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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age III–IV (c.2700–2000 BCE) · Syrian EBA (Ebla–Marra corridor)
Jabbul EB walled town 20 ha (c.2700–2000 BCE, shaft tombs with equid teams, gold jewellery).
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Palaeolithic–Neolithic (130,000–3000 BCE) · Palaeolithic to Neolithic — Thessalian cave sequence
Limestone cave near Meteora, Thessaly, with the longest continuous stratigraphic sequence in Greece, spanning 130,000 years from Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Chalcolithic (5500–3500 BCE, Trypillia A–CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Eponymous type site of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, excavated 1893 by Vikentiy Khvoika (Chvojka) on the Dnieper near Kyiv.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Late Pleistocene to present (~4000 BCE – contemporary) · Bininj/Mungguy (Aboriginal Australian)
Five main sandstone galleries on the Nadab floodplain edge of the Arnhem escarpment display the classic X-ray style: translucent kangaroo, emu, long-necked turtles and thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Zambujeiro — Cromlech Segment 3 (Évora) in Alentejo, Évora, Portugal is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late …
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Mauretanian to Late Roman (4th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Mauri / Phoenician / Roman
Augustan Atlantic colonia Zilis (Asilah) with purple-dye garum ceti.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Late Ife to Yoruba Oyo-Benin (1100–1928) · Yoruba Idanre (Udane)
Idanre Hills (Oke Idanre) is the hilltop abandoned Yoruba city 680 m above sea on Inselberg 3 km N of Idanre town, occupied 11th–1928 c.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Early Holocene Mesolithic → Early Neolithic (Starčevo) · Iron Gates Mesolithic → Starčevo
Mesolithic to Early Neolithic trapezoidal-house village (9500–5400 BCE) wedged on the Iron Gates gorge of the Danube, famous for 54 trapezoidal floors of limestone-hard red plaster, sandstone…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Lepenski Vir — Sector C Trapezoidal House C44 in Bor District, Donji Milanovac, Serbia is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attri…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian / Roman (Hellenistic to Late Antique) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian–Roman hill city with neo-Punic mausoleum, dolmens and Trajan's arch.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (~800 BCE – 100 CE; Oakbank 460 BCE – 200 BCE) · Atlantic Scottish Iron Age (Caledonian)
One of 18 Iron Age timber islets in Loch Tay, Oakbank comprises a 30-m oak pile ring with horizontal alder floors still preserved 2 m deep in cold waterlogged peat.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Middle queen pyramid of Pepi II at South Saqqara, dedicated to Iput II (possibly daughter of Pepi I).
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Sanxingdui — Pit 3 Bronze Mask Deposit in Sichuan, Guanghan, Sanxingdui, China is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Br…
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation (Bronzo Medio/Recente)
UNESCO archetype nuraghe in central Sardinia — trilobate basalt tower with four bastions, tholos chambers and 55-hut village, 1500-1000 BCE.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Ur III (c.5500–2000 BCE; temple sequence defines Chalcolithic Eridu–Ubaid horizon) · Ubaid → Uruk → Early Dynastic → Ur III
Type-site of Ubaid period — 1919 Ninhursag temple with copper bulls gave Chalcolithic its name.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Berenike (Bernice) — Harbour North Anchorage (Red Sea, Egypt) in Red Sea, Berenike, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock shelter
Middle to Later Stone Age (227–44 ka to Iron Age) · Early Homo sapiens → San foragers
Border Cave is the 50×35 m west-facing shelter 600 m on Lebombo crest 365 m from Eswatini border with 227–44 ka continuous stratigraphy spanning ESA to Iron Age and early Homo sapiens fossils BC 1…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Chan Chan — Nik An Compound North Audience Hall in La Libertad, Trujillo, Chan Chan, Peru is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic-EBA (c.6000-2500 BCE) · Balkan Chalcolithic-EBA (Gumelnița-Karanovo–Vinča)
Dikili Tash — buried late tell/village at Eastern Macedonia.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Erlitou — Palace 2 Platform Ancillary (Henan) in Henan, Yanshi, Erlitou, China is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Br…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Woodland Glades 450 BCE–1700 CE · Belle Glade (Calusa/Glades)
Glades woodland pond-mortuary and 1200 m causeway with charnel house, wood effigies in submerged pond.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
PPNA to Early PPNB · Upper Tigris PPN (Göbekli sphere northern fringe)
Upper Tigris PPNA village with three T-pillar buildings and skull cult, salvage-saved from Ambar Dam.
🇪🇸 Spain · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Los Millares — Fort 1 (Almizaraque Sector) in Andalusia, Almería, Santa Fe de Mondújar, Spain is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attribut…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Luxor Temple — Roman Chapel Ancillary Niche in Luxor, Luxor Temple, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Old–New K…
