🇦🇷 Argentina · Hillfort
Alignment Roxby Camp
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Alignment Roxby Camp in Catamarca, Argentina is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) hillfort attributed to Byzantine culture.
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🇦🇷 Argentina · Hillfort
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Alignment Roxby Camp in Catamarca, Argentina is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) hillfort attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Geoglyph
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Down-Henge Geoglyph in Thessaly, Greece is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA → MBA → LBA → Phrygian → Persian (2600–500 BCE) · Anatolian EBA → Assyrian Colony fringe → Phrygian
EBA–Iron steppe tell (2600–500 BCE) — Haymana corridor walled town, Gordion-Hattusa buffer.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Solomonic or late pre-Christian (~1200–1400 CE; contested to 1000 BCE) · Gurage / Sidamo (Ethio-Semitic, Southern Ethiopian megalithic)
One of 160 stelae fields in the Soddo region containing 36 standing pillars, 32 of which are sculpted with swords, paired circles and enigmatic leaf-like motifs up to 3.64 m high.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian Fort Walton 1100–1550 CE · Fort Walton (Mississippian Pensacola variant)
Fort Walton culture temple mound on Choctawhatchee Bay, 1100–1550 CE.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Parthian to Sassanian (c.200 BCE–241 CE) · Parthian-Arab (Hatrene Aramaic) / Hellenistic influence
Fortified Parthian-Arab desert city (2nd c BCE–241 CE) with circular walls 6.4 km circuit resisting Trajan (117) and Septimius Severus (198).
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic to Mesolithic (19,000–8000 BCE) · Malta-Buret related early Holocene hunter
Sun-facing lower gallery with 15 ka ibex/ostrich ochre and pecked figures 220 m below main cave.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) · Halaf to Neo-Hittite
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) Halaf to Neo-Hittite tell at Gaziantep Province – citadel on aleppo–carchemish road (dims Mound 25 m high, lower town 10 ha).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Submerged Floor North in Alexandria Coast, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon transition (500–750 CE) · Huarpa–Wari
Northwest lobe of Pampa Colorada (3,300 m) extending toward Cora Cora trail. Fourteen figures: 30-m ‘scepter’ (shaft + disc), 16-m condor silhouette, and 80-m bifurcating avenue.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Medieval Hausa (Bakwai period, 9th–15th c. CE) · Hausa (Daura, Hausa Bakwai)
Sacred pondfield where Bayajida slew snake Sarki (Daura origin).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Maya Classic Late 500–800 CE · Maya (Río Bec–Chenes transitional)
76-m Temple-Palace with painted 147 m² vault fresco, 500–800 CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Long barrow southeast of Avebury henge, 40 m, part of WHS barrow cemetery, c.3750 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Archaic–Poverty Point ca. 1700–1500 BCE · Poverty Point culture (Jaketown phase)
8-mound Poverty Point–related center, 1700–1500 BCE.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Achaemenid to Sassanian (Tombs 522–404 BCE; Sassanian reliefs 224–651 CE) · Achaemenid Persian / Sassanian
Achaemenid royal necropolis: four cruciform tombs cut into Haji Abad cliff – Darius I (522–486 BCE), Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Darius II – with columned facades and relief of king before Ahuramazda and…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopewell culture 100 BCE–500 CE · Hopewell (Adena descended, Algonquian? cohort)
Hopewell giant geometric enclosures marking 18.6-yr lunar cycle.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine Mississippian Coles Creek-Winterville 900–1450 CE · Coles Creek / Plaquemine
16.7 m truncated pyramid center of 23-mound plaza, 1200–1400 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Old Kingdom (3800–2686 BCE) · Egyptian (Predynastic–Early Dynastic)
Fortified Early Dynastic town wall enclosing palace and world's oldest brewery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid to Late Bronze (5.5k–1200 BCE) · Ubaid → Khabur → Mitanni → Middle Assyrian
Beşiri Tigris tell (Ubaid through Late Bronze) with 12 m sequence — Mitanni kilns and Khabur ware, Ilısu Garzan buffer salvage.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Neo-Assyrian (713–705 BCE construction and occupation only) · Assyrian
Short-lived Assyrian capital built 713–707 BCE by Sargon II as brand-new square city 1.628 km side with seven gates, 24 km walls, and palace on citadel.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic to Late Classic 400 BCE–900 CE, peak 600–850 CE · Maya (Comitán Lakes, Late Classic Lacandon fringe)
Lake city on Lagartero chain of karst lakes at Chiapas-Guatemala border: temples and ballcourt on islets linked by stone causeway 300 m to lakeshore palace, with hundreds of incensarios (Lakamulpán…
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Late Intermediate Chachapoya 1100–1470 CE · Chachapoya
Red-painted cliff chullpa houses 4–5 m tall, 1100–1470 CE Chachapoya.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age, Uruk period (4000–3000 BCE) · Sumerian (Ubaid–Uruk–Jemdet Nasr)
The Anu Ziggurat at Uruk-Warka is the oldest known true ziggurat (≈4000 BCE), a massive mudbrick terrace 21 m high in the Anu district. The famed White Temple (c.3500–3000 BCE) sat on summit.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
White-Ham Pyramid in River Nile State, Sudan is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) pyramid attributed to Byzantine culture.