🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex
Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
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🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos Caravanserai South Annex in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Neopalatial (1700-1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to Sasanian · Achaemenid / Sasanian (with Roman prisoners)
390-m Karun diversion weir (5th c BCE /260 CE) — head of Shushtar mills system.
🇲🇹 Malta · Rock-cut
Late Neolithic (3600-2500 BCE) · Temple Period
Hal Tarxien Hypogeum Extension North in Malta, Paola, Malta is a Late Neolithic (3600-2500 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Temple Period.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sabaean to Himyarite · Kingdom of Saba (Sabaean South Arabian) then Himyar
480-m east rockfill barrage of Great Marib Dam at Balaq Hills gap.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) · Caral-Supe (Norte Chico)
Caral-Supe in Lima, Peru is a Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Caral-Supe (Norte Chico) culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Iron Age to Medieval (c.400–1300 CE) · Scandinavian Migration/Vendel and Medieval Gotlandic–Swedish
Eketorp, on southeastern Öland's Stora Alvaret limestone plain, is the only fully excavated of Öland's 19 Iron Age ringforts, a concentric limestone-walled fortress 70 m diameter with 53…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Late New Kingdom to early Napatan (1200–750 BCE) · Kushite (Nubian, Napatan early, Egyptianised)
Napatan-period cemetery (1200–750 BCE, early Kush) 3 km south of Jebel Barkal near Karima, on low sandstone ridge.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Largest of Pepi I’s queens pyramids, positioned south-west of Pepi I’s enclosure at South Saqqara, built for Ankhenespepi II, sister-wife of Pepi I who survived to become queen-mother of Pepi II as…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (peak Iron I–II, 1200–701 BCE) · Chalcolithic well-diggers → Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite → Assyrian → Byzantine
UNESCO biblical frontier tell with four-room houses and Israel's earliest engineered water-tunnel.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Sicán to Late Sicán (Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque (Moche descendant)
Sicán capital Batán Grande (800–1375 CE): 20 adobe pyramids (Huaca Loro 20 m with Lord of Sicán 2 kg gold mask and 22 sacrifices) in dry forest world-heritage necropolis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Major queen pyramid on the 'Avenue of Queens' south of Pepi I at South Saqqara, belonging to Ankhesenpepi II, wife of Pepi I and mother of Pepi II (late 6th Dynasty).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Classic (Late Classic apogee) · Maya (Sa'al kingdom)
Classic Maya capital Sa'al (Naranjo) hilltop city: 32 m triadic Acropolis pyramid, hieroglyphic stairways of Lady Six Sky's wars with Tikal/Calakmul 500 BCE–950 CE.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Fortress
Early Modern Atlantic (1482–1872 slave trade) · Portuguese / Dutch / Fante
Elmina Castle (São Jorge da Mina) 1482 Portuguese, oldest European building south of Sahara, UNESCO 1979 Forts and Castles of Volta 34. On Elmina peninsula rock.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Zambujeiro — Cromlech Segment 3 (Évora) in Alentejo, Évora, Portugal is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late …
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (675 CE completion; tomb 683 CE interment) · Maya (Palenque Baakal)
Late Classic Maya 27.2 m high 8-step pyramid-temple (600×675 CE) housing only Mesoamerican pyramid tomb comparable to Egyptian: hidden stair 66 steps descending inside to sarcophagus chamber of Pakal…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Tell el-Amarna — North City Buried House N49.18 (Amarna) in Minya, Amarna, North City, Egypt is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Central queens pyramid of Pepi II group, built for Queen Iput II (not to be confused with Iput I of Teti), sister of Pepi II or daughter of Pepi I.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Reservoir of Source Mesa in Andalusia, Spain is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) · Scythian / Saka
Taksay — Kurgan 6 Gold Ornament Cache (West Kazakhstan) in West Kazakhstan, Taksay, Kazakhstan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) kurgan attributed to …
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hillfort
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Pediment-Spur Hill Fort in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hillfort attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Cave
Lower to Middle Palaeolithic (c.500,000–40,000 BP) · Acheuleo-Yabrudian → Mousterian (Neanderthal)
Mount Carmel UNESCO cave (500–40 ka, 25 m sequence, Neanderthal Yabrudian–Mousterian, Garrod/Jelinek).
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Mid–Late Magdalenian ~14–12 ka BP · Magdalenian
Dense 600-figure engraved gallery opposite Font-de-Gaume, core Magdalenian engraving reference.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tell
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Tel Floodplain Höyük in Ancash, Peru is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) tell attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Temple complex
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Temple of Bailey in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) temple complex attributed to Hellenistic culture.