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🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Talaiot de Ses Païsses in Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Spain is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇵🇸 Palestine · Tell
Neolithic to Iron Age (c.7000–700 BCE; peak Israelite Tirzah 1000–800 BCE) · Neolithic → Chalcolithic → EB → Israelite (Tirzah, capital to 800) → Assyrian
Tell el-Farah (North) in Tirzah valley (likely biblical Tirzah, capital of Northern Israel before Samaria) with Neolithic village (Lodian) through EB, Middle Br...
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Satavahana (100 BCE) Hinayana; repainted 5th c. · Buddhist Hinayana then Mahayana
Ajanta Caves 9–10 — Early Hinayana Group in Maharashtra, India is a Satavahana (100 BCE) Hinayana; repainted 5th c. rock_cut attributed to Buddhist Hinayana then Mahayana.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell–Adena 250 BCE–200 CE · Hopewell tradition (Adena antecedent)
Hopewell circular enclosure and Great Mound, 250 BCE–200 CE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Archaic to Classical (728–483 BCE) · Corinthian–Megarian Greek colony
Megara Hyblaea — Sicily in Sicily (Italian heritage), Greece is a Archaic to Classical (728–483 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Corinthian–Megarian Greek colony.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical (444–440 BCE) · Athenian (Periklean)
Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion in Attica, Greece is a Classical (444–440 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Athenian (Periklean).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
100 m Early Neolithic chambered long barrow near Avebury with five sarsen chambers under chalk mound.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Maya Early to Late Classic, c.250–900 CE (I: c.400 CE, rebuild 600–700) · Maya (Kanul / Snake dynasty)
East Acropolis pyramid Structure I (? not largest Structure II 55 m, but I is 40 m) at Calakmul (c.250–900 CE, Classic megapower, rival of Tikal).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Shetland Neolithic
Heel-shaped chambered cairn on Whalsay, 15 m, part of Yoxie settlement complex, c.3500 BCE.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Serra Orrios Nuragic Village in Sardinia, Nuoro, Italy is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical High 447–406 BCE over Bronze Age citadel · Athenian Classical Greek
Periclean citadel with Parthenon, Erechtheion Caryatids and Propylaia — summit of Classical Greece.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period, c.1700–1200 BCE · Manchay (Lima Initial Period, Casma–Rímac tradition)
Huaca La Florida — largest remaining Initial Period pyramid in the Rímac valley (c.1700–1200 BCE), 213 × 65 m base, 17 m high, U-shaped with central stair and circular sunken court.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Mycenaean Helladic 1600–1100 BCE, peak 1350–1200 BCE · Mycenaean Greeks
Homeric citadel with Cyclopean walls, Lion Gate and gold mask tombs.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Jemdet Nasr to Old Babylonian / Neo-Babylonian, c.3100–580 BCE · Sumerian → Akkadian → Babylonian
Twin tells of Kish — Ingharra (Temple Mound) and Uhaimir (Palace Mound) with ziggurats. Tell Uhaimir ziggurat (Ekišiba, Temple of Zababa) 30 × 40 m base, 13 m extant mudbrick massif with plano-convex…
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Late Gupta to Early Chalukya 5th–8th century CE · Hindu (Shaiva) and Buddhist under Kalachuri/Chalukya patronage
Rock-cut Shaiva cave complex on Elephanta Island with colossal Trimurti sculpture, 5th–8th c. CE.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Chalcolithic (2450–700 BCE) Kayatha culture · Kayatha–Ahar–Malwa sequence
Kayatha — Ujjain Chalcolithic Type Site in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Chalcolithic (2450–700 BCE) Kayatha culture tell attributed to Kayatha–Ahar–Malwa sequence.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Tumulus
Iron Age to Viking Age (500–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Viking
Dramatic Viking burial field (700 graves) and Iron Age/Viking settlement on hill overlooking Limfjord at Nørresundby–Aalborg, preserved under windblown sand after 1000 CE abandonment.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn trapezoidal long barrow on Cleeve Hill with four chambers and false portal entrance.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic
140 m Neolithic tumulus at Locmariaquer — longest in Brittany, part of Grand Menhir alignment.
🇹🇷 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...
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Pallava dynasty 630–700 CE · Hindu (Shaiva) under Pallava
Pallava seaside rock-cut trials: Shore Temple surviving tsunami and 27-m bas relief.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Proto-Elamite / Early Bronze Age, c.3000–2600 BCE (Sialk III-IV) · Proto-Elamite
High platform (proto-ziggurat) on South Tappeh at Tepe Sialk (c.3000–2600 BCE, Proto-Elamite / Early Bronze Age).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
late 3rd–early 4th Dynasty, c.2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Huni/Sneferu)
Three-step small pyramid at El-Kula, 5 km north of Hierakonpolis temple town: 12.5 m base, 3 steps, limestone core now eroded. Excavated by Quibell, Reiner and Kaiser.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Rashtrakuta c.756–773 CE · Rashtrakuta Hindu (Ellora)
Kailasa (756–773, Krishna I Rashtrakuta) – world's largest monolithic rock-cut temple, excavated top-down from 200,000 tonnes basalt: 33m shikhara, surrounding courtyard 98×48m, two-storey gopura,…
