🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Boralday Saka Kurgans (Boralday Steppe Necropolis)
Early Saka (Scythian) Iron Age · Saka Tigrakhauda (pointed-hat Sakas)
Saka steppe royal cemetery 28 km from Almaty: 81 kurgans 45-105 m with tigrine gold plaques.
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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka (Scythian) Iron Age · Saka Tigrakhauda (pointed-hat Sakas)
Saka steppe royal cemetery 28 km from Almaty: 81 kurgans 45-105 m with tigrine gold plaques.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Early Iron Age (Pazyryk) · Pazyryk (Siberian Ice Maiden horizon)
Southern flank of Ukok Plateau World Heritage 768 (2,200 m, 49°21′N 87°30′E) Ak-Alakha River valley palsa permafrost where Molodin 1993 Princess of Ukok site (Ak-Alakha-3) and 6 new kurgans form…
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus Saint-Michel Annex Cist South — Southern Extension in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus Saint-Michel Annex Cist South — Eastern Outlier in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) · Early Dynastic
Abydos Umm el-Qaab Royal Enclosure East Annex — Western Terrace in Sohag, Abydos, Egypt is a Early Dynastic (3100-2686 BCE) tumulus attributed to Early Dynastic.
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus Saint-Michel Annex Cist South in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jebel Moya Tumulus Field South Edge in Sennar, Jebel Moya, Sudan is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Third Intermediate/Napatan (1200–750 BCE) · Egyptian colonial and Kushite (Napatan)
Napatan rock-cut cemetery 3 km south Jebel Barkal (1200–750 BCE), pyramids 4–6 m base, rock tombs.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Middle–Late Kofun 350–600 CE (Yamato mature) · Yamato Mozu–Furuichi Kofun tradition
Mozu Kofun Cluster — dense kofun cemetery (49 kofun inscribed, 160,000+ total in Japan, 4th–6th c CE) across Mozu and Furuichi plains 10 km south Osaka, excavated 1970s–2019 Shiraishi et al.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Koguryo/Goguryeo (3rd–5th c. CE c. 400 CE) · Goguryeo/Koguryo Korean-Chinese
Jilin Koguryo pyramid excavated 1900, tomb of General as tradition, UNESCO 2004 Koguryo cross-border.