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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Jezirah 0–III (Chalcolithic to Early Dyn to Akkadian) · North Mesopotamian Jezirah (Ebla-Mari world)
Circular double-walled Early Bronze city (c.3400–2200 BCE, EJ 0–III) in 130mm rainfall steppe — proof Jezirah cities flourished without southern irrigation via dry-farming + wadi runoff.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan 3rd c CE → Hepthalite 6th–7th c → Early Islamic 8th c · Kushan–Hepthalite Buddhist (Ghazni Zabul)
Tepe Sardar — Kushan–Hepthalite Buddhist monastic complex (3rd c CE–8th c CE) 3 km SE Ghazni, excavated 1956–79 IsMEO (Taddei, Verardi).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Byzantine; EBA III–MBA II, Hittite, Neo-Hittite, Assyrian (Iron II) · Euphrates–Islahiye EBA → Neo-Hittite Luwian → Neo-Assyrian provincial
56-m Neo-Assyrian provincial tell (Azâ) with EBA–Iron II fortified town and moat between Sajur and Euphrates.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Upper Saqqara Enclosure II — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-15) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Azraq depression hunters
Wadi al-Ghadf depression: 4 single-arm kites using 8-m natural caliche bluff as wall.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–4th c. CE) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Acholla (Henchir Botria/Boutria) is a coastal Byzacena city founded Punic 5th c. BCE and Roman colonia, famed for its Trajanic amphitheatre (one of Africa's largest, ~6,000 seats), Byzantine fortress…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Byzantine (5th c. BCE – 6th c. CE) · Punic / Roman Byzacena
Tyrian purple-dye port with murex basins and moles half in surf at Ras Boutria cape, wealthy enough to mint double coins.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) · Andean Formative
Atrousa? Actually Cerro Grande Geoglyph Ancillary South Arm (Chile) in Tarapacá, Cerro Grande, Geoglyph South Arm, Chile is a Formative to Late Intermediat…
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Mississippian (Moundville–Thruston) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland)
Fortified Cumberland River town (1000–1400 CE) with 5 mounds and richest Mississippian stone statuary in Middle TN.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Underground city
Classical (regional) · Classical
Central Saqqara Necropolis Inner — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-28) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Classical (regional) underground city of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Drakensberg — Game Pass Ancillary Shelter North (South Africa) in KwaZulu-Natal, Drakensberg, Game Pass, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (…
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Great Great Zimbabwe Citadel North — Great Zimbabwe (57-13) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Moche (100–800 CE, six building phases A–F, peak 400–650 CE) · Moche (Mochica, ceremonial counterpart to Del Sol administrative)
Ceremonial Moche pyramid (100–800 CE, 45×38 m 21 m high with six construction phases superpositioned — temple buried inside temple) at Cerro Blanco base opposite Del Sol.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Inner Great Zimbabwe Enclosure Outer — Great Zimbabwe (57-14) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Inner Great Zimbabwe Necropolis West — Great Zimbabwe (57-37) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Chaco Canyon Citadel Inner — Chaco Canyon (55-12) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Chalcolithic (regional) ancient city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Badia Chalcolithic with Azraq Jawa interaction
Maitland north plain: 6 small family-size kites on Azraq gravel plain 6 km north of mesa.
🇧🇸 Bahamas · Temple complex
Pseudoarchaeology 1975 Valentine claim (claimed 10,000 BCE Atlantis) · Valentine UFO/Atlantis proponents
1975 claim second Bimini 'Mill Reef wall' 1.5 km north of Road — seasonal beachrock sill disproved by worm tubes.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Outer Rajasthan Village North — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-49) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Pedra Furada — Rock Shelter North Panel (Piauí, Brazil) in Piauí, Serra da Capivara, Pedra Furada, Brazil is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–50…
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Royal Rajasthan Platform Outer — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-07) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) megalithic of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic Sarai Khola I (4000–3500) → Kot Dijian II (3000–2600 BCE) · Sarai Khola / Kot Diji (Taxila Neolithic)
Neolithic–Early Harappan village and cemetery (c.4000–2500 BCE) in Taxila Valley, Punjab — type-site for Sarai Khola culture (Period I Neolithic with ground stone axes, red-burnished ware; Period II…
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient village
Middle Bronze Age Sintashta (2100–1800 BCE) · Sintashta (Indo-Iranian, Andronovo predecessor)
Fortified Bronze Age proto-town (c.2100–1800 BCE, Sintashta culture, late Middle Bronze) — type-site for Sintashta–Petrovka–Arkaim 'Country of Towns' (20 fortified settlements).
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Iron Age to Medieval (500 BCE–1600 CE) · Tuareg / Hausa / pre-Tuareg herders
Salt-production town with 3,500 clay pans from 500 BCE and iron horizon, twin of Azelik copper.
