🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Acharneh
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (c.3000–300 BCE) · Syrian EBA → Aramaean → Neo-Hittite fringe
Ghāb Orontes fortress tell 12 ha (EB glacis, Iron Age Aramaean town Tunip/Qarqar) in Ghāb swamp.
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🇬🇧 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.
🇮🇳 India · Earthwork
Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) · Southern Neolithic
Tekkalakota — Bellary in Karnataka, Bellary, India is a Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) earthwork attributed to Southern Neolithic culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (c.3000–300 BCE) · Syrian EBA → Aramaean → Neo-Hittite fringe
Ghāb Orontes fortress tell 12 ha (EB glacis, Iron Age Aramaean town Tunip/Qarqar) in Ghāb swamp.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic to Early Medieval · Dál Riata (Gaelic) over Neolithic substratum
Hillfort capital of Dál Riata atop rock in Moine Mhòr, with Neolithic art and royal footprint carving.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Geoglyph
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Geoglyphs of Alignment-Brancaster in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) geoglyph attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Quarry
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Abbey Quarry in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) quarry attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Inca Imperial 1450–1530 Neo-Inca to 1572 · Inca (Pachacuti? Topa Yupanqui)
Inca cloud-city with white stone llamas paving terraces above Apurimac canyon.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Earthwork
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Earthworks of Lake in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) earthwork attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
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…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Middle Neolithic · Armorican Early Neolithic
Oldest passage grave complex in Brittany — 72 m cairn with eleven parallel passage graves c.4850 BCE.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
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.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Cave
Koněprusy Caves (Czech: Koněpruské jeskyně), also Zlatý kůň (Golden Horse), is a cave system in the Bohemian Karst in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Hydraulic works
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Reservoir of Basin Beck in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇦🇺 Australia · Temple complex
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Temple of Dail in New South Wales, Australia is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) temple complex attributed to Harappan culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
late 3rd Dynasty?, c.2650-2600 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Low limestone rubble mound 20 m base at Athribis (Wannina) on west bank near Sohag: attributed to late 3rd Dynasty small pyramid but poorly published, surveyed by Lepsius and Schenkel.
🇴🇲 Oman · Temple complex
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Temple of Dun-Palace in Dhofar, Oman is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) temple complex attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Temple of Qasr Ditch in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Ottoman (c.2750 BCE–present; Phoenician peak 1100–332 BCE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Phoenician island-city and legendary birthplace of Europa and Dido, Tyre dominated Mediterranean purple-dye trade.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Modern (reuse) · Alentejo Megalithic → Baroque Christian
17th-century chapel built inside a Neolithic anta with seven granite uprights whitewashed as walls, near Évora.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (300 BCE–500 CE) · Huarpa–Topará
Ravine rim (3,350 m) above Quebrada Loma with 10-m drop; figures perched on rim crest with foresight over Nasca–Ayacucho corridor.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Fortress
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Citadel of Narrow-Moat in Piauí, Brazil is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) fortress attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
