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🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to modern with Iron Age peak · Camunni (Rhaetic-adjacent Alpine) and predecessors
140,000 figures on 2,000 Alpine slabs—world's densest European rock art valley (UNESCO 1979 No.1 Italy).
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Djenné-Jeno Necropolis Central — Djenné-Jeno (57-03) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic 3500 BCE to Norse 1200 CE with broch Iron Age focus · Neolithic Grooved Ware to Iron Age broch to Norse
Stratified broch and settlement mound (3500 BCE - Norse) at Howe, Stromness, Orkney - 7-m type-section for Atlantic Iron Age.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Late Norse (2700 BCE–14th c CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age Pictish → Norse (Scalloway Jarlshof horizon)
4,000-yr Shetland settlement (2700 BCE–14th c) — 10-m broch with 4 wheelhouses overlain by Norse longhouses at Sumburgh.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to Byzantine (c.2400 BCE–600 CE; peak Iron II) · Eblaite → Amorite → Hittite/Mitanni → Neo-Hittite/Aramaean
Aramaean Hatarikka with alphabetic stele and Iron Age gate sphinxes atop 28 ha tell near Idlib.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Scandinavian Iron Age 100 BCE–1000 CE (Roman → Viking) · South Scandinavian Iron Age (Scania central place; proto-Danish)
Uppåkra — South Scandinavian Iron Age central place (c.100 BCE–1000 CE, 40 ha, 1,000-year continuity) 5 km south Lund, Scania's pre-urban precursor.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Northern Luxor Reservoir Central — Luxor, Thebes (53-26) at Luxor, Thebes, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) tell of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Angkor Sanctuary A — Angkor (60-17) at Angkor, Cambodia is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Chavín de Huántar Plaza South in Colorado Plateau, United States is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Jebel Barkal Pyramid North in Southern Alluvium, Iraq is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Iron Age (Late Iron Age, La Tène D, 148 BCE) · Irish Iron Age (La Tène, Uisnech kingship)
Iron Age 1-km oak causeway (148 BCE) — Keenagh's in situ twin to Corlea 1, part of 5-trackway Shannon bog field.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons
300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Nigerian Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · Nok
Waterlogged pit yielding 25 in-situ Nok heads 900 BCE–500 CE and early 550 BCE iron knives.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Iron Age I–II (1200–700 BCE; Phase II c.1000 BCE, Phase I c.800 BCE) · Central Zagros Iron Age (Luristan) → Median zone
Nurabad Iron Age pillared hall — 12-column prototype of Persian apadana.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chalcolithic through Iron III; EB-MBA peak · Syrian EBA → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Aramaean Luash
Idlib tell (26 ha) with Neolithic–Iron III sequence, MBA walls and Iron Temple of the Luash dynasty — findspot of Zakkur Stele, Hittite-period storage horizon.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Persian; LB-Iron cemetery peak · Canaanite → Egyptian residency (LB) → Philistine/Sea Peoples → Iron Ammonite
Jordan Valley cemetery tell — 500-grave LB–Iron cemetery with Egyptian anthropoid coffins, Philistine Bichrome and Jerusalem-frame burials, British Museum 1985–2013.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Old Alexandria Settlement I — Alexandria, Pharos (58-23) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) submerged city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇲🇹 Malta · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Outer Hypogeum Settlement Central — Hypogeum, Paola (59-16) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Saqqara Sanctuary South — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-13) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Delphi Settlement Central — Delphi (60-46) at Delphi, Greece is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Late Viking Age (with Iron Age grave field) · Late Viking Age Öland (Yngling / Danish sphere)
Öland's Öl 1 runestone (c.1000 CE) with full skaldic stanza standing among ship setting and mound — Viking megalithic transition.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient village
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Central Siem Reap Terrace A — Siem Reap (54-11) at Siem Reap, Cambodia is a Iron Age (regional) ancient village of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
New Hattusa Fortress Outer — Hattusa (60-23) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.
