🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Spruce Hill Earthworks
Middle Woodland / Late Woodland debated · Hopewell tradition or Fort Ancient tradition
Hilltop stone-walled enclosure 42 ha above Paint Creek; Hopewell vs Fort Ancient debate.
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🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Neolithic to present (c.4000 BCE–present; Bronze Age city from 3000 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Third great Phoenician city-state, Sidon was famed for glassmaking, purple dye, and as mother-city of Tyre.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland / Late Woodland debated · Hopewell tradition or Fort Ancient tradition
Hilltop stone-walled enclosure 42 ha above Paint Creek; Hopewell vs Fort Ancient debate.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf–Ubaid–Late Chalcolithic (6th–4th mill. BCE) through Mitanni to Late Bronze Age (c.6000–1200 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Halaf/Ubaid, Late Chalcolithic, Mitanni-Hurrian)
Tell Brak (ancient Nagar/Nawar) is the largest prehistoric mound in northeastern Syria (main mound 60 ha, 43 m high; outer town 130 ha), occupied 6th–2nd mill.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA through Iron Age; MBA peak · Yamhad (Aleppo) vassal; Syro-Hittite → Assyrian
MBA palace city (Zalwar?) with basalt lion gate, cuneiform archive and planned lower town — Yamhad-period vassal capital in Islahiye corridor.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Roman to Umayyad (3rd–8th c CE; Byzantine peak 5th–8th c) · Roman / Byzantine / Ghassanid / Umayyad
Desert frontier city on Via Nova Traiana, Umm ar-Rasas contains Roman castrum, five Byzantine churches with superb mosaic floors, and the intact 14×6 m mosaic map in St Stephen's Church (718 CE) –…
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ancient City of Down-Henge in British Columbia, Canada is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) · Scythian / Saka
Berel — Kurgan 11 Ancillary Timber Chamber (Kazakhstan) in East Kazakhstan, Berel, Kazakhstan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) kurgan attributed to S…
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tomb
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Gonur Depe — Royal Necropolis Tomb 3220 in Mary, Gonur Depe, Turkmenistan is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed to Old–New Kingdom Egy…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Dynastic–Old Babylonian (c.2700–1700 BCE) · Sumerian → Amorite Kisurra kingdom
Twin mound Abu Hatab (Kisurra) in the Euphrates back-marshes: Isin-Larsa era kingdom squeezed between Isin and Larsa, palatial archives (EB Kisurra texts), and ED IIIb votive stone of King Ibaya.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic (Solutrean/Magdalenian, ~17,000–15,000 BCE) · Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherer (Magdalenian)
Sealed Upper Paleolithic cave on the Vézère renowned as the 'Sistine Chapel of Prehistory' for about 600 parietal paintings and nearly 1,500 engravings executed with astonishing naturalism.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical 429–400 BCE · Ancient Greek Arcadian (Phigalian)
Iktinos' mountain Apollo temple mixing all three orders with earliest Corinthian capital.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Early Holocene to Late Antiquity (9500 BCE–500 CE) · Holocene Saharan pastoral / Nubian
1000-km Yellow Nile former tributary with 400 Holocene pastoral scatters 9500–2000 BCE.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hillfort
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Heiligenberg — Double Rampart Outer (Heidelberg) in Baden-Württemberg, Heidelberg, Germany is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Hallsta…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
High Bank Works — Octagon Northeast Corner in Ohio, Ross County, High Bank, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthwork attr…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Ingoldisthorpe-Low Ancient Village in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic to Middle Bronze (c.6000–1500 BCE) · Hassuna-Halaf → Ninevite 5 → Akkadian → Khabur ware
Large Tigris terrace tell (320 × 280 m, 15 m high) in the Ilısu reservoir zone, excavated 2002–2011 by G. Kozbe and Halu...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom founder (Amenhotep III c.1380 BCE) revived 25th Dynasty Taharqo 690 BCE to Meroitic · Kushite (Napatan 25th Dynasty, Taharqo) Egyptianised
Large Kushite temple complex on east bank north of Dongola plain, with Temple T (Taharqo, 690 BCE, 40×30 m sandstone pylon), Temple A (Amenhotep III) and extensive town with pyramidal tombs south.
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock-cut
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Naqsh-e Rostam — North Tomb Facade (Pars, Achaemenid) in Fars, Marvdasht, Naqsh-e Rostam, Iran is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attribute…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Susa — Apadana North Column Base in Khuzestan, Shush, Susa, Iran is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age urban…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Neolithic to Persian (c.5000–400 BCE; peak Judah fortress 900–586 BCE) · Canaanite → Judahite fortress → Assyrian → Persian
Tel Lachish is the great Judahite fortress-city (second after Jerusalem), famed for 701 BCE Sennacherib siege ramp — Assyrian reliefs at Nineveh show Lachish ba...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Early to Mid Holocene (6000–3000 BCE) · Saharan pastoral Neolithic (Gilf Kebir)
Wadi Sora (Wadi Sura) Cave of Swimmers (Cave II) in Gilf Kebir is Saharan pastoral rock art 6000–3000 BCE, famous for 1933 Almasy discovery of 'swimming' floating figures (actually swimming in wadi…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Funnel Beaker (TRB)
Neolithic pile dwelling (c.3000 BCE) of the Funnel Beaker culture on the former shore of Lake Vättern, with piles preserved in peat, pottery, flint and cemeteries.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Moche (Mochica) 100–800 CE (Huaca de la Luna 100–600 CE; Sol 450–600 CE peak) · Moche (Moche culture)
Twin massive adobe pyramid complexes of Moche state (100–800 CE): Huaca del Sol 43 m high (185 × 41 m base, largest pre-Columbian adobe mass in Americas, 143 million bricks stamped with maker's…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Mesolithic to Bronze Age (8000 BCE – 1500 BCE) · Pontic Steppe hunter-gatherer to Yamna/Catacomb
West gully offshoots of Azov Stone Graves with bull and horse pecked panels.
