🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Alabanda Temple of Apollo Isotimos
Hellenistic to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Çine plain 6×12 Ionian Apollo Isotimos 200 BCE with 8 architraved columns, Chrysaoric capital.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman · Aiolian Greek, Hellenistic Attalid
Yunt Dağ 400-m Aiolian Athena 300 BCE terrace with 3-storey stoa and agora, 12 Aiolian League wool city.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Çine plain 6×12 Ionian Apollo Isotimos 200 BCE with 8 architraved columns, Chrysaoric capital.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Medieval cartographic (1424 Pizzigano – 1492 Columbus) · Pizzigano–Portuguese cartographic
1424 Pizzigano rectangular 'Seven Cities' phantom west of Azores — Columbus' waypoint to Cipangu before Antilia arch.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Legendary 6th c. (Gwyddno) / literary 13th–15th c. · Welsh Celtic / Cumbric
16 villages west of Wales — dyke-keeper Seithenyn's drunken neglect floods lowland; causeways are glacial moraines.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Medieval trans-Saharan (8th–15th c; peak 11th–14th c) · Sanhaja Berber / Tuareg (Kel Essouk) / Songhai
Arid 12 ha Berber warehouse town with 8th-c mosque (among earliest in West Africa) and 750,000 glass beads on salt route.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Early Holocene to Late Antiquity · Saharan Epipalaeolithic, Old Kingdom expeditions, Ptolemaic and Coptic oasis settlers
Kharga Oasis scarp petroglyphs from Holocene wet-phase savanna to Coptic, on caravan route.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Middle Elamite (Kabnak period) · Elamite
Middle Elamite ziggurat-tomb of King Tepti-Ahar c.1470 BCE at Haft Tepe (Kabnak) — 33 m platform with 354 m vaulted royal tomb and 400-tablet archive.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Old Kingdom (Naqada I–III to 2686 BCE; peak Naqada III) · Egyptian (Predynastic Naqada II–III / Early Dynastic)
Predynastic megacity 3500 BCE 5 ha yielding Narmer Palette, earliest 12 m mudbrick fort, HK6 elephant burial and painted Tomb 100.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Migration → Viking Age 500–1000 (Hall Complex 600–700 Skjöldungar) · Zealand Iron Age–Viking (Skjöldungar/Scylding) — Beowulf Heorot Heorot analog
Lejre (Gammel Lejre, Lejre Royal Complex) — Iron Age → Viking Age central-place and hall complex (c.500–1000, hall 600–700 peak) 8 km west Roskilde on Lejre River, Zealand's Beowulf Heorot candidate…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Hellenistic (1570 – 300 BCE) · Hyksos / New Kingdom Egyptian / Late Period
15th c. BCE Thutmose III naval arsenal town on Canopic delta sandbar — quay now –1.5 to –3 m under Idku lagoon fish farms.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) · Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE)
Pietrele Tell in Teleorman / Giurgiu region, Danube plain, Pietrele village, Romania is a Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) settlement attributed to Gumelniţa (4500–4000 BCE) culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Early Iron Age (Saka Tigrakhauda) · Saka (Central Asian Scythian)
High mountain (2,450 m, 43°13′N 77°05′E) Saka kurgan chain in Tuyuk-Su Gorge, Ile Alatau north slope above Greater Almaty moraine (Issyk Golden Man 43° north same massif).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland to Mississippian (100 BCE–1450 CE) · Swift Creek → Weeden Island → Fort Walton (late Mississippian)
Middle Woodland Swift Creek to Fort Walton Mississippian mound-village (100 BCE–1450 CE) on Apalachicola River terrace: flat-topped platform 6 m high (45×30 m) with ramp to plaza, adjacent burial…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Pengtoushan late 7000–5000 BCE → Zaoshi 5800–5000 BCE · Pengtoushan (Middle Yangzi late) → Zaoshi transitional
Moated Neolithic town (c.7000–5000 BCE, Pengtoushan culture late phase) at Bashidang on the Li River swamp south of Pengtoushan — 3 ha circular settlement with earthen wall and ditch, excavated…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Elkab Rock Tomb 8 West Wall in Luxor, Elkab, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic to Iron Age (Céide to La Tène) · Mayo Neolithic to Iron Age
Atlantic blanket bog trackway cluster (35 m asl, 54°07′12″N 09°27′00″W 54.12,-9.45 Ballycroy Owenduff) within Wild Nephin Ballycroy National Park, Neolithic to Iron Age (3700-200 BCE) 7 toghers on…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Folsom Paleo-Indian (10,600 – 10,200 BCE) · Folsom
Lindenmeier Site in Colorado, United States is a Folsom Paleo-Indian (10,600 – 10,200 BCE) ancient village attributed to Folsom culture.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Submerged site
Iron Age to Portuguese (c. 800 BCE – 1500 CE) · Anuradhapuran / Indo-Roman / Islamic
Anuradhapura's lagoon harbour – jetty at –1 m off Mantai dunes and silted basin under mangrove.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Roman (c.280 BCE – 150 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Myos Hormos system southern mangrove lagoon at Marsa Nakari — 0.5–1.5 m mangrove-enclosed harbour 18 km south of Marsa Alam, Nechesia hypothesis.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Early Islamic to Medieval (757–1393 CE; peak 10th–14th c CE) · Berber Miknasa / Islamic / Maliki
Gold-mint entrepôt Sijilmassa on Trans-Saharan Ghana road south of Rissani.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Samarra through Ubaid 3 (c.5500–4100 BCE); Samarra, Hajji Muhammad, Ubaid 3 · Samarra (Choga Mami) → Hajji Muhammad → Ubaid 3 Hamrin facies
Samarra–Ubaid transition village (c.5500–4100 BCE) with tripartite houses and Iran–south assimilation — Hamrin Samarra outpost.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yayoi Early 300 BCE → Middle 100 BCE → Late 100–300 CE → Kofun · Yayoi (Tōkai–Suruga paddy culture)
Textbook Yayoi paddy (300 BCE–300 CE) at Toro Shizuoka — 370 waterlogged paddy plots with wooden spades and weir on Abe fan.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient technology
Claimed 10,500 BCE Atlantean high-tech; literature 1924–44 Cayce readings · Claimed Atlantean (Poseidia) high civilization
Cayce's 1933 Tuaoi Great Crystal powering Atlantis — 1968 Bimini prophecy drove beachrock Atlantis hunt.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Sixteen Kingdoms to Tang · Western Qin to Tang Buddhist (Bingling synthesis)
South partition of monumental natural Cave 169 with 384 Sui–Tang niches and Tang donor cartouche.
