🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Notgrove Long Barrow
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 BCE.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 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.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (700–734 CE) · Maya (Tikal Mutul dynasty)
Classic Maya superstructure 55 m high (45 m pyramid + 12 m temple and 12 m roof comb) on Great Plaza east, funerary pyramid of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (695–734), entombed vault 6 m under with jade…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Late Bronze Age 1380–550 BCE (OSL Brill 1995) · Late Bronze Age Britons, ritual landscape around Uffington Castle hillfort
110-m Bronze Age galloping horse on Downs - Britain's oldest hill figure 3000 years.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic · Jersey Neolithic
Urban dolmen and cist-in-circle complex in St Helier, Jersey, c.3500 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Mound
Preceramic (3500–1800 BCE) with early cotton 3300 BCE and indigo 1500 BCE · Preceramic Cupisnique antecedent with early cotton textile industry
Huaca Prieta Bird 1947, Dillehay 2003 oldest cotton 3300 indigo.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EB to Roman (c.3000 BCE–200 CE; karum 2100–1700 BCE, 22k tablets) · Anatolian → Old Assyrian karum (kārum) → Hittite Kanesh
Kültepe is ancient Kanesh/Nesa — the Assyrian merchant colony (karum) with 22,000 Old Assyrian cuneiform tablets (largest OB archive) documenting bronze–silver...
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Asuka Period (694–710 CE) · Yamato (Empress Jito to Monmu)
Fujiwara-kyo is Japan's first planned Chinese-grid capital (694–710 CE) — 5×5 km Chang'an-style city with Fujiwara Palace (1 km² Suzaku Boulevard) at 60 m Yamato plain.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Early Medieval 7th–13th c CE · Buddhist Samatata Chandra dynasty
Mainamati-Lalmai ridge — Buddhist monastic city (7th–13th c CE) 8 km west Comilla, 18 major mounds (Shalban Vihara, Ananda Vihara, Kotila Mura) excavated 1955–73 F.A. Khan.
🇰🇵 North Korea · Tumulus
Goguryeo (5th c. CE c. 440 CE) · Goguryeo (Three Kingdoms)
Pyongyang Susan-ri excavated 1950s, murals of Goguryeo hunters, UNESCO 2004 Goguryeo Tombs.
🇬🇷 Greece · Fortress
Classical (5th c. BCE) · Athenian
Oenoe Fortress — Myoupolis in Attica, Greece is a Classical (5th c. BCE) fortress attributed to Athenian.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Bronze Age (800–600 BCE) · Mumun dolmen
Hwasun Hyosan-ri excavated 1990s, quarry wedge holes match capstone, UNESCO 2000.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3800 BCE) Monte da Toca regional variant · Alentejo Neolithic Toca group
Monte da Toca excavated.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (Vinča A3) · Vinča (Turdaș)
Vinča pit settlement at Tărtăria (c. 5300 BCE) on Mureș River, famous for three clay tablets with Vinča signs found in pit with burnt human bones, 26 figurines and shells, sparking proto-writing…
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Minoan · Minoan
Knossos (Palace of Minos) in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Minoan ancient city attributed to Minoan culture.
🇲🇾 Malaysia · Temple complex
Early Kedah to Bujang Valley (200 BCE–1400 CE; peak 500–1100 CE) · Kedah Tua (Qarun) to Srivijaya–Langkasuka
Lembah Bujang is Malaysia's earliest Hindu–Buddhist entrepôt (200 BCE–1400 CE) — 224 candi and iron-smelting furnaces (200 BCE, 30 furnaces) along the Muda River–Merbok estuary, iron export to…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Maydos Kilisetepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early to Middle Neolithic 3200-2800 BCE · Hebridean Neolithic (Unstan/Grooved Ware)
3200 BCE Neolithic timber-laced artificial island (32 m) at Eilean Domhnuill, North Uist - earliest crannog settlement in Scotland.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Earthwork
Roman Iron Age to Middle Ages (1st c. CE Roman fort; Great Moravian 830–907; medieval castle 13th c.) · Roman (Limes Pannonia), Great Moravia, Medieval Hungary
Devín Castle Hillfort and Roman Fort in Bratislava Region, Bratislava-Devín, confluence Danube-Morava cliffs, Slovakia is a Roman Iron Age to Middle Ages (1st c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic 3500 BCE to Norse 1200 CE with broch Iron Age focus · Neolithic Grooved Ware to Iron Age broch to Norse
Stratified broch and settlement mound (3500 BCE - Norse) at Howe, Stromness, Orkney - 7-m type-section for Atlantic Iron Age.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tumulus
Scythian Late Classical (4th c BCE, Philip II horizon) · Pontic Scythian (kingdom of Ateas / Late Scythian)
20-m, 110-m largest Pontic kurgan (350–325 BCE) — 80 Greek amphorae and gold gorytos, king Ateas candidate.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Gupta Golden Age (Classical India 320–550 CE) · Gupta Vaishnava; later Jain Chandella
525 CE earliest Nagara Panchayatana shikhara — Vishnu Anantasayana and Betwa Jain cliff.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Late Saka to Kangju · Lower Syr Darya delta culture
Lowest Central Asian kurgan (55 m) on Syr Darya delta: 42-m brick-vault mound with 4-horse sacrifice.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Late Norse (2700 BCE–14th c CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age Pictish → Norse (Scalloway Jarlshof horizon)
4,000-yr Shetland settlement (2700 BCE–14th c) — 10-m broch with 4 wheelhouses overlain by Norse longhouses at Sumburgh.