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🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Old Angkor Settlement Inner — Angkor (60-41) at Angkor, Cambodia is a Early Historic (regional) temple complex of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Medieval (4000 BCE–1400 CE) · North Syrian → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Islamic
Oylum Höyük Lower Town is the 30-ha extra-mural city wrapping the 20-m citadel on the Kilis plain.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Middle Stone Age (164–50 ka) · Early Homo sapiens coastal foragers
Pinnacle Point is the 164,000–50,000 BP sea-cliff cave complex (PP13B, PP5-6) 12 km E of Mossel Bay where Marean found earliest heat-treated silcrete (72 ka), bladelet microliths, marine shellfish…
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Portus Claudius — North Mole (Trajan Harbour, Ostia) in Lazio, Fiumicino, Portus, Italy is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attri…
🇲🇹 Malta · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Sacred Hypogeum Citadel Outer — Hypogeum, Paola (59-37) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom, Amarna Period, c.1350 BCE (Akhenaten / Amenhotep IV) · Ancient Egyptian (Akhenaten)
Sesebi walled town on west bank between 2nd-3rd Cataracts: rectangular fortified settlement 270×200 m with Aten temple (Akhenaten) later converted to Amun temple by Seti I.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Early Dynastic · 2nd Dynasty Egyptian
Shunet el-Zebib Enclosure Abydos at Abydos, Shunet el-Zebib, Egypt is a Early Dynastic megalithic of the 2nd Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Southern Khajuraho Platform West — Khajuraho (60-22) at Khajuraho, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pre-Clovis to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Cactus Hill)
Sandy terrace pre-Clovis site (16,000 BCE) with blades beneath Clovis on Nottoway River, Virginia.
🇺🇸 United States · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Crystal River — Mound B Shell Midden Terrace (Florida) in Florida, Citrus County, Crystal River, United States is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 …
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Early Kerma to Classic Kerma (Ancient Kerma 2500 BCE to Classic 1700 BCE, peak 2000–1500 BCE) · Kerma culture (Nubian, pre-Kushite)
Completely buried sacred city 1.5 km south of Kerma Western Deffufa, discovered by Bonnet-Honegger Swiss mission 2003 with magnetometry: 250×200 m oval enclosure with palisade, ditch, and 13…
🇲🇹 Malta · Tomb
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Eastern Hypogeum Citadel North — Hypogeum, Paola (59-05) at Hypogeum, Paola, Malta is a Chalcolithic (regional) tomb of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Eastern Lalibela Hilltop West — Lalibela (59-11) at Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon · Moche (North Coast)
Moche polychrome pyramid complex (100 BCE–750 CE) with Lady of Cao tattooed queen burial and 30-m muraled Huaca.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Ptolemaic (Naqada to Late) · Egyptian Upper Egyptian → Pharaonic
Walled twin of Hierakonpolis — goddess Nekhbet vulture cult centre and Predynastic to Ptolemaic town with massive mudbrick walls (11 m thick, 500×550 m) dated Early Dynastic (c.3100 BCE) to Late…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (Hacilar I equivalent) · Beyşehir-Hacilar transition
Late Neolithic lakeside tell (c.6400–6000 BCE, with Chalcolithic reuse c.5500 BCE) on Beyşehir Lake terrace, excavated 1969–71 by Bordaz & Alpes team and later re-studied by Steadman/Arbuckle.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Gelidonya Wreck — North Ridge Scatter (Kaş, Turkey) in Antalya, Kaş, Cape Gelidonya, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city a…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Henan Terrace South — Henan, Erlitou (54-45) at Henan, Erlitou, China is a Classical (regional) ancient village of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Underground city
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Great Lalibela Enclosure North — Lalibela (59-10) at Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Bronze Age (regional) underground city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Late to Final Jomon 2000–500 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (Lake Toya)
Late–Final Jomon permanent settlement (c.2000–500 BCE) at Lake Toya, counterpart to Takasago cemetery — 1.2 ha Irie terrace with 50+ pit dwellings, large shell middens, and lakeside fishing weirs…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Late Jomon (2000–1000 BCE) · Late Jomon (northern Tōhoku)
Late Jomon ritual stone complex (c.2000–1700 BCE) at Kitaakita, Akita — four large stone circles (largest 45 m dia.) with 200+ river cobble andesite arrangements, sunken pit structures, and adjacent…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNA to PPNB · Jordanian Highlands PPN
Kharaysin Naviform Village Jordan at Zarqa, Kharaysin, Jordan is a PPNA to PPNB ancient village of the Jordanian Highlands PPN tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (Early Formative) · Casma–Sechín (Las Haldas coastal)
Arid coastal initial pyramid center (1800–1000 BCE) on dune 20 km south of Casma at 35 m above Samanco Bay, with four sequential sunken circular/plaza courts descending to Main Mou...
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Chalcolithic · Los Millares culture
Los Millares Fortified Settlement at Andalusia, Almería, Spain is a Chalcolithic ancient village of the Los Millares culture tradition, built c.
