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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (Tihama Neolithic coastal, 4000–3000 BCE) · Tihama coastal Neolithic (Shell Midden / Jizan foragers)
33 Red Sea littoral kites (4th mill. BCE) with shell middens in pits — unique coast-hunting interface at Jizan.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Western Neolithic (Pembrokeshire)
Cliff-top portal dolmen near Abercastle harbour — massive capstone (4.7 m) on three orthostats with sea backdrop.
🇬🇧 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Iron Age to Norse (c.600 BCE–900 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age / Norse
Eroded Caithness cliff broch with early fort, broch tower and Norse layers; half lost to sea after 1960s excavation.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic through Byzantine; Cilician corridor · Cilician Neolithic → Hittite Kizzuwatna → Neo-Hittite Que → Greco-Roman
Mersin coastal tell with 25 m deposit from Aceramic Neolithic (7000 BCE) to Roman — Garstang’s Cilician Neolithic–Hittite maritime gateway sequence.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Late Bronze to Roman (c.900 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Calaici–Bracari coastal)
Cividade de Terroso (Late Bronze Age–Roman, c.900 BCE–100 CE) on a 153-m hill 5 km east of Póvoa de Varzim beach is the coastal anchor of the Ave–Cávado castro system, a 12-hectare walled town with…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Early Classic · Maya (North-coastal)
Mangrove island port (250–750 CE) for Gulf salt — 7-m pyramid on 700-m causeway north of Telchac.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Crusader 1191 CE · Canaanite → Philistine → Phoenician → Roman
Five-period tells (Canaanite vaulted mudbrick gate — oldest arch in the world c.1850 BCE, 4 m high; Philistine emporium of titans with 15,000 sq m market; Phoenician Tyrian-purple, Greek, Roman,…
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Jersey Gallery Grave
Gallery grave near Gorey guardhouse (1689), St Martin, Jersey, 6 m gallery, coastal, c.3500 BCE.
