🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Red Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
First successful true pyramid, by Sneferu, of reddish limestone giving modern name. Culmination of experimental phase leading to Giza.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Ellora Caves
Late classical: Kalachuri, Chalukya, Rashtrakuta periods 600–1000 CE · Buddhist, Hindu (Shaiva), Jain under Rashtrakuta patronage
Largest rock-cut monastery-temple complex in world with 34 caves carved 600–1000 CE into basalt Charanandri Hills: 12 Buddhist, 17 Hindu, 5 Jain, including monolithic Kailasa Temple (Cave 16)…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kosak Shamali
Ubaid to Uruk (c.5500–3200 BCE; Uruk station c.3700–3200 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk expansion
Northernmost Uruk station (3700–3200 BCE) on Upper Euphrates with tripartite compound north of Raqqa.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Corrimony Chambered Cairn
Early Bronze Age (2000 BCE) · Clava Cairn builders
Corrimony chambered cairn in Glenurquhart, a Clava passage grave with intact chamber, kerb and surrounding stone circle of eleven monoliths, excavated by Piggott revealing cremation and beaker…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Tepeticpac (Tlaxcala hill town)
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepeticpac (Tlaxcala hill town) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Tlaxcala State.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Harbour Mole Submerged Temple 116 — Armenia Region 8
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Harbour Mole Submerged Temple 116 — Armenia Region 8 in Armenia Region 8, Armenia is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Radingrad Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Radingrad Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Razgrad Province.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Călărași-Măgura Gumelnița
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Călărași-Măgura Gumelnița — buried prehistoric tell/village at Călărași County.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Azmashka Mogila (Azmak Tell)
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Azmashka Mogila (Azmak Tell) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Stara Zagora Province.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Jawa South Dam & Reservoir System (Wadi Rajil South Extension)
EB I (Proto-urban Chalco–EB transition) · Jawa proto-urban Black Desert (Chalcolithic-EB)
South satellite of Jawa's 3300 BCE basalt dam system: 52-m curvilinear dam impounding 2,000 m³ on Wadi Rajil.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Aihole Cave Temples — Badami Chalukya Experiments
Badami Chalukya (543–753 CE) · Badami Chalukya Shaiva (Nataraja) and Jain; Pulakeshin II
Chalukya lab 540–745: Ravanaphadi 6th c. earliest Nataraja cave and 125 structural trials with 634 CE Ravikirti Meguti stone.
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient city
Wolin (Jomsburg–Vineta) Slavic–Viking Emporium
Early Middle Ages (8th–12th c., Viking Age peak 900–1100) · Pomeranian Slavs (Wolinian) + Viking Jomsvikings
Wolin (Jomsburg–Vineta) Slavic–Viking Emporium in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kamień County, Wolin Island, Dziwna river mouth, Poland is a Early Middle Ages (8th–12th c., Viking Age peak 900–1100)…
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Kalbak-Tash Kurgan Field
Early Bronze to Early Saka, Afanasievo to Saka · Afanasievo to Early Saka Altai
Kalbak-Tash multi-period kurgan field (2800-600 BCE) of 22 cromlechs co-located with 500-panel rock-art gorge on Chuya River.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound
Medio Period (Casas Grandes, 1205–1340 CE) with Viejo substrate · Casas Grandes (Chihuahua Culture / Mogollon–Paquimé)
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Chihuahua State, Casas Grandes Municipality, Rio Casas Grandes valley, Mexico — Largest northern…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Thorsberg Moor Plankway and Votive Causeway (Schleswig-Holstein)
Roman Iron Age (Angles) · Germanic Angles (North Germanic)
Thorsberg moor (Thorsberger Moor, Thorsberg Mose) peat bog (18 m asl, 54°38′14″N 09°46′07″E 54.6373,9.7687) in Anglia where Angles deposited votive offerings for four centuries, with 100 m oak…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Glastonbury Lake Village – Iron Age Crannog Cluster
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
La Venta (Tabasco)
Early to Middle Formative 900–400 BCE (Olmec florescence, post-San Lorenzo apogee) · Olmec (Olmeca, language affiliation Gulf-Mixe-Zoque hypothesised)
Apogee Olmec capital (900–400 BCE) – first pyramid in Mesoamerica? – 31 m (some readings 34 m) earthen fluted pyramid-pyramid (C-1) with 10 sunken segments, Complex A (north-palatial plaza with…
🇵🇱 Poland · Earthwork
Gniezno – Early Piast Stronghold on Lech Hill
Early Middle Ages (8th–11th c. Piast Poland, first capital 940–1039) · Piast Poland (Mieszko I, Bolesław I)
Gniezno – Early Piast Stronghold on Lech Hill in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Gniezno city, Lech Hill cathedral hill, Poland is a Early Middle Ages (8th–11th c.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Eleke Sazy Royal Kurgan
Early Iron Age, Early Saka 8th-5th c. BCE · Early Saka Tarbagatai
680 BCE Early Saka golden warrior kurgan (4,300 golds) in ranked 280-mound cemetery at Eleke Sazy, Tarbagatai.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bharhut
Sunga → early Satavahana (Shunga art) 150–75 BCE · Sunga (Dhanabhuti lineage)
Great Sunga stupa 150–75 BCE — 11 m vedika with toranas, Jataka-labelled reliefs and yakshi pillars (Cunningham).
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Arzhan 2 Royal Kurgan
Early Iron Age, pre-Scythian/Al dy-Bel (8th–7th c. BCE) · Aldy-Bel (early Scythian) steppe nomads
Intact 670 BCE Scythian royal grave in Tuva—9,000 gold pieces and 14 horses in a larch chamber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Star Carr Extension — Seamer Carr & Flixton Island Mesolithic Lakesides (Vale of Pickering)
Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian, 9000–8500 BCE, Preboreal) · British Early Mesolithic (Maglemosian, Star Carr group)
Seamer Carr 350-m brush causeway and 3 Maglemosian houses (9000–8500 BCE) — Lake Flixton extensions of Star Carr.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Tholos de El Romeral
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (c.3800–2500 BCE) · Los Millares / Alentejo Chalcolithic (tholos tradition)
Antequera hill tholos (corbelled dome 5.2 m) with 26 m corridor — Mediterranean-type beehive tomb 4 km north of Menga/Viera.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Ialysos Athena Polias Temple — Filerimos Hill
Geometric to Medieval · Mycenaean, Dorian Rhodian, Byzantine, Knights
Rhodes 267-m Filerimos Doric Athena Polias 3rd BCE atop Minoan–Knights stratigraphy with sacred road and fountain.