🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Karakol Kurgans
Early Bronze Age, Karakol culture 2500-1800 BCE · Karakol culture (Altai Early Bronze)
Early Bronze stone-slab cist kurgans (2500-1800 BCE) at Karakol with tri-color polychrome slab paintings, pre-Pazyryk Altai.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
New Kingdom to Roman (1550 BCE–30 BCE–300 CE) · Egyptian Theban; 18th Dynasty onward
Nile's 50-ha sandstone quarry-narrow with 32 shrines 1500 BCE–300 CE; Horemheb speos and flood stelae at 400-m gorge.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age, Karakol culture 2500-1800 BCE · Karakol culture (Altai Early Bronze)
Early Bronze stone-slab cist kurgans (2500-1800 BCE) at Karakol with tri-color polychrome slab paintings, pre-Pazyryk Altai.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c. Viking Age) · Scandinavian Varangians + Prussian Sambians
Kaup-Wiskiauten Viking Cemetery (Mochovoye) in Kaliningrad Oblast, Zelenogradsk District, Mochovoye village on Curonian Spit edge, Russia is a Early Middle Ages (9th–11th c.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Sarmato-Saka Caspian · Sarmato-Saka Caspian lowland
Sarmato-Saka royal kurgan (480 BCE) at -5 m Caspian depression with mudbrick vault and female elite griffin headdress, lowest kurgan globally.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Middle Sarmatian · Western Sarmatian (Aorsian fringe)
Isolated Sarmatian priestess kurgan on red marl hill above Uil River: 38 m with stone circle and Levantine beads.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age · Kitoi, Serovo, Glazkovo, Kurumchin
Baikal white marble 20-m cliff with 70 anthropomorphs 6000–800 BCE and surviving red ochre, Okladnikov corpus.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Late Neolithic to Bronze · Majiayao, Qijia, Siba (Gansu corridor Neolithic–Bronze)
2025 east-bank Yellow River deer paintings opposite Dahekou west bank pecked panels.
🇸🇾 Syria · Earthwork
Neolithic-Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Bishri plateau Neolithic to Early Bronze pastoralists
28 limestone kite traps (4700-3600 BCE) on Jebel Bishri escarpment above the Euphrates, with plaster-lined pits later reused.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Late Classical to Roman (Hellenistic oracle peak) · Colophonian Greek under Persian and later Roman oracle administration
Claros oracular bay temple Ionic prostyle over sacred pool feeding chasm, oracle hydrology.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Roman to Byzantine (130 CE – 650 CE) · Roman / Hadrianic
Northern Nile bay of Hadrian's Antinoopolis — 120 m quay at +0.5 m and tetrastyle gate.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic Arabian · North Khaybar pastoral ceremonialists
Northern Khaybar mustatil line: 22 early Neolithic ritual platforms along 8.4 km lava–sandstone beach ridge.
🇬🇷 Greece · Settlement
Minoan Late Minoan IA (1627–1500 BCE collapse) recycled in Plato 359 BCE · Minoan / Cycladic
Thera's 1600 BCE Minoan eruption as kernel for Plato's Atlantis — Marinatos 1939 Minoan-Thalassocracy translation.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Antique (c. 300 BCE – 365 CE submerged) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman
Cleopatra's palace island in Alexandria Eastern Harbour — Ptolemaic royal isle now 6 m down with sphinx and granite palaces.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Early Bronze I–II (3000–2500 BCE) · Troad Early Bronze
Early Bronze I–II (3000–2500 BCE) tumulus of Troad Early Bronze in Çanakkale Province, Troad (c.3000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Middle–Late Chalcolithic (5000–3500 BCE) · Dalma–Godin Chalcolithic
Middle–Late Chalcolithic (5000–3500 BCE) tell of Dalma–Godin Chalcolithic in Kermanshah Province, Kangavar Valley (c.5000 BCE).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tumulus
Scythian Late Classical (4th c BCE) · Pontic Scythian (Scythian–Bosporan elite, 4th c BCE)
350 BCE composite kurgan with 1,150-g solid gold Scythian pectoral — queen's unrobbed catacomb at Pokrov-Nikopol.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kerma (1800–1500 BCE) to Napatan–Meroitic (1500 BCE–400 CE) · Sub-Saharan African coalition (southern) and Kerma/Egyptian
Sub-Saharan sacred city 400×200 m north of Kerma (1800 BCE–400 CE), African temple platforms 6–8 m high.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Late Medieval (700 BCE – 1428 CE) · Greek / Elean / Frankish / Venetian
Crusader Glarentza mint-port (1205–1428) built atop Classical Kyllene trireme harbour — submerged moles at −5 m under north walls mapped by marine geophysics.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early to Middle Formative 900–400 BCE (Olmec florescence, post-San Lorenzo apogee) · Olmec (Olmeca, language affiliation Gulf-Mixe-Zoque hypothesised)
Apogee Olmec capital (900–400 BCE) – first pyramid in Mesoamerica? – 31 m (some readings 34 m) earthen fluted pyramid-pyramid (C-1) with 10 sunken segments, Complex A (north-palatial plaza with…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qajar (1812) · Persian Qajar (Qazvin city governors Sardar)
Qajar brick 5-dome ab-anbar 45×12×8 m with 6 badgirs and 51-step access 1812, largest in Iran.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Iron Age Phoenician to Roman (c. 990 BCE – 500 CE) · Phoenician (Tyrian) / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Phoenician island city's drowned northern harbour basin – jetty and moles 2–3 m down north of Alexander's causeway.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) · Elazığ–Murat Chalcolithic
Late Chalcolithic – Early Bronze (4000–3000 BCE) tell of Elazığ–Murat Chalcolithic in Elazığ Province, Keban Reservoir (c.4000 BCE).
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Karkota dynasty (Kashmir Hindu, 625–855 CE) · Kashmiri Shaiva–Saura (Surya) with Gandhara–Greek syncretism
Lalitaditya 725–56 Kashmir's greatest: 84-column peristyle on Mattan Karewa, Greco-Buddhist limestone, Miri-sacked.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tasmola 800-300 BCE · Tasmola Saka (western Saka)
Tasmola culture earthen kurgans (800-300 BCE) with 12-m dromoi catacombs, western Saka type-site at Karaganda.
