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🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Inner Eridu Ridge Central — Eridu (53-50) at Eridu, Iraq is a Chalcolithic (regional) tell of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic, c.300 BCE–350 CE · Kushite / Meroitic
Jebel Barkal north necropolis at foot of holy mountain's pinnacle rock: 11 pyramids (Bar.1-20, 10-15 m base, 70° steep) with chapels for Meroitic kings and queens who retained Napatan sacred…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Koh Ker — Prasat Thom Ancillary Causeway North in Preah Vihear, Koh Ker, Cambodia is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old King…
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Preclassic–Late Classic · Maya (Three Rivers)
Third-largest Belize Maya city (400 BCE–900 CE) — 25-m Great Pyramid with 85 plazas and 60-km sacbé network.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Lower Yucatan Ridge B — Yucatan (55-47) at Yucatan, Mexico is a Medieval (regional) geoglyph of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Roman Early Imperial (68–300 CE) · Roman Imperial (Trajan/Hadrian)
Mons Claudianus is the Trajanic Roman quarry complex (98–117 CE peak) in Red Sea Mountains 500 km S of Cairo at 700 m, extracting Tonalite gneiss (Claudianus granodiorite grey with black feldspar…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Classic (Late Classic apogee) · Maya (Sa'al kingdom)
Classic Maya capital Sa'al (Naranjo) hilltop city: 32 m triadic Acropolis pyramid, hieroglyphic stairways of Lady Six Sky's wars with Tikal/Calakmul 500 BCE–950 CE.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Northern Axum Hilltop I — Axum (57-26) at Axum, Ethiopia is a Iron Age (regional) rock art of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Lima Village Outer — Lima (56-47) at Lima, Peru is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Earthwork
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Meroe Temple B — Meroe (56-23) at Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (regional) earthwork of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for temple and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Sounion — Poseidon Temple North Peristasis in Attica, Cape Sounion, Poseidon Temple, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex a…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EBA through Mamluk; Iron II peak · Moabite/Ammonite frontier → Persian Yehud fringe → Byzantine
Madaba Plains giant tell (18 ha) — Iron Ammonite pillared building, 9th c. destruction and Persian reoccupation, largest in Jordan’s Madaba Plains.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Byzantine (8th c. BCE – 7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Roman
Caesar battle harbour — kilometer-long curving mole now 1–4 m offshore on Bekalta promontory.
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic
Theopetra Cave — Middle Avra Gate (Thessaly) in Thessaly, Trikala, Theopetra, Greece is a Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) cave attributed to…
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Vix — Lesser Mound B (Mont Lassois) in Burgundy, Côte-d'Or, Mont Lassois, France is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hal…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Wadi Thwaite Harbor Aqueduct in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Earthwork
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Western Giza Fortress I — Giza (56-32) at Giza, Egypt is a Neolithic (regional) earthwork of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 400 BCE for fortress and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Middle Horizon Wari 700–800 CE · Wari (Huaraz highland)
3-storey Wari gallery-mausoleum with interior ventilated labyrinth, 700–800 CE.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
PPNB · Galilee PPNB
Yiftahel PPNB Plaster Village at Galilee, Yiftahel, Israel is a PPNB ancient village of the Galilee PPNB tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for ppnb village mega-plaster lime kiln.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
PPNB · PPNB Galilee
Beisamoun PPNB Skulls House at Hula Valley, Beisamoun, Israel is a PPNB ancient village of the PPNB Galilee tradition, built c. 8000 BCE for ppnb village 7 plastered skulls.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Gravettian–Solutrean ~27–19 ka BP · Gravettian–Solutrean coastal
Submerged 27 ka painted cave 37 m under Mediterranean with great-auk and hand stencils.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age · British Iron Age
Danebury Hillfort Hampshire at Hampshire, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the British Iron Age tradition, built c. 550 BCE for type-site hillfort dense occupation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Danebury Hillfort — Outer Entrance Hornwork in England, Hampshire, Stockbridge, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attribu…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE; peak 2300–2100 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
El-Hawawish is the Old–Middle Kingdom cliff necropolis of Akhmim (Panopolis, 9th nome) on eastern desert edge, 800+ rock-cut tombs 3000–1800 BCE on 1.5 km wadi terrace.
