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🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Early Roman (309 BCE – 100 BCE) · Diadoch Macedonian / Thracian
Hebros delta harbour of Lysimachus's capital Lysimachia — 100 m quay at –1.8 m in Lake Kaminia salt lagoon, Thrace.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Early Roman (309 BCE – 100 BCE) · Diadoch Macedonian / Thracian
Hebros delta harbour of Lysimachus's capital Lysimachia — 100 m quay at –1.8 m in Lake Kaminia salt lagoon, Thrace.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
PPNA through Ubaid (c.9600–5500 BCE); PPNA, PPNB, Halaf, Ubaid · Upper Euphrates Neolithic (Mezraa phase) → Halaf → Ubaid
Neolithic–Halaf Euphrates tell (c.9600–5500 BCE) with PPNA round huts to Halaf painted pottery — Euphrates Neolithic type-site.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic 226 BCE–800 CE (apogee 615–800 CE Early–Late Classic) · Maya (B'aakal / Palenque dynasty; Western Maya lowlands)
Maya Classic capital of B'aakal on Chiapas foothills with low jungle: Temple of Inscriptions (22 m pyramid with 69-step Hieroglyphic Stair recording dynastic history and Pakal's vault; Pakal the…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (1200 – 1524 CE) · K'iche' Maya
Qumaarkaj in Quiché, Guatemala is a Late Postclassic (1200 – 1524 CE) ancient city attributed to K'iche' Maya culture. Gumarcaj/Utatlán: 4 causeways, 23 palaces, Temple of Tohil human sacrifice.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Late Jomon 3000–500 BCE → Yayoi 400 BCE–300 CE (paddy) · Jomon → Yayoi (Kanto lowland)
Waterlogged Yayoi lowland at Shimoyakebe — paddy wooden tools and chestnut pits in peat (3000 BCE–300 CE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman–Syriac (1st–5th century CE) with Bronze/Iron Age antecedents · Harranian Sabian / Edessan Aramaean → Roman / Byzantine
Tektek hilltop Sin-cult oasis with seven baetyl sanctuaries and Syriac rock inscriptions.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan 100–250 CE (Kanishka–Huvishka zenith) · Kushan–Bactrian (Yuezhi) with Greco–Bactrian substrate
Kushan dynastic fire temple (100–200 CE) on Surkh Kotal pass — 50 m terraced sanctuary with Kanishka statues and Bactrian inscription.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Archaic Greek to Islamic (630 BCE–7th c CE) · Greek / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Archaic Greek harbour with 2.5-km 610 BCE bastioned wall and earliest black-figure ceramics stratigraphy.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Submerged site
Portolan phantom (1435–1492) · Genoese–Portuguese cartography
Northern Antillia variant at 38°N 35°W – 150 km rectangular Seven Cities duplicated northward.
🇨🇦 Canada · Submerged site
Pseudo-voyage phantom (1558–1630) · Venetian pseudo-geography / Zeno forgery
Zeno 1558 cannibal giant phantom at 57°N 42°W south of Estotiland – Labrador Sea 3000 m.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNB to Halaf (8000–5500 BCE) · Steppe PPNB → Halaf-Ubaid (Palmyrene)
Palmyrene desert oasis PPNB village cluster around artesian spring, desert Neolithisation laboratory.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic to Initial Period (Kotosh–Mito tradition) · Kotosh / highland Áncash (Mito tradition)
Kotosh-tradition dual pyramid at La Galgada — twin U-platform pyramids 30 m with niched temple 2200–1000 BCE and textile tombs, Tablachaca canyon.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Early to Late Postclassic (1100 – 1524 CE) · Pocomam Maya
Mixco Viejo Alt in Chimaltenango, Guatemala is a Early to Late Postclassic (1100 – 1524 CE) ancient city attributed to Pocomam Maya culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Kot Diji I (3000–2700) → Transitional II (2700–2500) → Harappan III (2500–2100 BCE) · Kot Diji / Early Harappan → Mature Harappan (Bolan culture)
Early Harappan → Mature Harappan village (c.3000–2100 BCE) 6 km south of Mehrgarh on the Bolan terrace, Balochistan — 5 ha mound excavated 1985–96 by J-F. Jarrige (French Archaeological Mission).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan
Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Postclassic Aztec (Chichimec-Mexica) · Chichimec / Aztec (Tenayuca-Culhua-Mexica)
Aztec double-stair serpent pyramid Tenayuca (1224–1500 CE): 21 m six-stage twin-shrine pyramid encircled by 138 coiled serpent heads wall, INAH sequential casing showcase.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic through Byzantine; Cilician corridor · Cilician Neolithic → Hittite Kizzuwatna → Neo-Hittite Que → Greco-Roman
Mersin coastal tell with 25 m deposit from Aceramic Neolithic (7000 BCE) to Roman — Garstang’s Cilician Neolithic–Hittite maritime gateway sequence.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic 2500–1500 → Chalcolithic 1500–600 BCE → NBPW 600 BCE · Mid-Gangetic Neolithic–Chalcolithic — Chirand facies
Chirand Gangetic Settlement — Neolithic–Chalcolithic–NBPW stratified mega-mound (2500 BCE–600 BCE) on Ghaghara–Gandak–Ganges triple confluence 14 km east Chhapra, excavated 1960–71 and 2004 by B.N.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Pyramid
Classic Maya (250–900 CE) · Maya (Copán dynasty, Yax Kuk Mo lineage)
Defining Classic Maya southeastern capital (250–900 CE) 12 km from Guatemala border, population 27,000.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon transition (Moche V – Wari 500–850 CE) · Moche V → Wari (Huari) intrusion
Eclipsed late Moche administrative city (500–850 CE) 12 km inland from Huacas de Moche (Huaca del Sol/Luna), occupying terraced hill with 3 civic–ceremonial mounds 10–15 m high (Plataforma Principal,…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Jomon Late 1000 BCE → Epi-Jomon 300 BCE–500 CE → Satsumon 500–1100 CE → Honshu Yayoi influence · Epi-Jomon (Hokkaido) with Yayoi rice intrusion
Hokkaido rice-frontier paddy trial (300 BCE–300 CE) at Kashiwabara Ebetsu — 8 pit houses with failed rice vs salmon–nut; paddy northern limit.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mahajanapada 600 BCE → Mauryan → Gupta 4th c CE · Vatsa Janapada → Mauryan → Sunga–Gupta (Middle Ganga)
Kausambi (Kosambi) — capital of Vatsa Mahajanapada (c.600 BCE–300 CE) on Yamuna 56 km SW Prayagraj, excavated 1949–56 by G.R. Sharma (Allahabad University).
🇭🇷 Croatia · Submerged site
Illyrian to Byzantine (c. 400 BCE – 614 CE) · Illyrian Daors / Greek / Roman Illyrian / Byzantine
Neretva river harbour – quay 50 m at –0.8 m in Vid marsh behind Neretva delta.
