🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Cantona — Asymmetrical Pyramid on Lava Malpaís
Classic (600–900 CE) Cantona apex · Cantona (Olmeca-Xicalanca derivative)
Cantona excavated by García Cook 1990s, asymmetrical pyramid 26 m, lava city 80k.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Classic (600–900 CE) Cantona apex · Cantona (Olmeca-Xicalanca derivative)
Cantona excavated by García Cook 1990s, asymmetrical pyramid 26 m, lava city 80k.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (1250–1300 CE) plus earlier Basketmaker 300 CE · Kayenta Ancestral Pueblo (Hisatsinom)
Keet Seel excavated by Fewkes 1917 and Dean dendro 1970s, 155 rooms, trail 8 km.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient village
Preceramic (5700–2500 BCE Bandurria period with 3200 BCE monumental circular architecture to 4100 BCE Aceramic) · Preceramic Norte Chico (Bandurria part of Norte Chico Caral sphere 5000–3500)
Bandurria excavated by Chu 2007, 4100 mound earliest 2700 circular, cotton net.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Basketmaker to Pueblo III (300–1300 CE) plus Navajo later · Kayenta Ancestral Puebloan
Mummy Cave excavated by Fewkes and Morris 1920s, mummy found 1882 with slave.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Imperial (100 BCE–500 CE Baiae resort) subsided bradyseism -7 m post-Roman · Roman Imperial luxury littoral (Marius → Augustus → Nero → Hadrian)
Baiae Underwater excavated by Lamboglia & Scognamiglio, Nymphaeum 1968.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Pre-Harappan to Late Harappan (2800–1500 BCE) · Harappan
Banawali excavated by Bisht 1973–, with barracks and seal of unicorn.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chimú (1200–1470) before Inca 1470 remodel Inca-Chimú style palace hybrid · Chimú → Inca hybrid 1470 Inca administrative refacing
Farfan Mackey & Klymyshyn 1970s Chimu north palaces with Inca hybrid.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Garamantian (500 BCE–600 CE) · Garamantian oasis farmers
Fewet excavated by di Lernia 2000s, 100 tumuli satellite to Garama.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Early Classic (300–600 CE Early Classic stucco masks 6 m high) superimposed on Late Preclassic · Maya Early Classic Petén-style stucco masked ancestor Tikal influence
Acanceh excavated by Pollock 1980s, giant masks uncovered 1900s.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sicán Middle (900–1050 CE Sicán metallurgy peak) + Inca later · Sicán (Lambayeque) bronze arsenic gold tumi metallurgy with Chimú later
Batan Grande Shimada 1978–, 900 Sicán capital metallurgy frenzy.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient port
Herodian (22–10 BCE Sebastos harbour, Agrippa? forms Caesarea, Raban, late Roman) · Herodian Roman (Herod 22 BCE hydraulic concrete pozzolana , Vitruvius concrete for Agrippa harbour)
Caesarea Sebastos Raban 1980–90 hydraulic concrete 22 BCE Herod.
🇵🇪 Peru · Mound
Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE · Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry
Huaca Prieta Bird 1947, Dillehay 2003 oldest cotton 3300 indigo.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Late Bronze Age (c.1200 BCE) earliest excavated wreck 1960 Bass (world's first underwater excavation) and 1500 BCE earlier layer · Late Bronze ?? Canaanite ? early Phoenician 1200 BCE scrap bronze wreck
Gelidonya Bass 1960 world's first underwater excavation.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1100 BCE early central talayot 9 m; late 800–600 BCE five talayots cluster; Post-Talayotic 500–100 BCE houses) · Talayotic Mallorca's largest 5-talayot clumped village 7000 m²
Capocorb Vell 5 talayots 1100–800 Capocorb mallargest.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
3rd Dynasty provincial (c.2670 BCE Huni) · Old Kingdom
Edfu-south small pyramid identified by Kaiser 1960s.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Hellenistic Berenice 246 BCE Ptolemy III → Roman to Arab 642 CE · Hellenistic Berenice (Benghazi) port
Berenice excavated by Lloyd 1960s Benghazi grid.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Greek Barca 560 BCE → Byzantine → Arab Barca medieval capital 640–1150 CE · Greek Barca → Arab Barqah capital of Cyrenaica Emirate 640 CE
Barca surveyed Goodchild, Barca Greek to Arab.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan (700 BCE annex) · Napatan
Barkal annex surveyed.