🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Kuntillet Ajrud
Iron Age IIB (single-period) · Kingdom of Israel/Judah (Israelite)
Desert Israelite fortress (c.800 BCE) with 'YHWH and his Asherah' inscriptions and Bes frescoes.
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🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Final Jomon 1200–800 BCE · Jomon Final Hokkaido
Late Jomon collective burial banked circles (1200–800 BCE) on terrace above Ushiku River at Chitose — 9 embanked circular enclosures diameter 12–75 m built of external ditch and internal bank housing…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Iron Age IIB (single-period) · Kingdom of Israel/Judah (Israelite)
Desert Israelite fortress (c.800 BCE) with 'YHWH and his Asherah' inscriptions and Bes frescoes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Lisht — Amenemhat I Pyramid North Temple in Giza, Lisht, Amenemhat I, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old–New Kingdo…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age · Durotriges
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the Durotriges tradition, built c. 600 BCE for 47 acre bivallate hillfort.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mougau-Bihan Passage Grave in Brittany, Finistère, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age · Atlantic Iron Age
Mousa Broch Tower at Shetland, United Kingdom is a Iron Age megalithic of the Atlantic Iron Age tradition, built c. 300 BCE for 13.3 m dry-stone broch tower.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom; Maya
Palenque — Temple of Inscriptions North Gallery in Chiapas, Palenque, Mexico is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom /…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Queens pyramid north-east of Pepi I enclosure, attributed to Queen Behenu whose pyramid texts were discovered in 2010 re-excavation by French mission.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost large queen pyramid on Pepi I's queens street, for Inenek-Inti, eldest queen of Pepi I remembered as ritualist (title 'Great of Praises').
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late 3rd Dynasty (Huni, c.2630–2613 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom, Huni)
Smallest provincial step pyramid (Huni, late 3rd Dynasty, 3-step, 12.55 m base, 4 m high today) near Naga el-Khalifa south of Abydos.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Christian Nubian Alodia (680–1504 CE) · Nubian Alodian Christian (Greek/Coptic)
Soba East is the 275 ha medieval capital of Christian Alodia (Alwa, 680–1504 CE) 15 km S of Khartoum at Blue Nile–White Nile confluence.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Submerged site
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Submerged Harbour of Newfield Well in County Kerry, Ireland is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) submerged city attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic (Bakun, c.4000–3500 BCE) · Fars Chalcolithic Bakun culture
Marv Dasht Bakun twin mounds (c.4000–3500 BCE, painted Bakun ware, sealings, pillared hall) 3 km S Persepolis.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ancient City of Tor Llyn in Oruro, Bolivia is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) ancient city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo II–III 1115–1287 CE (Chacoan 1120–1140; Mesa Verde 1200–1287) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan then Mesa Verdean)
Misnamed 12th-century Great House built by Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Aztec West, 400 rooms, 3 storeys) and later occupied by Mesa Verdeans: E-shaped pueblo with Great Kiva (14.6 m diameter,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Cahuachi — Pyramid Ancillary Plaza (Nasca) in Ica, Nasca, Cahuachi, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom / Mid…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE major phase; origins Old Kingdom c.2250 BCE) · Egyptian (Late/Ptolemaic, Roman)
One of Egypt's best-preserved Ptolemaic-Roman temple complexes, the 40,000 m² walled Dendera enclosure centres on the Temple of Hathor (54 BCE) with 24 Hathor-headed columns, famed zodiac ceiling…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Harlaa — Workshop Quarter North Furnace (Harar) in Harari, Harlaa, Ethiopia is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronz…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze Age II-III peak; MBA-Hittite reuse · Central Anatolian EBA (Konya Plain) → Hittite Lower Land
Konya plain EBA walled city (33 ha) with MB karum and Hittite terraces — Sedat Alp’s plateau urbanism type-site south of Çatalhöyük.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Rectangular eastern counterpart to Semna West across the 500 m Semna gorge, built to close the eastern channel and form a fortified river gateway with coupled gate signals.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4700–4000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic)
Three interlinked monuments on the Gulf of Morbihan: the shattered 20.6-m Grand Menhir Brisé – heaviest moved stone in Europe at 280 tonnes before earthquake toppling; the Table des Marchand passage…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient village
Ancient to Modern troglodyte (4th c BCE–present) · Berber (Matmata) / Punic?
Matmata is the Berber pit-dwelling village 600 m on Djebel Dahar plateau where houses are 6–10 m diameter circular pits 7 m deep dug into limestone with 3–4 excavated rooms around central courtyard…
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Neolithic–Eneolithic; Samara forager to stock-herder · Samara culture (Volga Neolithic) → Khvalynsk → Yamnaya
Volga Neolithic Samara type sites (5500–4800 BCE) — pit-house villages and Mariupol cemeteries on Sokol bend, defining early steppe pottery and forager transition.
