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🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes
Metsamor Fortress Citadel North Bastion — Western Terrace in Armavir Province, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes.
🇰🇮 Kiribati · Archaeological wonder
Pseudo-hypothesized 50k–12k BCE destruction (Churchward timeline) · Claimed Naacal – universal mother civilization (fabricated)
Churchward's 1926 Pacific super-continent from Hawaii to Easter Island — abyssal plain at 4000 m, no granite.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Eastern Outlier in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Southern Extension in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Neo-Hittite (4000–700 BCE) · Amanos piedmont → Yamhad (Alalakh) → Hittite → Neo-Hittite
Tilmen Höyük (Tilmen Palace Mound West Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Gaziantep Province, İslahiye District, Amanos foothills, Turkey — Amanos gateway kingdom capital with MBA…
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Classical to Medieval (5th c. BCE – 1200 CE) · Toretae / Bosporan / Genoese
Northern roadstead of Toricos — reef anchorage at 6–9 m with 15 moorings and amphora scatter in Gelendzhik north bay.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period rock art
Yinshan Rock Art Tiger Leaping Panel in Inner Mongolia, Yinshan, China is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Multi-period rock art.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Ain Ghazal Courtyard Shrine East Terrace — Southern Extension in Amman Governorate, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8500-6500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Chalcolithic (Areni phase, 4300–3400 BCE) · Areni / Late Chalcolithic South Caucasus (related to Maykop-Leyla Tepe)
Armenian Chalcolithic wine-cave with 3500 BCE shoe, winery and ibex petroglyphs.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sassanid to Buyid (4th c CE to 10th c CE) · Sassanid → Buyid Islamic
Kor River cascade (Sassanid 4th c → Buyid 970 CE) bridge–dam 75 m with 13 arches — Persepolis plain lifeline.
🇳🇴 Norway · Burial field
Migration → Viking Age 600–900 Vestfold Yngling dynasty · Norwegian Viking Age (Vestfold Yngling) — Borre Style eponym
Borre (Borrehaugene, Borre mound cemetery) — Viking Age royal mound park (c.600–900 CE, 7 great mounds 6–9 m high 35–45 m diam, 25 smaller cairns) 5 km east Horten on Oslofjord east shore, Vestfold's…
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Caesarea Maritima Submerged Harbour Sebastos Outer Mole in Haifa, Caesarea, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Ancient city
Late Intermediate Tairona 700–1600 CE (Tairona peak 1000–1500) · Tairona (Tairona-Buritaca, ancestors of Kogi / Arhuaco / Wiwa indigenous groups)
Tairona capital city (700–1600 CE) of Sierra Nevada: 184 stone-terraced bases (circular 10 m rings), elevated paved staircases (1,200 steps climb), retaining walls, aqueduct and burial terraces…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age (2000–500 BCE) · Andronovo-related Chemurchek, early nomadic Saka/Xiongnu
Northern Tianshan schist cliff 120-m with masked shaman fertility dance 1000 BCE.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Eastern Outlier in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Southern Extension in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Mid Holocene to Contact (3000 BCE – 19th c.) · Aboriginal Sydney (Guringai, Darramuragal, Awabakal)
Sydney Hawkesbury platforms 1500+ Daramulan whale-fish engravings 3000 BCE–contact.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Cemetery
Neolithic 4000–3500 BP Da But→Phung Nguyen mosaic · Man Bac — Da But hunter to East Asian Neolithic admixture (Austroasiatic migration)
Man Bac Cemetery — Neolithic cemetery (c.4000–3500 BP, Phung Nguyen fringe) at Yen Mo karst 25 km S Ninh Binh, excavated 1999–2007 Australian–Vietnamese (Oxenham).
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes
Metsamor Fortress Citadel North Bastion — Northern Annex in Armavir Province, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Early Bronze Age Kura-Araxes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Pharos of Alexandria Foundation Blocks Submerged in Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Sauromatian to Early Sarmatian) · Sauromatian / Early Sarmatian (Prokhorovka)
40+ Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian kurgans (600–200 BCE) — 'Amazon' female warrior necropolis on Ilek River.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Chalcolithic (2500-2000 BCE) · Irish Chalcolithic
Poulnabrone Exclave Wedge Terrace — Southern Extension in The Burren, County Clare, Ireland is a Chalcolithic (2500-2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Chalcolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Iron Age (Chalcolithic, EBA Kura-Araxes, MBA, Iron Urartian) · Caucasian–Kura-Araxes → Eastern Anatolian → Urartian
Sos Höyük (Pasinler / Upper Euphrates Chalcolithic) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Erzurum Province, Pasinler District, Pasinler plain, Turkey — High plateau mound at Euphrates headwaters…
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Tell Beydar Temple A Annex Courtyard — Western Terrace in Al-Hasakah, Tell Beydar, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (3000-2300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Dynastic.
