🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Amphiareion of Oropos — Healing Sanctuary
Late 5th c. BCE to Roman · Oropian
Amphiareion of Oropos — Healing Sanctuary in Attica, Greece is a Late 5th c. BCE to Roman temple-complex attributed to Oropian.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh — Ghana Empire Capital Kumbi
Ghana Empire (300–1240 CE peak 800–1070 CE Wattasi/Awdaghust description) · Soninke Ghana (Awdaghust) → Wagadu
Koumbi Saleh excavated by Bonnel de Mézières 1914 and Berthier 1970s, Ghana capital 800–1240.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sarissa
Hittite (c.1600–1180 BCE; peak 1500–1200 as weather-god city) · Hittite (Empire, weather-god cult)
Sarissa (Kuşaklı) on a windswept 1600-m ridge is the Hittite sacred city of the weather-god — planned Hittite city with 2-km wall, dam and granary, built under...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Tzintzuntzan Yácatas — Tarascan Capital
Postclassic Tarascan (1325–1528 CE) · Purépecha (Tarascan) Empire
Tzintzuntzan Yácatas — Tarascan Capital in Michoacán, Mexico is a Postclassic Tarascan (1325–1528 CE) pyramid attributed to Purépecha (Tarascan) Empire.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church
Viking Age · Jelling Dynasty (Gorm & Harald Bluetooth)
Jelling Mounds, Runic Stones and Church in South Denmark, Vejle Municipality, Denmark is a Viking Age megalithic attributed to Jelling Dynasty (Gorm & Harald Bluetooth) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Kailasa North Mandapa — Ellora Cliff Terrace
Rashtrakuta (756–773 CE Krishna I) · Hindu Shaivite
Kailasa North Mandapa — Ellora Cliff Terrace in Maharashtra, India is a Rashtrakuta (756–773 CE Krishna I) rock_cut attributed to Hindu Shaivite.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Túcume (Valley of Pyramids)
Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca · Sican Lambayeque → Chimú
Túcume (Valley of Pyramids) in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca pyramid attributed to Sican Lambayeque → Chimú culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Town Creek Indian Mound
Pee Dee Mississippian 1150–1400 CE · Pee Dee culture
Pee Dee Mississippian platform mound 1150–1400 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Aurangabad Caves 6–7 — Nagthar Hill North Cluster
Vakataka–Kalachuri (450–600 CE) · Buddhist Mahayana Tantric
Aurangabad Caves 6–7 — Nagthar Hill North Cluster in Maharashtra, India is a Vakataka–Kalachuri (450–600 CE) rock_cut attributed to Buddhist Mahayana Tantric.
🇬🇷 Greece · Fortress
Fortress of Eleutherai — Gyphokastro
Classical (370 BCE) · Athenian/Boeotian
Fortress of Eleutherai — Gyphokastro in Attica/Boeotia, Greece is a Classical (370 BCE) fortress attributed to Athenian/Boeotian.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Nemesis and Fortress at Rhamnous
5th c. BCE to Roman · Athenian
Sanctuary of Nemesis and Fortress at Rhamnous in Attica, Greece is a 5th c. BCE to Roman temple-complex attributed to Athenian.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Stadium and Temple of Zeus at Nemea
Archaic to Early Christian · Argive Greek
Stadium and Temple of Zeus at Nemea in Corinthia, Greece is a Archaic to Early Christian temple-complex attributed to Argive Greek.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Tremper Mound and Earthwork
Hopewell 100–500 CE · Hopewell tradition
Effigy mound with 136 portrait pipes, Hopewell 100–300 CE.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Tocra — Taucheira Hellenistic Fort Byzantium Bolli
Greek Archaic (510 BCE Battus II colonization) → Byzantine Justinian wall 530 CE · Greek Cyrene colonization Dorieus? Taucheira 510 BCE
Tocra Boardman 1950s Taucheira Greek 510.
🇬🇷 Greece · Fortress
Dekeleia Fortress — Tatoi
Peloponnesian War (413 BCE) · Spartan (Agis II)
Dekeleia Fortress — Tatoi in Attica, Greece is a Peloponnesian War (413 BCE) fortress attributed to Spartan (Agis II).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Tabo — Argo Island Meroitic-Isis Temple
Meroitic (300 BCE–300 CE) temple built Taharqa 690 BCE core earlier · Napatan Taharqa → Meroitic Isis cult
Argo Tabo excavated by Hinkel 1959 synthetic, Taharqa colossus 4 m from Tabo granodiorite.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Germa — Garamantian Capital Mudbrick Fortress
Garamantian (500 BCE–600 CE) capital; foggara peak 200 BCE · Garamantian (Berber Saharan state)
Germa excavated by Daniels 1970s and Mattingly 1990s, foggaras 5th c. BCE, 100k tumuli field nearby.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
La Bastida de Totana — Argaric Fortified City
El Argar Bronze Age (2200–1550 BCE) · El Argar
Totana hill city excavated by Lull & Micó since 2009, type-site of Argaric urbanism, with fortified acropolis and extramural cemeteries.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Clava Cairns — Balnuaran Central Ring Cairn
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Clava Cairns / Beaker
Inverness's classic Clava group excavated by Piggott 1952–53, midwinter sunset aligns down passage, Balnuaran has 3 cairns.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Knap of Howar Papa Westray Farmstead
Early Neolithic (3700–3500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Papa's famous early houses excavated by Traill & Kirkness 1929–30, dated 3700 BCE, older than Skara Brae, preserved under machair dunes.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Helorus — Syracusan Outpost
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE–200 CE) · Syracusan
Helorus — Syracusan Outpost in Sicily, Greece is a Archaic to Roman (700 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Syracusan.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Aztalan State Park
Mississippian 1000–1250 CE · Mississippian (Cahokian)
Northernmost Mississippian walled town 1000–1250 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram
Pallava Dynasty 580–728 CE (Mamalla and Rajasimha phases) · Tamil / Pallava Hindu (Shaiva/Vaishnava)
Pallava (7th–8th c CE) coastal temple town with 40 rock-cut shrines: Shore Temple granite seaside, Five Rathas monolithic chariot-temples cut from single boulders, Arjuna's Penance 27 m bas-relief,…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Tel Anafa — Hellenistic Stuccoed Villa Quarter
Hellenistic (125–80 BCE) over Iron Persian tell · Phoenician Hellenistic (Sidonian merchants)
Hula tell excavated by Weinberg & Berlin 1968–86, 125 BCE stuccoed luxury house with Doric stucco columns.