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9,978 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇹🇷 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.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Hellenistic (1st c. CE c.77 CE Tiridates I, rebuilt 1969–75) · Armenian Hellenistic (Tiridates I Greek cult, Mithras?)
Garni rebuilt by Torosyan 1969 academic reconstruction from anastylosis, inscription 77 CE, 1679 earthquake flattened.
🇸🇾 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.
🇫🇷 France · Tell
Harappan · Harappan
Harappan tell at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇫🇷 France · Tell
Iron Age · Iron Age
Iron Age tell at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇫🇷 France · Pyramid
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon pyramid at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇫🇷 France · Pyramid
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon pyramid at Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Western Han (202 BCE–9 CE; Tomb 1 168 BCE Lady Dai) · Han Chinese (Changsha Kingdom)
Changsha Mawangdui excavated 1972–74, Lady Dai mummy 2100 yrs, 3000 objects and Mawangdui Silk Texts (Tao Te Ching).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Medjerda road vicus with forum, baths and Christian basilica with mosaic epitaphs, controlling Siliana valley grain.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Seleucid to Roman (280 BCE–200 CE) · Hellenistic Olba kingdom, later Roman
Cilicia Tracheia priest-state excavated by Machatschek 1900s and recent Turkish, Olba inscriptions of Teukrid kings.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Roman (4th c. CE Severan) to Byzantine · Roman Eastern limes
Diyarbakır frontier fort excavated by Coşkun 2014–, easternmost confirmed Mithraeum, Sassanid siege evidence 359 CE.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age submerged-city at Aomori.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Preclassic to Postclassic (500 BCE–1500 CE) Seven Dolls 700 CE · Maya Northern Lowland (Dzibilchaltún 8300 structures)
Dzibilchaltún excavated by Andrews 1956–, equinox light through temple doors 21 March/Sept, 8300 structures 19 km².
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic submerged-city at Haryana.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (333 BCE–700 CE peak 2nd c. CE) · Pisidian → Roman Imperial
Toros Pisidian city excavated by Waelkens 1990–, earthquake 540 CE disruption, Antonine cascade reconstructed 2014.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1700 BCE) · Amorite (Shubat-Enlil)
Weiss excavations 1979–, 4.2 ka BP abrupt arid collapse 2200 BCE evidence and Shamshi-Adad 1800 BCE correspondence.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age ancient-city at Hidalgo.
🇵🇪 Peru · Submerged site
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Huanuco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Submerged site
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Huanuco.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Cemetery
Final Neolithic (6000–4300 BCE El Nabta / Al Jerar) · Nabta pastoral Neolithic (Gebel Ramlah phase)
Ramlah excavated by Polish Combined Prehistoric Expedition 2009–, 5500 BCE jewels including 3000 beads per burial.
