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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Late Neolithic Wessex / Beaker
Iconic Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age henge and stone circle on Salisbury Plain. Concentric ditch, bank and settings of sarsen stones and smaller bluestones forming lintelled circle and inner…
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age, Karakol culture 2500-1800 BCE · Karakol culture (Altai Early Bronze)
Early Bronze stone-slab cist kurgans (2500-1800 BCE) at Karakol with tri-color polychrome slab paintings, pre-Pazyryk Altai.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Qatna Buried Royal Palace East Wing Hydraulic in Homs, Qatna, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Late Bronze Age (~1400–700 BCE) · Khirigsuur culture (Mongolian pastoralist)
Mounded circular stone platforms 2–20 m diameter surrounded by rectangular or polygonal enclosures with four cardinal knolls, often associated with deer stones and slab burials.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jericho Kenyon Trench Spiral Stair in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Early Bronze Age Únětice (1600–1550 BCE deposition) · Únětice (Unetice) Bronze Age chiefdom
1600 BCE hoard findspot of the Nebra Sky Disk—Bronze Age astronomic gold-leaf cosmogram.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age 3000 BCE–200 CE · Ban Chiang culture (Isan Neolithic–Bronze, Ban Kao related)
Neolithic–Iron Age moated village (c.3000 BCE–200 CE) at Ban Chiang, Isan, northeast Thailand — 30 ha UNESCO World Heritage (ID 359) excavated 1967–73 by Chester Gorman, Pisit Charoenwongsa and later…
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Namazga I–VI 4000–1800 BCE (Chalcolithic to Bronze Age) · Anau–Namazga oasis civilization (Pre-BMAC Kopet)
Bronze Age mega-tell and type-site for Namazga chronology (c.4000–1800 BCE) near the Tejen River fan 100 km east of Ashgabat — 50 ha tepe (largest in Turkmenistan) with 30 m stratigraphy (Namazga…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Late Bronze Age (14th c. BCE, c. 1320±15 BCE) · Canaanite/Cypriot/Mycenaean international (hull possibly Levantine)
1320 BCE merchantman off Grand Cape — 10 t copper, tin and exotic cargo revealing Bronze Age world-system.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jenne-Jeno City Wall Northwest Bastion in Mopti, Djenné, Mali is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Hattusa Temple Inner — Hattusa (60-47) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Bronze Age (regional) temple complex of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kaymaklı — Underground City Ancillary Church North (Cappadocia) in Nevşehir, Kaymaklı, Turkey is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attr…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Late Bronze Age 1380–550 BCE (OSL Brill 1995) · Late Bronze Age Britons, ritual landscape around Uffington Castle hillfort
110-m Bronze Age galloping horse on Downs - Britain's oldest hill figure 3000 years.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 902 BCE · Late Bronze Age Somerset Levels herders
Late Bronze Age hurdle trackway (902 BCE, 450 m) at Withy Bed Copse, Shapwick Heath — Late Bronze revival of Levels tradition.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Mongolian Bronze) · Mongolian Late Bronze pastoralists
80+ Late Bronze khirigsuurs (1400–800 BCE) on Arkhangai plateau — horse-skull cairn field at 1680 m.
🇹🇷 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.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Shu Late Bronze 1200–500 BCE · Shu–Sichuan Basin (successor to Sanxingdui)
Late Bronze Age ritual centre (1200–500 BCE) on Modi River at Chengdu, successor to Sanxingdui after its abrupt collapse c.1200 BCE, preserving elite sacrificial pits, gold foil sun-bird foil (now…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ephesus Terrace House 2 Hall of Muses in Izmir, Selçuk, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nimrud Fort Shalmaneser Magazine 45 in Nineveh, Nimrud, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ban Chiang Burial 127 Bronze Phase in Udon Thani, Thailand is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Phùng Nguyên (2000–1500) → Đồng Đậu (1500–1200) → Đông Sơn (800 BCE+) · Phùng Nguyên (Late Neolithic–Bronze, Austroasiatic Vietic)
Late Neolithic–Bronze Age type-site for Phùng Nguyên culture (c.2000–1500 BCE) in Phú Thọ on the Red River plain — 2 ha settlement with 5 m deposit, excavated 1968 by Hà Văn Tấn.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Western Baiae Citadel Outer — Baiae (58-24) at Baiae, Italy is a Bronze Age (regional) submerged city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Titriş Höyük — Lower Town North Gate (Şanlıurfa) in Şanlıurfa, Titriş Höyük, Turkey is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attributed to …
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.2500–2000 BCE) · Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic Peak District
2.2 m leaning gritstone monolith on Gardom's Edge — purported Neolithic seasonal sundial on Peak District scarp.
