🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Kültepe Karum Ib Lower Level
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kültepe Karum Ib Lower Level in Kayseri, Kültepe, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Ter
Maurya 300–187 BCE → Satavahana 187 BCE–230 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Satavahana (Periplus Tagara)
Periplus Tagara emporium (300 BCE–400 CE) on Terna — 50+ Roman amphorae and Ter ivory lady with Roman hair, 40 ha rampart.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Tikal Mundo Perdido Pyramid 5D-87 (Lost World)
Preclassic to Early Classic (Mundo Perdido phase) · Maya (Preclassic Tikal)
Tikal’s earliest pyramid — Mundo Perdido 5D-87 — 30 m Preclassic E-Group astronomical pyramid 67 m base c.100 BCE, ancestor to Tikal’s dynastic pyramids.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hydraulic works
Anapji Pond (Wolji)
Unified Silla 668–935 CE (Munmu–Gyeongdeok) · Unified Silla palace (Gyeongju Wolseong garden)
Anapji (Wolji) — Silla palace garden pond (674 CE) 500 m SE Wolseong palace, Gyeongju, excavated 1974–76 CHA (Gyeongju Institute).
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Essouk-Tadmekka Islamic Quarter House 7
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Essouk-Tadmekka Islamic Quarter House 7 in Gao, Essouk, Mali is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Meropis – Theopompus' Parody Atlantis in the Atlantic
Classical literature (350 BCE Theopompus – quoted 2nd c. CE Aelian) · Chian Greek paradoxography
Theopompus 350 BCE satirical Atlantic island with two million-man cities — direct parody of Plato's Atlantis two generations later.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5 in Kirkuk, Yorghan Tepe, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Sechin Bajo Plaza Circular
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sechin Bajo Plaza Circular in Ancash, Sechín Bajo, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Atij (Tell ʿAtiq, Atij)
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze II (3400–2600 BCE; Ninevite 5) · North Mesopotamian Ninevite 5 (Khabur) → EJ 2
Khabur granary acropolis with 200+ beehive silos — Early Bronze dry-farming surplus hub.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis in Oaxaca, Yagul, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Amastris (Amasra) – Submerged Double Harbour Moles of Sesamos
Archaic to Genoese (c. 600 BCE – 1460 CE) · Paphlagonian / Persian / Hellenistic (Amastris) / Roman / Byzantine / Genoese
Queen Amastris's twin-bay double harbour – western mole 80 m at –2.5 m and eastern mole 60 m at –3 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Magnesia on the Maeander — Temple of Artemis Leukophryene
Archaic to Byzantine (1100 BCE – 600 CE) · Aeolian/Ionian Greek and Roman (Pergamene)
Hermogenes' pseudodipteral Artemis temple 150 BCE — Vitruvian beautiful after Ephesus.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Cancuen
Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) · Maya (Cancuen – Pasión port)
Cancuen in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala is a Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) ancient city attributed to Maya (Cancuen – Pasión port) culture.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway Step 33
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway Step 33 in Copán, Honduras is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Dholavira Citadel North Gate
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dholavira Citadel North Gate in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Harunotsuji (Iki)
Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Ikikoku under Wei Zhi Wa federation) · Yayoi Iki–Tsushima maritime (Wa – Wei Himiko federation)
Wei Zhi Ikikoku maritime capital (300 BCE–300 CE) at Harunotsuji Iki — 100 ha with 2 km moat, 47 Han mirrors and plaza warehouse.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Karanis — Lake Moeris Harbour Pier (Kom Aushim)
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (c.260 BCE – 450 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian
Peak Fayum metropolis on Lake Moeris — harbour pier and quay 1–3 m under lake-edge reeds, papyrus capital of Arsine.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Koroni (Pteleos) – Thessalian Harbour Submerged in Pteleatic Gulf
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 600 – 200 BCE) · Thessalian / Boeotian / Athenian / Hellenistic
Thessalian Pteleatic harbour – 35 m Classical mole at –2 m off Koroni cape.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Qumran Cave 4 Scriptorium Bench
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Qumran Cave 4 Scriptorium Bench in Jericho, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Talagunda
Kadamba (345–540 CE) with Shatavahana precursor · Kadamba (Karnataka early historic)
455 CE Sanskrit pillar—longest early Karnataka (16 lines, Mayurasharma vita)—with 2-ha Kadamba hillock settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Thmuis (Tell el-Timai) – Submerged Mendesian Canal Port
Late Dynastic to Arab (c. 600 BCE – 640 CE) · Egyptian / Persian / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Mendesian Nile canal port – quay 120 m and grain horrea at –0.5 m on migrated Mendesian branch.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Aigosthena – Fortified Harbour of Megaris, Porto Germeno
Classical to Medieval (370 BCE – 1500 CE) · Megarian / Boeotian / Hellenistic
Megarian border fort — 18 m SE tower with original roof above 60 m mole at −2 m guarding Kithairon pass.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Apollonia–Arsuf – Crusader Harbour Submerged Quays
Persian to Crusader (c. 530 BCE – 1265 CE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader
Clifftop Crusader port whose Roman quay and kurkar mole now lie 1–3 m down along Apollonia cliffs.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Ebla Palace G West Wing
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ebla Palace G West Wing in Idlib, Tell Mardikh, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.