🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Xlapak
Maya Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE · Maya (Puuc Chenes)
Puuc mosaic palace with stacked Chaac masks, 600–900 CE.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Maya Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE · Maya (Puuc Chenes)
Puuc mosaic palace with stacked Chaac masks, 600–900 CE.
🇧🇴 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.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Greek to Islamic (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Pentapolis metropolis at Derna with harbour moles and layered cathedral-mosque.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Byzacena civitas with Antonine arch and Saturn sanctuary (200 stelae).
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Garamantian to Islamic (5th c. BCE–present) · Garamantian / Berber / Islamic
Herodotean palm grove oasis with foggaras and ksour granaries (200 chambers).
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Roman (Augustan–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitania)
Syrtic frontier fort at Bu Grada lagoon terminus of limes road.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Iron Age to Kagoro Kingdom (500 BCE–present) · Nok / Kagoro (Southern Kaduna)
Quartzite gong field (6 slabs) with Kpop fort walls (2 km).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Nok to Berom (1500 BCE–present) · Nok / Proto-Berom
Jos Plateau rock-gong complex with 8 granite gongs and Nok scatter.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Carthaginian to Byzantine (4th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Punic / Roman
Sister city to Thuburbo Majus with olive press park (15 presses).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–7th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Colonia with circus and amphitheatre on imperial saltus.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Late Prehistoric 1200–1700 CE · Plains Indians
24 m medicine wheel 28 spokes, solstice alignments.