🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex
Hagar Qim Terrace Wall South
Late Neolithic (3600-3000 BCE) · Temple Period
Hagar Qim Terrace Wall South in Malta, Qrendi, Malta is a Late Neolithic (3600-3000 BCE) temple complex attributed to Temple Period.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Eran
Chalcolithic 1200–600 BCE → Sunga 200 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Chalcolithic → Sunga → Gupta (Vakataka-Hunas)
Gupta temple city Airikina on Bina river (600 BCE–600 CE) — home to 2.66 m Varaha boar (510 CE) and earliest Sati inscription.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Haft Tepe (Haft Tappeh, ancient Kabnak)
Middle Elamite (1500–1350 BCE; short floruit ~100 years) · Middle Elamite (Kidinuid→Igihalkid)
Middle Elamite tomb-temple city of Tepti-Ahar with vaulted royal tombs and 600-tablet archive.
🇷🇺 Russia · Temple complex
Andronikov Monastery
Andronikov Monastery of the Saviour (Russian: Андро́ников монасты́рь, romanized: Andrónikov monastýr', Russian: Спа́со-Андро́ников монасты́рь, romanized: Spáso-Andrónikov monastýr', or Russian:…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sesebi Temple-Fortress (Akhenaten)
Amarna to post-Amarna New Kingdom to Napatan · Egyptian (Amarna) / Kushite
Akhenaten’s fortified Nubian temple town c.1350 BCE at Sesebi — walled 200×250 m with four temples and external Napatan mini-pyramids.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Choga Gavaneh Ziggurat Mound (Islamabad-e Gharb)
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.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Priene Athena North Stoa
Late Classical to Hellenistic · Ionian Greek (Pytheos architect) under Alexander and later Antigonid
82-m north stoa of Pytheos' model Ionic temple of Athena Polias at Priene.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Tianlongshan North Manshan Grottoes
Tang (post-An Lushan) · Late Tang Jiedushi patronised Buddhist
North spur 8-cave late Tang group with Tianlong's only caitya pillar and wet-drape naturalism.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Alabanda Temple of Apollo Isotimos
Hellenistic to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic, Roman
Çine plain 6×12 Ionian Apollo Isotimos 200 BCE with 8 architraved columns, Chrysaoric capital.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
El Shincal de Quimivil – Southernmost Inca Capital
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1471–1536 CE, abandoned post-1536) · Inca (Topa Inca – Diaguita / Calchaquí conquest)
Inca provincial capital (1470–1536) in Catamarca, the southernmost planned Inca city in the empire, founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui to govern Calchaquí valley Diaguita conquest: fully orthogonal Inca…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Kyme Temple of Apollo — Aliağa Coastal Dune
Archaic to Roman · Aiolian Greek
Aliağa dune harbour Apollo 700 BCE with 600-m mole and 20k theatre, largest Aiolian port (Hesiod origin).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Piruru Pyramid-Temple (Huánuco — Lauricocha)
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
Ziggurat of Tell Bismaya (Adab — E-mah)
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
Huaca de los Reyes — Main Pyramid of Caballo Muerto (Moche Valley, Peru)
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).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Teos Dionysus North Temenos
Hellenistic (Lysimachus to Attalid) · Ionian Hellenistic (Hermogenes architect) and Tean Technitai guild
110-m-north altar courtyard and Technitai guild hall of Teos Dionysus sanctuary.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Pyramid
Akapana Pyramid (Tiwanaku)
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?
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex
Kalaly-Gyr 2 (Temple Complex)
Khorezmian Kalaly to Kushan 400 BCE–300 CE · Khorezmian Zoroastrian
Zoroastrian temple town (c.400 BCE–300 CE) 2 km southeast of Kalaly-Gyr 1 — walled sacred precinct 120×90 m with tripartite fire temple, columned ayvan, and ossuary chambers, excavated 1981 by M.G.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Temple complex
Hwangnyongsa Temple Site
Three Kingdoms Silla 553–668 → Unified Silla 668–935 → Goryeo 935–1238 · Silla state Buddhism (Hwangnyongsa doctrinal)
Hwangnyongsa — largest Silla temple (553–1238 CE) 800 m north Wolseong, Gyeongju plain, excavated 1976–83 CHA (Gyeongju Institute).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Tuna el-Gebel
Late Period to Ptolemaic–Roman (600 BCE–200 CE) · Ancient Egyptian / Greco-Egyptian
Hermopolis ibis catacombs 1 km galleries, Petosiris tomb 300 BCE and Isadora shrine marking Amarna boundary.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Temple complex
Glendalough Monastic City
Early Medieval (c.590–1398 CE) · Early Christian Gaelic (Anchorite tradition)
Wicklow glacial valley monastic city (6th century St Kevin) with 33 m round tower, medieval churches and double lakes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ramesseum
New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
6-ha memorial of Ramesses II with 60-m pylons, Kadesh reliefs and 1,000-t colossus 'Ozymandias'.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Tabo
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.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Mati Temple West Thousand Buddha Cliff
Sixteen Kingdoms to Tang · Hexi Buddhist (Xiliang, N Wei, Sui, Tang)
1.2-km-west thousand-niche vertical cliff with 1200 Buddhas and Tang malachite murals.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Huaytará Inca Temple (Huaytara)
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (c.1440–1532 CE) · Inca (Pachacuti – Huanca integration)
Intact Inca palace-temple (1450–1530, Inca Pachacuti–Topa period) uniquely fused with Spanish church San Juan Bautista (1570s): walls 3 m thick coursed imperial Inca ashlar with 28 trapezoidal niches…