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🇸🇳 Senegal · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sine-Saloum Tumulus Mound 18 in Fatick, Sine-Saloum, Senegal is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Old Babylonian to Kassite (Middle Bronze) · Kassite / Highland Zagros
Zagros highland ziggurat at Choga Gavaneh c.1800 BCE — 60 m square mudbrick platform 15 m high with Kassite pottery linking Babylonia to Sialk highland line.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Horizon, Wari Empire (600–900 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Dramatic ridge mound 4 km from sea, long known as Castillo, surprising 2013 discovery by Milosz Giersz and Roberto Pimentel of intact Wari royal burial complex sealed beneath 5 tons of rubble — first…
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Preclassic 1200 BCE–900 CE (peak Late Classic 562–680, Star-War defeat of Tikal) · Maya (Classic lowland; ally of Calakmul vs Tikal; later independent kingdom Uxwitzá)
Largest Maya city in Belize and greater Tikal rival: 200 km² settlement (70 sq mi mapped), Caana (“Sky Palace”) pyramid 43 m high – tallest man-made structure in Belize – with corner palaces, 160+…
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Harappan (3800–2600 BCE, Siswal A–B) · Siswal culture (Hakra–Sothi horizon)
Siswal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Hisar District, Chautang (Saraswati tributary) bank (Siswal type-site), India is a Chalcolithic to Early Harappan (3800–2600 BCE, Siswal A–B)…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Akkadian provincial, Old Assyrian)
Tell Leilan — Shekhna Mound Khabur in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur Triangle (ancient Shekhna/Shubat-Enlil), Syria is a Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2600–1726 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic to Initial Period (Kotosh tradition) · Kotosh / Lauricocha (highland)
High-altitude pyramidal temple at Piruru — 20 m stone platform pyramid c.2000 BCE at 3800 m, two temples, Kotosh tradition at Lauricocha.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Ur III / Isin-Larsa · Sumerian
E-mah ziggurat of Ninhursag at Adab (Tell Bismaya) — 50 m square platform c.2600 BCE, place of the Indiana-Jones-associated Banks 1903–04 excavations.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (1800–900 BCE), Early Horizon transition · Cupisnique-Caballo Muerto (Formative Andean)
Most elaborate Initial Period (1500–1200 BCE) platform pyramid (40x30 m base, U-shaped complex 55x35 m overall) within 2 km² Caballo Muerto field of eight mounds (Moche Valley).
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan transition (3000–2550 BCE) · Harappan (Nausharo I–III, Togau-Harappan)
Nausharo Mound — Bolan Kacchi in Balochistan, Kacchi Plain, 6 km from Mehrgarh (Bolantyp), Pakistan is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan transition (3000–2550 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Pyramid
Tiwanaku Middle Horizon 400–1000 CE (Akapana c.500–800 CE) · Tiwanaku
Artificial mountain pyramid at core of Tiwanaku (400–1000 CE) altiplano capital: 18 m high (originally ~18 m, 18?
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) · Amri culture (pre-Harappan Sindh)
Amri Mound — Indus Sehwan in Sindh, Dadu District, west bank Indus near Sehwan (Amri type-site), Pakistan is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, Makran coastal network) · Harappan (coastal Makran outpost)
Sotka-koh Mound — Makran Coast in Balochistan, Makran coast near Pasni (Harappan coastal outpost), Pakistan is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE, Makran coastal network) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3500–2500 BCE) · Amri-Nal culture (Sindh pre-Harappan)
Ali Murad Mound — Sindh in Sindh, Johi District, Kirthar foothills (Amri-Nal–Kot Diji horizon), Pakistan is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3500–2500 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan to Meroitic and Christian (680 BCE–500 CE) · Kushite (Napatan/Meroitic)
Kushite temple mound on Argo Island (Taharqa, 700 BCE), 75.6 m Amun temple, 15 m high mound.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Old Kingdom precursors; Middle Kingdom–New Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost bastion of Egyptian 12th Dynasty canal road, first founded as Old Kingdom copper smelting settlement (2500 BCE) then rebuilt by Senusret I and massively expanded by Senusret III as…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.600-830 CE (Río Bec–Chenés, Late Classic) · Maya (Río Bec–Chenés)
Chicanná (House of Serpent Mouth, Bec Valley, Campeche) Structure II: 4-crown Río Bec pyramid (12 m high) with steep false stair, twin pseudo-temples and central monster-mouth portal (Chenés witz…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Postclassic Contact · Maya Kaqchikel
Kaqchikel capital Iximché (1470–1524 CE): hilltop twin-pyramid plazas Temple 2 10 m with ballcourt and 40 m ravine defences, first Spanish capital of Guatemala 1524.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Sumerian Ur III to Kassite (2112–1200 BCE) · Sumerian (Ur III, Isin-Larsa, Kassite)
Nippur Ekur Ziggurat — Nuffar in Qadisiyah Governorate, Afak District (ancient Nippur, T. Nuffar), Iraq is a Sumerian Ur III to Kassite (2112–1200 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Sumerian (Ur…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian Pensacola phase (1250–1550 CE) · Mississippian (Pensacola culture)
Pensacola-Mississippian island capital (1250–1550 CE) on low swamp island (0.4 sq km) in Mobile-Tensaw Delta: 18 platform and burial mounds (largest Mound A 11 m high 90×60 m) enclosing 5 plazas on…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine–historic Natchez (1200–1730 CE, observed 1682–1729) · Natchez (Plaquemine descendant – Muskogean)
Historic Natchez capital (1682–1729) directly observed by French colonists (Iberville, Le Page du Pratz), linking archaeology to eyewitness chiefdom: two platform mounds—Great Sun's Mound A (3.5 m,…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Isin-Larsa / Old Babylonian (2025–1763 BCE) · Amorite / Sumerian continuity (Larsa dynasty)
Larsa Ziggurat — Tell Senkereh in Dhi Qar Governorate, Tell as-Senkereh (ancient Larsa), Iraq is a Isin-Larsa / Old Babylonian (2025–1763 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Amorite / Sumerian…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Classic 226 BCE–800 CE (apogee 615–800 CE Early–Late Classic) · Maya (B'aakal / Palenque dynasty; Western Maya lowlands)
Maya Classic capital of B'aakal on Chiapas foothills with low jungle: Temple of Inscriptions (22 m pyramid with 69-step Hieroglyphic Stair recording dynastic history and Pakal's vault; Pakal the…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Pyramid
Classic Maya (250–900 CE) · Maya (Copán dynasty, Yax Kuk Mo lineage)
Defining Classic Maya southeastern capital (250–900 CE) 12 km from Guatemala border, population 27,000.
