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🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Kanheri Caves

Satavahana to Rashtrakuta 100 BCE–950 CE · Buddhist Hinayana → Mahayana → Vajrayana

Largest Buddhist cave-university in western India with 109 basalt caves spanning 1st c. BCE–10th c.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Knowe of Lairo Chambered Cairn

Early Neolithic · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic

Horned long stalled cairn 50 m long on Rousay, c.3600 BCE.

🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient village

Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mines

Neolithic–Bronze Age (3900–1600 BCE) · Globular Amphora and Mierzanowice — Neolithic mining

UNESCO World Heritage striped flint mining complex near Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, with over 4000 shafts (3900–1600 BCE) extracting distinctive banded Jurassic flint.

🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith

Laguna de los Cóndores (Leymebamba) Chachapoya Mausoleums

Late Horizon Chachapoya-Inca 1470–1532 CE · Chachapoya–Inca

219-mummy cliff mausoleum over alpine lake, 1470–1532 Chachapoya-Inca.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Ovcharovo Tell — Targovishte Ritual House Tell

Early Neolithic to Chalcolithic (5700–4300 BCE) · Karanovo II–VI → Kodžadermen–Gumelniţa

Ritual house tell 5700 BCE — plaster floor with 13 inhumations (Todorova).

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city

Pella of the Decapolis — Tabaqat Fahl

Neolithic to Islamic (6000 BCE–1400 CE) · Canaanite / Hellenistic / Roman Decapolis / Islamic

Pella of the Decapolis — Tabaqat Fahl in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Neolithic to Islamic (6000 BCE–1400 CE) ancient-city attributed to Canaanite / Hellenistic / Roman Decapolis / Islamic.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid

Pyramid of Hawara

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty mid · Ancient Egyptian

Second pyramid of Amenemhat III (12th Dynasty) at Hawara, 58 m high 105 m base, brick core with limestone casing now stripped, near Fayum depression.

🇫🇷 France · Pyramid

Pyramid of Motte Marsh Varna

Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine

Pyramid of Motte Marsh Varna in Occitanie, France is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) pyramid attributed to Byzantine culture.

🇨🇦 Canada · Pyramid

Pyramid of Wold-Ditch

Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age

Pyramid of Wold-Ditch in British Columbia, Canada is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) pyramid attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Cave

Qanat Grotto

Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age

Qanat Grotto in River Nile State, Sudan is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) cave attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.

🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex

Qanat Grove Temple Complex

Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age

Qanat Grove Temple Complex in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) temple complex attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.

🇮🇳 India · Rock art

Rock Art of Stone Norton

Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age

Rock Art of Stone Norton in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) rock art attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art

Saimaluu-Tash East Summit — Upper Fergana Crest Petroglyphs

Bronze Age to Early Turkic (2000 BCE – 800 CE) · Fergana pastoralist to Saka to Kyrgyz proto

Skyline crest 3200 m with 200+ ibex and deer blocks above main lake field.

🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex

Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace

Archaic to Roman 7th c. BCE–300 CE · Thracian-Greek mystery cult (pan-Hellenic pilgrimage)

Mystery sanctuary on Samothrace where Winged Victory crowned a sacred torrent ravine.

🇰🇷 South Korea · Pyramid

Step Pyramid of Eilean Doab

Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic

Step Pyramid of Eilean Doab in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) pyramid attributed to Hellenistic culture.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Pyramid

Step Pyramid of Long Kala

Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic

Step Pyramid of Long Kala in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) pyramid attributed to Chalcolithic culture.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site

Sunken City off Bal Esker

Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca

Sunken City off Bal Esker in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) submerged city attributed to Nazca culture.

🇮🇳 India · Earthwork

Tekkalakota — Bellary

Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) · Southern Neolithic

Tekkalakota — Bellary in Karnataka, Bellary, India is a Neolithic (3000–1500 BCE) earthwork attributed to Southern Neolithic culture.

🇸🇾 Syria · Tell

Tell Acharneh

Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (c.3000–300 BCE) · Syrian EBA → Aramaean → Neo-Hittite fringe

Ghāb Orontes fortress tell 12 ha (EB glacis, Iron Age Aramaean town Tunip/Qarqar) in Ghāb swamp.

🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith

Veien Cultural Landscape & Megalithic Cemetery

Neolithic–Iron Age (4000 BCE–600 CE) · Nordic TRB to Iron Age — Veien cultural landscape

Major cultural landscape on the Ringerike glacial ridge near Hønefoss, with over 100 monuments from Neolithic to Iron Age.

🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city

Djenné-Djeno

Bio. Iron Age to Medieval (c.250 BCE–1400 CE; peak 400–1200 CE) · Djenné-Djeno culture / Inland Niger Delta Iron Age / Soninke-Bozo

Oldest sub-Saharan city (250 BCE–1400 CE) on Inland Niger Delta: 33 ha tell 8 m high with 69 mounds cluster spanning 4 km, without stone architecture but rich bio-archaeological sequence: slag, rice,…