🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Gavrinis Passage Grave Annex
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Gavrinis Passage Grave Annex in Brittany, Morbihan, Larmor-Baden, France is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Saqqara Teti Pyramid North Temple Magazine
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Saqqara Teti Pyramid North Temple Magazine in Giza, Saqqara, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Megalith
Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis Sector 3
Chalcolithic (4600-4200 BCE) · Varna Culture
Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis Sector 3 in Varna Oblast, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic (4600-4200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Varna Culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mashnaqa
Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE) · Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE)
Tell Mashnaqa in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Khabur, near Kawkab, Syria is a Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5 (5000–3000 BCE) settlement attributed to Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Uruk → Nineveh 5…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Göbekli Tepe Karahan Ridge Quarry
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Göbekli Tepe Karahan Ridge Quarry in Şanlıurfa, Karahan, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Hwangnam Daechong (Twin Tombs)
Three Kingdoms Silla 4th–6th c CE → Unified Silla · Silla Three Kingdoms (Gyeongju Hwangnam)
Hwangnam Daechong — largest Silla royal twin mound tomb (5th–6th c CE, Silla middle period) 800 m south Wolseong palace, Gyeongju Tumuli Park, excavated 1973–75 Cultural Heritage Administration…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Ephesus Terrace House 2 Hall of Muses
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ephesus Terrace House 2 Hall of Muses in Izmir, Selçuk, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Ulu Kurgan (Bolshoy Kurgan) — Bashkir Steppe Sarmatian Royal Mound (Bashkortostan)
Late Sarmatian (1st c BCE–1st c CE, Prokhorovka to Alan transition) · Late Sarmatian (Bashkir Prokhorovka–Alan transition)
Bashkir steppe Sarmatian chieftain mound (30 BCE–60 CE) 42 m with scale-armour horse and Parthian faience.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Altendorf Gallery Grave — Naumburg
Late Neolithic (Wartberg culture, 3400–2800 BCE) · Wartberg (Funnel Beaker–Wartberg late group)
The Altendorf grave (Wartberg culture, late Neolithic c.3400–3000 BCE), on the Altenburg ridge near Naumburg 24 km southwest of Kassel, was a 17-m gallery grave chamber 17.5 m long inside a 17 × 5 m…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Konar Sandal (Jiroft – Marhashi)
Early to Middle Bronze (2500–1800 BCE; peak 2400–2200 BCE) · Jiroft / Kerman Bronze Age (Proto-Elamite derived, Halil Rud)
Jiroft twin citadels — 21 m windowed fortress and chlorite workshop centre of Marhashi.
🇷🇴 Romania · Burial field
Hoișești
Eneolithic Cucuteni A3–B (4500–3800 BCE) Moldavian Plateau · Cucuteni A3–B (Moldavian Iași variant)
Hoișești (Hoișești-La Pădure/La Izvor) — Cucuteni A3–B tell-necropolis (c.4500–3800 BCE, 2 ha settlement + extramural cemetery 50 graves) on Bahlui watershed, Iași County, Moldavian Plateau.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Surkh Kotal Fire Temple
Kushan 2nd c CE (Kanishka) · Kushan imperial dynastic — Bactrian fire cult with Hellenistic architecture
Surkh Kotal Fire Temple — Kushan dynastic sanctuary (2nd c CE Kanishka period) on Surkh Kotal hill 18 km NE Puli Khumri, excavated 1952–63 by D. Schlumberger (DAFA).
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kitora Tumulus Nara
Kofun Late 7th–early 8th c CE (Asuka) · Asuka late Kofun court — shijin astronomical Daoist
Kitora Tumulus Nara — 7th–8th c CE late Kofun painted tomb (zenpo-koen remnant 13.8×9.8 m) on Abuyama hill at Asuka, Nara basin, National Treasure since 1983.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Körtik Tepe
PPNA to early PPNB (Late Epipaleolithic → Neolithic) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA, Upper Tigris forager-cultivators)
PPNA buried village (11200–9500 cal BP) with 400 burials under round-house floors — Upper Tigris type-site for Neolithic mortuary behaviour, Ilısu salvage.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Fujinoki Tumulus
Kofun Late 500–600 CE (Yamato Kinmei) · Yamato Late Kofun with Silla–Sassanian imports
Largest unlooted Late Kofun mound (560–590 CE) at Fujinoki west Horyu-ji — 48 m gilt-crown and Sassanian glass in stone corridor.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Cueva de Menga (Dolmen de Menga)
Early to Middle Neolithic · Andalusian Early Neolithic (Antequera megalithic)
Antequera's 27.5 m gallery grave — 180-tonne capstones, 32 orthostats and well shaft, aligned to Peña de los Enamorados.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo Grande Phoenix Canal Mound South
Pre-Classic to Classic Hohokam (800–1450 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Colonial–Sedentary) → Classic (Soho–Civano)
Pueblo Grande Phoenix Canal Mound South is the canal headgate mound south of Pueblo Grande platform — headquarters of the Phoenix Hohokam canal system (Canal Grande) that irrigated 1000 ha on the…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Girikihaciyan
Late Neolithic → Halaf → Ubaid (6000–4300 BCE) · Halaf (North Mesopotamian painted) → Northern Ubaid
Halaf hamlet (c.6000–4300 BCE, 175 m) — classic Halaf tholoi type-site on Diyarbakır piedmont (Watson/LeBlanc 1968).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Dragón — Arco Iris Pyramid
Late Intermediate, Chimú (1100–1470 CE) · Chimú
North Trujillo square adobe pyramid enclosed by high double wall with 14 intact 2 m rainbow serpent (dragon) reliefs alternating with Chimú processional figures along outer wall.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Senwosret II at El-Lahun
Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty, Senwosret II 1897–1878 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom)
Mudbrick pyramid of Senwosret II (12th Dynasty c.1897–1878 BCE) at El-Lahun: 106 m base, 48.65 m high today (originally higher), with limestone casing lower and mudbrick core with rock-cut framework…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Queens Pyramid G1-a (Eastern Cemetery, Great Pyramid of Khufu)
Old Kingdom, early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost of three subsidiary queens pyramids lined north-south along the east flank of Khufu's Great Pyramid (4th Dynasty, c.2580 BCE).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tepe Gawra — High Temple Platform (Ubaid-Uruk Terrace)
Ubaid to Early Dynastic (5000–2500 BCE), High Temple Late Uruk 3500 BCE · Halaf-Ubaid-Uruk (Northern Mesopotamian)
Tall stratified tell 20 m high near Mosul, with Halaf-Ubaid to Early Dynastic sequence including the monumental High Temple terrace (Late-Uruk, c.3500 BCE) — mudbrick podium 11x10 m with niched…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Elephantine
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty (Huni horizon) · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost of seven Huni provincial small step pyramids on Elephantine Island: 18.46 m base granite 3-step, 5 m high (originally ~11 m), cenotaph/marker c.2630 BCE.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell es-Sawwan — Samarran Mound and Fortified Village
Hassuna–Samarran, Ubaid (6000–4800 BCE) · Samarra culture
Type mound for Samarran culture immediately south of Samarra on cliff overlooking Tigris floodplain, excavated by al-Adhami and Yasin (1964–69).