🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Hambledon Hill Causewayed Enclosure Dorset
Early Neolithic (3700–3400 BCE) · Early Neolithic
Dorset's flagship causewayed enclosure excavated by Mercer 1974–86, with human skull deposits and later Stepleton enclosure.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Kunal Mound — Haryana Saraswati
Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) · Early Harappan (Kunal–Hakra ware, pre-Kot Diji)
Kunal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Fatehabad District, Saraswati palaeochannel (Kunal), India is a Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Beydar Mound — Nagar Nasiriyah
Early Bronze Age, Early Dynastic III (2600–2350 BCE) · Early Dynastic Sumerian (Nabada, Khabur)
Tell Beydar Mound — Nagar Nasiriyah in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur (ancient Nabada), Syria is a Early Bronze Age, Early Dynastic III (2600–2350 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Early Dynastic…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Kot Diji Mound — Khairpur
Early Harappan (Kot Diji period, 3300–2600 BCE, type-site) · Early Harappan (Kot Dijian)
Kot Diji Mound — Khairpur in Sindh, Khairpur District, Rohri Hills foot, Pakistan is a Early Harappan (Kot Diji period, 3300–2600 BCE, type-site) pyramid/mound site attributed to Early Harappan (Kot…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Chuera — Steinbau Temple Terrace
Early Bronze Age (3000–2200 BCE) · Early Syrian (Kranzhügel)
Chuera excavated by Moortgat 1958–76 and Meyer, rare stone temple on tell, double wall with gates, early palace.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Zaculeu
Early Classic–Postclassic (Mam–K'iche') · Maya (Mam) with K'iche' overlay
Fortified hilltop white-plastered city on Selegua River terrace near Huehuetenango (400–1525 CE), with 43 structures: Pyramid Pyramid 7 ballcourt-pyramid 12 m, palace, and 1,000-m...
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Odzun Church — 6th Century Basilica Hall Vault
Early Medieval (Odzun St Astvatsatsin c. 6th–8th c. with 5th c. core; Catholicos Hovhannes Odzunetsi 717–728) · Early Armenian basilica hall church (Hall-type) with U-thin altar
Odzun church preserved 6th–8th, Hovhannes Odzunetsi catholicos 717 origin.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Mastara Church — Cross-Wing Central Square 5th Century
Early Christian (5th c. c. 640 Mastara St John, mixed 5th core) · Early Armenian central square cross-wing church (Mastara type prototype)
Mastara excavated by Sahinian, central cross 640 with Greek-Armenian inscription.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cemetery
Horoztepe
Early Bronze Age (c.2800–2300 BCE; cemetery c.2400 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian Early Bronze (Alacahöyük-Horoztepe horizon)
Extra-mural Early Bronze princely cemetery (2400 BCE) with Alaca-like bronzes at Erbaa.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Karataş-Semayük
Early Bronze Age I–II (c.3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Lycian (Elmalı-Karataş) → Southwest Anatolian
Lycia's largest EB village with 180 pithos jar cemetery (3000 BCE) at Elmalı.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortified city
Zinchecra — Garamantian Ridge Citadel above Germa
Garamantian Early (900–500 BCE pre-Garma) · Early Garamantian hillfort → Garamantian state origin
Zinchecra excavated by Mattingly 1990s, earliest Garamantian fort prior to valley Garama.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Daruk
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c.2800–500 BCE) · EB coastal → Middle Bronze Canaanite → Late Bronze Ugaritic → Iron
Secondary coastal tell (2800–500 BCE) on Jableh-Baniyas corridor south of Sianu.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Hizzin
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · EB Bekaa → Middle Bronze → Iron
Western Bekaa foothill agrarian mound (3000–600 BCE) with Iron deep silos near Zahle.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Qannas
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (c.3000–1500 BCE) · EB Euphrates urban → Middle Bronze Amorite
Euphrates terrace walled city (3000–1500 BCE) in Hadidi bend, now under Lake Assad.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Rehman Dheri Mound — Gomal Plain
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…
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Pavlopetri — Plato's Lost World Beach Platform Submerged City Bronze Age
Early to Late Bronze Age (3000 BCE early; city 2800 BCE; Mycenaean 1680 BCE flooded 1000 BCE earthquake) · Early Minoan to Mycenaean (Minoan harbour 2800 BCE, Mycenaean grid 1680 BCE Flemming)
Pavlopetri Flemming 1967 oldest (5000 yr), Henderson 2009 3-ha grid 3 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Tekor Basilica — Early 5th Century Triple Basilica Shirak
Early Christian (5th c. c.478–480 CE inscription Prince Sahak Kamsarakan) · Early Armenian (Kamsarakan princes, pre-Bagratid, Sassanian period Armenian Christianity)
Tekor excavated by Thierry 1970s, 5th-c Armenian inscription 478 authentic.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Artik — Pemzashen Church Surp Sargis Open Field
Early Medieval (5th–7th c. Surb Sargis 5th c. and Lmbatavank 7th) · Early Armenian field churches 7th c. basilica hall
Artik Lmbatavank 630 7th c. hall church 20 m with fresco copy.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Bestansur
Early Neolithic (c.8000–7100 BCE; Bestansur horizon) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic B → Pottery Neolithic Shahrizor
Shahrizor PPNB town (8000–7100 BCE) with courtyard houses and plaster floors SE of Sulaymaniyah.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Hesi — Petrie's Stratigraphic Tell
EB III to Arab (2600 BCE–1500 CE) · Early Bronze → Persian → Islamic layered
Shfela type-site excavated by Petrie 1890, Bliss 1891–93 and Fargo, first potsherd dating in Levant.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Ali Kosh
Early Neolithic (c.7500–6000 BCE; Ali Kosh sequence 7500–6000 BCE) · Bus Mordeh → Ali Kosh → Mohammed Jaffar (Deh Luran)
Deh Luran Neolithic eponym (7500–6000 BCE) defining Iran's Bus Mordeh–Ali Kosh sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ebla — Royal Palace G Archive West Wing
Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive · Early Syrian Eblaite
Mardikh excavated by Matthiae 1964–, 20,000 tablet fragments, bilingual Sumerian-Eblaite vocabularies and palace colonnade.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Ventarrón Archaeological Complex
Initial Period 2500–500 BCE · Early coastal Formative
Deer-net mural 2000 BCE, oldest in Americas.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Windmill Hill Causewayed Camp Wiltshire
Neolithic (3650–3000 BCE) · Early Neolithic / Peterborough
Avebury's northern causewayed camp excavated by Keiller 1925–29, 3650 BCE basal layer with Ebbsfleet ceramics.