🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Akoris — Northern Quarry Valley Harbour at Tihna North
Ptolemaic to Coptic (300 BCE – 500 CE) · Graeco-Roman Egyptian
Northern quarry valley of Akoris — slipway and wadi canal buried 2–4 m for 3-ton block export north.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Coptic (300 BCE – 500 CE) · Graeco-Roman Egyptian
Northern quarry valley of Akoris — slipway and wadi canal buried 2–4 m for 3-ton block export north.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Iron Age Vendel–Viking transition · Scandinavian Late Vendel to Viking (pre-Christian)
59-stone 67-m Viking Age stone ship aligned solstitially over the Baltic at Kåseberga.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Anau IA–II (Namazga I–II) 4500–3000 BCE → Bronze → Iron → Sejuk · Jeitun–Anau → Namazga → Bronze Age BMAC → Iranian
Oasis-town pair (c.4500 BCE–1000 CE) on the Kopet Dag fan near Ashgabat — Anau North (Chalcolithic Anau IA–II, 4500–3000 BCE) and Anau South (Bronze–Iron Age 2000 BCE–Islamic) twin mounds excavated…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Southern Extension in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇩🇪 Germany · Earthwork
Migration → Viking Age → Medieval 500–1160 (Godfred 808 → Valdemar I brick) · Danish Iron Age → Viking Age (Danevirke Danish border wall, Godfred–Bluetooth)
Danevirke (Danewerk) — Iron Age → Viking Age linear fortification (5th–12th c, 30 km wall system between North Sea Treene marsh and Baltic Schlei fjord) 7 km west Schleswig town, Schleswig isthmus…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Roman (300 BCE – 400 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian
Southern town of Euhemeria at Qasr el-Banat — 70 m house block at –2.5 m and 90 m wall.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Early Bronze Age Humber (Ferriby–Hanson Logboat tradition)
Three sewn-plank boats (2030–1680 BCE) — Europe's earliest plank vessels in Humber estuary silts.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) · Napatan
Gebel Barkal Temple B500 Terrace Annex — Southern Extension in Northern State, Karima, Sudan is a New Kingdom-Napatan (1500-500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Napatan.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) · Early Helladic
Lerna House of Tiles Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension in Peloponnese, Argolis, Greece is a Early Bronze Age (3200-2000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Helladic.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Bronze Age (1500-500 BCE) · Nuragic Culture
Su Nuraxi Barumini Hut Village Sector — Eastern Outlier in Sardinia, Medio Campidano, Italy is a Bronze Age (1500-500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Nuragic Culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Bronze Age (1500-500 BCE) · Nuragic Culture
Su Nuraxi Barumini Hut Village Sector — Western Terrace in Sardinia, Medio Campidano, Italy is a Bronze Age (1500-500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Nuragic Culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Archaic to Roman (727 BCE – 300 CE) · Achaean Greek / Athenian / Roman
Central trapezoid city stack of Sybaris-Thurii-Copia under Crati — stoa at –4 m, forum at –1.5 m.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Twyfelfontein Rock Engraving Panel West 7 in Erongo, Twyfelfontein, Namibia is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Val Camonica Naquane Rock 1 Panel Upper in Lombardia, Val Camonica, Italy is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇱🇦 Laos · Ancient temple
Chenla (5th–8th CE) → Khmer Angkor Wat (11th–13th) → Lao Buddhist (13th+) · Chenla Khmer (Hindu Shaiva) → Angkor Wat Khmer → Lan Xang Laotian Buddhist
Khmer Hindu–Buddhist temple complex and ancient city (c.5th–13th century CE, Chenla to Angkor Wat period) at Phou Khao foot near Mekong in Champasak, Laos — UNESCO World Heritage 'Vat Phou and…
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Himyarite to Zaydi 380–980 CE Hadramawt east · Himyarite Jirdan Hadramawt then Zaydi highland (Yemen)
Dual spate weirs 85+62×2.8 m gabion with 4 spillways 12 m feeding 6.2 km distributary 38 ha: Himyarite 380 Zaydi 980.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Han · Luoyue / Lạc Việt (ancient Zhuang ancestors), Dian periphery
West bank cliff opposite main Hua Mountain with bronze-drum anthropomorph sequence.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ain Ghazal Courtyard Shrine East Terrace — Western Terrace in Amman Governorate, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Archaeological wonder
Lower Paleolithic 800–500 ka (Acheulean-like) · Acheulean-like (An Khê culture, Homo erectus)
Early Paleolithic settlement (c.800,000–500,000 BP) at An Khê valley, Gia Lai — oldest Paleolithic site in Vietnam and Southeast Asia outside Java, discovered 2014 by Vietnamese–Russian Nishcheta…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Eastern Outlier in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ba'ja Clifftop Cistern Terrace North — Western Terrace in Petra region, Ma'an, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Neolithic pastoral (3500–1500 BCE pastoral art) · Pastoral Cushitic (early Somali ancestor) / Pre-Somaliland
14 m sandstone shelter with 22 polychrome fat-tailed sheep pastoral panel 3500 BCE – among earliest domestic sheep iconography.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (305 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
North-central Fayum grain port Euhemeria 1–2 m buried at Qasr el-Banat — double Harpocrates temple at –1 m and harbour basin 100×80 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (305 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
North-central Fayum grain port Euhemeria 1–2 m buried at Qasr el-Banat — double Harpocrates temple at –1 m and harbour basin 100×80 m.