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🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Neolithic–Chalcolithic, Samarran (6000–5500 BCE) · Samarra culture
Tell es-Sawwan Pyramidal Mound in Saladin Governorate, Samarra region, east bank Tigris, Iraq is a Neolithic–Chalcolithic, Samarran (6000–5500 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Samarra culture…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Moche to Middle Horizon / Early Intermediate (600–900 CE dominant) · Casma (Sechín) culture, Moche substrate
Largest single adobe structure in Peru and largest pyramid by volume in the New World — 270 m long, 180 m wide, 30 m high truncated pyramid (4 platforms stepped) dominating Casma plain, debated Late…
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic (c.38,000–3000 BCE) · Paleolithic–Mesolithic Greek and Early Aegean Neolithic
Franchthi Cave (Upper Paleolithic to Final Neolithic c.38,000–3000 BCE) is a vast 30-m wide limestone cavity on the Koilada Bay cliff 10 m above the now-submerged plain, containing a 5-m stratified…
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Himyarite (400–580 CE) · Himyarite
Himyarite gravity dam (11 m high, 140 m crest) in Wadi Rada at Ba'ta (1,680 m) with downstream stepped spillway (7 steps, 1.2 m tread) and 1.6 km contour canal feeding Rada basin terraces.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Chalcolithic through Iron III; EB-MBA peak · Syrian EBA → Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Aramaean Luash
Idlib tell (26 ha) with Neolithic–Iron III sequence, MBA walls and Iron Temple of the Luash dynasty — findspot of Zakkur Stele, Hittite-period storage horizon.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Formative, c.1400-500 BCE (Early Horizon, Cupisnique–Chavín) · Andean (Cupisnique / Chavín)
Garagay in San Martín de Porres district, Lima: three-platform U-temple (central pyramid 28 m high, 100×80 m) with sunken circular court, atrium with polychrome painted reliefs (3.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Helike — Submerged Settlement North (Achaea, Ancillary?) Actually Helike North in Western Greece, Achaea, Helike, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Viking Age (Jelling dynasty) · Viking Age Danes / Jelling dynasty
UNESCO Viking royal complex at Jelling — two mounds, Gorm and Harald Bluetooth runestones (965 CE) and ship outline.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Jomon Late 2000–1000 BCE → Final 1000–300 BCE → Yayoi transition · Jomon Late–Final (North Tohoku–Tsugaru lacquer)
Tsugaru Late Jomon lacquer capital (1000–300 BCE) at Kamegaoka hill — 8 ha with 27 red urushi vessels (20 layers) and jade magatama workshop.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Persian; LB-Iron cemetery peak · Canaanite → Egyptian residency (LB) → Philistine/Sea Peoples → Iron Ammonite
Jordan Valley cemetery tell — 500-grave LB–Iron cemetery with Egyptian anthropoid coffins, Philistine Bichrome and Jerusalem-frame burials, British Museum 1985–2013.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Temple complex
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Inner Great Zimbabwe Fortress Central — Great Zimbabwe (57-17) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Early Historic (regional) temple complex of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Meroitic, 1550 BCE–400 CE (major Taharqo 680 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian / Kushite (Taharqo, 25th Dynasty)
Kawa (ancient Gem-aten) on east bank between 3rd-4th Cataracts: Taharqo's massive Temple T (Amun) 40×80 m with 12-column hypostyle, built over Tutankhamun shrine (reused talatat).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Temple complex
The Djamaa el Kebir or Great Mosque of Algiers (Arabic: الجامع الكبير, romanized: djama' el-kebir), is a mosque located in the city of Algiers, Algeria.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Mehrgarh culture
Mehrgarh Mound 8 Neolithic Cemetery at Balochistan, Mehrgarh, Pakistan is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic ancient village of the Mehrgarh culture tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha–Malwa 2400–1400 BCE · Malwa Chalcolithic — Dangwada phase with Kayatha substratum
Dangwada Malwa Settlement — Malwa Chalcolithic village (1650–1400 BCE) on Malwa plateau west of Ujjain, excavated 1978–80 and 1992 by V.S.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Libyan to Roman (500 BCE–300 CE) · Libyan / Greek / Hellenistic
Libyan shaft necropolis with betyl horseman stela and Hooded-figure Karst chambers 500 BCE–300 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Eocene (40 Ma; geological) — cultural use prehistoric camp spots · No culture — paleontological site plus subneolithic camp scatters
Eocene whale mass-grave Wadi Al-Hitan with 400 Basilosaurus skeletons showing hind legs.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom (12th Dyn) · Ancient Egyptian
Mit Rahina–Itj-tawy necropolis El-Lisht with pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senwosret I.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic to Christian Nubian, Ottoman · Meroitic, Nobadian, Makurian Christian
Mound of Faras (Pachoras), twin to Qasr Ibrim as source of largest Christian Nubian frescoes corpus — 169 frescoes cut from cathedral walls by Polish mission of Kazimierz Michałowski (1961–64) before…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Heracleion-Thonis — North Canal Ancillary (Abu Qir Bay) in Alexandria, Abu Qir Bay, Heracleion, Egypt is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submer…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (1200–1476 CE, Inca 1476–1532) · Chincha (Ica regional) / Inca occupied
Flagship adobe pyramid complex of the maritime Chincha Kingdom (1200–1476 CE), sole coastal polity to sustain independent kingdom beside Chan Chan at Inca conquest (recorded by Inca Garcilaso).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kerma to New Kingdom (2000 BCE Egyptian colonial peak 1500–1070 BCE, reused Napatan 750 BCE) · Egyptian colonial (18th Dynasty) with Kerma-Nubian substrate
New Kingdom Egyptian temple-town on Sai Island (Thutmose III) with northern town fortified settlement, Egyptian temple for Amun (later Kushite), and associated small pyramids and shaft tombs in…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic to Initial Period (Casma-Sechin) · Casma-Sechin culture (Preceramic/Initial)
Earliest adobe temple pyramid Sechín Bajo (3500–1800 BCE) Casma: 39×39 m two-storey 18 m pyramid with 3500 BCE fanged frieze — among oldest Andean monumental architecture.
🇫🇰 United Kingdom · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1762–1856) · Spanish Antarctic / British sealing / Argentine hydrography
South Atlantic phantom archipelago of four islands charted 94 years before refuted – chronometer-error Shag Rocks.
