🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Kafara North Embankment Wadi Garawi
Old Kingdom · 4th Dynasty Egypt (Sneferu to Khufu horizon)
North wing 55 m of world's oldest large dam (Old Kingdom) breached during construction.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom · 4th Dynasty Egypt (Sneferu to Khufu horizon)
North wing 55 m of world's oldest large dam (Old Kingdom) breached during construction.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Phoenician to Byzantine (11th c. BCE wording – 7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman African
Tyrian port older than Carthage — 320m Punic-Roman mole now reef off Sousse kasbah, overlaid by modern beach.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Pazyryk, Ancient Turk
Promontory at sacred Chuya-Katun confluence with ford-inscription and sun-wheel.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c BCE–5th c CE; peak 7th–6th c BCE) · Phoenician / Mauretanian / Portuguese
Tiny purple island with earliest Atlantic Phoenician 7th c BCE outpost for murex dye – 'Tyr's Atlantic anchor'.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Champa Simhapura 4–10 c. CE → Vietnamese 982 CE conquest · Cham (Austronesian Hindu-Buddhist, Shaiva)
Capital of Champa (Simhapura, Lion City, c.4–10 c. CE) at Trà Kiệu, Quảng Nam — massive 500×350 m (17.5 ha) brick-walled citadel (Chinese qiāng) with 5 gates, citadel-temple complex, and Vũ-điều…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate San Miguel-Gentilar · Tarapaca-Arica-Altiplano caravan continuum
70+ Chiza quebrada geoglyphs (800-1300 CE) with 25-m marine fish 90 km inland, encoding coast-mountain ideology.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Tomb 72 in Luxor, Hierakonpolis, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic pastoral-hunting
Wisad south kite chain: 7 desert kites (8500–6200 BCE) on Black Desert basalt, 6 km SSE of pools.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) · Buddhist Gandhara (Taxila, Kushan, Indo-Greek heritage)
Julian Mound — Taxila Pyramidal Stupa in Punjab, Taxila Valley, Jaulian (Mohre Maliaran, Taxila), Pakistan is a Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) pyramid/mound…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Leptis Magna Market North Portico in Murqub, Leptis Magna, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Roman Hadrianic to Byzantine Justinian · Roman–Byzantine coastal Levant
Nahr al-Kabir: 3.2-km Roman 2nd-c. canalized river reach on Syria 35.30N coastal plain, Latakia.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Maurya 3 c. BCE → Sunga 187–78 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Maurya → Sunga → Indo-Greek → Gupta (Malwa)
Ancient Vidisha (Besnagar) capital with Heliodorus Garuda column (113 BCE) — first Indo-Greek Krishna inscription 6.5 m monolith.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Wari Pikillaqta Sector 2 Compound 14 in Cusco, Pikillaqta, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Safavid re-use (260 CE Sasanian–1650 Safavid regulation) · Sasanian
Outflow regulator weir (8 m high, 95 m crest) on Gargar Canal 2.1 km downstream of Band-e Gargar–Darian Canal head (already in DB as band-e-gargar-canal) at 45 m elevation.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Postclassic to Contact (900–1697 CE, capital 1350–1697) · Maya Itzá (Yukatekan-Itza’)
Last independent Maya kingdom (Nojpetén) of the Itzá, final surrender to Spanish 1697 after 195 years resisting conquest: peninsula-town on Lake Petén Itzá's northern arm 300 m out, with causewayed…
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tichitt Stone Village Sector W13 in Tagant, Tichitt, Mauritania is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient village
Eneolithic (Copper Age) Botai (3700–3100 BCE) · Botai horse hunters-herders (Central Eurasian steppe)
Eneolithic mega-village (c.3700–3100 BCE, Botai culture) — type-site for earliest horse domestication evidence (ongoing debate): 15-ha semi-subterranean house hamlet (150 houses 30–70 m², 6-m deep…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Early Bronze to Western Xia (Tangut) · Zhukaigou, Ordos, Han, Western Xia (Tangut)
Zhongwei Huaishan central terrace with naturalistic ibex and Western Xia inscriptions.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient technology
Plato 360 BCE description; metal 8th–5th c. BCE brass production · Greek (Platonic) + Sicilian Greek brass workers
Plato's orichalcum second-to-gold — 2015 Gela wreck 40 brass ingots proved high-zinc cementation brass, not superconductor.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Itacoatiara tradition disputed 2000 BCE – 200 CE (no direct date, varve patina) · Indigenous Brazilian Itacoatiara / Agreste rock-art tradition
24 m gneiss wall with 400 spirals claimed Orion map and Phoenician writing — rock art with fringe lost-tech overlay.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sardis Lydian Fortification North Gate in Manisa, Sart, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Postclassic Aztec (1337 – 1521 CE) · Tlatelolca / Mexica
Tlatelolco in Mexico City, Mexico is a Late Postclassic Aztec (1337 – 1521 CE) ancient city attributed to Tlatelolca / Mexica culture. Tlatelolco market described by Díaz: 60,000 daily, tribute.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ugarit Royal Palace North Court in Latakia, Ras Shamra, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.