu Pacific; 2015 Ardabil plain pseudo forum 'Mughan Mu concentric' · Pseudo sunken plain – Ardabil plain as Mu Motherland capital plain
Mu on Ardabil (Mughan) Plain – pseudoarchaeological relocation of James Churchward's Pacific Mu continent (1926) to Iran's Ardabil–Mughan alluvial plain (38°15′N 48°21′E), claiming the 100×80 km…
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic, Karakhanid
East ridge cirque 900 m east of main lake with Turkic falconry medieval phase.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Buried city
Late Intermediate to Contact (c.700 – 1603 CE) · Tayrona (Tairona)
Tayrona Buritaca ridge 380 m — 120 stone terraces with canals and causeway to Chengue fishery port, 700–1600 CE, coast-sierra twin to Teyuna.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age Selian 9th–13th c Selonia (Baltic) Livonian horizon · Selian Baltic (Sēļi) — Selonia tribe between Latgals and Semigals
Sēlpils (Selburg, Selian *Sēlija*) — Selian tribal hillfort (Late Iron Age 9th–13th c, Livonian 1208 burning, Order stone castle 1373) on Daugava right bank 15 km south Jēkabpils opposite Staburags…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
West-central Fayum vineyard village Theadelphia 1–2 m buried at Bat el-Harun — Psenpheros temple 15×12 m at –1 m and canal quay 50 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
West-central Fayum vineyard village Theadelphia 1–2 m buried at Bat el-Harun — Psenpheros temple 15×12 m at –1 m and canal quay 50 m.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Tumulus
Late Hellenistic to early Kushan (1st c. BCE–CE) · Yuezhi nomadic confederacy transitional to Kushan
Six 1st-c. nomadic royal graves (Yuezhi) with 21,000 gold pieces—Silk Road fusion before the Kushan empire.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Medieval Sudanic (11th–17th c; peak 14th–16th c under Mali-Songhai) · Tuareg / Soninke / Malinke / Songhai / Berber / Moroccan (Arma)
Scholar caravan metropolis on Niger Bend with three 14th-c earthen Sudano-Sahelian mosques and 600,000-manuscript university Sankore.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Scytho-Siberian Pazyryk · Pazyryk (Scytho-Siberian) culture
600–400 BCE Pazyryk royal barrows (early plateau ancestors)—8 horses and earliest Altai felt art.
