🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Ulippira (Henchir el-Biar)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman
Olive press village with Roman counterweights and vats still visible among olive groves, typical of High Tell oleoculture.
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🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman
Olive press village with Roman counterweights and vats still visible among olive groves, typical of High Tell oleoculture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late Middle Kingdom (late 12th Dynasty c.1800 BCE) Amenemhat IV?/Sobekneferu? · 12th–13th Dynasty transitional late Middle Kingdom
Mazghuna South excavated by Petrie 1910 report Ernest Mackay 1911, unfinished late 12th structure with massive quartzite.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Uruk (3800–3200 BCE) temple; city 4200 BCE · Northern Uruk / Ninevite 5
Tell Brak excavated by Mallowan 1930s and Oates 1976–, Eye Temple with thousands of Eye Idols, proto-Zagros trade centre.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Pyramid
Classical · Classical
Classical pyramid at Central Anatolia.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Sahel olive road vicus with long press row and cisterns, typical Bydacena oleoculture landscape feeding Hadrumetum port.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite ancient-village at Orkney.
🇫🇷 France · Pyramid
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite pyramid at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Commagene (80–50 BCE Antiochus I) · Commagene Greek-Persian syncretism
Arsameia excavated by Dörner & Young 1935–64, inscription records founding by Arsames c.230 BCE and Antiochus reshaping.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age ancient-village at Haryana.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chachapoya late (1300–1470 CE) · Chachapoya later Inca fringe
Abiseo Gran Pajatén discovered by Savoy 1963, excavated 1985, mosaic fretwork with human heads, UNESCO 1990 Rio Abiseo.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) + Early Bronze · Late Chalcolithic Jazira (Hamoukar) → Southern Uruk intrusion
Hamoukar excavated by Gibson & Reichel 1999–, earliest urban battle c.3500 BCE, sling bullets and southern Uruk colony.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Chalcolithic (3000–2000 BCE) · Alcalar / Bell Beaker
Algarve's leading Chalcolithic centre excavated by Estácio da Veiga 1880s, with slate plaques, copper tools and ivory.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon rock-art at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic ancient-village at Hidalgo.
🇫🇷 France · Tell
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic tell at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
PPN (9000–8500 BCE) · Göbeklian
Sayburç 2021 discovery just S of Göbekli, relief 5-figure panel with leopard and ithyphallic man excavated by Özdoğan.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Assyrian (750–610 BCE) · Neo-Assyrian provincial
Harran plain tell excavated by Lloyd & Gökçe 1951–52, yielding 600 tablets including Gilgamesh and astrological omens.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA (9500–8700 BCE) · Mureybetian PPNA
Euphrates PPNA village excavated by Stordeur 1995–99 rescue, EA30 with wild animal engravings and deliberate burning.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (3300 BCE) · Loughcrew Neolithic
Slieve na Calliagh Cairn L excavated by Conwell 1860s, sun beam at equinox lights chamber art, Hag's Chair kerbstone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age megalithic at Orkney.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic to Joseon (3000 BCE–1800 CE palimpsest) · Neolithic–Bronze–Iron–Silla–Joseon layers
Ulsan Daegokcheon excavated by Moon Myung-Dae 1970, UNESCO tentative, 200 petroglyphs prehistoric to Joseon traders.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Classical · Classical
Classical ancient-village at Huanuco.