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🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Late Classical (c.425–400 BCE) Athenian wine cargo 25 m · Classical Greek Alonissos merchant 400 BCE
Peristera excavated by Elpida Hadjidaki, underwater museum 26 m.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Medieval (Main 1215 CE; gavit 1225; rock-cut 1263 Proshian tomb) · Armenian medieval Proshian princes (Zakarian dynasty)
Geghard UNESCO 2000, Proshian cave church 1283 with stalactite.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 12th Dynasty (c.1810 BCE) probable Amenemhat IV · 12th Dynasty
Mazghuna North surveyed by Mackay & Petrie 1910, twin to south.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early Medieval (5th–7th c. Surb Sargis 5th c. and Lmbatavank 7th) · Early Armenian field churches 7th c. basilica hall
Artik Lmbatavank 630 7th c. hall church 20 m with fresco copy.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Bagratid (5th c. village; Fortress 9th–10th c. Pahlavuni; Surb Astvatsatsin 1031) · Bagratid Pahlavuni (same family Amberd)
Bjini Pahlavuni 9th–10th fortress with Surb Astvatsatsin 1031.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (1800–1000 BCE) major construction 1600 BCE; Preceramic fishing net 2500 BCE earlier · Initial PeriodCas ma (Las Aldas) coastal temple
Las Aldas excavated by Pozorski 1976, 1800 pyramid Initiation.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1000 BCE–100 BCE Son Fornés chiefdom; Talayot 1 1100 BCE, 2 500 BCE, 3 400 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca village with 105 iron swords hydria? Iron age 1100–100 BCE + Post-Talayotic 550 BCE houses
Son Fornés Gasperini 1970s, triple talayot 1100–400, 105 iron.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Late Hellenistic (c.70–50 BCE) Roman loot shipwreck from Asia Minor to Rome 60 m Greek art cargo · Roman late Hellenistic loot ship (Pergamene? Rhodian stones) 60 BCE
Antikythera sponge 1900, Cousteau 1976, Mechanism found 1901.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Puuc (700–900 CE) + cave use 200 CE · Maya Puuc (Uxmal sphere) and cave paint Chac cult
Chacmultún excavated by Thompson and Andrews, cave rain cult.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Chavín to Sechin Casma (350–200 BCE) fortress and 13-tower ridge 200 BCE (Ghezzi UNESCO 2021) · Sechin / Casma Late Chavín solar observatory state
Chankillo UNESCO 2021 Ghezzi 2001 fortress with solar riddle.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Preceramic Mito 2200 BCE to Chavín 1000 BCE to Recuay 500 CE multi-occupied 2200–500 BCE · Kotosh-Mito → Chavín → Recuay Huaricoto with 3 temple superimpositions
Huaricoto Burger 1980 Mit double and white plaster 2200 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Casma (Sechín Casma culture 1100–1470 Chimú conquer 1350; Inca 1470 Chimu later) · Casma (Sechín) → Chimú → Inca (Manchan 1100 pre-CHimú capital of Casma Sechin polity 63 ha Terraced Sechin Cerro)
Manchan Moore 1981 Casma empire 63 ha planned 200 compounds.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
3rd Dynasty provincial Huni (c.2670 BCE) — northernmost provincial pyramid · Old Kingdom 3rd Dynasty
Zawiyet el-Meitin excavated by Leclant, northern provincial.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Vesuvius 79 CE (Herculaneum destroyed 01:30 Aug 25 79 CE) · Roman Herculaneum beach harbour fisher folk last victims
Herculaneum beach 1980 Magi 340 skeletons beach boathouses.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3000 BCE) later Christian chapel 17th c. built inside dome 17th conversion of Pavia Dolmen Saint Dionísio · Alentejo Neolithic + Christian repurpose
Pavia church-dolmen 1640 Alentejo syncretism chapel-dolmen.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Megalith
Neolithic to Iron (3500 BCE–800 CE tumuli sequence) · Saharan Neolithic to Berber/Garamantian fringe
Awkar surveyed by Vernet & Naffé 1990s, tumuli chain 1000.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Medieval Almoravid foundation 1147 CE, gold-salt era · Berber Almoravid → Mali gold trade
Ouadane 1147 Almoravid ksar, caravan to Chinguetti 100 km.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Phoenician 1100 BCE → Roman Septimian 211 CE Arch of Septimius, harbour 200 CE Severan 600 m lighthouse 35 m high · Phoenician Leptis (Neapolis) → Roman Septimius Severus hometown (Emperor 193 CE) harbour built hometown glory
Leptis Magna harbour Italian 1920s, Severus hometown 200.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Hellenistic (Ptolemy III 246 BCE) → Roman, Palace of Columns 1st c. CE · Hellenistic Ptolemaic port palace and Roman later
Ptolemais Kraeling 1960s, Palace Columns 165 m peristyle.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ghana to Mali to Songhai medieval (11th c. CE foundation; 14th c. peak Ibn Battuta 1352) · Soninke → Berber → Mali Empire caravan scholars
Walata occupied 1000–, Ibn Battuta 1352, manuscript ksar.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid (976–991 church Surb Nshan, Hamid 1185, 13th c. bell tower) · Armenian Bagratid to Zakarian (10th–13th c.)
Haghpat excavated Soviet, UNESCO 1996 with Sanahin pair.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (5000–4000 BCE menhir of 7.15 m phallic Bernardus hill) · Alentejo Neolithic menhir carver 5000 BCE
Meada menhir 1990 inspection largest Iberia 7.15 m 18 t.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (5200–4200 BCE) Almendres satellite · Alentejo Neolithic satellite 5200-4200
Vale Maria do Meio excavated by Pina 1960s, U cromlech.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Medieval (7th c. early; Surb Astvatsatsin 1201 Zakarian) · Armenian Zakarian princes & later Armenian Catholicos summer seat 1850–1932
Harich Catholicos seat 1850–1932, Zakarian 1201 church.
