🇵🇪 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.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
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.
🇨🇦 Canada · Buried city
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Buried City of Takht Abbey Well in British Columbia, Canada is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) buried city attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
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.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Postclassic (c.1200-1521 CE) · Mesoamerican Postclassic (Tepanec-Aztec)
Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital) — buried postclassic tell/village at Mexico City.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Buried city
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Buried City of Marsh in Asir Province, Saudi Arabia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Middle Elamite (c.1250–640 BCE) · Elamite
Elamite holy city built by King Untash-Napirisha (1250 BCE) to honor god Inshushinak: immense 105×105 m square ziggurat (originally 53 m high, 5 storeys) at center of three concentric walls with…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sicán (Lambayeque 1100) to Chimú (1350) to Inca 1470 layer cake with 26 pyramids (1100–1532 CE) 220 ha · Sicán → Chimú → Inca successive on Cerro La Raya ridge temple of stone 12 m high sacred
Tucume excavated by Thor Heyerdahl 1988 Kon-Tiki, 220 ha 26 pyramids Heyerdahl.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Nazca / Protopalpa 400 BCE–450 CE (peak 100 BCE–300 CE) · Nazca (Paracas → Nazca)
Ceremonial capital of Nazca culture (400 BCE–450 CE) with 40 adobe mounds over 150 ha, including Great Pyramid 28 m high (150 × 100 m base, 3 platforms) and Temple Hill pyramid 20 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Van Fortress (Tushpa) — East Bastion in Van, Van Fortress, Turkey is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age fortified cul…
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
Early Scythian (~900–700 BCE) · Aldy-Bel / Arzhan (early Scythian–Siberian)
Enormous 120-m stone platform kurgan in the Uyuk depression, where archaeologists led by Gryaznov and later Chugunov uncovered a radial larch log mortuary house with central royal double burial and…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Geoglyph
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Geoglyphs of Sanctuary-Oued in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
The Grand Mosque of Bursa (Turkish: Bursa Ulu Cami) is a historic mosque in Bursa, Turkey. It was commissioned by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I to commemorate his great victory at the Battle of…
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Late Jomon (c.2000 BCE) · Late Jomon (Mori)
Largest Hokkaido stone circle (37 m oval, c.2000 BCE) — triple rings with mass-grave pit cemetery above Funka Bay.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Ancient village
Neolithic (4300–2300 BCE) · Michelsberg and Seine-Oise-Marne
Largest and earliest Neolithic flint mining complex in Europe, extending over 100 ha on the Campine chalk near Mons.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Aber-Long Ancient City in Andalusia, Spain is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) ancient city attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Nimrin (Tell esh-Shuna North vicinity) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period to Viking Age (c.550–1100 CE) · Vendel / Viking Age Svear
Cemetery on a ridge above the Fyris river used for 600 years (5th–11th c.) with 15 Vendel–Viking boat graves (c.600–1100), chamber graves and 62 cremations.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Fortress
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Citadel of Barrow Tall in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) fortress attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
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.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Ancient city
Afanasievo to Sarazm Chalcolithic–Bronze Age · Sarazm culture (Central Asian proto-Bactrian)
Earliest proto-urban centre in Central Asia (4000–2000 BCE) in Zarafshan Valley, Tajikistan's first UNESCO site (2010), 100 ha town with irrigation canals, palace, fortified citadel and aeolian…
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Mine Tel Dolmen in Sicily, Italy is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) megalithic attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic
Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa
Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Pyramid
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Step Pyramid of Long Kala in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) pyramid attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
