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🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus

Hashihaka Kofun — Earliest Keyhole Tomb

Early Kofun (mid-3rd c. CE c. 250 CE) · Yamato early Kofun (Himiko? Queen)

Makimuku Hashihaka excavated around moat 1990s, 280 m earliest Kofun predating Daisen by 180 yrs.

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🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient city

Jumba la Mtwana — Mtwapa Creek

Swahili (14th–15th c. CE) · Swahili

Jumba la Mtwana — Mtwapa Creek in Kilifi County, Kenya is a Swahili (14th–15th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village

Nausharo — Harappan Transitional Colour Pottery Phase

Harappan Transitional (2800–2600 BCE Nausharo I–III) · Amri-Nal → Kili Gul Mohammad → Harappan

Nausharo excavated by Jarrige, painted pottery transition and figurine workshop.

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GR · Submerged site

Pheia – Submerged Harbour of Olympia at Agios Andreas

Mycenaean to Late Roman (LH III – 5th c. CE harbour) · Mycenaean / Elean / Olympic

Olympia seaport — Homeric Pheia harbour basin and Pontikokastro islet now 4–6 m under Katakolo Bay.

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🇮🇷 Iran · Tell

Tepe Ghabristan

Late Chalcolithic to EBA (c.4000–2900 BCE) · Sialk III–IV → Uruk-related → Early Bronze Central Plateau

Chalcolithic double-mound (5 ha) on the Qazvin plain, excavated by E.O. Negahban and later Tehran University. Sequence L...

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🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Adurru

Adurru is a village and a 2nd-century CE Buddhist archaeological site in the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema district of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Balnuaran of Clava Cairns

Early Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE) · Clava cairn tradition (Inverness Bronze Age)

Group of three Bronze Age circular chamber tombs (c. 2000 BCE) at Balnuaran of Clava, defining Clava cairn type: two passage graves with corbelled chambers and a central ring cairn, each within a…

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder

Bigeh

Bigeh (Arabic: بجح; Ancient Egyptian znmwt) is an island and archaeological site situated along the Nile River in historic Nubia and within the Aswan Governorate of southern Egypt.

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🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder

Civitas Popthensis

Civitas Popthensis was an ancient Roman-Berber city located in the present-day Henchir Kssiba area in the municipality of Ouled Moumen in Souk Ahras Province, Algeria.