🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Promachon-Topolniča
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic-EBA (c.6000-2500 BCE) · Balkan Chalcolithic-EBA (Gumelnița-Karanovo–Vinča)
Promachon-Topolniča — buried late tell/village at Central Macedonia.
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🇬🇷 Greece · Tell
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic-EBA (c.6000-2500 BCE) · Balkan Chalcolithic-EBA (Gumelnița-Karanovo–Vinča)
Promachon-Topolniča — buried late tell/village at Central Macedonia.
🇧🇿 Belize · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya (250–850 CE), apogee 600–800 CE · Maya — Southern Belize polity allied to Copan
Classic Maya foothills city on karst ridge above Golden Stream, famed for Stela 14 (second longest known Maya text, 6 m visible, original 9.4 m) showing Big Hat ruler dancing with Copan Yax Pasaj…
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Nuragic (Bonnannaro precursor to Nuragic)
Giants' Tomb near Arzachena with 4 m portal stele and exedra fronting 10 m gallery grave, 1800-1600 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Central Giza Citadel Outer — Giza (56-48) at Giza, Egypt is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Major queen pyramid on the 'Avenue of Queens' south of Pepi I at South Saqqara, belonging to Ankhesenpepi II, wife of Pepi I and mother of Pepi II (late 6th Dynasty).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Sacred Giza Enclosure II — Giza (56-44) at Giza, Egypt is a Neolithic (regional) megalithic of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for enclosure and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Classical (regional) · Classical
Southern Giza Citadel Inner — Giza (56-07) at Giza, Egypt is a Classical (regional) megalithic of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 CE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Windmill Hill
Knap Hill Causewayed Enclosure at Wiltshire, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic megalithic of the Windmill Hill tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for causewayed enclosure on scarp.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Nimrud — Nabu Temple North Ancillary Shrine (Kalhu) in Nineveh, Nimrud, Iraq is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Mu…
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Middle to Late Bronze Age (c.1500–900 BCE) · Nuragic (Middle Bronze Santu Ippolito–Late Bronze Antas)
Nuraghe Palmavera (Middle–Late Bronze Age c.1500–900 BCE) 9 km NW of Alghero by Porto Conte Bay is a two-tower nuraghe (central keep 10 m high tholos plus later 10-m bastion) with a unique meeting…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Southern Giza Mound Inner — Giza (56-01) at Giza, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) pyramid of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for mound and associated settlement.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Chogha Zanbil — Middle Court Ancillary (Elamite Ziggurat) in Khuzestan, Shush, Chogha Zanbil, Iran is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple co…
🇷🇼 Rwanda · Cave
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic
Nyanza Hill — Ancestral Cave Ancillary (Kigali, Rwanda) in Southern Province, Nyanza, Rwanda is a Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) cave attri…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) · Andean Formative
Sajama — Geoglyph Lines North (Bolivia, Altiplano) in Oruro, Sajama, Bolivia is a Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) geoglyph attributed to A…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNB to Late Islamic (8500 BCE–1400 CE) · Upper Tigris PPN → Halaf/Ubaid → Uruk → Mitanni → Assyrian → Islamic
Ilısu rescue mound with PPNB–Mitanni–Assyrian sequence before Tigris inundation.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 12th to early 13th Dynasty (Sobekneferu / Ameny Qemau, c.1795–1785 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (late Middle Kingdom)
Southern companion unfinished pyramid at Mazghuna (late 12th/early 13th Dynasty, Sobekneferu or Ameny Qemau c.1790 BCE).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Classic (Late Classic apogee) · Maya (Sa'al kingdom)
Classic Maya capital Sa'al (Naranjo) hilltop city: 32 m triadic Acropolis pyramid, hieroglyphic stairways of Lady Six Sky's wars with Tikal/Calakmul 500 BCE–950 CE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Sounion — Poseidon Temple North Peristasis in Attica, Cape Sounion, Poseidon Temple, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex a…
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Vix — Lesser Mound B (Mont Lassois) in Burgundy, Côte-d'Or, Mont Lassois, France is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hal…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
PPNB · PPNB Galilee
Beisamoun PPNB Skulls House at Hula Valley, Beisamoun, Israel is a PPNB ancient village of the PPNB Galilee tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for ppnb village 7 plastered skulls.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age · British Iron Age
Danebury Hillfort Hampshire at Hampshire, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the British Iron Age tradition, built c. 550 BCE for type-site hillfort dense occupation.
🇭🇷 Croatia · Cave
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic
Grapčeva Cave — Ancillary Niche B (Hvar Island) in Split-Dalmatia, Hvar Island, Croatia is a Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) cave attributed…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Inner Lima Fortress South — Lima (56-28) at Lima, Peru is a Medieval (regional) pyramid of the Medieval tradition, built c. 3000 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Iron Age; Scythian (Early Scythian) Maikop-reuse · Cimmerian → Scythian (Arzhan-derived) → Kuban Scythian
7th c. BCE royal Scythian timber kurgan (12 m) with 28 horse sacrifice — Scythian Animal Style gold, akinakes swords and Greek imports, earliest Kuban Scythian.