🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Chunchucmil
Early Classic · Maya (Northwest Yucatan)
Grided Classic metropolis (350–650 CE) on NW Yucatan desert — 79 quadrangles, 30k at 300/km² without cenote.
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🇱🇹 Lithuania · Earthwork
Early Middle Ages (850–1250 CE) · Curonian / Baltic
Apuolė Hillfort – Earliest Lithuanian Stronghold in Klaipėda County, Skuodas District, Apuolė village, Lithuania is a Early Middle Ages (850–1250 CE) Curonian / Baltic site built pre-850 CE, siege…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex
Hepthalite 5th–7th c CE (Tokharistan Hepthalite) · Hepthalite Bactria (White Huns Tokharistan)
Balalyk Tepe — Hephthalite wall-painting palace (6th c CE) 30 km north Termez, excavated 1950s Stavisky.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Preclassic to Late Classic (600–800 CE peak Rio Bec–Chenes, moat c.100 BCE–150 CE early) · Maya (Rio Bec–Chenes, Becán polity)
Largest moated Maya city (550 BCE–1000 CE, peak 600–800 CE) 5.75 ha enclosed by artificial ditch and rampart (1900 m perimeter moat) with 7 entrances: Structure VIII twin-tower pyramid 32 m high east…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mauryan → Sunga–Satavahana 3rd c BCE–5th c CE · Sunga–Satavahana Vidisha — Early Historic Central India
Besnagar Vidisha Ancient City — capital of Dasharna janapada and Sunga Sungabhadra (3rd c BCE–5th c CE) on Betwa-Bes confluence 3 km north of Vidisha, excavated 1913–15 by Marshall–Lake and 1963–64…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Classic · Maya (Northwest Yucatan)
Grided Classic metropolis (350–650 CE) on NW Yucatan desert — 79 quadrangles, 30k at 300/km² without cenote.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Middle to Late Bronze Age (c.1600–1000 BCE) · Nuragic (Bonnanaro–Middle Bronze)
Sa Domu 'e S'Orcu (Middle–Late Bronze Age c.1600–1000 BCE) on the Giara di Siddi basalt plateau is a 17-m giants' tomb with a 4.5-m high crescent forecourt (hemicycle) of basalt orthostats and a 10-m…
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Great Great Zimbabwe Reservoir I — Great Zimbabwe (57-46) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Bronze (9500 BCE–2000 BCE) · PPN → Chalcolithic → EBA
Grike Havuz Ritual Platform is the limestone-framed T-pillar pool edge at the karstic Havuz depression in the Karababa basin northeast of Şanlıurfa.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Saqqara Sanctuary South — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-13) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler Karahan
Karahantepe Stone Pillars Karahan at Şanlıurfa, Tek Tek, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic temple complex of the Taş Tepeler Karahan tradition, built c.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Little Chaco Canyon Terrace Outer — Chaco Canyon (55-44) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Medieval (regional) temple complex of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Rajasthan Citadel A — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-40) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Outer Derinkuyu Fortress Inner — Derinkuyu, Cappadocia (59-02) at Derinkuyu, Cappadocia, Turkey is a Iron Age (regional) tomb of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Imperial (42 CE – 6th century CE) · Roman
Rome's vast Claudian and Trajanic artificial harbours now inland through siltation, once Rome's maritime gateway.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Great Zimbabwe Terrace Outer — Great Zimbabwe (57-35) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Underground city
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Royal Lalibela Reservoir Inner — Lalibela (59-08) at Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Early Historic (regional) underground city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Sacred Great Zimbabwe Sanctuary East — Great Zimbabwe (57-16) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Sacred Rajasthan Fortress Outer — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-44) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Medieval (regional) ancient city of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Underground city
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Saqqara Ridge II — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-45) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) underground city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic to Iron Age II (c.6000–800 BCE; continuum sample) · Iranian Plateau local → Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite (?) → Iron Age Median-affinity
Iran's longest tell with two ziggurats — carbon-painted Sialk ware and Median horse burials.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Tyre — Southern Basin Submerged Quay North (Lebanon) in South, Tyre, Southern Basin, Lebanon is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city …
🇸🇩 Sudan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Aker? Actually Ray Dan Ancillary Channel North (Nile, Sudan) in River Nile, Ray Dan Channel North, Sudan, Sudan is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–140…
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Apteka Bank Shoal — Submerged Settlement North (Azov) in Krasnodar, Temryuk, Apteka Bank, Russia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged c…
