🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 82
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 82 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tell el-Farah North Sector 93
Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) · Israelite
Tell el-Farah North Sector 93 in Negev, Israel is a Iron Age (1200-586 BCE) tell.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Chaco Canyon — Kin Bineola West Outlier
Chacoan (950–1140 CE) · Ancestral Puebloan Chacoan
Kin Bineola excavated by Vivian 1960s, Chaco road to south Bonito via South Gap.
🇵🇪 Peru · Buried city
Chan Chan — Tschudi Palace Nik An Audience Complex
Chimú (1200–1470 CE Chimu Empire; Tschudi palace 1400 CE last Nik An) · Chimú (Chan Chan 9 palaces 100k pop)
Chan Chan excavated by Bennett, Moseley, 1200–1470 Chimú 100k population 20 km².
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Kobayr Monastery — Lori Cliff-Hanging Two-Storey Narthex
Zakarian (1171 Kobayr main Surb Astvatsatsin Mariam, 1279 chapel of Honents sister) · Armenian Zakarian → Georgian Chalcedonian hybrid after 1223?
Kobayr fresco monastery excavated by Soviet, 1279 Honents church replica nearby.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol — Moche Largest Adobe Mound
Moche (100–800 CE) 340 m long · Moche
Moche Spanish flooded mine 1602 removed 2/3, 340 m mound traced by Moseley.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Tekor Basilica — Early 5th Century Triple Basilica Shirak
Early Christian (5th c. c.478–480 CE inscription Prince Sahak Kamsarakan) · Early Armenian (Kamsarakan princes, pre-Bagratid, Sassanian period Armenian Christianity)
Tekor excavated by Thierry 1970s, 5th-c Armenian inscription 478 authentic.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Odzun Church — 6th Century Basilica Hall Vault
Early Medieval (Odzun St Astvatsatsin c. 6th–8th c. with 5th c. core; Catholicos Hovhannes Odzunetsi 717–728) · Early Armenian basilica hall church (Hall-type) with U-thin altar
Odzun church preserved 6th–8th, Hovhannes Odzunetsi catholicos 717 origin.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Ghat — Fortress of Cucch Behmode Acacus Border Post
Italian colonial (1930s) over Garamantian earlier Tifinagh graffiti hill · Garamantian Tuareg → Italian colonial
Ghat hill Tifinagh documented by Reichelt 1990s, Garamantian border post.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Marmashen Monastery — Shirak Cyclopean Wall Fortress Church
Bagratid (988–1029 Marmashen by Prince Vahram Pahlavuni, main 988–1029) · Bagratid Pahlavuni (Vahram same as Amberd)
Marmashen excavated by Sargsyan, Vahram Pahlavuni 988 family monastery.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Kecharis Monastery — Tsakhkadzor Ski Hill Dome Ensemble
Pahlavuni-Bagratid (11th c. St Gregory 1033 Prince Grigor Magistros, Katoghike 1201) · Pahlavuni princes (Grigor Magistros founder 1033 including 12th c. Zakarian addition)
Kecharis excavated by Soviet, Pahlavuni 1033 Prince Grigor Magistros.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Aruch Church — 7th Century Hall Dome with Landslip
Early Medieval (666 CE Grigor Mamikonian foundation, St Gregory 670) · Mamikonian princes early medieval 7th c.
Aruch excavated by Sahinian 1970, Mamikonian 669 inscription inside.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Montezuma Castle — Beaver Creek Original 5-Storey Cliff Palace
Sinagua (1100–1350 CE) · Sinagua (Southern Sinagua)
Montezuma excavated by Mearns 1890, no Aztec link, 45 rooms 5 tiers.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Fortress
Volubilis Annex — Tocolosida Fort on Sebou Bend
Roman frontier (30 BCE–285 CE Tocolosida aux fort; 40 CE Claudian) · Roman Mauretania Tingitana frontier auxilia
Tocolosida surveyed by Euzennat 1960s, Volubilis limes hamlet 5 km.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Geghard Monastery — Rock-Cut Chapel Geghardavank
Medieval (Main 1215 CE; gavit 1225; rock-cut 1263 Proshian tomb) · Armenian medieval Proshian princes (Zakarian dynasty)
Geghard UNESCO 2000, Proshian cave church 1283 with stalactite.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Mazghuna North Pyramid — Amenemhat IV Northern Twin
Late 12th Dynasty (c.1810 BCE) probable Amenemhat IV · 12th Dynasty
Mazghuna North surveyed by Mackay & Petrie 1910, twin to south.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Artik — Pemzashen Church Surp Sargis Open Field
Early Medieval (5th–7th c. Surb Sargis 5th c. and Lmbatavank 7th) · Early Armenian field churches 7th c. basilica hall
Artik Lmbatavank 630 7th c. hall church 20 m with fresco copy.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Bjini Fortress — Hrazdan Gorge Canyon Spur Citadel
Bagratid (5th c. village; Fortress 9th–10th c. Pahlavuni; Surb Astvatsatsin 1031) · Bagratid Pahlavuni (same family Amberd)
Bjini Pahlavuni 9th–10th fortress with Surb Astvatsatsin 1031.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Pavia — Anta do Pavia Hall Dolmen with Chapel Inside
Neolithic (3000 BCE) later Christian chapel 17th c. built inside dome 17th conversion of Pavia Dolmen Saint Dionísio · Alentejo Neolithic + Christian repurpose
Pavia church-dolmen 1640 Alentejo syncretism chapel-dolmen.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ouadane — Chinguetti-Linked Caravan Ksar
Medieval Almoravid foundation 1147 CE, gold-salt era · Berber Almoravid → Mali gold trade
Ouadane 1147 Almoravid ksar, caravan to Chinguetti 100 km.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Haghpat Monastery — Lori Gorge Scriptoir
Bagratid (976–991 church Surb Nshan, Hamid 1185, 13th c. bell tower) · Armenian Bagratid to Zakarian (10th–13th c.)
Haghpat excavated Soviet, UNESCO 1996 with Sanahin pair.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Menhir da Meada — Largest Standing Stone Iberia and Atlantic Europe 7.15 m
Neolithic (5000–4000 BCE menhir of 7.15 m phallic Bernardus hill) · Alentejo Neolithic menhir carver 5000 BCE
Meada menhir 1990 inspection largest Iberia 7.15 m 18 t.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Harichavank Monastery — Shirak Plateau Forte Monastery
Medieval (7th c. early; Surb Astvatsatsin 1201 Zakarian) · Armenian Zakarian princes & later Armenian Catholicos summer seat 1850–1932
Harich Catholicos seat 1850–1932, Zakarian 1201 church.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Alentejo — Almendres Cromlech Western Europe's Largest Stone Circle
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE earliest Almendres 6000 alley; cromlech 5000 BCE) · Alentejo Neolithic Almendres (Cardial) and later
Almendres Gromlech Sofia's largest Iberian, 6000 BCE.