🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Mari Palace Room 132 Archives
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mari Palace Room 132 Archives in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Trypillia
Neolithic–Chalcolithic Trypillia A–C2 (5500–3500 BCE) type · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Eastern branch) — Khvoika's Tripolye
Trypillia (Trypillya/Tripolye) — eponymous type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1893–97 by Vikentiy Khvoika on Dnieper right bank 40 km south Kyiv.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Akra – The Fully Submerged Bosporan City at Cape Takyl
Archaic to Late Roman (c.560 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Crimean Atlantis — intact classical street grid and double walls at 3–7 m deep off Cape Takyl, the only wholly underwater Bosporan town.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Antequera Menga Dolmen Quarry
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Antequera Menga Dolmen Quarry in Andalusia, Antequera, Spain is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Harappa Mound E Granary North Platform
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Harappa Mound E Granary North Platform in Punjab, Sahiwal, Pakistan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Phanagoria — Eastern Lobe Submerged Lower Town (Taman Bay)
Archaic to Medieval (543 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Easternmost third of Phanagoria submerged 1–5 m in Taman Bay — harbour mole, shipwreck and street grid 300 m offshore.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Serra da Capivara
Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (9000 BCE – 500 CE) · Nordeste / Agreste
Serra da Capivara in Piauí, Brazil is a Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (9000 BCE – 500 CE) rock art attributed to Nordeste / Agreste culture.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Altes Lager Menzlin
Early Medieval Viking Age–Slavic 8th–10th c · Slavic Veleti–Groswin + Scandinavian (Gotlandic–Swedish) traders
Altes Lager Menzlin West Field — western barrow-and-settlement extension of the 8th–10th c Slavic–Scandinavian trading post at Menzlin on Peene River 7 km west Anklam, Groswin tribal land.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Prieta — Chicama Preceramic Mound
Preceramic to Initial Period (5500–1800 BCE), Kotosh tradition overlap · Preceramic Chicama (Huaca Prieta–El Paraíso)
Blackish ash mound north of Chicama mouth forming 14 m Junius Bird 1946 stratigraphic cut that defined Andean Preceramic sequence — preceramic houses with stone-lined pits, twined cotton textiles…
🇾🇪 Yemen · Submerged site
Shabwa – Hadramawt Incense Harbour, Yemen
Qatabanian to Himyarite (c. 700 BCE – 400 CE) · Hadrami South Arabian / Himyarite
Incense road river harbour 200 m silted in Wadi Hadramawt – warehouses sealed 4th c. Himyar sack.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Aksum Stele Park Gudit Terrace Annex
Classical (100 BCE-800 CE) · Aksumite
Aksum Stele Park Gudit Terrace Annex in Tigray, Aksum, Ethiopia is a Classical (100 BCE-800 CE) megalithic attributed to Aksumite.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Chiza Valley Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate San Miguel-Gentilar · Tarapaca-Arica-Altiplano caravan continuum
70+ Chiza quebrada geoglyphs (800-1300 CE) with 25-m marine fish 90 km inland, encoding coast-mountain ideology.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Nuri Pyramid Nu 20 Pylon
Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic)
Nuri Pyramid Nu 20 Pylon in Northern, Nuri, Sudan is a Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient village
Botai (Botay)
Eneolithic (Copper Age) Botai (3700–3100 BCE) · Botai horse hunters-herders (Central Eurasian steppe)
Eneolithic mega-village (c.3700–3100 BCE, Botai culture) — type-site for earliest horse domestication evidence (ongoing debate): 15-ha semi-subterranean house hamlet (150 houses 30–70 m², 6-m deep…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
İkiztepe
Late Chalcolithic → EB I–III → MBA (4300–2000 BCE) · Pontic EBA (Kızılırmak Black Sea, Balkan-Caucasus interface)
Black Sea delta cemetery-tell (4300–2000 BCE) — 2400 EBA gifted graves with arsenical copper, Pontic metallurgy nexus.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Bouse Fisherman Intaglio (Fisherman Geoglyph)
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) · Yuman (Mojave/Quechan)
9-m Fisherman intaglio (900–1200 CE) on Plomosa piedmont — spearman with fish and sun.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Montegrande Pyramid — Cajamarca Temple of Death
Late Preceramic to Early Formative (Jaén phase) · Marañón/Cajamarca Cupisnique-related / Early Formative
Amazon-slope temple Montegrande (3000–800 BCE) Jaén Amojú: 72 m spiral pyramid with Chamber of Death (40 burials) over 3000 BCE circular temple — Cajamarca Formative spiral tradition.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Nevasa
Lower Paleolithic 400 Ka → Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic → Satavahana → Medieval · Soan Acheulian → Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) → Satavahana
Deccan textbook sequence on Pravara (400 Ka handaxes → 1400 BCE Jorwe village) — 130-house Chalcolithic with urn child burials.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pineland Archeological Site (Calusa Complex)
Caloosahatchee I–V (100–1710 CE, major 500–1500) · Caloosahatchee (Calusa kingdom)
Capital water-court capital (Randell Complex) of Calusa chiefdom (100–1500 CE, historic to 1710): 5 sand-shell mounds up to 9 m high (Brown's Mound 50×45 m), Adam's Mound, Randell Mound, Low Mound…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ghirza Romano-Libyan Tomb South A
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ghirza Romano-Libyan Tomb South A in Misrata, Ghirza, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Çadır Höyük (Sorgun)
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA II-III, Hittite, Phrygian, Byzantine · Central Anatolian; Late Chalcolithic, EBA, Hittite Empire, Phrygia
Pleiades Bronze-Iron Age plateau tell (240×140 m) with Chalcolithic to Hittite-Phrygian stratigraphy on Kanak Su, Yozgat — type-site for plateau continuity.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Fourknocks Passage Tomb
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Meath passage tomb with wide cruciform chamber, timber-roofed instead of cairn, and profuse engraved art including anthropomorphs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Carn Brea Inner Rampart
Iron Age (600–100 BCE) · Iron Age
Carn Brea Inner Rampart in Cornwall, Carn Brea, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (600–100 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Anyang Yin Xu Fu Hao Tomb North Niche
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Anyang Yin Xu Fu Hao Tomb North Niche in Henan, Anyang, China is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.