🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Heraion of Perachora
Geometric to Classical ~750–300 BCE · Corinthian Greek
Corinth's cliff sanctuary of Hera on coastal lagoon with apsidal 750 BCE temple and cistern.
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🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Geometric to Classical ~750–300 BCE · Corinthian Greek
Corinth's cliff sanctuary of Hera on coastal lagoon with apsidal 750 BCE temple and cistern.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · Hurrian → Mittanian → Neo-Assyrian
Nusaybin palatial tell 13 m high (Mitanni–Assyrian palace, Nuzi ware, tablets) on Tigris watershed.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Late Uruk to Old Babylonian (c.3400–1700 BCE; peak Early Dynastic) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic (Akkadian/Sumerian Diyala) → Akkadian → Old Babylonian/Eshnunna
Diyala Sequence key town with 10-phase Sin Temple and Samsuiluna earthquake horizon.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic Xoo 600–850 CE · Zapotec (Xoo phase, Late Classic)
Xoo-phase Zapotec salt palace with Cocijo friezes and tell de sal 140 m salt workshop for Monte Albán tribute.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic (550–850 CE) · Maya — Chenes/Rio Bec transitional
Transitional site noted by Nondédéo between Chenes Santa Rosa Xtampak sphere and Rio Bec core, its main structure shows Chenes stone mosaic masks on north façade and Rio Bec plain tower fragments on…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell el-Hayyat — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇲🇱 Mali · Temple complex
Medieval to Modern (13th c original; current 1907 reconstruction) · Sudano-Sahelian / Malian / French colonial restoration
World's largest mudbrick (banco) structure, Great Mosque of Djenné dominates island town: 56×56 m, 11 m high, three 34 m minarets with ostrich-egg pinnacles, toron wooden poles for annual…
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (c.70,000–30,000 BP) · Zagros Mousterian → Baradostian
Lorestan cave 8 m deposits (70–30 ka, Mousterian→Baradostian, Neanderthal→UP) near Khorramabad.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb tradition
Court tomb near Crossmaglen, 13 m gallery with shallow court, at foot of Ring of Gullion, c.3500 BCE.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Medang Kingdom Sailendra 780–835 CE · Mahayana Buddhist under Sailendra dynasty central Java
World's largest Buddhist Mandala mountain with 72 latticed stupas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Preceramic VI – Initial Period 6000–1800 BCE · Cupisnique/Pre-Cupisnique maritime
6000-year preceramic cotton mound 30×8 m with indigo dye and 7000-year textile nets 3 km from El Brujo.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb
Huge court tomb near Killeen (King's Ring), court 6.4×13 m, lintelled entrance, c.3800 BCE.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu Suwan — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Mafraq Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu al-Kharaz — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Andalusian Neolithic / Guadalquivir Megalithic
20 m Andalusian corridor dolmen in Cádiz hills with painted orthostats and 30 m tumulus, c.4000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Portal Tomb
Massive portal tomb between Hilltown and Castlewellan, granite capstone on cairn with north cist, c.3500 BCE.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Neolithic (Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, c.7500–5800 BCE) · Deh Luran early Neolithic (Zagros)
Deh Luran tell 5 m high (c.7500–5800 BCE, Bus Mordeh–Khazineh, goat lentil) in Deh Luran plain.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Crusader to Mamluk (11th c Kurdish fort; Hospitaller 1142–1271; Mamluk after 1271) · Kurdish / Frankish (Hospitaller) / Mamluk
Paradigmatic concentric Crusader castle, Krak des Chevaliers was built by Kurdish emir and expanded by Knights Hospitaller 1142–1271.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Neolithic (Maeshowe group)
Maeshowe-type cairn on hill above Firth with 5 m crawl passage to chamber containing human and dog skulls.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Bronze Age Food Vessel
Gravel-terrace cemetery cairn NW of Kilmartin village with seven Bronze Age cists.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Archaeological wonder
Joseon Dynasty 1794–1796 CE · Joseon Korean (Jeongjo)
5.52 km bastioned city wall (1794–1796) built by King Jeongjo to honor father Prince Sado and establish new capital, combining Korean, Chinese and Western bastion design via Silhak scholar Jeong…