🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Ife Glass Furnace Site
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Ife Glass Furnace Site in Serengeti, Tanzania is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Tigisis (Aïn el-Bordj)
Roman to Byzantine (1st–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian (Donatist/Catholic)
Episcopal twin-church city in Souk Ahras hills with schism basilicas.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sullecthum (Salakta)
Punic to Late Antique (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–4th c. CE) · Punic / Roman (Byzacena)
Punic-Roman harbour colonia on Salakta peninsula with catacombs and oil port.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Aksum Stela Park East
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Aksum Stela Park East in Tigray, Ethiopia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall — North Coast (Trujillo)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in North Coast, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Ctesiphon (Taq Kasra)
Parthian to Early Islamic (c.120 BCE–800 CE; Sassanian vault 540 CE under Khosrow I) · Parthian / Sassanian (Persian) / Byzantine influence
Sassanian imperial capital complex (224–651 CE) on Tigris, Ctesiphon comprised Seleucia-Tisfun-Mahouza conurbation.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Haftavan Tepe
Kura-Araxes to Iron III (c.3000–600 BCE) · Kura-Araxes → Urmia ware → Urartian
30-m high mound near Khoy: massive Kura-Araxes burnished black-burnished, Urmia orange painted ware, Mitanni green-glazed cylinder seals, Urartian pillar hall, Sasanian church.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Uherské Hradiště–Sady Great Moravian Centre
Great Moravian (9th–early 10th century) · Great Moravian Slavic
Great Moravian church and settlement complex on Sady hill (210 m) above Morava — cruciform church with narthex (c.830), cemetery 86 graves with gold earrings, and adjoining settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Chandraketugarh
Early Historic 400 BCE–12th c · Gangetic NBPW → Sunga–Satavahana → Gupta–Pala
Chandraketugarh — Early Historic port-city of Gangaridai (400 BCE–12th c CE) on Bidyadhari 35 km NE Kolkata, excavated 1957–68 Asok Datta. Ptolemy's Gange candidate, Wari western partner.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Chogha Zanbil Drained? Actually Haft Tepe — Kabnak Elamite City
Middle Elamite (1500–1100 BCE) Kabnak · Elamite (Tepti-Ahar)
Chogha Zanbil Drained? Actually Haft Tepe — Kabnak Elamite City in Khuzestan Province, Iran is a Middle Elamite (1500–1100 BCE) Kabnak ancient-city attributed to Elamite (Tepti-Ahar).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Larsa
Early Dynastic to Old Babylonian · Sumerian/Amorite Larsa dynasty
Sumerian city-state that dominated southern Mesopotamia under King Rim-Sin (1822–1763 BCE) controlling 10–15 cities before Hammurapi annexed it, making Babylon supreme.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Nalanda Mahavihara
Gupta to Pala 427–1193 CE (peak 5th–12th c) · Bihar / Gupta-Pala Buddhist Mahayana
Iconic Buddhist residential university (5th–13th c CE) with Gupta to Pala brick viharas, stupas, chaityas and votive structures across 23 ha.
🇨🇱 Chile · Ancient city
Caracol Causeway Terminus — Atacama (Copiapo)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Caracol Causeway Terminus in Atacama, Chile is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Terrace Fill East
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Terrace Fill East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Workshop Debris East — Jordan Valley (Amman)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Workshop Debris East in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Gonur Tepe
BMAC / Oxus Civilization 2500–1500 BCE (peak 2300–1700 BCE) · Bactria-Margiana / Oxus / Indo-Iranian
Fortified Bronze Age capital (2500–1500 BCE) of Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC, Oxus Civilization) in Murghab delta, discovered by Viktor Sarianidi 1972.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Susa — Ville Royale East Platform Extension
Elamite to Achaemenid (2700 BCE–330 CE) · Elamite / Achaemenid Susa
Susa — Ville Royale East Platform Extension in Khuzestan Province, Iran is a Elamite to Achaemenid (2700 BCE–330 CE) ancient-city attributed to Elamite / Achaemenid Susa.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
São Raimundo Rock Art
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
São Raimundo Rock Art in Pampas, Argentina is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Well Shaft Fill East
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Well Shaft Fill East in Dnieper, Ukraine is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Bad-tibira
Ubaid to Ur III (c.5000–2000 BCE; Sumerian King List antediluvian) · Ubaid → Uruk → Sumerian antediluvian → Ur III
Bad-tibira (Tell al-Madineh) is counted in Sumerian King List as the second antediluvian city (before Shuruppak), ruled by mythical Dumuzi. Surface 50-ha mound...
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Wassu Quarry Outlier — Fezzan (Sebha)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Wassu Quarry Outlier in Fezzan, Libya is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Amara West — Ramesside New Town
New Kingdom Ramesside (1300–1070 BCE) · Egyptian (Ramesses II / Seti I)
Amara West — Ramesside New Town in Northern State, Sudan is a New Kingdom Ramesside (1300–1070 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Egyptian (Ramesses II / Seti I).
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Edfu Pyramid South — Khuzestan — edfu-pyramid
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Edfu Pyramid South in Khuzestan, Iran is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Kaminaljuyu
Classic · Maya/Andean
Kaminaljuyu — 200 mounds under Guatemala City.