🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Xcambo
Early Classic · Maya (North-coastal)
Mangrove island port (250–750 CE) for Gulf salt — 7-m pyramid on 700-m causeway north of Telchac.
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🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo–Varna sequence) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița associated
Earliest prehistoric town in Europe (c.5600–4350 BCE, Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic) — fortified stone-walled (3 m thick) salt-production centre at Mirovo rock salt spring, the oldest salt mine in…
🇲🇽 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.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Terminal Classic – Postclassic (900–1520 CE) · Maya (Putún-Chontal / Campeche coast)
Postclassic salt–shell island port (900–1520 CE) on Uaymil sand barrier island north of Jaina, 25 km offshore Campeche mangroves: 20 low platforms 1–2 m high with columned halls, oratories and…
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Iron Age to Medieval (500 BCE–1600 CE) · Tuareg / Hausa / pre-Tuareg herders
Salt-production town with 3,500 clay pans from 500 BCE and iron horizon, twin of Azelik copper.
🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Islamic Saharan (10th–16th c. CE; peak 13th–15th c.) · Sanhaja Berber / Songhai
Teghaza (Taghaza) is a Saharan salt-mining ghost town on Sebkha salt pan 200 km north of Timbuktu, medieval (10th–16th c.) salt slab quarrying centre described by Ibn Battuta 1352 and Leo Africanus…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic Xoo 600–850 CE · Zapotec (Xoo phase, Late Classic)
Xoo-phase Zapotec salt palace with Cocijo friezes and tell de sal 140 m salt workshop for Monte Albán tribute.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Roman to Byzantine (3rd–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitana/Syrte)
Salt-pan watchtower south of Boreum with sebkha causeway.
