🇮🇳 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.
🇬🇧 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.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Tumulus Cemetery Europe 94 — France Region 10
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Tumulus Cemetery Europe 94 — France Region 10 in France Region 10, France is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇷 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...
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Trepuco — Talayotic Chief Burial Taula and Talayot Near Mahón
Talayotic (700–300 BCE) Trepuco taula highest 4.20 m · Talayotic chiefdom Trepuco 700 BCE high taula 4.2 m with wall 3 m high
Trepuco 1930s Trepuco taula 4.20 m tallest.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Chambered Cairn Hill Mideast 15 — Israel Region 3
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Chambered Cairn Hill Mideast 15 — Israel Region 3 in Israel Region 3, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
El Lahun Pyramid — Senusret II Mudbrick Pyramid Malad
Middle Kingdom Senusret II (1897–1878 BCE 12th Dynasty) · Middle Kingdom 12th Dynasty (Illahun)
El Lahun excavated by Petrie 1889–90, Kahun town papyri and Senusret II quartzite sarcophagus.
🇸🇾 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).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Hamoukar — Battle Collapse Burn Layer
Late Chalcolithic (4500–3500 BCE) + Early Bronze · Late Chalcolithic Jazira (Hamoukar) → Southern Uruk intrusion
Hamoukar excavated by Gibson & Reichel 1999–, earliest urban battle c.3500 BCE, sling bullets and southern Uruk colony.
🇨🇿 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).
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Closos de Can Gaià — Talayotic-Naviform Coastal Pueblo Felanitx
Naviform Late Bronze Age (1700–1300 BCE naviform house 18 m × 12 m) · Naviform Late Bronze Mallorca pre-Talayotic houses (1700–1300)
Can Gaià naviform 18 m house 1700 BCE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Hillat el-Arab — Tomb 4 (Early Kushite Tumulus)
Kerma Classic to Early Napatan, c.1700–600 BCE (reused) · Kushite (Kerma → Napatan)
Kerma-classic tumulus Tomb 4 at Hillat el-Arab (c.1700–1500 BCE, early Kushite Kerma horizon) — 20 m diameter tumulus with mudbrick vaulted chamber and subsidiary burials, horse and cattle bucrania…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Pañamarca — Moche Occupation Cupisnique Mound Northern Lima? no Ancash
Moche (550–800 CE) wall murals southernmost Moche 550–710 HalPRI mural layer 4.2 m · Moche southern frontier (Nepeña) with Wari-influenced mural final 710
Pañamarca Schaedel 1950s and recent Trever, Moche southern mural.
🇪🇪 Estonia · Ancient village
Varbola Stronghold
Bronze Age–Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · European Neolithic
Varbola Stronghold in Rapla County, Estonia is a prehistoric fortified settlement of the Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500 BCE–500 CE).
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Pyramid Outlier Buried 13 — Italy Region 1
Period Medieval · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Pyramid Outlier Buried 13 — Italy Region 1 in Italy Region 1, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Xochicalco Terrace — Leaning Pyramid Feathered Serpent
Epiclassic (650–900 CE) Teotihuacan fall hybrid · Epiclassic Xochicalco (Olmeca-Xicalanca + Teotihuacan survivors)
Xochicalco excavated by Sáenz 1960s, Quetzalcoatl pyramid 700 Coiled Serpents.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Pyramid Outlier Americas 46 — Brazil Region 10
Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Pyramid Outlier Americas 46 — Brazil Region 10 in Brazil Region 10, Brazil is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Batán Grande — Sicán Metallurgy City Pompeii of Adobes Poma Forest
Sicán Middle (900–1050 CE Sicán metallurgy peak) + Inca later · Sicán (Lambayeque) bronze arsenic gold tumi metallurgy with Chimú later
Batan Grande Shimada 1978–, 900 Sicán capital metallurgy frenzy.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
El-Wad Cave (Mugharet el-Wad)
Middle Palaeolithic to Natufian (c.200 ka–9600 BCE) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Natufian
Karst cave at the mouth of Nahal Me’arot, type site of the Natufian culture (excavated Dorothy Garrod 1929–1934). 4 m st...
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Mural Hall Asia 22 — China Region 10
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Mural Hall Asia 22 — China Region 10 in China Region 10, China is a Neolithic megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Parkin Archeological State Park
Mississippian / Nodena phase 1000–1541 CE · Mississippian Nodena
Moat-walled Mississippian Casqui town visited by de Soto 1541.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Gran Pajatén — Chachapoya Mosaic Round Houses
Chachapoya late (1300–1470 CE) · Chachapoya later Inca fringe
Abiseo Gran Pajatén discovered by Savoy 1963, excavated 1985, mosaic fretwork with human heads, UNESCO 1990 Rio Abiseo.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Kurgan Field Mideast 80 — Syria Region 8
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Kurgan Field Mideast 80 — Syria Region 8 in Syria Region 8, Syria is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Naqa — Amun Temple and Roman Kiosk with Lion of Apedemak
Meroitic (1st c. CE Amanitore/Natakamani) + earlier Amun temple 200 BCE · Meroitic Kandak Amanitore
Naqa excavated by Cailliaud 1822 and Wildung 1995–, Roman kiosk Hathor and Amanitore smiting relief.