🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Neve Yam — Pottery Neolithic Fish-village Atlit South
Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah (5800–5400 BCE) → Chalcolithic 4000 BCE reuse · Wadi Rabah PN late Neolithic
Neve Yam excavated by Galili 1990s Wadi Rabah variant.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Epiclassic (600–900 CE) late Classic Bajío · Bajío (Tarascan ancestor) with Teotihuacan theme brazier
Plazuelas excavated by INAH 1998–, 1200 pecked spirals.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah (5800–5400 BCE) → Chalcolithic 4000 BCE reuse · Wadi Rabah PN late Neolithic
Neve Yam excavated by Galili 1990s Wadi Rabah variant.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE earliest Almendres 6000 alley; cromlech 5000 BCE) · Alentejo Neolithic Almendres (Cardial) and later
Almendres Gromlech Sofia's largest Iberian, 6000 BCE.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1100–500 BCE settlement 2000 m²; 200 BCE Punic cistern 2 after 123 BCE Roman conquest) · Talayotic → Punic 6th c. BCE contact → Roman to Punic merged
S'Illot coastal talayotic with Punic cistern 200 BCE.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000 BCE) rescue before Alqueva 2004 · Alentejo Xarez phase
Xarez 51 square relocated before Alqueva flood 2004.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Phoenician (500 BCE) → Punic → Roman Septimian basilica 2nd c. CE urban expansion Severus, 365 Crete quake partially submerged 1 m · Punic → Roman Antonine Severan harbour theatre 108 m diameter with 3-storey scaenae
Sabratha Guidi 1923 Severan theatre of Severus 150.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan (650 BCE Queen pyramid small) · Kushite Napatan queen
Kurru KU14 excavated by Reisner, queen of Aspelta.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early medieval (9th–12th c. Hayravank, chapel 8th c.) · Early Armenian small church 9th–12th
Hayravank 9th c. small church with cyclopean fort.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1000–500 BCE taula; 900 BCE talayot cone 10 m high 18 m diameter 12th–6th) · Talayotic Menorca Talayot-taula-hypostyle triple (Mediterranean Bronze to early Iron village)
Torralba 1990s talayot-taula-hypostyle 14 columns.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (3800–2700 BCE corridor 3800, painted 2700 BCE) · Galician Neolithic Dombate style (Atlantic megalithic painted art)
Dombate excavated by Bello 1998 Galician largest.
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Chimú (1100–1470 CE border fortress 30 m high pyramidal fortress) later Inca 1470 reused · Chimú border fort vs Chancay/Inca; Inca reused as border 1470
Paramonga fort excavated by Cieza and Middendorf.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Norte Chico Preceramic (3700–2500 BCE coastal capital 15 mounds 3700–2500) · Norte Chico coastal sibling to Caral (Aspero has 6 mounds associated shell middens)
Aspero Feldman 1980 3700 BCE mounds with shicra.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC, 7550–6570 BCE) — with earliest olive and well 5.5 m · PPNC Mediterranean fishing-farming village with stone wells 1.5 m diameter
Atlit-Yam Galili 1984 PPNC 7550 BCE oldest well.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Preceramic Late (3000–1800 BCE Chuquitanta; main 2200 BCE Temple I) · Norte Chico? Late Preceramic Chillón (El Paraíso phase)
El Paraíso Engel 1965 largest Preceramic 100 ha.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid-Zakarian (10th c. St Gregory 10th; 1184 Surb Astvatsatsin 1248 with gavit) · Bagratid → Zakarian (10th–13th c.) Armenian
Haghartsin forest 10th–13th excavated 1990–2010.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early Medieval to late Medieval (10th–13th c.; main St Amenaprkich 1013, Surb Karapet 13th) · Bagratid-Zakarian 1013–13th forest monastery
Havuts Tar 1013 burnt 2017 Khosrov fire damaged.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Post-Talayotic (550–123 BCE Son Ferragut hall 400 BCE) · Post-Talayotic Mallorcan iron age Son Ferragut 550 BCE square talayot abandon→ hall 400 BCE
Puig Morter 14.6 m hypostyle 5 columns 400 BCE.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Medieval (13th c. Aghjots Surb Stepanos 13th c., Zakarian era) · Zakarian 13th c. small wilderness monastery
Aghjots isolated excavated by Khosrov reserve.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Late Bronze to Phoenician (13th c. BCE Kition 1400 BCE Achaean; Phoenician 800 BCE Astarte temple 700 BCE; Bamboula war harbour 5th c. BCE ship sheds) · Phoenician Kition (Astarte 800 BCE Sargon II 709 steward of Kition) and later Greek
Kition Karageorghis 1970s Bamboula ship sheds.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Pre-Talayotic to Talayotic (1200–750 BCE Tudons; earlier 1600 naveta prototypes) · Balearic pre-Talayotic naviform (Naveta builders 1600–750) with collective inhumations 100 persons
Tudons restored Pericot 1960 14.5 m ship tomb.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3500 BCE) Sintra coastal group · Lisbon Neolithic Adrenunes
Adrenunes table hill with Praia view Atlantic.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Preceramic Kotosh-Mito 3000–1700 BCE (Galgalda north mound 3000 BCE south 2200) · Kotosh-Mito tradição La Galgada (Grieder group) with 3050 BCE mound
La Galgada Grieder 1978 Mitodouble 3050–1700.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
3rd Dynasty Huni provincial (c.2670 BCE) Abydos province · Old Kingdom
Sinki Abydos surveyed by Petrie, intact 12 m.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic Iron Age (1000–300 BCE taula peak 800 BCE) · Balearic Talayotic taula builders (Menorca)
Menorca taulas 3.8 m T-shape Talayotic iron.
