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🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient port
Roman Imperial (12 BCE–5th c. CE Classis Misenensis largest fleet 10,000 men, 100 ships, Pliny the Elder died 79 CE here) · Roman Imperial Naval (Augustus to late antiquity)
Misenum naval base surveyed, Pliny Elder 79.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Late Bronze Alasia (1600–1050 BCE) Enkomi palace 1450 BCE copper port of Alasia letters Amarna · Cypriot Alasia (Mycenaean-Cypriot Late Bronze) Amarna copper Alashiya, 1180 Sea Peoples destruction
Enkomi SCE Schaeffer 1934 Alasia 1600–1180.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (700–300 BCE) Trepuco taula highest 4.20 m · Talayotic chiefdom Trepuco 700 BCE high taula 4.2 m with wall 3 m high
Trepuco 1930s Trepuco taula 4.20 m tallest.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3000 BCE) Beira Alta Cunha Baixa complex (type-site Beira dolmen) · Beira Neolithic Cunha Baixa painted pottery group
Cunha Baixa excav Leisure 1960s sun motif.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Iron Age Phoenician (1050 BCE Amathus port) through Ptolemaic to Roman harbour 1st c. CE submerged 365 CE quake · Phoenician Greek Cypriot Amathus (Aphrodite temple) 800 BCE large vase Amathus 1.85 m Louvre
Amathus Petit excav, vase 1.85 m 700 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
3rd Dynasty provincial variant (c.2670 BCE) · Old Kingdom
El-Ghonameya surveyed provincial cluster.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Greek Archaic (510 BCE Battus II colonization) → Byzantine Justinian wall 530 CE · Greek Cyrene colonization Dorieus? Taucheira 510 BCE
Tocra Boardman 1950s Taucheira Greek 510.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Late Napatan (330 BCE Nastasen, last Napatan king at Nuri) · Late Napatan Nastasen
Nuri Nastasen Nu.12 excavated by Dunham.
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Chimú to Inca border (1200–1470 Chimú; 1470 Inca modified La Frontera) · Chimú → Inca Chimu-Inca frontier wall Motupillo (Pativilca analog)
Apurlec surveyed by Kosok, 10 km walls.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic-Post Talayotic (600 BCE Son Oms settlement with 5 buildings 350 m wall) · Talayotic Post-Talayotic sanctuary (500 BCE)
Son Oms 17 m sanctuary 600 rescue 1960.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Naviform Late Bronze Age (1700–1300 BCE naviform house 18 m × 12 m) · Naviform Late Bronze Mallorca pre-Talayotic houses (1700–1300)
Can Gaià naviform 18 m house 1700 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
3rd Dynasty Huni provincial (c. 2670 BCE) · Old Kingdom Naqada province marker
Naqada small pyramid listed by Kaiser.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid (966 Surb Astvatsatsin 928–944 Blessing; 1063 library; 1181 gavit Kariannik) · Armenian Bagratid (Kurikyan Lori kingdom)
Sanahin UNESCO 1996 sister to Haghpat.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
3rd Dynasty Huni provincial (c. 2670 BCE) · Old Kingdom 3rd Dynasty Huni
Ombos provincial surveyed by Kaiser.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (5000–3500 BCE) Almendres series · Alentejo Neolithic Portela phase
Portela 40 ellipse with face noses.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (1400–400 BCE Garagay culture 1200 BCE major three-armed U-temple; Chavín 800 BCE feline repaint) · Garagay (Chillón) → Chavín cup style with feline dragon facing
Garagay feline atrium 2.5 m 1200.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE group 7 dolmens in 1 km) · Galician Neolithic cluster Pedra da Arca 7 tombs
Pedra da Arca 7 dolmens cluster.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1300 BCE early naveta S'Hospitalet to 650 BCE enclosing wall 360 m; Post-Talayotic 500 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca Artà (Ses Païsses talayotic village 9000 m² walled 360 m perimeter 3 m high with horseshoe portal 3.5 m)
Ses Païsses Artà 650 wall 360 m.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2500 BCE) Middle Atlas · Neolithic Atlas Berber pastoral
Middle Atlas circles surveyed.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) 4-antas series along 1 km corde · Vale de Rodrigo Neolithic necropolis 4 dolmens 4000–3000
Vale Rodrigo Leisner 4-antas.
🇪🇸 Spain · Mine
Bronze Age (1600–1100 BCE navetas via copper mine) · Bronze Age Balearic copper mining 1600 BCE galleries
Closos mine copper 1600 BCE.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early medieval Bagratid (9th c. main 851? Surb Astvatsatsin 9th) · Bagratid Siunik princes 9th c.
Makenyats 9th c. excavated.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4200 BCE) Redondo Candieira rectangular cromlech 15 × 12 m door-framed 4 m · Redondo Neolithic Candieira cluster 4200
Candieira door cromlech.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3800 BCE) Monte da Toca regional variant · Alentejo Neolithic Toca group
Monte da Toca excavated.
