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🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Tumulus Cemetery Europe 110 — Italy Region 2 in Italy Region 2, Italy is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chola 1003–1010 CE · Hindu (Shaiva, Tamil Chola)
Chola granite imperial vimana 66 m still tallest pre-modern; capstone ramp mystery.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Earthwork
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Chambered Cairn Hill Americas 8 — Mexico Region 8 in Mexico Region 8, Mexico is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Period Classical · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Dolmen Avenue Buried 120 — Italy Region 12 in Italy Region 12, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Period Medieval · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Pyramid Outlier Buried 13 — Italy Region 1 in Italy Region 1, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Deister Gate (German: Deisterpforte) is a 550-metre-wide gap between the Deister and Kleiner Deister hill ridges in Springe in Hanover Region, Lower Saxony, Germany.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Pyramid Outlier Americas 46 — Brazil Region 10 in Brazil Region 10, Brazil is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Formative to Imperial, 900 BCE–1500 CE active; origins possibly 1500 BCE · Aymara and pre-Aymara Andean; later Tiwanaku-Inca incorporation
Largest line network on Earth - 16,000 km of sacred Aymara pilgrimage lines.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Old Kingdom to Roman · Egyptian
Cliff sanctuary with rock-cut Hathor/Nemesis chapel, pink limestone quarries supplying Amarna, and 12th Dyn rock-tombs of nomarch Wahka with nautical graffiti. Miners' camp and Roman road station.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Northern Wei to Tang (493 – 750 CE) · Buddhist imperial Luoyang under Empress Dowager Hu
Central Binyang 11 m Buddha of Northern Wei Emperor Xuanwu at Yi Gorge.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Mural Hall Asia 22 — China Region 10 in China Region 10, China is a Neolithic megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Kurgan Field Mideast 80 — Syria Region 8 in Syria Region 8, Syria is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Kurgan Field Misc 105 — Peru Region 9 in Peru Region 9, Peru is a Bronze Age hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
As-Salam Palace (Arabic: قصر السلام, lit. 'Peace Palace') is a palace located on Al-Kindi Street in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq.
🇨🇺 Cuba · Archaeological wonder
Faro Castillo del Morro is a lighthouse located in Havana, Cuba. It was built in 1845 on the ramparts of the Castillo de los Tres Reyes Magos del Morro, an old fortress guarding the harbor of Havana.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Hillfort Rampart Asia 109 — China Region 1 in China Region 1, China is a Neolithic megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Neolithic rock art (6500–3200 BCE) · Gilf Kebir pastoral (Saharan Neolithic)
North wall of Wadi Sura with Archers vs cattle battle scene.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Ahl al Oughlam is an archaeological site and palaeontological site located just outside Casablanca, Morocco. It was discovered in 1985 and first excavated in 1989.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Temple Terrace Buried 61 — Syria Region 1 in Syria Region 1, Syria is a Bronze Age buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇱🇾 Libya · Road station
Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek (Cyrenean) / Roman
Inland mansio between Barca and Ptolemais with milestone cluster.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Ancient village
Iron Age · Bwa / Mouhoun
Tell cluster of 13 mounds (100 BCE–1600 CE) showing egalitarian agrarian villages resisting hierarchy. Iron smelting, shea, cattle, beaded ceramics; ancestor compound mound model vs state-formation.
🇷🇴 Romania · Archaeological wonder
Curtea Nouă (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈkurte̯a ˈnowə], New Court) was the residence of the Princes of Wallachia between 1776 and 1812.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman / Byzantine · Roman
Trajanic veteran settlement of Legio III Augusta (100–117 CE) with perfect grid, forum, arch, macellum and aqueduct feeding nymphaeum. Named for Diana whose forests ringed town, oil-press economy.
🇱🇦 Laos · Temple complex
Chenla to Khmer Empire 5th–12th c CE (peak 6th–12th c) · Khmer / Chenla Hindu (Shiva Lingaparvata)
Khmer linga sanctuary (5th–12th c) at foot of Phu Pasak sacred spring mountain, aligned 1.4 km axial processional causeway from Mekong baray to cliff-top shrine.
