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🇸🇩 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…
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos — Little Palace North Adyton (Heraklion, Crete) in Crete, Heraklion, Knossos Little Palace, Greece is a Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) temple comp…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Leptis Magna — Severan Basilica North Apse in Al-Murgub, Leptis Magna, Libya is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bron…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Letoon — Temple North Altar (Xanthos Valley, Lycia) in Muğla, Letoon, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Mu…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Classical (regional) · Classical
Lower Lima Ridge I — Lima (56-18) at Lima, Peru is a Classical (regional) pyramid of the Classical tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Medieval Ibadite (11th–14th c to present continuous) · Ibadite Berber (Mozabite) / Rustumid
M'Zab Valley is the intact 11th c Ibadite Pentapolis 480 m deep limestone hamada: 5 fortified ksour (Ghardaïa, Beni Isguen, El Atteuf, Melika, Bou Noura) each on hill with pyramidal mosque-minaret,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Medinet Madi — Sobek Temple North Ancillary Pylon (Fayum) in Fayum, Medinet Madi, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) temple complex attribute…
🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9500–9000 BCE; Sultanien) · Sultanian PPNA (Levant)
PPNA type-village in lower Jordan Valley with oval pisé houses and wild barley economy.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Nuri — Pyramid Nur 17 Ancillary Descending Corridor in Northern, Nuri, Sudan is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom /…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (6th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 3rd c BCE–2nd c CE) · Massaesylian Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian royal capital Siga (Takembrit) of Syphax at the Tafna mouth.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Taxila — Sirkap North Block Dwelling (Gandhara) in Punjab, Taxila, Sirkap, Pakistan is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed …
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Ugarit — Royal Palace West Archive (Ras Shamra) in Latakia, Ras Shamra, Ugarit, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attribute…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Predynastic to Roman (3000 BCE–400 CE) · Egyptian Pharaonic → Roman
Wadi Hammamat is the 80 km Nile–Red Sea desert wadi with sole greywacke (bekhen-stone) quarries for Egyptian sarcophagi since 3000 BCE and 2,500 rock inscriptions from Naqada III to Roman: Qadesh,…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Old Hittite to Empire (1650–1200 BCE) · Hittite (Hattic substrate)
Old Hittite cult terrace that produced the four-register Inandik vase (acrobats and goddess).
🇺🇸 United States · Fortified settlement
Late Bronze to Iron Age (1300–400 BCE) · Late Bronze fortified; Mississippian
Angel Mounds — Stockade North Gate (Evansville) in Indiana, Vanderburgh County, Angel Mounds, United States is a Late Bronze to Iron Age (1300–400 BCE) for…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Aphrodisias — Tetrapylon North Pediment in Aydın, Karacasu, Aphrodisias, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Hatra — Great Temple North Iwan (Nineveh) in Nineveh, Hatra, Iraq is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Multi-period …
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Archaic to Protohistoric 3600 BCE–1850 CE (use from 5700 years BP) · Plains Indigenous (Blackfoot / Niitsitapi – Peigan, Kainai, Siksika; earlier Besant, Avonlea)
UNESCO World Heritage buffalo jump (1981) used continuously 5,700 years: 300 m cliff with 10 m drop onto bone bed 11 m deep of bison skeletons, drive lanes marked by 240 cairns stretching 20 km to…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c.2400 BCE (Menkauhor or ephemeral king) · Ancient Egyptian
Small pyramid Lepsius XXIX (Headless Pyramid) 200 m northeast of Khendjer complex, Saqqara south: 52 m base, now 20 m headless rubble mound, Tura limestone casing entirely robbed.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic Maya, c.600-800 CE (Chenés–Río Bec transitional) · Maya (Chenés–Río Bec)
Hormiguero Structure II: 45 m long palatial pyramid (8 m high) with central monster-mouth portal identical to Chicanná Structure II but more elaborate Chenés masks (up to 2.5 m nose) plus Río Bec…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic–Initial Period 3000–2500 BCE · Marañón Amazon-Andes (Jaén pre-Carral)
5300-year spiral temple in Amazonian Jaén with world's oldest cacao 5300 BP and Maltese cross hearth.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Ipi — Pyramid Ancillary Causeway (Saqqara) in Giza, Saqqara, Ipi Pyramid, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old–New Ki…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Lithiam Harbour — North Cistern (Tunisia) in Mahdia, Lithiam, Tunisia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze–Ir…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, c.1800 BCE (Amenemhat IV) · Ancient Egyptian (Middle Kingdom, Amenemhat IV)
Northern of two Mazghuna mudbrick pyramids 4 km south of Dahshur: 50 m base, now 20 m vegetated mound. Excavated by Ernest Mackay 1910-11.
