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🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical Greek/Roman
Epidauros Tholos Underground Labyrinth in Argolis, Epidauros, Greece is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical Greek/Roman.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (4500-4000 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Er Grah Broken Menhir Base Deposit — Northern Annex in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4500-4000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇪🇸 Spain · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Gades Submerged Phoenician Harbour Cadiz in Andalusia, Cádiz, Spain is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Early Holocene wetland to Late Antiquity · Bosporan Greek
Southern mole of Gorgippia — 75 m rubble breakwater at 4–6 m protecting Sukko anchorage in Anapa Bay.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic through Middle Bronze (5800–1500 BCE) · Erzurum Neolithic → Chalcolithic Karasau → EBA Kura-Araxes (Karaz)
Güzelova Höyük (Karasu Valley Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Erzurum Province, Aşkale District, Karasu (Euphrates) valley, Turkey — Karasu/Euphrates headwater village documenting…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hill of Caldback Chambered Cairn — Northern Annex in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Middle Bronze to Ottoman (c. 1800 BCE – 1917 CE) · Canaanite / Egyptian / Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Biblical reef harbour of Andromeda – Byzantine seawall and Ottoman jetty 1–5 m down in Andromeda Reef gap.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Late Pala (1077–1161 CE) to Sena transition · Late Pala Vajrayana (Varendra)
Last great Pala mahavihara (1077–1200 CE)—110×100 m cruciform mound, Ramapala's revival, Tibetan-cited.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) · Natufian-PPN
Jericho Pre-Pottery Tower Annex North — Northern Annex in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8500 BCE) tell attributed to Natufian-PPN.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical pre-Columbian 800 CE (if cultural) or Holocene paleo-river natural · Hypothetical Casarabe north (unvalidated) or natural paleo-river
Pando Kunduriri hypothetical 5 km ridge grid 0.6 m with pools 40 m — satellite geometry but ground truth oxbow scroll bars, no sherds, natural levee suspected.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical pre-Columbian 800 CE (if cultural) or Holocene paleo-river natural · Hypothetical Casarabe north (unvalidated) or natural paleo-river
Pando Kunduriri hypothetical 5 km ridge grid 0.6 m with pools 40 m — satellite geometry but ground truth oxbow scroll bars, no sherds, natural levee suspected.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Qin to Tang to Qing continuous use · Qin imperial engineers under Shi Lu
214 BCE Qin contour canal—36 km linking Yangtze to Pearl via watershed split and 1,400-year-earlier pound locks.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Earthwork
Late Intermediate, Casarabe culture · Casarabe (Moxos) savanna farmers
1,000 km of causeways + 147 forest-island cities (500–1400 CE) in seasonally flooded Beni savanna.
🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex
Late Neolithic Temple Period (3600-2500 BCE) · Temple Period
Mnajdra South Temple Terrace Annex — Eastern Outlier in Malta, Qrendi, Malta is a Late Neolithic Temple Period (3600-2500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Temple Period.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Pancha Rathas Draupadi Ratha South Shrine in Tamil Nadu, Mahabalipuram, India is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇱🇦 Laos · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Plain of Jars Site 1 Central Jar Cluster in Xieng Khouang, Plain of Jars, Laos is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 6th–early 8th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Ancient historiographic pyramid attributed to Nitocris, female ruler placed by Manetho at end of 6th Dynasty, sometimes identified with Pepi II daughter Neithikret.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Mound
Sambaqui (c.7000–1500 BCE) South-Central Brazilian Coast · Sambaqui – Camacho fishermen-collectors
Sambaqui Figueirinha near Jaguaruna, Santa Catarina, is a giant late Holocene shell mound (sambaqui) on the Imaruí–Garopaba coastal lagoon plain at 5 m asl.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Iron Age Neo-Assyrian Empire (705–681 BCE Sennacherib) · Neo-Assyrian imperial engineers under Sennacherib
690 BCE Assyrian 300-m stone arch aqueduct—world's oldest bridge-aqueduct carrying Nineveh's 80-km canal.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Qujialing → Shijiahe 2600–2300 BCE (Jianghan Late Neolithic) → Meishan · Shijiahe culture (Middle Yangzi walled city)
Jianghan Plain walled mega-town (c.3000–2300 BCE, Shijiahe culture 2600–2300 BCE climax) northwest of Tianmen — 120 ha walled enclosure (1.2 km wall of rammed earth, moat) with inner palace 7 ha,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
New Kingdom to Roman (1479 BCE–235 CE; freestanding temple essentially Augustan) · Egyptian / Nubian
Augustan New Kalabsha — Nubia's largest freestanding temple (76 m) to Mandulis saved from Nasser.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Antonine (Mylasan Karia) · Carian Greek (Mylasa sphere, later Roman)
Carian olive-grove Corinthian 6×11 with 16 columns upright to architrave, dedication to Zeus Lepsynos.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Unstan Chambered Cairn Annex South — Eastern Outlier in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Orcadian Neolithic.
