🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Alto Ramírez Cerro Tatara Geoglyphs (Tatara Hillside Panels)
Formative (400 BCE–650 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Steep 18° north-facing hillside on Cerro Tatara promontory at km 55, commanding 6 km Lluta floodplain view.
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🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative (400 BCE–650 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Steep 18° north-facing hillside on Cerro Tatara promontory at km 55, commanding 6 km Lluta floodplain view.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Basketmaker II–Pueblo III 1500 BCE–1300 CE (peak 1000–1300) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Largest archaeological landscape in US implying 30,000 people: 176,000-acre (71,200 ha) monument with 6,355 recorded sites – villages, cliff dwellings, kivas, towers and shrines from Basketmaker to…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Chalcolithic (4800–3500 BCE, Cucuteni A–B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Cucuteni A–B)
Hilltop tell Cetățuia at Cucuteni, Iași, eponym of Cucuteni culture (western Cucuteni-Trypillia), excavated 1884 by Teodor Burada and 1909–10 by Hubert Schmidt.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Großsteingrab Soderstorf in Lower Saxony, Lüneburg Heath, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban; Inca
Incallajta — North Kallanka Hall (Cochabamba, Bolivia) in Cochabamba, Incallajta, Bolivia is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Early Historic to Chola Medieval · Chola (Early and Medieval)
95-m north Kollidam offtake with 12 dovetail sluice bays saving delta from avulsion.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Mari — Palace East Wing Archive Room in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Mari, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bro…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost major pyramid at Saqqara: 5th Dynasty Djedkare Isesi (c.2414–2375 BCE), 52.5 m high originally, now 24 m ruin with early Pyramid Texts tradition.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Largest and northernmost of the three queens pyramids surrounding Pepi II at South Saqqara, built for Queen Neith, eldest daughter of Ankhenespepi I and Pepi I, and principal wife of Pepi II.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid to Early Dynastic I (c.5000–2900 BCE; mural is Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr c.3200 BCE) · Ubaid → Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic
Painted Temple mound with 3200 BCE leopard mural — first mural art in Mesopotamia.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EBA-MBA-LBA (c.3500-1200 BCE) · Euphrates EBA to Old Babylonian/Mitannian
Tell al-'Abr — buried eba-mba-lba tell/village at Aleppo Governorate.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tumulus
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Thapsos — North Cist Grave Field (Priolo) in Sicily, Priolo Gargallo, Italy is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Hallstat…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Bodmin Moor Bronze Age
Triple line of three Bronze Age granite circles (33–41.5 m) on Bodmin Moor with paired outlying stones.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Altyn-Depe — North Craft Quarter (Mary) in Mary Province, Altyn-Depe, Turkmenistan is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed t…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Severn-Cotswold / Gower Neolithic
Gower's 40-tonne conglomerate portal dolmen on Cefn Bryn ridge — largest capstone in Wales, split 1693.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Saka (520–280 BCE) · Saka Tigrakhauda
North bank terrace of Boralday River (Boraldy) 2.1 km north of park (770 m) with 5 mounds 24–52 m diam on 8-m river terrace scarp.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Carchemish — Inner Town North Gate (Karkamış, Gaziantep) in Gaziantep, Karkamış, Carchemish, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient …
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Casas Grandes (Paquimé) — Unit 12 North Room Block in Chihuahua, Casas Grandes, Paquimé, Mexico is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient village
Medieval Berber to Modern (12th c–present) · Berber (Cheninia) / Arab
Chenini is the hilltop Berber ksar 550 m on Djebel Dahar ridge 18 km W of Tataouine with troglodyte ghorfas (vaulted granary cells) stacked 4 stories on hill spur, white mosque and olive press.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Chogha Mish — High Mound North Shrine (Khuzestan) in Khuzestan, Chogha Mish, Iran is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed …
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Neolithic (5800–3000 BCE) · Middle Neolithic — Dispilio culture (Kastoria lake dwellings)
Neolithic lakeside settlement on Lake Orestida near Kastoria, Western Macedonia, occupied c.5800–3000 BCE on timber piles and platforms.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Hawara — Amenemhat III Labyrinth North (Fayum, Ancillary) in Fayum, Hawara, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old–New …
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Jebel Barkal — Temple B500 North Pylon in Northern, Jebel Barkal, Sudan is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Multi-p…