🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Barclodiad y Gawres
Late Neolithic · Irish Sea passage grave tradition
Anglesey cruciform passage grave with spiral-decorated stones and 27 m cairn on coastal headland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Carn Euny Ancient Village and Fogou
Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) · Dumnonii
Carn Euny Ancient Village and Fogou in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age (500 BCE–400 CE) ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Godin Tepe — Oval Compound High Mound
Early Bronze (III) to Iron III/Median, c.2600–500 BCE · Elamite / Median / Achaemenid
Oval Compound high mound at Godin Tepe (Period VI:1, c.500–330 BCE plus earlier Period III, c.2600 BCE high terrace). 120 × 80 m oval compound with bastions on natural mound 32 m high. T.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sabi Abyad — Burned Building Archive 5200 BCE
Late Neolithic Halaf-Transitional (6200–5200 BCE) · Halaf-Transitional / Hassuna/Samarra
Balikh tell excavated by Akkermans 1986–2010, Burned Building 6000+ small finds, Halaf-Ubaid transition type-site.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Farfan — Chimú Administrative Palace Northern Frontier Jequetepeque
Chimú (1200–1470) before Inca 1470 remodel Inca-Chimú style palace hybrid · Chimú → Inca hybrid 1470 Inca administrative refacing
Farfan Mackey & Klymyshyn 1970s Chimu north palaces with Inca hybrid.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ptolemais — Palace of Columns Cliff Peristyle Hellenistic
Hellenistic (Ptolemy III 246 BCE) → Roman, Palace of Columns 1st c. CE · Hellenistic Ptolemaic port palace and Roman later
Ptolemais Kraeling 1960s, Palace Columns 165 m peristyle.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sardis Artemis Temple — Pactolus Valley Sanctuary of Artemis
Lydian Archaic to Roman (550 BCE – 400 CE) · Lydian to Hellenistic to Roman Sardian
100 m Lydian–Hellenistic Artemis temple on Pactolus gold terrace.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Khaba (Layer Pyramid) — Zawiyet el-Aryan
Old Kingdom, late 3rd Dynasty, c.2640 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Layer Pyramid (c.2640 BCE) at Zawiyet el-Aryan attributed to Khaba (3rd Dynasty terminus). 84 m square, 14 layers of inclined limestone forming step pyramid with unfinished apex (~20 m extant).
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Zuni Pueblo — Hawikuh Contact Village Coronado 1540
Zuni Ancestral to Contact (1300–1680; Coronado 1540 first European battle) · Zuni (Ashiw) / Spanish Contact Coronado
Hawikuh excavated by Hodge 1917–23, 1540 Coronado battle with Estevánico death, 1680 revolt burned.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Akrai — Colony of Syracuse
Archaic–Hellenistic (664 BCE) · Syracusan Greek
Akrai — Colony of Syracuse in Sicily, Greece is a Archaic–Hellenistic (664 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Syracusan Greek.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Cunha Baixa — Beira Dolmen Passagem with Monolithic Atrium Roof
Neolithic (3000 BCE) Beira Alta Cunha Baixa complex (type-site Beira dolmen) · Beira Neolithic Cunha Baixa painted pottery group
Cunha Baixa excav Leisure 1960s sun motif.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Harran — First Islamic University Excavation Trench
Eblaite to Ottoman; University 8th–12th c. CE · Umayyad / Abbasid (Harran School)
Plain city excavated by Lloyd & Brice 1951–56 and recent Harran University, birthplace of al-Battani, Sabian moon temple underlying.
🇮🇱 Israel · Cave
Maresha — Bell Cave Hellenistic Quarry City
Hellenistic (3rd–1st c. BCE) + earlier Iron Edomite Marissa · Idumean / Hellenistic Phoenician polis
Beit Guvrin park excavated by Peters & Thiersch 1902, bell caves industrial 500+, Apollophanes Tomb frescoed.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Taos Pueblo — North House Adobe High-Rise Continuous Occupation
Tiwa Pueblo (1000–present; North House c.1450) · Tiwa Pueblo (Taos) continuously occupied
Taos Pueblo occupied 1000–, UNESCO 1992, 5-storey North House 1450, Taos Revolt 1680 mission destroyed.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Ġgantija Temples
Neolithic (Ġgantija phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Pair of cloverleaf temples with walls to 6 m high, coralline blocks >50 t, among earliest free-standing stone structures (c.3600 BCE), surrounded by massive outer wall on Gozo plateau.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Brak — Eye Temple Terrace
Uruk (3800–3200 BCE) temple; city 4200 BCE · Northern Uruk / Ninevite 5
Tell Brak excavated by Mallowan 1930s and Oates 1976–, Eye Temple with thousands of Eye Idols, proto-Zagros trade centre.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia
Early Iron Age to Roman (1100 BCE–400 CE) · Corinthian Greek
Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia in Corinthia, Greece is a Early Iron Age to Roman (1100 BCE–400 CE) temple-complex attributed to Corinthian Greek.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilki Tepe
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Tilki Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Van Province.
🇰🇵 North Korea · Tumulus
Lelang Tombs — Han Colony Tombs Pyeongyang
Han Chinese Lelang Commandery (108 BCE–313 CE) · Han Chinese colonial (Lelang)
Rangnang Lelang excavated by Japanese colonial 1920s and DPRK, 108 BCE Han colony after Wiman Joseon conquest.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cemetery
Horoztepe
Early Bronze Age (c.2800–2300 BCE; cemetery c.2400 BCE) · North-Central Anatolian Early Bronze (Alacahöyük-Horoztepe horizon)
Extra-mural Early Bronze princely cemetery (2400 BCE) with Alaca-like bronzes at Erbaa.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Bent Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Second pyramid of Sneferu where angle changes mid-construction from 54° to 43°, preserving limestone casing. Unique internal corbel system. Demonstrates learning curve to true pyramid.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Leshan Giant Buddha
Tang Dynasty 713–803 CE · Tang Chinese Buddhist (Maitreya cult)
71 m seated Maitreya monolith (713–803 CE) carved into Lingyun red sandstone cliff at confluence of Min and Dadu rivers, largest premodern Buddha worldwide.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
West Kennet Avenue — Avebury Stone Row North
Late Neolithic (2600 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Avebury
Avebury's west avenue excavated by Keiller 1934 and Long 1850s, linking Overton Hill Sanctuary (concentric stone/timber circles) to southern entrance of henge.
🇬🇷 Greece · Hydraulic works
Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza
Classical (5th–4th c. BCE) · Athenian
Laurion Silver Washery at Agrileza in Attica, Greece is a Classical (5th–4th c. BCE) hydraulic attributed to Athenian.