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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (570 BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan
North wine quay of Tyritake on Kerch Bay — 60 m quay at –1.5 m and vat terrace.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Volubilis House of Orpheus Mosaic Hall in Fès-Meknès, Volubilis, Morocco is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works
Najdi Emirate to First Saudi State · Najdi oasis (Diriyah Amirship)
Wadi Hanifah: 6 Najdi 15th-18th c. wadi dams at Diriyah UNESCO site, Riyadh 24.73N 46.57E.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age Liv 10th–12th c Daugava Livonia pre-Riga 1201 · Liv Finnic (Daugava Livs) — pre-Riga Livonia (Henry Livs)
Ķivutkalns — Liv (Finnic Livs) hillfort (Late Iron Age 10th–12th c, abandoned 1201 German Riga foundation) on Daugava right bank 7 km southeast Riga Old Town, Katlakalns promontory at tributary mouth.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Hakra Wares (7500–6000 BCE) → Early Harappan (3300–2600) → Mature Harappan (2600–1900) · Hakra / Early Harappan / Indus Valley
Earliest known Harappan settlement (c.7500–2600 BCE) on the Ghaggar-Hakra (Sarasvati) paleochannel in Fatehabad, Haryana — 3.5 ha mound with 8 m cultural deposit spanning Hakra Wares (Period IA)…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Cholula Great Pyramid Tunnel 4 in Puebla, Cholula, Mexico is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇲🇼 Malawi · Rock art
Late Stone Age to Recent (1000 BCE – 1800 CE) · BaTwa hunter-gatherers, Chewa (Maravi) Bantu farmers
Malawi granite forest 127 shelters Twa white and Chewa red Chinamwali initiation art, UNESCO 476.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Geometric to Roman (c. 800 BCE – 400 CE) · Phocian / Delphi Amphictyony / Roman
Delphi's pilgrim harbour drowned 0.5–1 m off Galaxidi – rubble mole and silted basin beneath plain.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Western Neolithic (Pembrokeshire)
Headland portal dolmen (capstone 5 x 3 m) on St Davids Head cliff overlooking Whitesands Bay — Neolithic coastal tomb.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Medieval (1100-1500 CE) · Zimbabwe Culture
Great Zimbabwe Hill Complex Terrace Annex South in Masvingo, Zimbabwe is a Medieval (1100-1500 CE) ancient city attributed to Zimbabwe Culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Huaca del Sol Terrace IV in La Libertad, Moche, Peru is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Jinsha River Gold Mask Pit in Sichuan, Chengdu, China is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I–II (5000–2800 BCE) · Dalma → Pisdeli → Kura-Araxes (Transcaucasian)
Araxes floodplain tell with Dalma–Kura-Araxes sequence linking Urmia to Transcaucasia.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age (5000–1200 BCE) · Late Neolithic Karanovo, Eneolithic Gumelnița-Krivodol, Bronze Age Verbicioara
Bulgarian 2.5-km cave 700 guano paintings Neolithic to Iron Age with 366-day calendar.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Mazghuna South Pyramid Substructure Pit in Giza, Mazghuna, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nabta Playa Stone Complex Alignment 7 in New Valley, Nabta Playa, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Phùng Nguyên Early Bronze 2000–1500 BCE → Đồng Đậu 1500–1200 → Gò Mun 1200–700 → Dong Son 800 BCE · Phùng Nguyên (Vietnam Early Bronze, Red River low terrace)
First Vietnam bronze hillocks (2000–1500 BCE) at Phùng Nguyên Phú Thọ — Phùng Nguyên culture type-site with socketed bronze axes and jade bracelet.
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
Paleo-Indian to Mississippian (6500 BCE – 1000 CE) · Southeast Archaic to Woodland
Russell Cave National Monument in Alabama, United States is a Paleo-Indian to Mississippian (6500 BCE – 1000 CE) cave attributed to Southeast Archaic to Woodland culture.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sabaean (900–500 BCE) · Sabaean
Sabaean retainer dam (9.5 m high, 220 m crest) on Wadi Khanas tributary 18 km northeast of Marib Dam (1,120 m), with 2.8 km rock-cut feeder canal to Marib north sluice extension.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II–III (1000–1280 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi)
Sand Canyon Pueblo in Colorado, Montezuma County, Canyons of Ancients, United States is a Pueblo II–III (1000–1280 CE) settlement attributed to Ancestral Pueblo (Anasazi) culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
52 Late Neolithic mustatils (5000–4500 BCE) — northernmost Saudi platform ritual field.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tell Chuera Buried Palace F Courtyard in Al-Hasakah, Tell Chuera, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) · Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE)
Tell el-Farkha in Dakahlia Governorate, Eastern Delta, Ghazala, Egypt is a Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) settlement attributed to Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) · Camunian
Val Camonica Rock Art Dos Sotto Panel 44 in Lombardy, Brescia, Italy is a Bronze-Iron Age (2000-500 BCE) rock art attributed to Camunian.