🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Saywite Monolith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Bazi
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) · Euphrates EB – Mitanni
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) Euphrates EB – Mitanni tell at Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Dam zone – twin northern town with tell banat across euphrates branch (dims 15 ha northern citadel with Mittani temple).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Borsippa (Biris Nimrud)
Old Babylonian to Neo-Babylonian (Hammurabi to Nebuchadnezzar II peak 605–562 BCE) · Babylonian (Borsippa)
Mighty 7-stage ziggurat dedicated to Nabu (god of writing, son of Marduk), rival to Babylon's Etemenanki as 'Temple that Exalts Nabu' E-zida.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Dala Hill
Iron Age to Modern (c. 400–1900 CE; ritual ongoing) · Iron Age (Early Kano) / Hausa / Fulani
Dala Hill (Goron Dutse pair) is Kano's 534-m granite inselberg nucleus where Kano city was founded by Dala Iron Age smiths (c. 400 CE) before Hausa walling, with 999-step stair.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
Tang → Yuan → Ming Yongle peak → Qing · Taoist (Zhenwu / Xuanwu school)
Taoist sacred mountain complex on 72 peaks 800–1612 m, 9 palaces, 36 convents and 72 cliff temples built primarily 1412–1424 under Ming Yongle emperor (200,000 artisans) as political legitimation…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Kainji Rock Art and Mounds
MSA to Iron Age (50,000 BCE–1800 CE; rock art 2000 BCE–500 CE) · MSA / Kintampo-related / Iron Age (Borgawa)
Kainji shoreline and islands host Middle Stone Age to Iron Age rock shelters with geometric rock art and 2,000-year mound settlements along Niger River, inundated partially 1968 by Kainji Dam.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Necropolis
Necropolis of Thwaite
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Necropolis of Thwaite in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Moche (100–800 CE) necropolis attributed to Moche culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
El-Kurru Pyramids
Early Kushite (El-Kurru phase 860–310 BCE; Piye 747–716 BCE) · Kushite (early Napatan)
Earliest Kushite royal necropolis (860–310 BCE) with 22 pyramids for Napatan kings including Piye (Piankhi), founder of Egypt's 25th Dynasty, Taharqa, and early ancestors.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Kulpak — Kolanupaka Temple
Early Medieval (11th c.) · Chalukya
Kulpak — Kolanupaka Temple in Telangana, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri, India is a Early Medieval (11th c.) temple complex attributed to Chalukya culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu (Aqar Quf)
Kassite (Middle Babylonian) c. 1375–1155 BCE · Kassite Babylonian
Kassite capital Dur-Kurigalzu built by Kurigalzu I (c. 1375 BCE): enormous ziggurat to Enlil, still 57 m high (originally ~69 m) with rope reinforcement layers (reed mats) visible, highest surviving…
🇨🇦 Canada · Megalith
Dolmen de Sanctuary
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Dolmen de Sanctuary in British Columbia, Canada is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)
Classic Teotihuacan (Tlamimilolpa) · Teotihuacano (multi-ethnic)
One of 2,000 apartment compounds that made Teotihuacan (100 BCE–550 CE, 200,000 inhabitants — largest city in Americas) a planned grid city.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Cutimbo
Late Intermediate–Late Horizon Colla–Inca 1100–1532 CE · Colla (Qolla) and Inca
Second chullpa field after Sillustani: 120 towers 10 m on mesa with puma and monkey reliefs.
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
Kurgan Grotto
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Kurgan Grotto in Ohio, United States is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) cave attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thaenae (Thyna) – Roman Byzacena Port
Punic / Roman / Byzantine (4th c BCE–7th c CE) · Punic / Roman
Roman–Punic oil port with amphitheatre and thermae on Gulf of Gabès.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Barrow Tall Temple Complex
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Barrow Tall Temple Complex in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Moche (100–800 CE) temple complex attributed to Moche culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Kajuru Hill Settlement
Iron Age to Late Medieval (500 BCE–1800 CE) · Nok–Koro–Atyap continuum
Kajuru Hills are dramatic inselberg hillforts above southern Kaduna plain, occupied Nok-terminal to Koro–Atyap phases 500 BCE–1800 CE, with dry-stone terracing and hilltop granaries akin to Sukur's…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Camarones Conanoxa North Ridge Geoglyphs (North Bluff Conanoxa)
Formative to Middle Period (400 BCE–1000 CE) · Camarones / Cabuza–Tiwanaku influenced
North ridge bluff (820 m) opposite documented Conanoxa south terrace, forming paired valley markers. Nine figures: 16-m pelican, 22-m ‘wavy man’ anthropomorph, and 38-m stepped avenue.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Fortress
Fortress of Pictograph Kala
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Fortress of Pictograph Kala in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) fortress attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Phnom Bakheng
Angkor Yasodharapura 889–928 · Hindu Shaiva (Linga)
Mountain-temple on 65 m natural Bakheng hill (c.889–910 CE, Yasovarman I) at centre of first Angkor capital Yasodharapura, five-tier pyramid with 108 shrines plus central quincunx representing Mt.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Baiqa
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB South Levantine (Ghouta)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB South Levantine (Ghouta) tell at Damascus Basin, Ghouta fringe – eb walled town on damascus oasis fringe (dims Mound 8 ha, wall 8 m thick).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mardikh — Ebla Lower Town South
EBA I to Old Syrian (3500–1600 BCE; peak Eblaite Palace G 2400 BCE) · EBA Eblaite → Eblaite Syrian → Old Syrian (Yamhad)
Eblaite capital lower town 2400 BCE — 17k tablets south quarter & Temple of Rock.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Vazi Sarara
Punic/Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Vazi Sarara (Henchir Bez) is an inland Byzacena/ Africa Proconsularis colonia on the Siliana plain, founded as peregrine civitas and promoted colonia under Probus.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Gritille Höyük — Karababa Lower South Terrace
Halaf to Medieval Islamic (6000 BCE–1300 CE; peak EBA–MBA) · Halaf → Ubaid → EBA Karababa → Neo-Hittite → Medieval
Deep Euphrates salvage sequence — Halaf to Medieval fort (12 m deposit).