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🇧🇷 Brazil · Lost city
Late Pre-Columbian (c.700 – 1600 CE) · Xinguano tradition (Kuikuro ancestors)
Upper Xingu plaza town 8 km east of classic Kuhikugu — ring ditch, 700 m causeway and terra preta, 14 ha, 900–1350 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Scientific 1864–1912 (Sclater), Tamil revival 1890s–1940s (Kandam literature) · Tamil Sangam myth + Victorian zoogeography
Tamil Lemuria south of Cape Comorin — Sclater's 1864 lemur bridge remade as 49-Sangam drowned continent.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Lepsius XXIV Pyramid Abusir South in Giza, Abusir, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nineveh Kuyunjik Palace Relief Panel 12 in Nineveh, Kuyunjik, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
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.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) · Early Harappan (Rehman Dheri culture, Kot Diji–Harappan)
Rehman Dheri Mound — Gomal Plain in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dera Ismail Khan, Gomal plain (Rehman Dheri), Pakistan is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3300–1900 BCE, Rehman Dheri I–III) pyramid/mound…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman to Early Islamic (Flavian to 7th c; peak 2nd–5th c) · Roman / Berber / Byzantine
Mid-steppe Roman-Byzantine city with triple Capitol temples, olive-press quarter and five Byzantine basilicas.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
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.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) · Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE)
Stubline in Belgrade District, Obrenovac, Kolubara Valley, Serbia is a Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) settlement attributed to Vinča C late Neolithic (5400–4700 BCE) culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, westernmost Indus outpost, 550 km west of Kot Bala) · Harappan (western coastal outpost)
Sutkagen Dor Mound — Makran in Balochistan, Gwadar District, Dasht plateau (westernmost Harappan settlement), Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, westernmost Indus outpost, 550 km west of…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE)
Tell Zaidan (Zaidan) in Ar-Raqqah Governorate, Balikh Valley, near Raqqa, Syria is a Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic (6000–3500 BCE) settlement attributed to Halaf → Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3500 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
Ruined 110 m long Cotswold-Severn chambered cairn on Cheshire border — four portal stones survive of vast ridge cairn.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Bronze Age 2000–900 BCE → Iron Age 900 BCE–200 CE · Ban Chiang — Khorat Bronze–Iron paddy culture (UNESCO 575)
Ban Chiang Udon Thani — Iron Age–Bronze Age paddy cemetery-mound (3000 BCE–200 CE, 6 ha) at Ban Chiang 50 km E Udon Thani on Khorat Plateau, UNESCO 575, excavated 1974–75 by C. Gorman–P.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to Sasanian · Achaemenid / Sasanian (with Roman prisoners)
390-m Karun diversion weir (5th c BCE /260 CE) — head of Shushtar mills system.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Benin City Earthwork Emotan Sector Moat Iya in Edo, Benin City, Nigeria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam (O'odham ancestral) Classic Period (Soho–Civano phases)
Casa Grande Hohokam South Compound is the Classic Period platform-mound village south of the Casa Grande Great House — the iconic 4-story caliche Great House (1350 CE) on the Gila River.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (6th c BCE–7th c CE; Roman peak 2nd c) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
10-ha causeway port with unique twin Antonine and Old Forums and Djerba lagoon mole.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Giza Queen's Pyramid G IIIa Substructure in Giza, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Göbekli Tepe Karahan Ridge Quarry in Şanlıurfa, Karahan, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇹 Malta · Rock-cut
Late Neolithic (3600-2500 BCE) · Temple Period
Hal Tarxien Hypogeum Extension North in Malta, Paola, Malta is a Late Neolithic (3600-2500 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Temple Period.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze III through Medieval (EBA, MBA, LBA Izziya, Iron Age, Classical, Byzantine) · Cilician coastal / Hittite (Izziya) → Syro-Cilician → Classical Greek/Roman
Coastal tell (Bronze Age Izziya, Classical Issos) — 5 kyr harbour sequence from EB III to Medieval, Alexander battlefield anchor.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Hakra/Kunal (5000–3300) → Early Harappan (3300–2600 BCE) · Kunal culture → Early Harappan (Hakra-Ghaggar)
Pre-Harappan Hakra-type village (c.5000–2600 BCE) on the Sarasvati paleochannel near Ratia — type-site for Kunal culture, cultural ancestor of Rehman Dheri. Excavated 1986–91 by J.S. Khatri & M.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 3rd–4th Dynasty transition (~2613 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished giant mudbrick pyramid at Abu Rawash (Lepsius I), c.2613 BCE?, 17 m stump, 150+ m base.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Maes Howe Peripheral Cairn in Orkney, Mainland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
