🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bonampak Mural Room 1 South Wall
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Bonampak Mural Room 1 South Wall in Chiapas, Bonampak, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Buyeo Neungsan-ri Tomb Cluster 3
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Buyeo Neungsan-ri Tomb Cluster 3 in Chungnam, Buyeo, South Korea is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Hwangnam Daechong (Twin Tombs)
Three Kingdoms Silla 4th–6th c CE → Unified Silla · Silla Three Kingdoms (Gyeongju Hwangnam)
Hwangnam Daechong — largest Silla royal twin mound tomb (5th–6th c CE, Silla middle period) 800 m south Wolseong palace, Gyeongju Tumuli Park, excavated 1973–75 Cultural Heritage Administration…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Hydraulic works
Khettaras of Figuig Oasis (Figuig Khettara Network)
Almoravid to Marinid (11th–14th c.) · Zenaga Berber oasis (Figuig ksour)
Figuig oasis: 14 khettaras 28 km Atlas piedmont irrigating 650 ha seven-ksar border oasis 32.12N 1.23W.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat-e Zarch North Extension (Yazd Zarch Qanat Northern Arm)
Achaemenid core 500 BCE to Sasanian 450 CE (extension) to present · Yazdi Zarch piedmont oasis (Kavir piedmont)
North Zarch extension 8.2 km with 88 shafts mother 34 m, 6 badgir towers 18 L/s: Sasanian 450 CE graft onto 500 BCE core.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Sidon College Site Middle Bronze Glacis
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sidon College Site Middle Bronze Glacis in South, Sidon, Lebanon is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Sybaris — Trapezoid Trench Buried Second City (Sybaris–Thurii–Copia)
Archaic to Roman (720 BCE – 300 CE) · Achaean Greek / Thurian / Roman
Achaean Sybaris underneath 6 m Crati alluvium — western trapezoid buried port quay and archaic stoa, 3 cities stacked.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Tayasal (Nojpetén) – Last Maya Kingdom
Postclassic to Contact (900–1697 CE, capital 1350–1697) · Maya Itzá (Yukatekan-Itza’)
Last independent Maya kingdom (Nojpetén) of the Itzá, final surrender to Spanish 1697 after 195 years resisting conquest: peninsula-town on Lake Petén Itzá's northern arm 300 m out, with causewayed…
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Tichitt Stone Village Sector W13
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tichitt Stone Village Sector W13 in Tagant, Tichitt, Mauritania is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Tiwanaku Puma Punku Platform H
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tiwanaku Puma Punku Platform H in La Paz, Puma Punku, Bolivia is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Türbe Höyük
Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA/Uruk (5900–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk (North Mesopotamian painted then Uruk expansion)
Halaf-Ubaid (5900–4800 BCE) Uruk-contact village — 4 ha buried Euphrates village, Birecik Dam salvage type-site.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Wadi Faynan Copper Smelting Site 15
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Wadi Faynan Copper Smelting Site 15 in Tafilah, Faynan, Jordan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Aşıklı Höyük Deep Freshwater Well
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Aşıklı Höyük Deep Freshwater Well in Aksaray, Gülağaç, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇿 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…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Huaishan Central Helan Rock Art
Early Bronze to Western Xia (Tangut) · Zhukaigou, Ordos, Han, Western Xia (Tangut)
Zhongwei Huaishan central terrace with naturalistic ibex and Western Xia inscriptions.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Hârşova Tell
Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE)
Hârşova Tell in Constanța County, Danube, Hârșova town, Romania is a Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Boian → Hamangia → Gumelniţa (5500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tumulus
Igbo-Ukwu Bronzemound Workshop Floor
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Igbo-Ukwu Bronzemound Workshop Floor in Anambra, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Kuelap South Citadel Wall Bastion
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kuelap South Citadel Wall Bastion in Amazonas, Kuelap, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Little Petra Beidha Neolithic House 22
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Little Petra Beidha Neolithic House 22 in Ma'an, Beidha, Jordan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Newspaper Rock Petroglyphs
Basketmaker to Historic Ute (500 BCE – 1850 CE) · Basketmaker-Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo), Fremont, Navajo, Ute
Utah Wingate cliff 650 figures 500 BCE–19th c. palimpsest from Basketmaker to Ute.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Sardis Lydian Fortification North Gate
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sardis Lydian Fortification North Gate in Manisa, Sart, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell es-Sweyhat (Tell Sweyhat, ancient Burmarina?)
Early to Middle Bronze (3100–1600 BCE; peak EBA III 2500–2200 BCE) · Middle Euphrates Early Bronze (EJ) → Middle Bronze Amorite
Sweyhat embayment EBA city with 180-grave shaft cemetery and donkey sacrifices before Lake Assad.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tlatelolco
Late Postclassic Aztec (1337 – 1521 CE) · Tlatelolca / Mexica
Tlatelolco in Mexico City, Mexico is a Late Postclassic Aztec (1337 – 1521 CE) ancient city attributed to Tlatelolca / Mexica culture. Tlatelolco market described by Díaz: 60,000 daily, tribute.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ugarit Royal Palace North Court
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ugarit Royal Palace North Court in Latakia, Ras Shamra, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.