🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Er Grah Tumulus
Early to Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Neolithic
140 m Neolithic tumulus at Locmariaquer — longest in Brittany, part of Grand Menhir alignment.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kültepe-Kanesh
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
Mahabalipuram Group of Monuments
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
Tepe Sialk — South Tappeh High Platform (Proto-Ziggurat)
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
El-Kula Small Step Pyramid — Hierakonpolis
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
Kailasa Temple Ellora Outlier
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,…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya
Maurya to Gupta and Pala (3rd c. BCE–6th c. CE core; current 5th–6th c. brick shikhara) · Indian Buddhist (Mauryan-Gupta-Pala)
Mahabodhi (5th–6th c. Gupta brick shikhara 55m) – on Vajrasana where Buddha attained enlightenment under Bodhi tree (Ficus religiosa descendant).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ormaig Rock Art
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Late Neolithic
Forest clearing cup-and-ring cluster on Creag Mhor, 120+ motifs, c.3000 BCE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Tikal — Temple I (Gran Jaguar) Pyramid
Maya Late Classic, c.730–734 CE, reign Hasaw Chan K'awil · Maya (Classic Lowland)
Temple I — Gran Jaguar — pyramid over tomb of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Hasaw Chan K'awil, r.682–734 CE), north of Great Plaza, 47 m high.
🇨🇿 Czechia · Ancient village
Závist Celtic Oppidum
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Závist Celtic Oppidum in Central Bohemia, Czechia is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Baba Jan
Iron Age (c.800–600 BCE; Mannean–Median 750–600) · Mannean → Median → Neo-Assyrian sphere
Baba Jan in eastern Lorestan is a Mannean–Median fortified manor complex — Central and East Mounds with pillared halls, painted plaster and Iron II ceramics. Go...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Notion Necropolis-Agora — Apollo Claros Necropolis Grid
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 300 CE) · Aeolian to Ionian Notians
Necropolis-agora with painted tombs and Apollo sacred way 600 m from temple.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient village
Puerto Escondido
Early Formative to Terminal Classic 1600 BCE–900 CE, peak Early-Middle Formative 1400–400 BCE · Preclassic Maya-adjacent (Ulúa Valley Formative, Ocotillo/Playón ↔ Olmec-linked)
Early village CR-372 in Lower Ulúa Valley suburbs of San Pedro Sula with continuous occupation 1600 BCE–900 CE; yielded earliest cacao residue in Mesoamerica (1150 BCE) in pottery, Olmec-style…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Sahure
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty early · Ancient Egyptian
First pyramid at Abusir for second king of 5th Dynasty (47.5 m high, 78.75 m base, angle 50°11'), introducing 5th Dynasty pyramidal art refinement: exquisite limestone mortuary temple reliefs (naval…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Table des Marchand
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
Decorated passage grave at Locmariaquer with art linked to Gavrinis, beside the fallen 20.6 m Grand Menhir.
🇬🇬 Guernsey · Megalith
Les Fouaillages
Early Neolithic · Guernsey Early Neolithic
Early passage grave by L'Ancresse Road, Guernsey, c.4500 BCE, among Europe's oldest (6000 years).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Nether Largie South Cairn — Kilmartin
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Kilmartin Neolithic
Nether Largie South Cairn — Kilmartin in Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Kilmartin Neolithic.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Temple complex
Seokguram Grotto and Bulguksa Temple
Unified Silla 751 CE (King Gyeongdeok reign) · Silla Korean Buddhist (Hwaeom)
Silla artificial cave-shrine (751 CE) on Tohamsan summit, commissioned by Kim Dae-seong, housing 3.48 m granite Vairocana surrounded by 40 meticulously sculpted bodhisattvas and guardians in 3.6 m…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Brak — Eye Temple High Mound (Ancient Nagar)
Late Chalcolithic to Bronze Age, c.3500–2300 BCE · Uruk / Nagar (Hurrian)
Northern high mound at Tell Brak — Eye Temple platform (Late Chalcolithic, c.3500–3300 BCE) and later Nagar palace high mound (c.2500 BCE).
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Tiryns
Mycenaean 1600–1100 BCE, acme 1300–1200 BCE · Mycenaean
Cyclopean citadel with earliest vaulted galleries in Europe and megaron palace.
🇨🇿 Czechia · Ancient village
Vladař Hillfort
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Vladař Hillfort in Karlovy Vary Region, Czechia is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Ellora Cave 10 — Vishwakarma Chaitya
Rashtrakuta (650–700 CE) · Buddhist (Mahayana final Buddhist at Ellora)
Ellora Cave 10 — Vishwakarma Chaitya in Maharashtra, India is a Rashtrakuta (650–700 CE) rock_cut attributed to Buddhist (Mahayana final Buddhist at Ellora).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Early Neolithic / Beaker
Chambered cairn beside A816 with three Bronze Age cists and 2021 animal carvings discovery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pulur Höyük (Erzincan)
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Pulur Höyük (Erzincan) — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzincan Province.