🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Mogador Island Purple Dye Workshop
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mogador Island Purple Dye Workshop in Marrakech-Safi, Essaouira, Morocco is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, ~2645 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished layer pyramid of Khaba at Zawiyet el-Aryan (c.2645 BCE), 84 m base, accretion-layer technique.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mogador Island Purple Dye Workshop in Marrakech-Safi, Essaouira, Morocco is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) · South Arabian
Najran Al-Ukhdood Northern Enclosure in Najran, Najran, Saudi Arabia is a Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) ancient city attributed to South Arabian.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Petra Qasr al-Bint Temple Adyton in Ma'an, Petra, Jordan is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Narhan Chalcolithic (2000–700) → NBPW–Mauryan → Buddhist Pala 200 BCE–1200 CE · Middle Ganga Chalcolithic → Buddhist Magadha (Mauryan–Pala)
Multi-period village-to-monastery mound (c.2000 BCE–1200 CE) at Taradih, 3 km south of Mahabodhi Bodh Gaya — excavated 1981–84 by R.D.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tell Mozan Buried Palace Tupkish South Wing in Al-Hasakah, Tell Mozan, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) · Hissar Culture
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West in Semnan, Damghan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) tell attributed to Hissar Culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Early Mississippian (Stirling antecedent) · Cahokia Mississippian with Oneota interaction
Northernmost Cahokia-affiliated platform mounds (1050–1100 CE) on Mississippi bluffs — 500-km colony.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Tiwanaku (Alto Ramírez III) · Alto Ramírez–Pukara caravan
Summit pampa geoglyphs 5 km east of Lluta: 22 horizontal geometric avenues on drainage divide.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic · Carian, Chrysaoric League
450-m Mazınkale Artemis mountain sanctuary with 200+ votives and Chrysaoric League epigraphy wall, 3rd BCE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Anta da Alcoverias North Chamber in Alentejo, Evora, Portugal is a Middle Neolithic (3800-3200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iberian Neolithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
British-Egyptian Modern with Pharaonic quarry context · British-Egyptian engineers (Willcocks, Benetti) on Pharaonic Nile
South spillway 350 m south of Aswan Low Dam with 58 buttress sluices on granite outcrop.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Dandara Temple of Hathor Crypt 5 in Qena, Dandara, Egypt is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Dolmen de Lamalou Grandmont II in Occitanie, Herault, France is a Late Neolithic (3500-2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dur-Katlimmu Red House Archive Room in Al-Hasakah, Tell Sheikh Hamad, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (c.300 BCE–1518 CE) Cozumel Maya – Spanish contact · Maya (Coastal East Coast)
El Cedral is Cozumel island's oldest pueblo (Preclassic village Oycib) 17 km south of San Miguel, Quintana Roo, at 10 m.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Eridu Ziggurat Ubaid Platform Terrace in Dhi Qar, Eridu, Iraq is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze through Iron Age · Hattian/EBA → Assyrian Colony → Hittite → Phrygian
Eskiyapar Höyük (Eskiyapar / Alaca Ridge) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Alaca District, Alaca plain, Turkey — Karum-period trade town and Hittite road station linking…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Turk Shahi 699–752 CE → Umayyad–Ghaznavid 752 CE–1000 · Late Gandharan–Turk Shahi Buddhist (Kabul school post-Gandhara)
Ghorband conical-hill fortress monastery (699–752 CE) — earliest Turk Shahi polychrome stucco linking Bamyan to Kashmir after Arabs.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Pala Period (750–1161 CE) · Pala Buddhist (Mahayana/Vajrayana)
9th-c Pala cruciform brick vihara 70×70 m with 33 cells, Somapura-type, on Barind Tract near Paharpur.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Medieval (800-1500 CE) · Harla
Harla Necropolis Cairn Field East Sector — Southern Extension in Harari, Harar, Ethiopia is a Medieval (800-1500 CE) tumulus attributed to Harla.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic–EBA
Hatra Buried Allat Temple Fornix 7 in Nineveh, Hatra, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (4500–2000 BCE) tell attributed to Chalcolithic–EBA.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Hemudu Rice Field Wooden Piles in Zhejiang, Yuyao, China is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Karnak Temple of Mut South Axis in Luxor, Karnak, Egypt is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
