🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Kohunlich
Classic · Maya/Andean
Kohunlich — Temple of the Masks 5×2 m stucco.
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🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Late Classic · Maya
Maya super city Naachtun in Mirador Basin, triadic pyramids, Structure XXVII 30 m high pyramid, lidar 2022.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Mimbreños Classic (1000–1150 CE) Mimbres Black-on-white pottery · Mogollon Mimbres (Mogollon)
Mimbres excavated by Cosgrove 1920s, 800 Mimbres bowls with fish, human scenes.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Mauryan to Gupta (200 BCE–500 CE) · Jain (Kharavela)
Ranigumpha — Khandagiri Rear Cave Cluster in Odisha, India is a Mauryan to Gupta (200 BCE–500 CE) rock_cut attributed to Jain (Kharavela).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) · PPNB
Tell Ramad — Damascus Basin in Rif Dimashq, Damascus basin, Syria is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8200–7800 BCE) tell attributed to PPNB culture.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tell
BMAC Bronze Age (c.2400–1600 BCE; Togolok phase 2200–1800) · BMAC (Togolok temple of Gonur)
Togolok 1 is the BMAC temple-fort satellite of Gonur — 140-m square enclosure with corner towers, central bastioned cult fortress and fire ritual basin. Sariani...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Classic · Maya/Andean
Kohunlich — Temple of the Masks 5×2 m stucco.
🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
Nabataean–Roman (50 CE theatre of Aretas IV?) · Nabataean (Obodas god-king)
Oboda Theatre Annex — Avdat North in Southern District, Israel is a Nabataean–Roman (50 CE theatre of Aretas IV?) temple-complex attributed to Nabataean (Obodas god-king).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B–C (8200–6400 BCE) · PPNB (Beisamounian)
Beisamoun — Galilee PPNB Village in Northern District, Israel is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B–C (8200–6400 BCE) ancient-village attributed to PPNB (Beisamounian).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Iron IIB–C (c.700–600 BCE) · Edomite (with Judean/ Arabian influence)
Iron II Edomite open-air shrine (c.700–600 BCE) on a hilltop in the Negev, excavated by Itzhaq Beit-Arieh. Single-phase...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Late Napatan to Early Meroitic, c.350–300 BCE · Kushite
South Cemetery pyramid Beg. S.10 (c.350–300 BCE) for Queen (?) Amanislo fragment? 12 m base, heavily eroded sandstone pyramid with mudbrick chapel forecourt.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Iron (3000–500 BCE) · Northwest Syrian (Ebla-Mari-Amuq)
Orontes survey and Dornemann 1983–99 deep sounding revealing 5000 years without hiatus to Early Bronze.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (1120–1250 CE) post-Sunset Crater · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan
Wupatki excavated by Hargrave 1930s, Sinagua pueblos linked to Sunset Crater ash mulching.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Archaeological wonder
Kinský Palace (Czech: Palác Kinských, German: Palais Goltz-Kinsky) is a former palace and now an art museum in Prague, Czech Republic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Archaic Lycian (550–500 BCE) to Byzantine · Lycian (Xanthian dynasts) → Persian
Kınık Lycia excavated by Demargne 1950–, Harpy Tomb reliefs (British Museum) and bilingual Lycian-Greek stele.
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic · Mousterian / Gravettian
Large limestone rock shelter in the Louros River valley, Epirus, excavated by Higgs (1964) revealing Mousterian to Upper Palaeolithic layers spanning 100,000–26,000 years BP.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
PPNA (9500–8700 BCE) · Mureybetian PPNA
Euphrates PPNA village excavated by Stordeur 1995–99 rescue, EA30 with wild animal engravings and deliberate burning.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor (11th c. CE) · Khmer
Ek Phnom Temple — Battambang Reservoir in Battambang Province, Cambodia is a Angkor (11th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic (3180–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware Orkney
Skara extension excavated by Clarke 1928–30 and recent erosion exposures, middens with pottery, bone tools and dyke wall.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Mitanni (2500–1300 BCE) · Hurrian / Mitanni (Khabur Ware)
Khabur tell excavated by Polish-Syrian 1936 and Bieliński 1996–, Khabur Ware pottery hallmark and equid figurines.
🇲🇹 Malta · Temple complex
Claimed 9600 BCE (Malta temples 3600 BCE, strait 5 Ma) · Pseudo Malta temples / Strait geology
Malta–Sicily bridge claimed Atlantis at 130 m deep — cores show strait always water since 5 Ma Recorded context — Period: Claimed 9600 BCE (Malta temples 3600 BCE, strait 5 Ma); Culture: Pseudo Malta…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Classic (500–900 CE Chalchihuites) · Chalchihuites (Epiclassic)
La Quemada excavated by Weigand 1970s, Tropic border fortress guarding turquoise road north.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early Medieval to late Medieval (10th–13th c.; main St Amenaprkich 1013, Surb Karapet 13th) · Bagratid-Zakarian 1013–13th forest monastery
Havuts Tar 1013 burnt 2017 Khosrov fire damaged.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Pastoral Neolithic (6000–1500 BCE) · Uweinat pastoralists (Garamantian ancestor?)
Uweinat documented by Frobenius 1933 and Menardi Noguera, 6000 BCE cattle pastoralists.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman Imperial (Flavian–Byzantine, 1st–7th c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Roman colonia with Flavius mausoleum, Severan arch and 2nd-c. dam.
