🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Petra Siq Treasury Forecourt Cistern
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Petra Siq Treasury Forecourt Cistern in Ma'an, Petra, Jordan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Pikimachay Cave (Pikimachay Ayacucho)
Pleistocene? contested 20,000 BP + secure Early Holocene 9,000 BCE – Formative 1800 BCE · Pacaicasa – Ayacucho Preceramic → Wari?
Deep limestone cave 30 m entrance, 13 m depth in Ayacucho basin: stratified sequence spanning Pleistocene to Formative with contested earliest layers (Pikimachay phase 20,000–12,000 BP lithic…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Polyanitsa Platoto
Late Chalcolithic (c.4500–4200 BCE); KGK VI complex (Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI) · KGK VI Chalcolithic (Balkan Late Copper Age) Ludogorie facies
Ludogorie Chalcolithic fortified tell (c.4500–4200 BCE) with KGK VI burnt horizons and double ditch — Todorova.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Sabratha Theatre Pulpitum Frieze
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sabratha Theatre Pulpitum Frieze in Zawiya, Sabratha, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Takht-i-Bahi Pyramidal Monastery — Mardan
Early Historic to Early Medieval (100 BCE–700 CE, Kushan–Gandhara) · Buddhist Gandhara (Kushan, Indo-Parthian, Huna)
Takht-i-Bahi Pyramidal Monastery — Mardan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mardan District, Takht-i-Bahi hill spur, Pakistan is a Early Historic to Early Medieval (100 BCE–700 CE, Kushan–Gandhara)…
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Tocra (Taucheira) – Cyrenaican Submerged Port
Archaic Greek to Fatimid (620 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Greek Cyrenean / Roman / Byzantine
Cyrenaican grain port founded 620 BCE — ashlar quay and slipways now reef-submerged with Justinian fortress above.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Barnhouse Stone Age Village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Birka
Viking Age Scandinavian 750–975 (8th–10th c) · Scandinavian Viking Age (Svear) — Svear–Gotlandic emporium
Birka (Björkö) — Scandinavian Viking Age emporium (c.750–975 CE) on Björkö island in Lake Mälaren, 30 km west Stockholm, Sweden's oldest town and UNESCO 555 (with Hovgården Adelsö estate).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Boncuklu Höyük House 15 Terrazzo
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Boncuklu Höyük House 15 Terrazzo in Konya, Boncuklu, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇬🇧 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.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen de Kercado
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Tumulus culture)
Tumulus-capped passage grave (6.5 m passage) on Kercado ridge with hafted axe carving — Carnac tumulus evolution exemplar.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Garama Central Garamantian Qasr 1
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Garama Central Garamantian Qasr 1 in Fezzan, Garama, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Karkamış (Carchemish)
Early Bronze Age through Iron Age II (c.3000–717 BCE); Neolithic substratum · EBA–MBA Euphrates town → Hittite viceroyalty → Neo-Hittite Luwian-Aramaean
80 ha Euphrates tell — Hittite viceregal capital and Neo-Hittite sculpture city on Turkish-Syrian border (c.3000–717 BCE).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tumulus
Meroe North Pyramid N19 Chapel
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Meroe North Pyramid N19 Chapel in River Nile, Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Nok Village Taruga Terrace Furnace 5
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nok Village Taruga Terrace Furnace 5 in Kaduna, Nok, Nigeria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Ovcharovo Tell
Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) · Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE)
Ovcharovo Tell in Targovishte Province, Ovcharovo village, Bulgaria is a Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) settlement attributed to Late Neolithic → Eneolithic (5600–4500 BCE) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Pauni
Vidarbha Megalithic 1100–300 BCE → Maurya 300–187 → Sunga–Satavahana 187 BCE–250 CE → Vakataka 250–500 CE · Vidarbha Megalithic → Mauryan → Satavahana → Vakataka (Vidarbha Early Historic)
Vidarbha fortress-city Padmavati on Wainganga (1100 BCE–300 CE) — 4 km rampart with two Satavahana stupas (38 m) and megalithic-to-Mauryan continuity.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Pergamon Altar North Frieze Depot
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Pergamon Altar North Frieze Depot in Izmir, Bergama, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Segovia Roman Aqueduct
Roman Imperial (mid-1st to early 2nd c. CE) · Roman Hispania Tarraconensis (Segovia)
Augustan 28.5-m 167-arch granite aqueduct 20 km 30 L/s without mortar, UNESCO 311.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Sillustani Chullpa Lizard Carved
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sillustani Chullpa Lizard Carved in Puno, Sillustani, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Stryme – Thasian Harbour on the Thracian Coast, Abdera
Archaic to Classical (680–350 BCE) · Thasian Greek / Thracian
Thasian colony 7th c. BCE at Nestos mouth — twin 90 m moles at −4 m in lagoon disputed by Thasos and Maroneia (Herodotus).
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Tsagaan Salaa Southwest Baga Oigor
Middle Bronze to Orkhon Turkic · Andronovo, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Turkic
Southwest lower gorge with Bronze sun-heads to Turkic tamgas gateway.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient port
Tyre Al-Mina Harbour Mole South
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Tyre Al-Mina Harbour Mole South in South, Tyre, Lebanon is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) port attributed to Multi-period.
🇨🇳 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.