🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Garagay Alt
Early Formative (1400 – 800 BCE) · Cupisnique / Chavín-related
Garagay Alt in Lima, Peru is a Early Formative (1400 – 800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Cupisnique / Chavín-related culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Kot Diji
Kot Diji (3300–2600 BCE) → Early Harappan → Mature Harappan · Kot Diji / Early Harappan (Indus formative)
Pre-Harappan fortified citadel and type-site for Kot Diji culture (c.3300–2600 BCE) on the Rohri Hills piedmont east of the Indus in Khairpur, Sindh — 2.5 ha citadel mound with massive mudbrick…
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Messak Settafet
Pleistocene to Islamic (Middle Stone Age to Camel Period) · Bubalus hunter-gatherers / Pastoralists / Garamantes / Tuareg
350-km sandstone cuesta Messak Settafet — 15,000 engravings and lithic quarries spanning 12 ka.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Tabo Temple Mound at Argo Island
Meroitic to Christian, c.300 BCE–500 CE · Kushite / Meroitic
Tabo mound at southern tip of Argo Island (40 km north of Dongola) between 3rd-4th Cataracts: massive artificial temple mound (10 m high) supporting Meroitic Amun temple (50×70 m) with late Kushite…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Beth Shean (Beisan)
Chalcolithic through Byzantine (c.5000 BCE–749 CE); EBA, MB–LB Canaanite/Egyptian, Iron I–II, Hellenistic-Roman-Byzantine · Chalcolithic–EBA Canaanite → New Kingdom Egyptian garrison → Israelite → Decapolis (Scythopolis)
Egyptian garrison tell (1450–1130 BCE) + EBA–Byzantine Beth Shean — 11 cities with Mekal temple and 749 CE earthquake debris (c.5000 BCE–749 CE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Teos Dionysus North Temenos
Hellenistic (Lysimachus to Attalid) · Ionian Hellenistic (Hermogenes architect) and Tean Technitai guild
110-m-north altar courtyard and Technitai guild hall of Teos Dionysus sanctuary.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Pyramid
Akapana Pyramid (Tiwanaku)
Tiwanaku Middle Horizon 400–1000 CE (Akapana c.500–800 CE) · Tiwanaku
Artificial mountain pyramid at core of Tiwanaku (400–1000 CE) altiplano capital: 18 m high (originally ~18 m, 18?
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Alignements de Kerlescan at Carnac
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Eastern Carnac alignment: 555 stones in 13 rows (880 m) ending in semicircular cromlech and 6.5 m Manio giant.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Grike Havuz
PPNA–PPNB through Halaf (c.9500–7500 BCE; Halaf 6000–5500 BCE) · Taş Tepeler PPN (PPNA–PPNB forager-cultivators) and Halaf village
PPN hillside tell (c.9500–7500 BCE) with round houses and failed-precursor T-pillar — Taş Tepeler domestic village.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex
Kalaly-Gyr 2 (Temple Complex)
Khorezmian Kalaly to Kushan 400 BCE–300 CE · Khorezmian Zoroastrian
Zoroastrian temple town (c.400 BCE–300 CE) 2 km southeast of Kalaly-Gyr 1 — walled sacred precinct 120×90 m with tripartite fire temple, columned ayvan, and ossuary chambers, excavated 1981 by M.G.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Kekova – Sunken City of Dolichiste (Simena)
Lycian to Byzantine (Hellenistic 4th c. BCE – 7th c. CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Lycian harbour town Dolichiste subsided by 2nd c. earthquakes along 500 m of Kekova Island — sarcophagi awash.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Tel Dafana (Daphnae) – Psamtik's Greek Frontier Fort at Pelusium
Late Period to Persian (664 – 525 BCE) · Saite Egyptian / East Greek mercenary Ionian–Carian
664 BCE Saite Greek mercenary fort at Pelusium gateway — casemate walls half in Pelusiac sebkha –1 to –3 m with Greek pottery.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Castalian Springs Mound Site
Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1100–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Castalian Springs phase)
Premier Middle Cumberland Mississippian town (1100–1350 CE) centered on mineral spring: two major platform mounds (Mound 1 6 m high 55×45 m, Mound 2 burial 3 m) plus smaller mound, large plaza and…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Iximche Alt
Late Postclassic (1470 – 1524 CE) · Kaqchikel Maya
Iximche Alt in Chimaltenango, Guatemala is a Late Postclassic (1470 – 1524 CE) ancient city attributed to Kaqchikel Maya culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Jorwe
Deccan Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–700 BCE (Early → Late) · Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) — Maharashtra Chalcolithic climax
Jorwe — type-site of Jorwe culture (1400–700 BCE late Chalcolithic) on Pravara River, excavated 1950–51 by H.D. Sankalia and B. Deo.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Kalibangan Mound — Ghaggar Thar
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3500–1750 BCE) · Harappan (Kalibangan I–II, Ghaggar-Hakra)
Kalibangan Mound — Ghaggar Thar in Rajasthan, Hanumangarh District, Ghaggar (ancient Saraswati) bank, India is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3500–1750 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tepe Gawra Mound — Erbil Plain
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age (5000–1500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Halaf-Ubaid, Uruk, Akkadian)
Tepe Gawra Mound — Erbil Plain in Nineveh Governorate / Kurdistan, Erbil plain, 25 km NE Mosul, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age (5000–1500 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to North…
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Tianlongshan East Cave Taiyuan
Sui to Tang · Sui-Tang Buddhist (Taiyuan Jinyang school)
Eastern 8-cave Sui peak of Tianlong Mountain above Taiyuan with Amitabha hall.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Ust-Koksa Kurgan Field (Katun Headwaters, Altai)
Early Iron Age (Pazyryk culture) · Pazyryk (Altai Scythian)
Katun River headwaters kurgan field (973 m, 50°16′11″N 85°36′39″E 50.2697,85.6108) on moraine terrace above Katun (Ust-Koksa village 973 m, Dfc climate, UTC+7), bridging Pazyryk culture (5th-3rd c…
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Ancient city
Ak-Beshim Chu Valley City
Sogdian 5th c → Western Turk 581–659 → Tang 659–1141 · Sogdian–Western Turk → Tang Chinese — Chuy Valley Silk Road
Ak-Beshim Chu Valley City — ancient Suyab/Suye (5th–12th c CE) Western Turk capital on Chu River at Ak-Beshim, 8 km SW Tokmok, excavated 1938–58 by Bernshtam and 2010s Kyrgyz-German.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Amri Mound — Indus Sehwan
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) · Amri culture (pre-Harappan Sindh)
Amri Mound — Indus Sehwan in Sindh, Dadu District, west bank Indus near Sehwan (Amri type-site), Pakistan is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Chellah (Sala Colonia)
Roman to Merinid (1st c CE to 14th c) · Roman / Mauretanian / Merinid Islamic
Roman port Sala Colonia beneath Merinid walled necropolis with stork-colonised minaret and Roman spolia throughout Islamic masonry.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
El Resbalón
Classic (c.250–800 CE) Maya Petén – Río Bec fringe · Maya (Petén – Río Bec transitional)
El Resbalón ('the slide') is a hilltop Maya city and open-air epigraphic cliff 35 km SW of Xpujil in the Calakmul Biosphere south at 250 m.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kerma — Western Deffufa (Capital of Kush, Nubia)
Kerma (2500–1500 BCE), Classic Kerma 1750–1500 BCE · Kerma Culture (Nubian Kush)
Monumental mudbrick temple-massif 19 m high (52x27 m base) forming religious heart of Kerma, capital of the 3000-year-old Kerma Culture (2500–1500 BCE), one of Africa's earliest urban civilizations…