🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Cave of the Nympholept — Mt Hymettus
Classical · Athenian
Cave of the Nympholept — Mt Hymettus in Attica, Greece is a Classical cave attributed to Athenian. Cult cave 40 m deep with carved niches for nymph reliefs on Mt Hymettus.
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🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (4000 BCE–1500 CE) · Nok-related / Hausa
National park shelters with 12 iron furnaces and Shira rock paintings.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Hot-spring road station with bath complex and Byzantine granary fort.
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Classical · Athenian
Cave of the Nympholept — Mt Hymettus in Attica, Greece is a Classical cave attributed to Athenian. Cult cave 40 m deep with carved niches for nymph reliefs on Mt Hymettus.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor (10th c. CE) · Khmer (Rajendravarman)
Prasat Prei — Monticolo Hill in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia is a Angkor (10th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Rajendravarman).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic to Pottery Neolithic (c.8000–7500 BCE; cluster horizon) · Zagros PPN cluster (Ganj Dareh variant)
Harsin satellite PPN hamlet (8000 BCE) 2 km west of classic Ganj Dareh.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze (c.3000–1500 BCE) · EB Euphrates urban → Middle Bronze Amorite
Euphrates terrace walled city (3000–1500 BCE) in Hadidi bend, now under Lake Assad.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic to Bronze Age · Magdalenian / Bronze Age
Karstic cave network in Navarre Pyrenees foothills with Upper Palaeolithic engravings and Holocene deposits, including Magdalenian mobiliary art and early Bronze Age burials.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Iron Age (1000–700 BCE) · Sikel
Cassibile Rock-Cut Necropolis in Sicily, Italy is a Iron Age (1000–700 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sikel. 180+ chamber tombs along Cassibile river gorge cliffs.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient city
Swahili (13th–16th c. CE) · Swahili (Ozi secondary)
Ishakani Ruins — Tana Mouth in Tana River County, Kenya is a Swahili (13th–16th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili (Ozi secondary). Tana mouth Swahili creek town near Ozi gorge.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Vinča
Vinča culture settlement at Pločnik (c. 5500–4700 BCE) on Toplica River terrace, renowned for earliest copper metallurgy (c. 5000 BCE), pit houses and Vinča figurines.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Hilltop municipium with cyclopean walls and Augustan arch.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Classical–Hellenistic (500 BCE–200 BCE) · Karian
Krya — Karia Murex Dye Station in Muğla Province, Turkey is a Classical–Hellenistic (500 BCE–200 BCE) submerged-city attributed to Karian.
🇧🇸 Bahamas · Submerged site
Natural beachrock formation Pleistocene–Holocene; blocks in situ · Natural; Atlantis claim pseudo
Submerged linear arrangement of limestone blocks off Paradise Point, claimed 1968 as Atlantis road by validating Edgar Cayce prophecy; USGS and Eugene Shinn showed beachrock natural fractured along…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic Kingdom · Kushite / Meroitic
Royal cemetery of Kushite Kingdom of Meroë (300 BCE–350 CE) with ~200 steep Nubian pyramids, smaller and narrower than Egyptian, with offering chapels decorated with Egyptian-Kushite reliefs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Archaic / Norte Chico · Caral-Supe / Norte Chico
Oldest city in Americas and largest Late Archaic New World pyramids (c.2600 BCE) – six truncated earthen pyramids with sunken plazas, residential sectors and early quipu and flutes in Supe Valley,…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (2000 BCE) · Clava Cairn builders
Corrimony chambered cairn in Glenurquhart, a Clava passage grave with intact chamber, kerb and surrounding stone circle of eleven monoliths, excavated by Piggott revealing cremation and beaker…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age · Eblaite (Semitic)
Ebla (Tell Mardikh) in Idlib Governorate, Syria is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age ancient city attributed to Eblaite (Semitic) culture.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Tell
Achaemenid to Kushan (500 BCE–300 CE) · Bactrian
Kholm (Tashkurgan) — Bactrian Mound Fort in Samangan Province, Afghanistan is a Achaemenid to Kushan (500 BCE–300 CE) tell attributed to Bactrian. Tell mound 10 ha at Kholm on Balkh river road.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Byzacena civitas with Antonine arch and Saturn sanctuary (200 stelae).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Punic (6th c BCE) – Roman – Christian (5th c CE) · Punic / Mauretanian / Roman
Coastal UNESCO port with Punic necropolis (6th c BCE tophet), Roman forum, theatre, and two Christian basilicas (Salsa martyr shrine) on promontory with offshore islet. Numidian–Ma...
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic · Karanovo VI / Gumelnița
Northern terrace of Yunatsite tell (c. 5000–4100 BCE), 12 m high mound with Chalcolithic destruction layers, copper metallurgy and fortification, extension of main tell showing violent end c.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
PPNB (6900–6300 BCE) · PPNB Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B mega-village (6900–6300 BCE) submerged 300–400 m offshore after post-glacial sea rise, with stone wall 150 m, paved well 5.5 m deep (earliest seawall and well), megalithic…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic · Vinča
Vinča settlement at Belovode (c. 5400–4600 BCE) in eastern Serbia, with 80 ha scatter and early copper smelting furnaces (c.
🇱🇾 Libya · Hydraulic works
Roman (Hadrianic, 2nd c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitania)
Three-arched Roman bridge (15 m spans) on Leptis coastal road.
