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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Late Bronze Age to Byzantine (c.3000 BCE–12th century CE; peak Julio-Claudian to Severan) · Carian → Hellenistic Greek → Roman → Byzantine
Aphrodite's marble city with 30,000-seat stadium, Tetrapylon and Sebasteion reliefs.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Classical (regional) · Classical
Central Pavlopetri Enclosure Inner — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-43) at Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece is a Classical (regional) submerged city of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Carnac–Morbihan Neolithic
Crucuno (Middle Neolithic c.4000–3500 BCE) near Crucuno hamlet between Plouharnel and Erdeven is a rare double monument: a 7.5-m classic dolmen passage grave with 40-t capstone 5 m high plus an…
🇲🇹 Malta · Underground city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Hypogeum Settlement B — Hypogeum, Paola (59-18) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Early Historic (regional) underground city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1480–1536 CE) · Inca (Topa Inca Yupanqui – Wanka campaign)
Planned Inca city founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui c.1480 to replicate Cusco as headquarters for conquering Guarco (Huarcu) kingdom of Cañete valley: full Qorikancha-like Temple of the Sun with…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Middle to Late Sarmatian · Late Sarmatian
Karaoba west: 7 chalk-marl kurgans extending field N-S 1.8 km toward Caspian lowland.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Egyptian New Kingdom extraction to Kushite Napatan/Meroitic · Kushite (25th Dynasty / Napatan / Meroitic)
Kushite holy city at Kawa (Gematen) — Temple T of Taharqa c.683 BCE plus hundreds of small sandstone pyramids 3–7 m for Meroitic elite 700 BCE–400 CE.
🇦🇺 Australia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Murujuga — Submerged Petroglyph Terrace (Dampier, Australia) in Western Australia, Murujuga, Dampier, Australia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 …
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Neolithic 1500–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–200 CE · Isan Khorat Plateau (Neolithic → Bronze → Iron)
Non Nok Tha — Isan Neolithic–Iron Age cemetery village (1500 BCE–200 CE, 300 burials) 90 km west Khon Kaen, Phu Wiang district, excavated 1966–68 Bayard (Otago) and Solheim.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (classical antiquity to c.640 CE earthquake) · Pisidian → Hellenistic → Roman Imperial → Byzantine
Pisidian highland Roman city at 1,600 m with restored Antonine Nymphaeum and cliff theatre.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Final Bronze to Early Iron Age (c.1200–800 BCE) · Nuragic (Final Bronze–Early Iron)
The Santa Cristina well temple (Final Bronze–Early Iron Age, c.1200–800 BCE) near Paulilatino is Sardinia's finest nuragic well sanctuary: a perfect keyhole stair 12 m deep with 25 basalt steps…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hittite Empire (Old to New Kingdom) · Hittite (Nesite with Hurrian scribes)
Hittite administrative second capital (c.1600–1180 BCE, peak 1400–1200 BCE) on two hills Ağılönü and Tepelerarası, built by Hatti kings as storehouse/forward capital during Kaskaean wars when Hattusa…
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Southern Pavlopetri Ridge B — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-13) at Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece is a Early Historic (regional) submerged city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNB to Pottery Neolithic · Middle Euphrates PPNB
Tell Halula Euphrates Neolithic at Middle Euphrates, Aleppo, Syria is a PPNB to Pottery Neolithic ancient village of the Middle Euphrates PPNB tradition, built c.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Classical Armenia Artaxiad–Arsacid (1st century CE; preceded by Bronze fortress) · Hellenistic–Roman Armenian (Artaxiad client kingdom under Neronic patronage)
Only standing Greco-Roman Ionic temple in post-Soviet Armenia (77 CE) over organ-pipe basalt gorge.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk Expansion) · Uruk-influenced North Mesopotamian (Nagar)
Late Chalcolithic Eye Temple platform at Tell Brak (Nagar) c.3800 BCE: 40×30 m earliest monumental terrace with alabaster eye idols — millennium precursor to ziggurat.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
OCP 1200 → PGW 1100–600 → NBPW 600–300 BCE · Upper Gangetic OCP → PGW → NBPW (Gangetic Iron Age)
Atranjikhera — PGW–NBPW stratigraphic type-site (1200 BCE–300 BCE) on Kali Nadi near Etah, excavated 1962–69 by R.C. Gaur (AMU).
🇹🇭 Thailand · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Ayutthaya — Wat Mahathat Bayon-Style Prang Ancillary (Thailand) in Ayutthaya, Ayutthaya Historical Park, Wat Mahathat, Thailand is a Bronze Age to Classica…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Cederberg — Stadsaal Cave Ancillary Panel (South Africa) in Western Cape, Cederberg, Stadsaal, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to early Napatan, c.1200-750 BCE (Ramesside to 25th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian / Kushite
Hillat el-Arab cemetery 3 km south of Jebel Barkal at foot of holy mountain: tumuli, mastabas and small steep pyramids (6-8 m base) with painted chapels for Kushite elite 1200-750 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Intermediate Moche 100–700 CE (Sipán tombs 100–300 CE Early Moche, late tombs to 700) · Moche (Mochica, north coast of Peru)
Moche necropolis-platform complex (100–700 CE) with two adobe pyramids (Huaca Rajada 10 m and Huaca de la Raya) covering 10 elite tombs – crowning discovery of 1987 Lord of Sipán (Señor de Sipán,…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Pseudoarchaeology 1890–1953 (claimed Sangam I 10,000 BCE) · Tamil purist revival + Scott-Elliott Lemuria
1890s Tamil Lemuria variant claiming 49 Tamil sangams on mid-Indian Ocean continent — axial tilt pseudo.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Lower Rajasthan Necropolis B — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-26) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) temple complex of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Formative to Early Intermediate · Kotosh–Chavín–Wari local (Tantamayo highland)
Formative hilltop temple-citadel (1500 BCE–1000 CE) above Tantamayo on knife-edge jalca ridgetop at 3900 m, with Kotosh-tradition rock-walled temple pyramid 15 m, sunken court, and...
