🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Este Avenues Geoglyphs (Eastern Approach Corridor)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Inca) · Atacameño–Inca caravan
Salar del Sur east corridor: 20 paired Avenues forming 1.4 km converging system toward playa.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Pyramid
Copán — Temple 16 Pyramid and Hieroglyphic Stairway (Copán Department, Honduras)
Classic Maya (250–900 CE) · Maya (Copán dynasty, Yax Kuk Mo lineage)
Defining Classic Maya southeastern capital (250–900 CE) 12 km from Guatemala border, population 27,000.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Galindo Moche–Wari Center
Middle Horizon transition (Moche V – Wari 500–850 CE) · Moche V → Wari (Huari) intrusion
Eclipsed late Moche administrative city (500–850 CE) 12 km inland from Huacas de Moche (Huaca del Sol/Luna), occupying terraced hill with 3 civic–ceremonial mounds 10–15 m high (Plataforma Principal,…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Kashiwabara (Hokkaido)
Jomon Late 1000 BCE → Epi-Jomon 300 BCE–500 CE → Satsumon 500–1100 CE → Honshu Yayoi influence · Epi-Jomon (Hokkaido) with Yayoi rice intrusion
Hokkaido rice-frontier paddy trial (300 BCE–300 CE) at Kashiwabara Ebetsu — 8 pit houses with failed rice vs salmon–nut; paddy northern limit.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kausambi (Ancient Kosambi)
Mahajanapada 600 BCE → Mauryan → Gupta 4th c CE · Vatsa Janapada → Mauryan → Sunga–Gupta (Middle Ganga)
Kausambi (Kosambi) — capital of Vatsa Mahajanapada (c.600 BCE–300 CE) on Yamuna 56 km SW Prayagraj, excavated 1949–56 by G.R. Sharma (Allahabad University).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Samun Dukiya (Nok satellite)
Nigerian Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · Nok
Waterlogged pit yielding 25 in-situ Nok heads 900 BCE–500 CE and early 550 BCE iron knives.
🇧🇿 Belize · Pyramid
Xunantunich — El Castillo Pyramid (Cayo District, Belize)
Late Classic Maya (600–900 CE) · Maya (Belize River valley)
Dominant Late Classic hilltop capital (600–900 CE) 8 km from Guatemala border atop 45 m limestone ridge giving illusion of height beyond its 25 m constructed mass (total 40 m above plaza).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Antinoopolis – Hadrian's Nile Harbour City of Antinous, Sheikh Abada
Roman to Medieval (130–700 CE) · Greek / Roman / Egyptian / Hadrianic
Hadrian 130 CE Greek polis where Antinous drowned — 400x120 m Nile harbour grid city 350 ha with 18 m arch.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Rock art
Bilbao Cotzumalhuapa
Middle to Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) · Cotzumalhuapa
Bilbao Cotzumalhuapa in Escuintla, Guatemala is a Middle to Late Classic (400 – 800 CE) rock art attributed to Cotzumalhuapa culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Moro-Casma Desert Pampa Geoglyphs (Áncash)
Initial Period to Early Horizon (Sechín-Casma) · Sechín / Casma
Arid pampa (210 m, 9°28′48″S 78°18′00″W) between Río Casma and Río Sechín, extension north of known Sechín Bajo pyramid (1800 BCE) pampa lines.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sand Canyon Pueblo
Mesa Verde Late Pueblo III (1230–1280 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Mesa Verde northern San Juan)
Fortified Mesa Verde–era hilltown (c.1230–1280 CE, Late Pueblo III) in Sand Canyon alcove headwater — 400-room pueblo with enclosing wall, 22 kivas, great kiva D-shaped 12 m, and 100+ cliff dwellings…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Archaeological wonder
Spirit Cave (Tham Lod Rockshelter)
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Hoabinhian 12000–7500 BCE · Hoabinhian (northwest Thailand hunter-gatherer, proto-Austroasiatic?)
Hoabinhian hunter-gatherer cave (c.12000–7500 BCE) in the Shan Hills karst near Pang Mapha, Mae Hong Son — type-site where Chester Gorman (1966) defined Hoabinhian.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Mozan — Urkesh Pyramid Temple
Early Bronze to Middle Bronze Age (2600–1350 BCE, Hurrian Urkesh) · Hurrian (Urkesh)
Tell Mozan — Urkesh Pyramid Temple in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Tell Mozan (ancient Urkesh), Syria is a Early Bronze to Middle Bronze Age (2600–1350 BCE, Hurrian Urkesh) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Sabi Abyad Mound — Balikh
Late Neolithic, Halaf–Ubaid transition (6200–5200 BCE) · Halaf culture (type-site region)
Tell Sabi Abyad Mound — Balikh in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh Valley (Tell Sabi Abyad), Syria is a Late Neolithic, Halaf–Ubaid transition (6200–5200 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Halaf culture…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Tepe Narenj (Narenj Hill)
Hephthalite 5–6 c. → Turk Shahi 7–8 c. · Late Gandhara–Hephthalite Buddhist (Kabul school stucco)
Kabul 5–6 c. Buddhist monastery on Narenj Hill above Qol lake — stucco king-bodhisattva and 5 stupas, Turk Shahi Buddhism.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hyllarima Temple of Zeus Hyllos — Kavaklıdere Upland
Classical to Roman · Carian, Hellenistic
850-m Kavaklıdere upland Zeus Hyllos 2nd BCE prostylos with agora odeion, Chrysaoric League pastoral city.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Lerna — House of the Tiles, Argolid
Early Bronze Age Early Helladic II (c.2500–2300 BCE, site 4000–1200 BCE) · Early Helladic (Proto-Urban Aegean, Argolid)
Lerna (Neolithic–Mycenaean, House of the Tiles Early Helladic II c.2500–2300 BCE) is a low tell 6 m high on the Argolid's Lerna marsh plain near Myloi, capped by the House of the Tiles 25 × 12 m: an…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell al-Rimah Ziggurat — Qattara High Temple
Old Babylonian to Mitanni, c.1900-1400 BCE (Shamshi-Adad, Hammurabi, Mitanni) · Old Babylonian / Mitanni (Karana / Qattara)
Tell al-Rimah (ancient Qattara/Karana) south of Jebel Sinjar: massive tell 40 ha with high ziggurat mound 30 m high (200×200 m base) and lower town.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Teraji Okayama Settlement
Yayoi Early 300 BCE → Middle Yayoi 300 CE · Yayoi Sanyo — Ongagawa Yayoi with Mumun immigration
Teraji Okayama Settlement — Yayoi moated paddy village (300 BCE–300 CE) on Ashimori River terrace 15 km west Okayama, Sanyo Inland Sea plain, excavated 1990s.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Chinkultic (Lagunas de Montebello) Maya City
Early to Late Classic Maya (300–1200 CE) · Maya (Tojolabal – Comitán sphere)
Highland Maya city (300–1200 CE) perched above Cenote Agua Azul at Montebello Lakes, Comitán plateau: 127 mounds grouped in 4 architectural clusters (Groups A–D) over 50 ha, including 25-m-high…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Kolomiychyna (Trypillia)
Middle Chalcolithic Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE); Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 transition megacluster · Cucuteni–Trypillia B1 (Trypillia near Kyiv core) → B2 megasites
Middle Trypillia B1 (c.4400–4200 BCE) palisaded village with 40 burnt houses on Stugna — eponymous Trypillia cluster near Kyiv.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art
Piedra del Águila Petroglyphs (Atuel Canyon)
Middle–Late Holocene (Pampa–Patagonian transition 5000 BCE–1500 CE) · Patagonian–Cuyo hunter-gatherer → Agrelo (Mendoza)
Basalt boulder field (5,000–500 BP) along Atuel River canyon 60 km south of San Rafael, Mendoza: >800 petroglyphs pecked on 3–5 m basalt columns produced by Pleistocene Atuel volcanics, featuring…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo Grande (S'edav Va'aki)
Hohokam Pre-Classic to Classic (450–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Salt River branch)
Classic Hohokam great-house platform-mound town (c.450–1450 CE) at heart of modern Phoenix — largest Hohokam platform mound in Salt River valley, controlling 30 km Grand Canal system irrigating 70…
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Qasr al-Hayr Upper Spring Canal — Palmyra Steppe Upper Bisayta Canal
Umayyad (727 CE Hisham) · Umayyad
Upper spring canal 6 km northeast of Qasr al-Hayr al-Gharbi palace (620 m) feeding into main Gharbi 11-km canal (already in DB as qasr-al-hayr-al-gharbi-canal).