🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bubastis – Tell Basta (Cult of Bastet)
Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity (4th Dyn – 4th c. CE) · Egyptian (Delta Libyan dynasties)
Bastet cat-goddess capital – island red-granite temple and 100,000 cat mummies on 14 m tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Caesarea Maritima – Herod's Sebastos Harbour
Herodian to Crusader (22 BCE – 1265 CE) · Judean / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Herod's colossal Roman harbour Sebastos now submerged 5 m; one of earliest hydraulic-concrete harbours.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Doliana — Submerged Quarry North Slope (Paros, Greece)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Doliana — Submerged Quarry North Slope (Paros, Greece) in South Aegean, Paros, Doliana, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged cit…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Gusir Hoyuk Upper Tigris PPN
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Upper Tigris PPN
Gusir Hoyuk Upper Tigris PPN at Siirt, Upper Tigris, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Upper Tigris PPN tradition, built c. 9300 BCE for agglutinated settlement on tigris.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Klasies River Caves — Middle Stone Age Shelter
Middle Stone Age (120–55 ka) · Early Homo sapiens (MSA I–Howiesons Poort)
Klasies River Main site (KRM) is 5 caves/shelters on Tsitsikamma coast (34°06′29″S 24°23′24″E) with 120–55 ka MSA deposits containing anatomically modern human fossils (KRM 13400 mandible 115 ka),…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Myra and Andriake
Classical Lycian to Byzantine · Lycian → Hellenistic Greek → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian cliff-tomb metropolis of St Nicholas with river theatre and purple-dye port granary.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Yumuktepe Mersin Re-evaluation Trench
Neolithic to Byzantine (6300 BCE–1300 CE) · Neolithic Mersin XXXIII → Chalcolithic Ubaid → EBA Cilician → Iron → Byzantine
Yumuktepe Mersin Re-evaluation Trench is the southern sounding of Yumuktepe — the Neolithic type-site for Cilician chronology (Garstang Mersin XXXIII–I, 6300–1300 CE) within modern Mersin.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Aşağı Pınar
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6200–4800 BCE) · Fikirtepe → Karanovo I–III / Starčevo
Thracian tell bridging Anatolian Neolithic to Balkans (Karanovo sequence).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Baja
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (c.7400–6800 BCE) · PPNB (southern Levantine highland)
PPNB cliff village (c.7400–6800 BCE, siq access, 2500-bead necklace, painted plaster) 14 km N Petra.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Underground city
Little Lalibela Mound Inner — Lalibela (59-03)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Little Lalibela Mound Inner — Lalibela (59-03) at Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Classical (regional) underground city of the Classical tradition, built c. 400 BCE for mound and associated settlement.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Old Henan Citadel North — Henan, Erlitou (54-35)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Old Henan Citadel North — Henan, Erlitou (54-35) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Medieval (regional) megalithic of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Western Nara Fortress II — Nara, Asuka (54-33)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Western Nara Fortress II — Nara, Asuka (54-33) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Great Yonaguni Temple Outer — Yonaguni (58-27)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Great Yonaguni Temple Outer — Yonaguni (58-27) at Yonaguni, Japan is a Bronze Age (regional) submerged city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Great Yucatan Reservoir Outer — Yucatan (55-29)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Great Yucatan Reservoir Outer — Yucatan (55-29) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Medieval (regional) temple complex of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Sais (Sa el-Hagar)
Predynastic to Greco-Roman to Medieval · Egyptian (Libyan → Saite renaissance → Persian)
Cult centre of Neith and capital of 26th (Saite) Dynasty (664–525 BCE) — Egypt's Late Period renaissance metropolis that reconquered to Aswan and traded with Greeks at Naukratis.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Rock art
Southern Bayuda Terrace West — Bayuda (57-30)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Southern Bayuda Terrace West — Bayuda (57-30) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Western Delphi Ridge Central — Delphi (60-05)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Western Delphi Ridge Central — Delphi (60-05) at Delphi, Greece is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Little Yucatan Temple I — Yucatan (55-03)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Yucatan Temple I — Yucatan (55-03) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient city
Northern Siem Reap Village A — Siem Reap (54-34)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Siem Reap Village A — Siem Reap (54-34) at Siem Reap, Cambodia is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 CE for village and associated settlement.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe La Prisgiona
Late Bronze Age · Nuragic
Gallura nuraghe with meeting hut village near Arzachena in granite hill country, c.14th century BCE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Royal Aleppo Sanctuary I — Aleppo (53-28)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Royal Aleppo Sanctuary I — Aleppo (53-28) at Aleppo, Syria is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 BCE for sanctuary and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Río Bec Structure V-N Pyramid (Central Plaza)
Late Classic Maya (Río Bec) · Maya (Río Bec)
Type-site false-tower pyramid Structure V-N at Río Bec — 8 m solid-tower platform pyramid c.650–850 CE anchoring 100-structure Río Bec city.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension
Hassuna to Iron Age (6500 BCE–800 BCE) · Hassuna/Samarra → Halaf → Ninevite V → Mittani → Iron Age Aramean
Tell Mohammed Diyab Southern Extension is the 9.8-ha southern skirt of Tell Mohammed Diyab on the upper Khabur plain — a 30-m tell with one of the longest Neolithic-to-Iron sequences in inland Syria…
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Atalante (Opus) – Sunken Lokrian City after 426 BCE Earthquake
Mycenaean to Late Roman (Opus Mycenaean – 426 BCE drown) · Locrian Greek / Mycenaean / Classical
426 BCE quake drowned Lokrian Opus — harbour mole and isthmus now 3–4 m down off Atalanti island.