🇰🇪 Kenya · Temple complex
Rhapta Submerged Harbour — Rift Valley (Nairobi)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Rhapta Submerged Harbour in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork
Meroe Northern Cemetery Pyramid — Rift Valley (Nairobi)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Meroe Northern Cemetery Pyramid in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) earthwork attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Wadi Arabah Desert Kite Cluster (Arava Rift Valley)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze I · Arava Chalcolithic–EB pastoral-miners
Rift-floor kite cluster 18 m asl in the Arava north of Eilat: 11 V-shaped Negev-type traps.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Megalith
Namoratunga II — North Pillar Alignment (Turkana)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Namoratunga II — North Pillar Alignment (Turkana) in Rift Valley, Turkana, Namoratunga, Kenya is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megal…
🇰🇪 Kenya · Temple complex
Tichitt Settlement Cluster
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Tichitt Settlement Cluster in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Medieval culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork
Naqa Lion Temple Outlier
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Naqa Lion Temple Outlier in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Hyrax Hill
Pastoral Neolithic to Sirikwa Iron Age (1500 BCE–1900 CE) · Pastoral Neolithic (Elmenteitan) → Sirikwa Iron Age pastoralists
Leakey's Nakuru type-site Hyrax Hill with Sirikwa holes and Neolithic pit-houses.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Megalith
Hyrax Hill (Nakuru) – Pastoral Neolithic Necropolis
Pastoral Neolithic / Sirikwa · Elmenteitan / Sirikwa
Pastoral Neolithic–Sirikwa mound (1500 BCE to 1500 CE) atop tukana hill: stone-walled enclosures, 30-cairn necropolis with Elmenteitan obsidian blades, 20 crouched burials and Nderit ceramics.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Olorgesailie – Acheulean Handaxe Factory (1.2 Ma)
Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean · Homo erectus / early Homo
Open-air Acheulean handaxe factory of Homo erectus (1200–400 ka) with in-situ butchery of extinct giant baboon and hippo, with volcanic stratigraphy teaching hominin handaxe evolution from…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art
Côa Valley Rock Art
Upper Paleolithic to Iron Age (~25,000 BCE – 1000 BCE; main 20,000–10,000 BCE) · Solutrean/Magdalenian to Atlantic Iron Age
Largest open-air Paleolithic art complex known, spread over 17 km of the Côa tributary with over 1,000 engraved schist panels bearing thousands of zoomorphs.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth)
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Nimrin (Tell esh-Shuna North vicinity)
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Nimrin (Tell esh-Shuna North vicinity) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Munhata
Yarmukian to Ghassulian (c.6400–3500 BCE) · Yarmukian → Wadi Raba → Ghassulian Chalcolithic
Stratified Neolithic–Chalcolithic mound (5 m high) in the central Jordan Valley, excavated by Jean Perrot. Yarmukian Pot...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu Suwan
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu Suwan — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Mafraq Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell Abu al-Kharaz
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu al-Kharaz — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell el-Hayyat
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell el-Hayyat — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Apamea
Seleucid to Byzantine Crusader · Seleucid → Roman → Byzantine
Seleucid garrison city and military elephant depot (Seleucus' 500 Indian elephants), later Roman Apamea with the grandest colonnaded cardo in the East — 1,850 m long, 37 m wide, 1,200 columns with…