🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Mississippian Early 900–1200 CE atop Woodland-Archaic · Mississippian (Lamar and Etowah)
17,000-year occupation culminating in 17 m Temple Mound, 900–1200 CE.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Pipestone National Monument Quarries
Archaic to present (1000 BCE–present) · Sioux (Dakota/Lakota/Nakota), Oneota predecessors
2,000-year sacred catlinite quarries: 3000 pits in Sioux quartzite cliff plus thunderbird petroglyphs.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Pukará de Quitor
Late Intermediate–Late Horizon 1300–1540 CE · Atacameño (Likan Antai)
Atacameño clifftop fortress above Rio Grande with 4 km walls and 1540 Spanish battle site.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Rock Art of Torr Workshop Midfield
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Rock Art of Torr Workshop Midfield in Sicily, Italy is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) rock art attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Rock-cut
Rock-Cut Tombs of Khirbet
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Rock-Cut Tombs of Khirbet in County Kerry, Ireland is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Submerged Harbour of Burial Town
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Submerged Harbour of Burial Town in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Billa (Shibaniba)
Late Bronze–Neo-Assyrian (c.1500–600 BCE) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian
Small but archive-rich tell 20 km N of Nineveh: Mitanni layer produced Nuzi-type tablets, Middle Assyrian governor’s correspondence (14 c. tablets) and Neo-Assyrian granaries. E.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
Late Archaic 500–490 BCE · Aeginetan Greek
Aegina ridge-top Doric temple whose pediments chart birth of Classical sculpture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tetitla Apartment Compound (Teotihuacan)
Classic Teotihuacan (Tlamimilolpa) · Teotihuacano (multi-ethnic)
One of 2,000 apartment compounds that made Teotihuacan (100 BCE–550 CE, 200,000 inhabitants — largest city in Americas) a planned grid city.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Pura
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Ancient City of Pura in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Aphroditopolis (Atfih) Pyramid Field
Predynastic to Late Antique (3500 BCE–7th c. CE) · Egyptian (22nd Upper nome)
Nome capital at Nile bend with cow necropolis and small cenotaph pyramid.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bhoramdeo Temple — Kawardha
Early Medieval (11th c. CE) · Kalchuri
Bhoramdeo Temple — Kawardha in Chhattisgarh, Kabirdham, India is a Early Medieval (11th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Kalchuri culture.
🇨🇦 Canada · Buried city
Buried City of Takht Abbey Well
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Buried City of Takht Abbey Well in British Columbia, Canada is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) buried city attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Can Hasan III
Pottery Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic (c.6300–5500 BCE) · Central Anatolian Pottery Neolithic
Small Neolithic mound (80 m diameter, 4 m high) on the Konya Plain, excavated by David French 1960s as the earliest of t...
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Cutimbo
Late Intermediate–Late Horizon Colla–Inca 1100–1532 CE · Colla (Qolla) and Inca
Second chullpa field after Sillustani: 120 towers 10 m on mesa with puma and monkey reliefs.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Hoysaleswara Temple Halebidu
Hoysala Empire 1121–1160 CE · Hoysala Hindu (Karnataka)
Hoysaleswara (1121–1160) – Hoysala double shrine (Shiva Hoysaleswara/Shantaleswara) on jagati platform with Dvikuta plan: stellate (star-shaped) 16-point vimanas, lathe-turned chloritic schist…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Nen Chua Port (Takeo Port)
Funan Oc Eo culture (1st–7th century CE, Funan port peak 2nd–6th) · Funan (Oc Eo) → Chenla
Funan canal port (1st–7th cent) — 12 ha brick port 14.5 km from Oc Eo city via canal, 10 km from modern sea.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Pasargadae
Achaemenid (559–530 BCE construction; occupied to Seleucid era) · Achaemenid Persian
Earliest Achaemenid capital built by Cyrus the Great (559–530 BCE) on victory site over Medes.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Southeast Dune Geoglyphs (Dune-Edge Corridor)
Late Formative to Late Intermediate (500–1200 CE) · Atacama caravan
Southeast margin of Salar del Sur where transverse dunes abut playa fringe (2,300 m). Thirteen figures on compact gypscrete between dunes: 40-m ladder, 22-m feline, and 90-m paired avenues (2.0 m…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Necropolis
Stone Vale Necropolis
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Stone Vale Necropolis in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) necropolis attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tureng Tepe
Neolithic–Bronze (5300–1800 BCE) · Tureng–Gorgan Chalcolithic
Neolithic–Bronze (5300–1800 BCE) Tureng–Gorgan Chalcolithic tell at Golestan Province, Gorgan plain – stratified gorgan plain type-site with grey ware (dims High mound 30 m, 15 ha lower town).
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Óc Eo Archaeological Site
Oc Eo–Funan culture 200 BCE–700 CE → Chenla · Austro-Asiatic Funan / Indianised Buddhist-Hindu
Funan port-city of Mekong Delta (c.200 BCE–12th c. CE) on ancient Austro-Asiatic maritime Silk Road, 450 ha moated and canal-grid city linking Mekong to coast 10 km inland — Roman medallions…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
İkiztepe Samsun — Black Sea Buried Village and Cemetery
Late Chalcolithic to EBA III (4200–2000 BCE) · Pontic Chalcolithic–EBA (Bafra horizon; Maikop affinities)
Pontic coastal necropolis 4200–2000 BCE — 600 graves, arsenical bronze.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital)
Postclassic (c.1200-1521 CE) · Mesoamerican Postclassic (Tepanec-Aztec)
Azcapotzalco (Tepanec capital) — buried postclassic tell/village at Mexico City.