🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Tyritake — North Quay Submerged Harbour (Kerch Bay Tyritake North)
Archaic to Late Antique (570 BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan
North wine quay of Tyritake on Kerch Bay — 60 m quay at –1.5 m and vat terrace.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Volubilis House of Orpheus Mosaic Hall
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Volubilis House of Orpheus Mosaic Hall in Fès-Meknès, Volubilis, Morocco is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Bhirrana
Hakra Wares (7500–6000 BCE) → Early Harappan (3300–2600) → Mature Harappan (2600–1900) · Hakra / Early Harappan / Indus Valley
Earliest known Harappan settlement (c.7500–2600 BCE) on the Ghaggar-Hakra (Sarasvati) paleochannel in Fatehabad, Haryana — 3.5 ha mound with 8 m cultural deposit spanning Hakra Wares (Period IA)…
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Great Zimbabwe Hill Complex Terrace Annex South
Medieval (1100-1500 CE) · Zimbabwe Culture
Great Zimbabwe Hill Complex Terrace Annex South in Masvingo, Zimbabwe is a Medieval (1100-1500 CE) ancient city attributed to Zimbabwe Culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Nabta Playa Stone Complex Alignment 7
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nabta Playa Stone Complex Alignment 7 in New Valley, Nabta Playa, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Phu Tho Phung Nguyen
Phùng Nguyên Early Bronze 2000–1500 BCE → Đồng Đậu 1500–1200 → Gò Mun 1200–700 → Dong Son 800 BCE · Phùng Nguyên (Vietnam Early Bronze, Red River low terrace)
First Vietnam bronze hillocks (2000–1500 BCE) at Phùng Nguyên Phú Thọ — Phùng Nguyên culture type-site with socketed bronze axes and jade bracelet.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Chuera Buried Palace F Courtyard
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tell Chuera Buried Palace F Courtyard in Al-Hasakah, Tell Chuera, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Ribe Viking Market — Jutland
Viking Age (Early, c.710–850 CE core; medieval to 1700) · Danish Viking (Merovingian–Carolingian contact)
Ribe, founded c.710 CE on a terp above the Ribe Å wadden marsh, is Denmark's oldest town, a 13-hectare planned market grid of north–south plots along the river where artisans produced glass beads,…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Dura-Europos Synagogue Bench Inscription
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dura-Europos Synagogue Bench Inscription in Deir ez-Zor, Dura, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Bishapur — Sassanid City and Anahita Temple
Sassanian Early (Shapur I–II, 241–379 CE) · Sassanian Persian with Roman–Palmyrene craftsmen (prisoners)
Shapur I 260 CE grid city by Roman POWs after Valerian capture — Anahita water temple, mosaics, Chogan gorge 6 reliefs.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city
Heuneburg Hillfort — Herbertingen-Hundersingen
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt D, c.620–500 BCE) · Early Celtic (Hallstatt west, Hunsrück? Hallstatt princely)
The Heuneburg (Hallstatt D1, c.600–540 BCE) is Central Europe's earliest princely seat (Fürstensitz) on a 3-hectare plateau 40 m above the Danube near Hundersingen, famed for its Mediterranean-style…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Tell Atchana Palace IV Buried Archive Room
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tell Atchana Palace IV Buried Archive Room in Hatay, Tell Atchana, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Xochicalco Observatory Cave Zenith Tube
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Xochicalco Observatory Cave Zenith Tube in Morelos, Xochicalco, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Akrotiri West House Annex Theran
Late Minoan (1700-1500 BCE) · Minoan
Akrotiri West House Annex Theran in Cyclades, Santorini, Greece is a Late Minoan (1700-1500 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Banavasi
Satavahana to Kadamba–Chalukya (100 BCE–1400 CE) · Satavahana to Kadamba (Karnataka early historic)
Kadamba capital (345 CE)—100 ha Varada bend with 4-km rampart, oldest Karnataka city, 1st–14th c continuous.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Copán
Classic 426–822 CE (dynastic Copán, peak 695–820) · Maya (southeast Petén sphere, Copán kingdom, non-Maya frontier)
Premier Classic southeastern Maya capital and sculpture capital: Acropolis with 4,500 glyph Hierarchical Stairway (longest Classic Maya text – 72 steps, 2,200 glyphs recording 14 kings), Rosalila…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Karahan Tepe T-Pillar Structure AD
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Karahan Tepe T-Pillar Structure AD in Şanlıurfa, Karahantepe, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ayn Sukhna — Galala Harbour at Wadi al-Jarf North Anchorage (Pharaonic)
Old Kingdom to New Kingdom (2600 – 1200 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Northern Galala pharaonic anchorage of Ayn Sukhna — sandstone quay at –1.5 m and 100 m slipway for Sneferu Sinai fleet.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ayn Sukhna — Galala Harbour at Wadi al-Jarf North Anchorage (Pharaonic) — v2
Old Kingdom to New Kingdom (2600 – 1200 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Northern Galala pharaonic anchorage of Ayn Sukhna — sandstone quay at –1.5 m and 100 m slipway for Sneferu Sinai fleet.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Göbekli Tepe Enclosure H Lion Pillars
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Göbekli Tepe Enclosure H Lion Pillars in Şanlıurfa, Örencik, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Khorsabad Buried Sargon Palace Court VIII
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Khorsabad Buried Sargon Palace Court VIII in Nineveh, Khorsabad, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Grave 14
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Grave 14 in Limpopo, Mapungubwe, South Africa is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Rehman Dheri (Rahman Dheri)
Kunal–Kot Diji–Early Harappan 4000–2900 BCE · Kot Diji / Kunal-related Early Harappan (Gomal culture)
Early Harappan planned city (c.4000–2900 BCE) on the Gomal Plain near Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — 22 ha rectangular walled town (550×350 m) with grid street plan, mudbrick fortification…
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Shechem (Tell Balata) – Canaanite Harbour of the Pass of Shechem
Early Bronze to Iron Age (c. 3500 – 722 BCE) · Canaanite / Hyksos / Israelite–Canaanite / Assyrian
Mountain pass caravan port between Ebal and Gerizim – caravan quay platform 40×20 m and fortress temple.