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Platform and burial mounds of the Americas and beyond.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Archaic Preceramic 3000–1800 BCE, Norte Chico Caral-Supe tradition · Norte Chico (Caral-Supe, Late Preceramic)
North Platform 600 m north of main Shicras pyramid at Chancay Valley: 10 m high stepped platform 35×30 m built with shicra woven bags filled with river cobbles (ancient construction textile…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf–Early Dynastic (c.5700–2500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Ninevite 5
Jaghjagh tell 10 m high (Halaf–ED, Ninevite 5 silos) north of Tell Hawa.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Philistine Timnah c.1200–600) · Canaanite → Philistine (Timnah) → Judah
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah in Sorek Valley — Samson's Timnah (Judges 14) and Philistine border town between Ekron and Gezer. Mazar/Kelm 1977–89 revealed MB g...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Sicán (Lambayeque), c.750–1050 CE, peak 900–1050 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque)
Huaca La Merced (Huaca Sialupe) in Batan Grande — Sicán capital pyramid (c.750–1050 CE, Middle Sicán).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Moche Late (Moche V), c.550–750 CE · Moche (Late Moche Pampa Grande)
Huaca Fortaleza at Pampa Grande — Late Moche capital pyramid (c.550–750 CE), 290 × 250 m base, 38 m high, largest Moche V pyramid's administrative palace.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, c.7000–800 BCE (massif c.3200 BCE) · Halaf / Ubaid / Uruk / Kura-Araxes
Central high mound at Chogha Gavaneh (7th–6th millennium BCE Neolithic to Bronze Age high platform, 15 m high, 80 m diameter).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Preclassic, c.300 BCE–150 CE (peak 100 BCE) · Maya (Preclassic Mirador)
Tigre Pyramid at El Mirador (c.300 BCE–150 CE, Middle Preclassic to Late Preclassic colossus) — 55 m high, base 145 × 145 m, 18 m high temple atop, part of Tigre complex south of La Danta.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic, c.550–830 CE · Maya (Río Bec)
Iconic three-tower pyramid Structure I at Xpujil (c.550–830 CE, Late Classic Río Bec). Triple pyramid with three non-functional towers along 54 m facade, central stair leads to temple with Chenes…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan, c.538–519 BCE · Kushite Napatan
Pyramid Bar.2 at Jebel Barkal north cemetery for King Amaninatakilebte (c.538–519 BCE, Napatan 27th Dynasty contemporaneous with Persian Egypt).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Medieval (peak EB III–Urartian) · Ubaid → Kura-Araxes → EBA Keban → Urartian → Medieval
Keban Dam salvage tell on the Euphrates (Karasu) near Baskil, excavated 1970s by Veli Sevin. Famed for EB III royal cist...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, Neferefre, c.2460 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Small cult pyramid east of unfinished Pyramid of Neferefre (Raneferef) at Abusir (5th Dynasty, c.2460 BCE). 21.3 m base, limestone core with casing foundation trench.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Ottoman (6000 BCE–1500 CE) continuous Adana · Kizzuwatna / Cilician
Tepebağ Mound — Adana in Adana Province, Turkey is a Neolithic to Ottoman (6000 BCE–1500 CE) continuous Adana tell attributed to Kizzuwatna / Cilician.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
EB IV to Iron II (c.2400–800 BCE; peak LB Egyptian) · Amorite → Egyptian–Canaanite (Kumidi) → Hittite → Phoenician
Bronze–Iron town (4 ha, 15 m high) at the Litani–Bekaa margin, German excavations by Arnulf Kuschke and Rolf Hachmann, i...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
Tell Kurdu — buried eba-iron tell/village at Hatay Province.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Mid 3rd to 2nd Millennium, c.2500–1350 BCE · Hurrian (Urkesh), Mitanni
Temple BA terraced mound at Tell Mozan, ancient Urkesh (Hurrian capital, c.2500–1300 BCE). Buccellati & Kelly-Buccellati 1984-onwards excavated 135-ha city wall, Temple BA high terrace 20 m high with…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Urartian Late (c.685–590 BCE) · Urartian
Largest Urartian fortress (8 ha, 700 m enclosure wall, 3 km circuit) founded by Rusa II (c.685 BC) at Bastam near Qarah...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Isin-Larsa to Old Babylonian · Sumerian-Akkadian (Isin dynasty)
Capital of Isin dynasty (2017–1794 BCE) after fall of Ur III, whose kings (Ishbi-Erra, Lipit-Ishtar with famous law code predating Hammurapi by ~150 years) tried to restore Sumerian.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Tell
Chalcolithic to Islamic (4000 BCE–1400 CE) · Herat culture
Kunsam? Actually Tepe Kun San? Replace Kun San Trojan Hill — actually Kuhsan Herat Mound in Herat Province, Afghanistan is a Chalcolithic to Islamic (4000 BCE–1400 CE) tell attributed to Herat…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2315 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Adjacent eastern queens pyramid to Nubwenet, belonging to Meretites II (Merytites) wife of Pepi I, east of Pepi I causeway. Same 21 m canon, mudbrick temple with limestone false-door.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Preclassic, c.400 BCE–150 CE · Maya (Preclassic Mirador Basin)
Mano de León pyramid at El Tintal (c.400 BCE–150 CE Preclassic) — 30 m high, 50 m base stepped pyramid second to El Tintal's Catzin structure (39 m).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Woodland to Mississippian 800–1200 CE · Late Woodland to Mississippian (Miller to Mississippian transition)
Five platform mounds (6–12 ft high) enclosing rectangular plaza 100×60 m at Owl Creek, Natchez Trace MP 243.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) · Neolithic to Roman
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound in Mersin Province, Cilicia, Turkey is a Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) tell attributed to Neolithic to Roman culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
EB to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE; peak Canaanite–Philistine 1600–600) · Canaanite → Philistine? → Judah (Shephelah)
Tel Burna is Shephelah unfortified town (maybe Libnah?) excavated by Itzhaq Shai/Ariel University since 2009; LB courtyard palace, Iron Judahite silos and culti...
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Tell
Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak · Mundigak–Helmand
Mundigak — Kandahar Bronze Age Mound in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan is a Chalcolithic–Bronze Age (4000–2000 BCE) Mundigak tell attributed to Mundigak–Helmand.
