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🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Late Bronze to Xiongnu Early Iron · Slab Grave / Xiongnu
30 Slab Grave to Xiongnu re-used kurgans (1300 BCE–150 CE) — Selenge River terrace with Han lacquer.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
MK through Roman; Saite-Persian peak · Middle Kingdom → Hyksos → Saite Necho II → Persian Achaemenid → Ptolemaic
Wadi Tumilat gateway tell — Middle Kingdom fort, Hyksos, Saite grain silos (600 m³) and Darius I canal station, biblical Pithom/Heroöpolis.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Classic to Epiclassic · Cantona culture (highland central Mexico)
High-altitude lava-block pyramid city at Cantona — 15 m acropolis pyramid at 2550 m c.600 CE with 24 ball courts and walled lava causeways.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Najd Late Neolithic
24 easternmost kites (6000–3500 BCE) on Qassim limestone scarp — sand-sea margin.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Middle to Final Bronze Age (c.1500–900 BCE) · Nuragic (Middle–Late Bronze)
Nuraghe Arrubiu (Middle–Final Bronze Age c.1500–900 BCE) on the basalt Pran'e Muru plateau near Orroli is Sardinia's largest nuraghe (3,000 sq m): a central keep 15 m high preserved plus five bastion…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Chorasmian (Khorezm) 4 c. BCE–8 c. CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) with Kangju–Kushan phases
Khorezmian hilltop fortress complex (c.4 c. BCE–7 c. CE) on the Kyzylkum edge near Ayazkol lake — three forts: Ayaz Kala 1 (4 c. BCE–2 c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
PPNA through PPNB and early Pottery Neolithic · PPNA/PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Euphrates-Tigris transitional)
Ilısu north-bank mega hamlet (10300–7200 BCE) with 20 m pillared communal building — T-pillar stelae and largest PPNA stone assemblage in Upper Tigris, Mardin salvage.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age Helmand–Jiroft horizon (c.3200–1800 BCE; variant 3200–2350 then eclipse) · Helmand/Sistan Bronze Age (Burnt City culture) — network with Shahr-i Sokhta, Mundigak, Indus
151 ha Burnt City between Sumer and Indus — animated goat bowl, artificial eye and 40,000 graves.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Han to Qing continuum (200 BCE–1900 CE) karez re-use · Gaochang / Uyghur oasis
Gorge-head karez at Shengjinkou Yardang Gorge mouth northwest Turpan Depression (−45 m, below sea level, unique globally).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Buried city
Phoenician to Arab (1101 BCE – 7th c. CE; Roman capital 146–46 BCE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Roman
1124 BCE Tyrian harbour older than Carthage — two cothons now 12 km inland under Medjerda alluvium, textbook delta progradation.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Late Neolithic (Wartberg c.3400–2800 BCE; Erdwerk c.3700 BCE) · Wartberg (with Michelsberg enclosure precursor)
Calden II is one of two Wartberg gallery graves (c.3400–3000 BCE) on the Calden plateau north of Kassel, a 10-m gallery chamber of limestone slabs within a 12 × 4 m mound, adjacent to the 7-hectare…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chacoan to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II to III) · Chaco Culture → Mesa Verde–San Juan (ancestral Pueblo)
Northern Chaco great-house outlier (c.1090–1280 CE) — 300-room 2-storey sandstone Chacoan great house built 1090 CE by Chaco Canyon elite as toll/ grain colony on San Juan, then reoccupied 1125–1280…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Intikancha (Quechua inti sun, kancha enclosure, enclosed place, yard, a frame, or wall that encloses, "sun yard", Hispanicized spelling Inticancha) is a mountain with an archaeological site of the…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Submerged site
Funan to Khmer (2nd c. BCE – 1200 CE) · Funan (Austroasiatic) / Indianized / Khmer
Funan moated canal port 3 km² – brick quay 100 m buried 2 m under Mekong delta paddy.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Mycenaean (c.4800–1200 BCE) · Thessalian Late Neolithic (Dimini) and Mycenaean Iolkos area
Dimini (Late Neolithic c.4800–4000 BCE, Early Helladic 2800–2000 BCE) 5 km northwest of Volos is a fortified hill settlement 0.8 ha with six concentric stone circuit walls 2–3 m thick enclosing a…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Early Kofun 250–300 CE (transition Yayoi→Kofun) · Yayoi–Early Kofun — Makimuku/Yamato nucleus (Kinai)
Makimuku Keyhole Kofun — Makimuku Kofun cluster's keyhole trio at Miyama foothills 3 km south Sakurai, earliest keyhole zenpo-koen (late 3rd c CE) defining Yamato Kofun genesis before Hashihaka…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Chalcolithic · Badia Neolithic playa-foragers
North Qa' al-Qattafi: 8 playa hardpan kites semicircular on 10 km² pan edge.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2900–1759 BCE) · Sumerian, Amorite
Legendary Euphrates emporium at Tell Hariri, 120 km south-east of Deir ez-Zor, capital of Amorite kingdom under Yahdun-Lim and Zimri-Lim, sacked by Hammurabi 1761 BCE, freezing palace archive of…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Isin-Larsa / Old Babylonian (2000–1760 BCE) · Amorite / Old Babylonian (Eshnunna kingdom)
Tell Harmal — Shaduppum Temple Mound in Baghdad eastern Diyala, Tell Harmal (ancient Shaduppum), Iraq is a Isin-Larsa / Old Babylonian (2000–1760 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Amorite / Old…
🇧🇸 Bahamas · Cave
Pseudoarchaeology 1933–74 claim (Cayce Atlanteans 10,000 BCE power crystal) · Cayce psychic – Zink psychic archaeology
Cayce 1933 'fire crystal at Bimini 15 ft' cavern claim — oval 3 m phreatic cave floor misread as crystal flash.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Late Uruk (LC5) southern colony · Uruk (southern Mesopotamian)
Uruk planned colonial city (c.3500–3300 BCE, LC5, contemporary with Jemdet Nasr south) on Euphrates terrace — mother colony that proved Uruk expansion: fully gridded 18-ha walled town built ex novo…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Neolithic through Persian–Hellenistic (c.5000 BCE–332 BCE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite, Iron I–II, Persian · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → LB Canaanite → Iron I Philistine/Judahite → Persian province
1890 stratigraphic excavation origin — 12-m Petrie tell with EBA–Persian sequence (Neolithic–Iron) founding ceramic seriation.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Earthwork
Viking Age to Middle Ages (800–1255 CE) · Latgallian / Semigallian → Livonian Order
Aizkraukle Hillfort on the Daugava in Vidzeme, Aizkraukle Municipality, Daugava right bank, Latvia is a Viking Age to Middle Ages (800–1255 CE) Latgallian / Semigallian → Livonian Order site built…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Initial Period to Early Horizon (1200–400 BCE) · Marañón–Kotosh tradition / early Chavín sphere
Isolated hill-top mound on continental divide crest above Upper Marañón near Singa, Huánuco, forming Marañón basin response to Kotosh tradition contemporaneous with Kotosh–Huaricoto development 50 km…
