🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
White Shaman Panel — Lower Pecos
Middle to Late Archaic (3000–2000 BCE) · Lower Pecos hunter-foragers (related to Coahuiltecan)
Texas Lower Pecos 7.6-m shaman-antlered polychrome 3000–2000 BCE, Pecos style type.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Althiburos
Numidian to Byzantine (7th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 2nd c) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Early Christian
12-ha Dorsale hilltop city with Hadrian arch, forum, and 500+ dolmen necropolis showing Numidian continuity.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Demeter at Knidos
Classical to Hellenistic (350–100 BCE peak) · Dorian Greek (Knidian polis)
Peninsula-tip Demeter terrace Doric prostylos with thesmophoria pits and Knidos double harbour.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock art
Wadi Rum Petroglyphs and Thamudic Inscriptions
Neolithic to Islamic (Thamudic–Nabataean–Islamic) · Neolithic pastoralists, Thamudic tribes, Nabataean caravan masters, early Arabs
Wadi Rum desert cliffs with 25,000 petroglyphs and Thamudic texts, UNESCO landscape.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Amara West
New Kingdom to Third Intermediate/Napatan (1300–800 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and Nubian (Kushite)
Viceregal capital of Egyptian Kush (1300–800 BCE), 200×200 m walled town with 300+ pyramid tombs.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Amara West Temple-Town
New Kingdom (Ramesside) to Early Napatan · Egyptian (viceregal) / Kushite
Ramesside viceregal capital town of Kush at Amara West — 200 m walled city of Seti I/Ramesses II c.1300 BCE with Amun temple and external Napatan mini-pyramid cemetery.
🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Bandiagara Escarpment (Land of the Dogon)
Iron Age to Living (700 BCE–present) · Toloy / Tellem / Dogon
150-km 400-m cliff with 700 Tellem caves 11th–16th c, granaries, Dogon villages and Toloy archaeology.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Paraíso
Late Preceramic / Cotton Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) · Andean Late Preceramic (Norte Chico–Chillón tradition, El Paraíso)
Late Preceramic mega-complex (3500–1800 BCE) in Chillón Valley, 58 ha, 11 pyramids, largest 100×100 m.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Dor
Middle Bronze Age through Crusader (c.2000 BCE–640 CE); MB Canaanite → Phoenician (Siky) → Assyrian province → Persian–Hellenistic Phoenician Dor · MB Canaanite → Iron I Siky/Phoenician → Phoenician (Tyre) → Perso-Phoenician province → Hellenistic
Phoenician purple-dye port (c.2000 BCE–640 CE) — 20 ha Carmel headland tell with Iron I Wenamun harbour and mole (Stern).
🇲🇹 Malta · Ancient port
Clapham Junction Cart Ruts – Malta Pulley-Rail Pseudo Submerged Road
Bronze Age (1500–800 BCE) use phase; ruts cut in Upper Coralline Limestone (Miocene) plateau · Maltese Bronze Age Tarxien–Ġgantija culture
Bronze Age limestone sled grooves 1.4 m gauge leading into sea — claimed Atlantis pulley-rail way, actually quarry sleds 1500–800 BCE.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Pupput
Punic to Islamic (6th c BCE–9th c CE; peak 2nd–4th c) · Punic / Roman / Early Christian / Byzantine
1.2-ha rescue site under Hammamet with 3000+ tombs, House of Horses mosaics and Commodan colonia remains.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Patara – Silted Harbour of the Lycian League Port
Iron Age Lycian to Byzantine (800 BCE – 700 CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Capital port of Lycia — 64 CE Neronian lighthouse and Hadrian granary beside 400 m harbour now 600 m inland behind dunes.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Rock art
Shuwaymis Rock Art – Jebel al-Manjor
Early Holocene humid to Bronze/Thamudic arid · Neolithic hunter-herders to Thamudic caravaneers
UNESCO escarpment with 300 panels—lions on leashed dogs and savanna fauna from Arabia's humid phase.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tatarlı Höyük (Ceyhan Plain Cilician Mound)
Chalcolithic through Iron Age (Chalcolithic, MBA, LBA Kizzuwatna, Iron) · Cilician → Kizzuwatna/Hittite → Neo-Assyrian
Tatarlı Höyük (Ceyhan Plain Cilician Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Adana Province, Ceyhan District, Ceyhan River plain, Turkey — Cilician plain gateway controlling Ceyhan crossing…
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Ulug-Depe
Jeitun (6000) → Anau–Namazga (4500–1800) → BMAC → Achaemenid–Parthian 500 BCE–300 CE · Kopet oasis continuous (Jeitun → BMAC → Persian)
Longest-lived oasis tell in southern Turkmenistan (c.6000 BCE–Medieval) at Dushak north of Kaahka — 15 ha mound 32 m high with continuous 8000-year stratigraphy excavated since 2001 by Olivier…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Tombos
New Kingdom (Egyptian colonial) to Napatan/Third Intermediate (1300–750 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and indigenous Nubian (Kerma–Napatan)
Third Cataract Egyptian colonial and Nubian tumulus cemetery (1450–750 BCE), granite quarry island, pyramid chapels.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Hill of Uisneach
Neolithic to Early Modern (c.4000 BCE–1600 CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age → Early Medieval Gaelic
Mythic omphalos of Ireland — 182 m ceremonial hill with Lough Lugh summit lake, barrows and Bealtaine fire site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Iassos Agora Temple of Artemis Astias
Archaic to Roman · Ionian, Carian, Hellenistic
Kıyıkışlacık peninsula agora tetrastyle Artemis Astias 150 BCE with Roman mausoleum, Iassic Gulf fishing town.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Aswan Old Dam South Spillway
British-Egyptian Modern with Pharaonic quarry context · British-Egyptian engineers (Willcocks, Benetti) on Pharaonic Nile
South spillway 350 m south of Aswan Low Dam with 58 buttress sluices on granite outcrop.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Eskiyapar Höyük (Eskiyapar / Alaca Ridge)
Early Bronze through Iron Age · Hattian/EBA → Assyrian Colony → Hittite → Phrygian
Eskiyapar Höyük (Eskiyapar / Alaca Ridge) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Çorum Province, Alaca District, Alaca plain, Turkey — Karum-period trade town and Hittite road station linking…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Simitthus (Chemtou)
Numidian to Byzantine (5th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 1st-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Giallo antico marble capital with imperial quarries.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Kharaysin
PPNA to Late PPNB (9000–6800 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNA → PPNB (Jericho–Yarmoukian continuum)
25 ha PPN mega-site on Zarqa River with earliest cremation and 6800-seed legume archive.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Acemhöyük (Purushanda?)
Early Bronze III to Iron Age (c.2600–600 BCE; peak OA period) · Assyrian Colony/Old Hittite/Middle Bronze Anatolian
Massive Old Assyrian palace mound at Yeşilova with twin burnt palaces, bulla archives and Purushanda identification.
🇲🇼 Malawi · Rock art
Chongoni Rock-Art Area (Dedza)
Late Stone Age to Recent (1000 BCE – 1800 CE) · BaTwa hunter-gatherers, Chewa (Maravi) Bantu farmers
Malawi granite forest 127 shelters Twa white and Chewa red Chinamwali initiation art, UNESCO 476.