🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yautepec
Late Postclassic (Aztec/Morelos) · Aztec (Tlahuica–Xochimilca provincial)
Aztec provincial capital (1350–1521 CE) in Morelos — palace, pyramid and 150 ha town at Yautepec valley floor.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Azraq Oasis Kite Corridor
Late PPN to Late Neolithic · PPN / Azraq pastoralists
18 wetland-margin kites (7000–5000 BCE) around Azraq Qa salt flat.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Culhuacan
Epiclassic–Postclassic (Coyotlatelco–Aztec) · Toltec–Colhua / Basin Postclassic
Toltec-Colhua capital (600–1400 CE) on Lake Xochimilco — 8 pyramids beneath Cerro de la Estrella, Mexica legitimacy ancestor.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Inner Pavlopetri Village Inner — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-30)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Inner Pavlopetri Village Inner — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-30) at Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece is a Neolithic (regional) submerged city of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Maheshwar (Mahishmati)
Maheshwar I Chalcolithic 1400–600 BCE → II Early Historic 600 BCE–400 CE → IV Holkar 1760 CE · Maheshwar Chalcolithic → Satavahana → Holkar Maratha
Historic Mahishmati–Maheshwar city on Narmada (1400 BCE–1760 CE) — Chalcolithic below Holkar fort and Maheshwari textile loom.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Royal Alexandria Ridge A — Alexandria, Pharos (58-48)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Royal Alexandria Ridge A — Alexandria, Pharos (58-48) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Early Historic (regional) submerged city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir I — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-33)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Derinkuyu Reservoir I — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-33) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Varakhsha
Sogdian–Hephthalite 4th–8th c CE (Bukhara Khudats) · Sogdian Bukhara (Zeravshan oasis) → Early Islamic
Varakhsha — palace-city of Bukhara Khudats (4th–8th c CE) 40 km west Bukhara, excavated 1937–58 Shishkin and Tolstov.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Visingsö Stone Ship and Graves
Late Iron Age – Viking Age · Late Iron Age / Vendel-Viking Småland
Visingsö island ship settings to 35 m in Lake Vättern — Late Iron Age ships plus mounds in oak woodland grave fields.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Dokki Gel — Sacred City of Kerma (Doukki Gel)
Kerma to New Kingdom (2000–1100 BCE) · Kerma / Egyptian syncretic
Separate walled ceremonial city 400x200 m discovered 700 m north of Kerma's Western Deffufa, revealing sub-Saharan African architecture (oval huts, timber palisades and 20 round temples) alongside…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Eastern Rajasthan Ridge Inner — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-38)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Rajasthan Ridge Inner — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-38) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Garagay
Initial Period–Early Horizon (Chavín predecessor) · Manchoïd–Chavín (Garagay tradition)
Formative U-temple (1400–600 BCE) in Lima urban sprawl on hill above Chillón Valley, with U-shaped adobe mound 30 m, central court frontal stair, facing wings 150 m, and recently u...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Hawara Pyramid Complex (Amenemhat III)
Middle Kingdom (12th Dyn) · Ancient Egyptian
Amenemhat III's mudbrick Hawara pyramid and Herodotan labyrinth mortuary temple.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Hualcayán
Formative to Early Intermediate (Chavín–Recuay) · Chavín–Recuay (Pashash)
Valley-head platform complex (1000 BCE–600 CE) at foot of Cordillera Blanca east of Huaylas, on Hualcayán fan at 3180 m with terraced Chavínoid temple overlain by Recuay galleries,...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Layer Pyramid at Zawiyet el-Aryan — Khaba
late 3rd Dynasty, c.2650 BCE (Khaba) · Ancient Egyptian (Khaba)
Unfinished layer pyramid Z1 at Zawiyet el-Aryan between Giza and Abu Rawash: 84 m base, 5–7 layers intended, now 20 m high rubble mound of limestone with pink granite foundation.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Northern Great Zimbabwe Settlement Inner — Great Zimbabwe (57-27)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Northern Great Zimbabwe Settlement Inner — Great Zimbabwe (57-27) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Classical (regional) rock art of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Oxkintok Archaeological Zone
Early Preclassic–Postclassic Puuc (300 BCE–1500 CE, zenith 475–750) · Maya (Early Puuc – northwestern border)
Strategic Puuc border capital (300 BCE–1500 CE, florescent 475–750 Classic Early Puuc) northwest tip of Puuc, controlling Mérida–Uxmal–Calakmul corridor: 3 major groups (Ah Canul, May, Dzib) over 50…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Piedras Negras
Late Classic 400–830 CE (peak 608–808 CE, Dynasty of Piedras Negras 7 lords) · Maya (Yo’k’ib / Piedras Negras kingdom, western Petén)
Largest Classic Maya city on Guatemala's Usumacinta north bank (1,000+ structures, pyramid temples 20 m high) famous for epigraphy: Tatiana Proskouriakoff here invented phonetic Maya glyph…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Sinki Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 3rd–early 4th Dynasty (~2630 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
Minor step pyramid 5.5 km SE of Abydos (c.2630 BCE), 12.7 m base, Huni's provincial network.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Akjoujt (Agueijit)
Chalcolithic to Early Iron Age (1800–500 BCE) · Pre-Mauritanian / early Berber / unknown Saharan smiths
West Africa's earliest copper-mining landscape Akjoujt — 1,000 tons slag from 1500 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Deir el-Ballas
Second Intermediate to New Kingdom (17th–18th Dynasty, 1580–1320 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Theban)
Deir el-Ballas is a New Kingdom palace–rampart town opposite Coptos on west bank 2 km desert edge, built early 17th Dynasty (c. 1580 BCE) as military palace for Sekhemre–Wadjitaw?
🇲🇦 Morocco · Submerged site
Essaouira — Ancient Anchorage North (Mogador, Morocco)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Essaouira — Ancient Anchorage North (Mogador, Morocco) in Marrakech-Safi, Essaouira, Mogador, Morocco is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submer…
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Hiwassee Island Mound
Mississippian (Hiwassee Island / Dallas) · Mississippian (Tennessee Valley)
Type site Hiwassee Island phase (900–1400 CE) — 5 mounds at Tennessee-Hiwassee confluence.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Fortress
Karon (Darvaz Karon)
Kushan–Sasanian 1st–7th c → Samanid–Timurid 10th–15th c · Kushan–Sasanian → Samanid → Timurid Pamiri (Darvaz)
Karon — Pamir mountain city-fortress (1st–15th c CE) 2000 m on Darvaz plateau, Panj gorge, excavated 2010s Bobomulloev (Tajik Academy).