🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Umm Dabaghiyah
Pottery Neolithic (c.6000–5800 BCE; single horizon) · Hassuna-related onager-hunting specialized
Onager-hunting camp (6000 BCE) with painted hunt murals and 4,000 onager bones on Hatra steppe.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Necropolis
Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis — West Industrial Zone
Late Chalcolithic (Varna Culture) · Varna Culture (Gumelnița-Karanovo)
Chalcolithic cemetery in western Varna industrial zone (c. 4560–4450 BCE) with 294 graves, yielding world's oldest gold treasure (3,000+ gold artifacts, 6 kg).
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Delphi Archaeological Site
Mycenaean to Late Antique · Greek (Apollo/Pythia)
Delphi Archaeological Site in Phocis, Greece is a Mycenaean to Late Antique temple complex attributed to Greek (Apollo/Pythia) culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 393).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Poulnabrone Wedge Tomb — Poulawack Plateau
Chalcolithic (2500–2000 BCE) · Irish Chalcolithic
Poulnabrone's lesser-known sister wedge tomb on Poulawack plateau in the Burren, a well-preserved wedge-shaped gallery grave with double-walled construction set in limestone pavement.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Seh Gabi
Halaf to Ubaid-Chalcolithic (c.5600–3800 BCE) · Halaf-related → Seh Gabi/Dalma → Ubaid Kangavar
Kangavar Halaf-Dalma type mound (5600–3800 BCE) with Seh Gabi painted ware north of Islamabad.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Jerablus Tahtani
Ubaid to Early Bronze (c.5000–2200 BCE; EB II centre) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Bronze Euphrates / Carchemish periphery
Euphrates ford town (5000–2200 BCE) with EB II wall 5 km south of Carchemish.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Mezcala Temple — La Montaña
Late Classic (600–800 CE) · Mezcala culture
Mezcala Temple — La Montaña in Guerrero, Mexico is a Late Classic (600–800 CE) temple-complex attributed to Mezcala culture. Hilltop temple with Mezcala mask and temple platform on Guerrero sierra.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Queréndaro Acropolis — Zacapu
Postclassic (1250–1528 CE) · Purépecha
Queréndaro Acropolis — Zacapu in Michoacán, Mexico is a Postclassic (1250–1528 CE) ancient-city attributed to Purépecha. Mesa-top fortified city Malpaís of Zacapu with 20 pyramids on lava badlands.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Pergamon (Pergama)
Hellenistic to Roman · Attalid / Roman
Pergamon (Pergama) in Izmir Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Roman ancient city attributed to Attalid / Roman culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 1457).
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Theopetra Cave Extension — West Chambers
Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic / Neolithic
Western chambers and exterior talus of Theopetra Cave, whose 130,000-year sequence documents Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Complex of Koguryo Tombs (Jian)
Koguryo · Koguryo
Complex of Koguryo Tombs (Jian) in Jilin Province / DPRK, China is a Koguryo ancient city attributed to Koguryo culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 1135).
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Ojiyana — Banas Mound Hamlet
Chalcolithic Ahar (3000–1500 BCE) · Ahar culture
Ojiyana — Banas Mound Hamlet in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic Ahar (3000–1500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar culture. Small Ahar mound 3 m with white-painted Ahar pottery and microliths.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Toptepe
Neolithic-Chalcolithic (c.6000-3500 BCE) · Kırklareli–Karanovo to Gumelnița-Karanovo VI
Toptepe — buried neolithic-chalcolithic tell/village at Kırklareli Province.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Alcalar Extension — Monte Velho Tholoi
Chalcolithic · Alcalar / Los Millares related
Western tholoi group of Alcalar Chalcolithic necropolis (c. 3000–2600 BCE) on Algarve ridge, comprising tholos Monte Velho and ancillary cists.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cromlech dos Almendres — Western Enclosure
Early to Late Neolithic · Alentejo Megalithic
Western arc of Almendres Cromlech (c. 6000–3000 BCE), the largest stone circle in Iberia with 95 granite menhirs in elliptical setting.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Guadalperal — Spanish Stonehenge Variant West Bank
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age · Tagus Megalithic
Megalthic dolmen (c. 2000–3000 BCE) on Tagus terrace, first recorded by Obermaier, submerged under Valdecañas reservoir and exposed in drought.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Megalith
San Agustín Archaeological Park
San Agustín Culture · San Agustín
San Agustín Archaeological Park in Huila Department, Colombia is a San Agustín Culture megalithic attributed to San Agustín culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 744).
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Maroulas on Kythnos
Early Mesolithic · Aegean Mesolithic
Early Mesolithic open-air village on Kythnos (c. 8800–8600 BCE), the earliest Holocene settlement in the Cyclades with stone-built floors, burials, imported Melian obsidian and marine fauna.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Yarımburgaz Cave
Lower Palaeolithic to Middle Ages (c.400,000 BP–1400 CE) · Acheulean → Mousterian → Neolithic (Fikirtepe) → Byzantine
Bosphorus Palaeolithic twin cave (400 ka) with Acheulean and Fikirtepe burials on Küçükçekmece.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kosak Shamali
Ubaid to Uruk (c.5500–3200 BCE; Uruk station c.3700–3200 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk expansion
Northernmost Uruk station (3700–3200 BCE) on Upper Euphrates with tripartite compound north of Raqqa.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tall-e Jari A
Aceramic to Bakun Neolithic (c.7000–4200 BCE; Jari horizon) · Mushki → Jari → Shamsabad → Bakun (Marvdasht Neolithic)
Marvdasht Plain Neolithic reference mound (7000–4200 BCE) with Mushki to Bakun sequence near Persepolis.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Yinxu (Anyang) - Ruins of Yin
Shang · Shang (Late)
Yinxu (Anyang) - Ruins of Yin in Henan Province, China is a Shang ancient city attributed to Shang (Late) culture. Inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site (ID 1114).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Telul eth-Thalathat
Hassuna to Uruk (c.6000–3100 BCE; Halaf-Ubaid emphasis) · Hassuna → Halaf (Thalathat painted) → Ubaid → Uruk
Five-mound Halaf-Ubaid reference (6000–3100 BCE) on Wadi Khuzna south of Tel Afar.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Silbury Hill — Avebury Landscape
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Wessex
Largest prehistoric artificial mound in Europe (c. 2400 BCE), 39.3 m high conical chalk mound in Avebury World Heritage Site.