🇬🇷 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.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Buried city
Buried City of Khirbet
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Buried City of Khirbet in Alentejo, Portugal is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) buried city attributed to Harappan culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Fortress
Fortress of Long Kala
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Fortress of Long Kala in Petén, Guatemala is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) fortress attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Temple of Quetzalcoatl at Teotihuacan
Classic Teotihuacan (150–250 CE core; 250–600 CE modifications) · Teotihuacano (Central Mexican)
Feathered Serpent Pyramid (c.150–250 CE) at Teotihuacan's Ciudadela – talud-tablero façade encrusted with alternating feathered serpent and fire-serpent (Xiuhcoatl) heads with war-serpent headdresses.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Deir Alla
Late Bronze to Islamic (c.1600 BCE–1400 CE; peak Iron 1200–760 BCE, Balaam c.800) · LB Canaanite → Iron Ammon/Gilead → Persian → Hellenistic
Deir Alla in Jordan Valley is famed for 1967 Balaam inscription — plaster wall with earliest Aramaic/Hebrew prophetic text 'Balaam son of Beor, seer of the gods...
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Millbarrow (Winterbourne Monkton Long Barrow)
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Excavated Cotswold-Severn long barrow north of Avebury, 30 m, discrete façade, c.3750 BCE.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Aphek
EB to Ottoman (c.3500 BCE–1917 CE; peak Canaanite–Philistine–Herod 3000 BCE–74 CE) · Canaanite → Philistine → Israelite → Philistine → Hellenistic → Herodian (Antipatris)
Tel Aphek (Herodian Antipatris) guards the Yarkon springs — Via Maris bottleneck, famous as Philistine camp before Saul's defeat (1 Sam 4) and Herod's Antipatri...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Girnavaz
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.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Earthwork
Stone Pur Mound Complex
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Stone Pur Mound Complex in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) earthwork attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tall-i Bakun
Chalcolithic (c.4200–3500 BCE; Bakun B–A 4200–3700) · Bakun (Fars Chalcolithic, Ubaid-related)
Tall-i Bakun (Mound A, Fars) is the type-site of Bakun Chalcolithic (c.4200–3700 BCE) — elaborate black-on-buff painted ware with ibex and geometric motifs, sea...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Khafajah
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
Lambityeco
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.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Moor Bal Petroglyph Field
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Moor Bal Petroglyph Field in Occitanie, France is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) rock art attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty c.1479–1458 BCE · Egyptian (New Kingdom, Thutmosid)
Hatshepsut's Djeser-Djeseru (c.1470 BCE) – a three-terraced colonnaded mortuary temple cut into the Theban cliff opposite Karnak, designed by Senenmut.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Okolhuitz — Chenes–Rio Bec Hybrid Mound
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
Tell el-Hayyat
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
Great Mosque of Djenné
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
Kunji 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.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Hydraulic works
Reservoir of New Cist
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Reservoir of New Cist in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Earthwork
Ditch Stone Mound Complex
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Ditch Stone Mound Complex in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Moche (100–800 CE) earthwork attributed to Moche culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Notgrove Long Barrow
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Cave
Palace Jabal Cave
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Palace Jabal Cave in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Moche (100–800 CE) cave attributed to Moche culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Quarry
Port Playa Quarry
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Port Playa Quarry in Ancash, Peru is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) quarry attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Thornby Grove Ancient City
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Thornby Grove Ancient City in Thessaly, Greece is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) ancient city attributed to Yayoi culture.