🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Askut Island Fortress
Middle Kingdom to X-Group (1860–500 BCE peak 1850 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier
Mid-Nile island kite-fort Askut guarding Second Cataract channel.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Mateo Salado — Lima Five-Pyramid Complex
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon — Ychsma (1100–1450 CE) then Inca (1450–1532 CE) · Ychsma (Ichma) then Inca
Island of five pyramids in dense Breña–Cercado between avenues Mariano Cornejo and Tingo María, Lima’s most important Ichma centre later co-opted as Inca provincial capital of the Chillón–Rimac…
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Tepe Sialk Ziggurat
Proto-Elamite / Early Bronze (Sialk III–IV) · Proto-Elamite / Sialk Culture
Proto-ziggurat terrace at Tepe Sialk (Kashan) c.3000 BCE: early Iranian high temple platform with Proto-Elamite connections, precursor to Mesopotamian ziggurat tradition.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Brick Church Mound and Village
Mississippian (Thruston phase 1000–1370 CE) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland – Thruston)
Mississippian mound-and-village on Mansker Creek near Nashville: platform mound 6 m high (50×35 m) rebuilt four times, truncating earlier Woodland component; village 4 ha with 300+ stone-box graves,…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Lower Rajasthan Necropolis A — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-43)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Lower Rajasthan Necropolis A — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-43) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Early Historic (regional) ancient city of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Teopanzolco Pyramid Complex (Cuernavaca)
Late Postclassic (Tlahuica / Aztec) · Tlahuica / Aztec
Tlahuica twin-temple pyramid at Teopanzolco — 35×25 m double pyramid c.1200 CE with 11 nests; 2017 earthquake revealed hidden Tlaloc temple.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Giyan (Tappeh Giyan)
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (5000–1000 BCE; peak Giyan IV 2000–1500 BCE) · Central Zagros Chalcolithic → Bronze Age Luristan → Iron I Luristan bronzes
Zagros valley tell with Giyan I–V paint sequence and 120-grave Luristan bronze cemetery.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Outer Rajasthan Village North — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-49)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Outer Rajasthan Village North — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-49) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Unstan Chambered Cairn — Stenness, Orkney
Early Neolithic (c.3600–3200 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Unstan Ware)
Unstan cairn (c.3600–3200 BCE, Early Neolithic) is a unique hybrid stalled-Orkney-Cromarty chambered cairn on a Loch of Stenness promontory 2 mi NE of Stromness, 13 m long dividing into five stalls…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Iraq ed-Dubb (Ain Hashara)
Early to Late Natufian (13,500–11,500 BP) · Natufian
Natufian rockshelter with earliest escarpment plant cultivation and cult basin prefiguring PPN shrines.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Northern Unfinished Pyramid Zawiyet Aryan
Old Kingdom · 4th Dynasty Egyptian
Northern Unfinished Pyramid Zawiyet Aryan at Zawiyet el-Aryan, North, Egypt is a Old Kingdom pyramid of the 4th Dynasty Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
İmikuşağı Höyüğü
EB I–III → MBA → Late Bronze Hittite (3200–1200 BCE) with Iron Age coda · Kura-Araxes → Eastern Anatolian EBA → Hittite-Kizzuwatna fringe
EB–MBA–Hittite tell (Kebanon) — Kura-Araxes to Hittite fortress, Esin Keban salvage key sequence.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Ban Non Wat (Mun Valley)
Neolithic 1750–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–500 CE · Mun Valley Neolithic → Ban Chiang Bronze → Iron Age (Isan)
Ban Non Wat — 5000-year moated farming village (1750 BCE–500 CE, Neolithic→Iron Age) 50 km NE Nakhon Ratchasima, Mun floodplain, excavated 2002–12 Higham and Higham (Otago).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Sanctuary (Overton Hill)
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Bagawat Necropolis Kharga Oasis
Late Antique · Roman Byzantine Egyptian
Bagawat Necropolis Kharga Oasis at Western Desert, Kharga Oasis, Egypt is a Late Antique necropolis of the Roman Byzantine Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Skellig Michael Monastery Kerry Atlantic
Early Medieval · Irish Monastic
Skellig Michael Monastery Kerry Atlantic at Kerry, Skellig Islands, Ireland is a Early Medieval ancient village of the Irish Monastic tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mine Howe
Iron Age (c.100 BCE–400 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian) / possible Roman contact
Iron Age underground sanctuary in Tankerness with 29-step stair descending 7.5 m to a corbelled chamber.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Q'umarkaj (Utatlán) Twin Pyramids
Maya Postclassic Late · Maya K'iche' Quiché
K'iche' empire capital Q'umarkaj (Utatlán) 1400–1524 CE: hilltop plaza with Temple of Tohil 12 m pyramid and 23 palaces, Popol Vuh city burned 1524.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Kosk Hoyuk Bor Plain
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze · Cappadocia Chalcolithic
Kosk Hoyuk Bor Plain at Niğde, Bor Plain, Turkey is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze ancient village of the Cappadocia Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Can Hasan Neolithic Mounds
Chalcolithic to Neolithic · Central Anatolian
Can Hasan Neolithic Mounds at Karaman, Can Hasan, Turkey is a Chalcolithic to Neolithic ancient village of the Central Anatolian tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol — Ancillary Platform North (Moche)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom; Moche
Huaca del Sol — Ancillary Platform North (Moche) in La Libertad, Moche, Huacas del Sol y de la Luna, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyrami…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Inner Chaco Canyon Citadel North — Chaco Canyon (55-11)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Inner Chaco Canyon Citadel North — Chaco Canyon (55-11) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇲🇱 Mali · Temple complex
Northern Djenné-Jeno Village Central — Djenné-Jeno (57-32)
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Djenné-Jeno Village Central — Djenné-Jeno (57-32) at Djenné-Jeno, Mali is a Medieval (regional) temple complex of the Medieval tradition, built c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Tell el-Qaramel Horned Building
PPNA to Early Bronze · Middle Euphrates PPN
Tell el-Qaramel Horned Building at Hama, Qaramel, Syria is a PPNA to Early Bronze temple complex of the Middle Euphrates PPN tradition, built c.