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🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
Late Bronze Age Egyptian Timna copper · Egyptian mining under Ramesses III
Timna Valley Site 201 — Hathor Mining Temple Ravine in Southern District, Israel is a Late Bronze Age Egyptian Timna copper temple-complex attributed to Egyptian mining under Ramesses III.
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
South Indian Neolithic (2900–1800 BCE) · South Indian Neolithic cattle pastoralists
Utnur — Mahbubnagar Ash Mound in Telangana, India is a South Indian Neolithic (2900–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to South Indian Neolithic cattle pastoralists.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Late 5th c. BCE to Roman · Oropian
Amphiareion of Oropos — Healing Sanctuary in Attica, Greece is a Late 5th c. BCE to Roman temple-complex attributed to Oropian.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Middle Jomon (3500–2500 BCE) · Middle Jomon
Middle Jomon volcanic piedmont village (3500–2500 BCE) — pit houses with Esan obsidian workshop.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Eastern Ganga 1243–1255 CE · Odia / Kalinga Hindu (Surya)
13th-century (1243–1255 CE) Kalinga-style Sun temple built as colossal 30-m high chariot of Surya with 24 giant stone wheels (9.5 ft sundials) pulled by seven horses, originally 68 m shikhara…
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Jersey Passage Grave
Passage grave on Mont Ubé hill, St Clement, Jersey, rectangular chamber, c.4000 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Lycian (5th–4th c. BCE) then Roman · Lycian (Xanthian) Greek
Myra Rock-Tombs Northern Necropolis — Demre Extension in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian (5th–4th c. BCE) then Roman rock_cut attributed to Lycian (Xanthian) Greek.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek (Cyrenean) / Roman
Rock-cut shipsheds and breakwater on Phycus headland north of Cyrene.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, late · Ancient Egyptian
Sixth king of 5th Dynasty's 51.5 m high pyramid at Abusir (79.9 m base), smallest of Abusir cluster, built awkwardly among existing pyramids requiring diverted causeway through Neferirkare complex.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 3rd Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost minor step pyramid of Huni/Sneferu: 3-step limestone pyramid 22.4 m base, only ~5 m high, on east-bank ridge opposite Hermopolis near Zawyet el-Meytin village.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to present ~700 BCE–present · Persian (Median/Achaemenid onward)
71 km 2,115-shaft Zarch qanat - world's longest - still feeding Yazd after 3,000 years.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Dynastic III, c.2600–2350 BCE · Kish civilization / Nagar
Acropolis temple staircase at Tell Beydar (ancient Nabada, c.2600–2350 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze IV (2400–2000 BCE) · Inner Syria EBA
Al-Rawda — Steppe Kite Walled Town in Hama Governorate, Syrian desert steppe, Syria is a Early Bronze IV (2400–2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Inner Syria EBA culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mature Harappan 2650–2100 BCE (with Early/Late phases 3500–1800 BCE) · Indus Valley / Harappan
Harappan metropolis (2650–2100 BCE) on Khadir island in Great Rann of Kutch, the fifth largest Harappan site covering 100 ha with citadel, middle and lower towns and monumental water management.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Minoan to Hellenistic (2200 BCE–100 BCE) · Minoan / Hellenistic
Itanos Submerged Harbour — East Crete in Crete, Lasithi, Greece is a Minoan to Hellenistic (2200 BCE–100 BCE) submerged-city attributed to Minoan / Hellenistic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) · Olba kingdom then Byzantine
Kanytelis (Kanlıdivane) — Cilician Chasm City in Mersin Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE–600 CE) ancient-city attributed to Olba kingdom then Byzantine.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Pavement South in Tigris Plain, Iraq is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Buried city
Early Bronze to Iron (3000–500 BCE) · Canaanite/Phoenician
Sidon — Buried College Site in South Governorate, Phoenician coast, Lebanon is a Early Bronze to Iron (3000–500 BCE) buried city attributed to Canaanite/Phoenician culture.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan (130–230 CE Kanishka) · Kushan (Kanishka)
Surkh Kotal — Baghlan Kushan Fire Temple in Baghlan Province, Afghanistan is a Kushan (130–230 CE Kanishka) temple-complex attributed to Kushan (Kanishka).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Ubaid–Early Jezirah III (c.5000–2300 BCE) · Ubaid → Ninevite-5
Trilogy Kashkashok I–III on Jaghjagh mid-reach: Ubaid hut with Samarra pre-contact, Late Chalcolithic double-temple mound, and ED II dense granaries with Halaf-to-Ninevite transition; Matsutani &…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early–Middle Bronze Age (c.2700–1600 BCE) · Syrian EBA–MBA (Qatna–Qadesh sphere)
Homs hinterland EB–MB tell 9 m high (MB glacis, Qatna corridor satellite) east of Qadesh.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kushan–Khorezm (1st–3rd c. CE) · Khorezmian (Artav)
Toprak-Kala — Khorezm Palace of Artaxerxes in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan is a Kushan–Khorezm (1st–3rd c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Khorezmian (Artav).
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age
Largest Viking ring fortress (240 m outer diameter, 287 m with moat) on the Limfjord at Aggersborg, enclosing 48 longhouses (32 inside, 16 bailey) — garrison for ~1100 men.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Hellenistic Seleucid–Greco-Bactrian 300–145 BCE · Seleucid / Greco-Bactrian (Greek in Central Asia)
Hellenistic polis (c.300–145 BCE) at Oxus confluence, founded by Seleucus I as Alexandria on Oxus, excavated 1964–1979 by French DAFA.
