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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNB · Taş Tepeler PPNB
Ayanlar Hoyuk PPNB Domestication at Şanlıurfa, Hilvan, Turkey is a PPNB ancient village of the Taş Tepeler PPNB tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for ppnb village caprine/cattle domestication.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Central Meroe Village A — Meroe (56-50) at Meroe, Sudan is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Great Hattusa Temple I — Hattusa (60-25) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) archaeological wonder of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 CE for temple and associated settlement.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Baiae Hilltop South — Baiae (58-38) at Baiae, Italy is a Chalcolithic (regional) submerged city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (122-431 CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Roman military
Plateau fort Rapidum.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Classical (regional) · Classical
Royal Hattusa Platform I — Hattusa (60-07) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Classical (regional) temple complex of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Royal Yucatan Terrace North — Yucatan (55-42) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Iron Age (regional) temple complex of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 800 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Southern Yucatan Platform B — Yucatan (55-13) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Bronze Age (regional) geoglyph of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for platform and associated settlement.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic – Roman (peaks: Chalcolithic, Iron Age–Roman Edom/Phaino) · Chalcolithic miners to Edomite–Nabataean–Roman (Phaino)
30-km copper valley (4500 BCE–400 CE) — mines, slag heaps and Roman Phaino mining town.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Western Baiae Citadel Outer — Baiae (58-24) at Baiae, Italy is a Bronze Age (regional) submerged city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic · Maya Sak Nikte' under Calakmul Kanul
Former looters' Site Q identified as Sak Nikte' (La Corona) 658–835 CE: 14 m Main Plaza pyramid and returned Hieroglyphic Stairway panels of Calakmul dynastic wars.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tomb
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Outer Lalibela Necropolis II — Lalibela (59-17) at Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Neolithic (regional) tomb of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 200 CE for necropolis and associated settlement.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Upper Yonaguni Fortress I — Yonaguni (58-26) at Yonaguni, Japan is a Medieval (regional) submerged city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 CE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Classical (regional) · Classical
Inner Bayuda Fortress West — Bayuda (57-18) at Bayuda, Sudan is a Classical (regional) ancient city of the Classical tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
New Delphi Reservoir West — Delphi (60-48) at Delphi, Greece is a Medieval (regional) temple complex of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (646 BCE – 4th c. CE; revisited 14th c.) · Milesian Greek / Scythian / Roman / Gothic
Milesian Black Sea emporium whose harbour lower town now lies 1–4 m under Bug–Dnieper liman.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Pavlopetri — North Street Insula (Laconia, Submerged) in Peloponnese, Laconia, Pavlopetri, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged …
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Swahili to Omani and British (Swahili settlement 16th c; Omani capital 1832–1964) · Swahili / Omani Arab / Persian / Indian (Bohra) / British colonial
Swahili stone town capital of Omani Zanzibar sultanate (1832–1964), Stone Town preserves coral-stone labyrinth: House of Wonders (Beit al-Ajaib 1883 Persian-slave-built), Old Fort (Portuguese 1710),…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Late Antiquity to Medieval (4th–13th century; peak 7th–10th) · Arsacid Armenia → Sasanian marzpan → Arab Dabil emirate → Bagratuni → Seljuk
100 ha medieval Silk Road capital — trilobed palace, glazed-market vault and ceramic aqueduct.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Eastern Giza Reservoir Inner — Giza (56-49) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for reservoir and associated settlement.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic Aztec (Mexica) · Mexica (Aztec) Triple Alliance
Dual shrine pyramid (Huitzilopochtli and Tlaloc, 1325–1519 CE) — heart of island city Tenochtitlan (population 200,000 in 1519, larger than most European capitals on Lake Texcoco), built in seven…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze to Crusader (3000 BCE–1300 CE) · Syrian EBA → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Crusader County of Edessa
Tilbeşar Lower Town sprawls below the 15-m fortress mound of Turbessel — Crusader capital of the County of Edessa.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Upper Nara Ridge South — Nara, Asuka (54-12) at Nara, Asuka, Japan is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 200 CE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Binh Chau — Shipwreck North Scatter (Vietnam) in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu, Binh Chau, Vietnam is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attribut…
