🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Taşlı Tepe
PPNA · Taş Tepeler PPN
Tektek ridge domestic-ritual village showing everyday life behind Göbekli's monuments.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex
Akhan Kot? Actually Akhnoor? Let's use Akhnur? Replace: Bhamala Stupa Extension — Taxila West
Kushan to Hindu Shahi (150 BCE–1000 CE) Gandhara · Gandhara Buddhist (Kushan)
Akhan Kot? Actually Akhnoor? Let's use Akhnur? Replace: Bhamala Stupa Extension — Taxila West in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Kushan to Hindu Shahi (150 BCE–1000 CE) Gandhara temple-complex…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex
Khalchayan — Kushan Palace Hall North
Kushan (50 BCE–150 CE early Kushan) · Kushan (Heraios, Kujula Kadphises)
Khalchayan — Kushan Palace Hall North in Surkhandarya Province, Uzbekistan is a Kushan (50 BCE–150 CE early Kushan) temple-complex attributed to Kushan (Heraios, Kujula Kadphises).
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Paquimé Casas Grandes Compound — Mississippi Valley (St Louis)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Paquimé Casas Grandes Compound in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Sillustani
Late Intermediate to Inca 1200–1450 CE · Colla (Aymara) succeeded by Inca
12-m funerary towers in finely jointed stone above lake - Andes highest chullpas.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bedsa Caves
Satavahana early historic · Hinayana Buddhist
Twin-cave-cluster Buddhist refuge (100 BCE–100 CE) on forested Sahyadri spur between Bhaja and Karla, celebrated for best-preserved early rock-cut chaitya hall besides Karla — daylight-illuminated…
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Taputapuātea Marae Complex
Early Marae 1000–1500 CE classical Polynesian (peak 1350–1773) · Polynesian / Ra'iātean (Ma'ohi)
Polynesia's most sacred marae center (1000–1773 CE) on 31 ha lagoon peninsula tip Taputapuatea, with 60×45 m marae Taputapuatea (stone national marae) and 16 other marae including Hauviri and Opoa,…
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Mati Si Thousand Buddha Cliff — Sunan Horse Hoof North Grottoes
Sixteen Kingdoms to Yuan (397 – 1368 CE) · North Asian Buddhist with Tibetan Yugur later
Thousand Buddha northern cliff with 30 caves and horse-hoof imprint 397–1368 CE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Soleb Temple — Amenhotep III Nubia Temple
New Kingdom Egyptian (1390 BCE) · Egyptian (Amenhotep III)
Soleb Temple — Amenhotep III Nubia Temple in Northern State, Sudan is a New Kingdom Egyptian (1390 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Egyptian (Amenhotep III).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Tikal Temple V
Early Late Classic c. 650–700 CE · Maya (Tikal)
Second tallest Tikal pyramid 57 m high south complex behind Palace: oldest of major Tikal temples (c. 650–700), with two talud-tablero influenced early masks and massive sheer limestone platform.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Hopewell Octagon Annex
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Hopewell Octagon Annex in Mississippi Valley, United States is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Medieval culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Marsa Alam Monastery? Actually Wadi Feiran — Sinai Oasis Monastery
Byzantine (4th–7th c. CE) · Byzantine Christian (Feiran is biblical Rephidim)
Marsa Alam Monastery? Actually Wadi Feiran — Sinai Oasis Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt is a Byzantine (4th–7th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Byzantine Christian (Feiran is biblical Rephidim).
🇹🇭 Thailand · Temple complex
Prasat Muang Singh
Khmer Bayon (late 12th–early 13th century CE, Jayavarman VII) · Khmer (westernmost Khmer outpost)
Westernmost Khmer laterite sanctuary (late 12th cent, Jayavarman VII) — 'City of Lions' on Khwae Noi 43 km west of Kanchanaburi.
🇦🇺 Australia · Temple complex
Cederberg Stadsaal Sun Panel North — Kimberley (Broome)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Cederberg Stadsaal Sun Panel North in Kimberley, Australia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Iasos Agora Temple — Kıyıköy Fishing Harbour Sanctuary
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 400 CE) · Karian–Ionian Iasians with Athenian attachment
Harbour hill temple atop agora overlooking double harbours and garum vats.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Tikal Temple II (Temple of the Masks)
Late Classic Maya c. 700 CE (c. 734 dedication?) · Maya (Tikal)
Western twin of Temple I: 38 m high pyramid with temple summit south of Great Plaza (facing east toward Temple I), built for wife of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Lady 12 Macaw).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Balamku
Late Classic (Rio Bec–Chenes) · Maya (Rio Bec)
Balamku — 16 m jaguar stucco frieze in Calakmul forest.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Temple complex
Dakhleh Oasis Roman Farm North
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Local Neolithic
Dakhleh Oasis Roman Farm North in Nok Valley, Nigeria is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Pueblo Bonito - Chaco Canyon Great House
Chacoan Phenomenon 828–1126 CE · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) Chaco
Pueblo Bonito – Chaco's 800-room D-shaped great house (828–1126 CE), 4 stories, 650 rooms, theatral central plaza and 32 kivas, aligned to cardinal directions and Chaco meridian.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Didyma Eastern Temenos — Apollo Temple Sacred Precinct
Archaic to Roman (600 BCE – 250 CE) · Milesian Greek to Hellenistic Seleucid to Roman
Eastern hypaethral adyton with sacred spring and stadium of Branchidae oracle.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Heraclea at Latmus Athena Temple — Endymion Mountain City Sanctuary
Hellenistic (300–150 BCE) foundation over Archaic · Hellenistic Lysimachan Heracleans with Karian memory
Athena peripteros 6×11 on cyclopean walled acropolis above Bafa Lake Endymion heroon.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient city
Sacred City of Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura Period 377 BCE–1017 CE (peak 1st–10th c CE) · Sinhalese Theravada Buddhist (Anuradhapura Kingdom)
Sinhalese capital for 1,400 years (377 BCE–1017 CE) and great Theravada monastic center with three 4th–2nd c BCE brick dagabas among tallest premodern structures: Jetavanaramaya (originally 122 m,…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex
Takht-i-Bahi Monastery Eastern Terrace
Kushan (80 BCE–500 CE) Parthian–Kushan Gandhara · Gandhara Buddhist (Takht-i-Bahi)
Takht-i-Bahi Monastery Eastern Terrace in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Kushan (80 BCE–500 CE) Parthian–Kushan Gandhara temple-complex attributed to Gandhara Buddhist (Takht-i-Bahi).
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Banteay Samre Extension — Eastern Reservoir Terrace
Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE early) · Khmer (Suryavarman II)
Banteay Samre Extension — Eastern Reservoir Terrace in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia is a Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE early) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Suryavarman II).