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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Poverty Point — Ridge 3 Terrace West (Jackson Parish) in Louisiana, West Carroll Parish, Poverty Point, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Puma Punku — Ancillary H-Block Terrace (Tiwanaku) in La Paz, Tiwanaku, Puma Punku, Bolivia is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attr…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Burroughston Broch is an Iron Age broch located on the island of Shapinsay in the Orkney Islands, in Scotland (grid reference HY54062100).
🇷🇴 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…
🇮🇹 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 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.
🇹🇳 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 …
🇪🇬 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…
🇵🇰 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 …
🇹🇷 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).
🇹🇷 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 …
🇲🇽 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…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Pallava–Pandya Early Medieval · Digambara Jain
Pallava–Pandya Jain cave complex (7th–9th c. CE) on Sittanavasal hillock, famed for Arivar Koil — earliest Tamil rock-cut Jain shrine with natural-cavern-pillared mandapa and Brahmi-Tamil inscription.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid Kyurikian (10th c. fortress Pghndzahank Prince Gurgen 1188 church; fresco 1205–16 Byzantine; Armenian-Georgian) · Kyurikian branch of Bagratid (David Gareji) with Georgian Chalcedonian fresco after 1220
Akhtala fresco excavated by Soviet, copper fortress with fresco Byzantine-Georgian.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Three-phase promontory cairn (60 m) at Arzon with two superimposed passage graves and anthropomorphic art.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic (c.11700–3600 BCE) · PPNA → PPNB → Early Chalcolithic (Seimareh Neolithic)
Seimareh 10kyr Neolithic tell 8 m (c.11.7–3.6 ka, 12000 plant samples, pisé) near Seimareh valley.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Bronze Age to Iron Age (~1500–300 BCE; causeway 1350–1150 BCE) · British Bronze Age (Deverel-Rimbury to Post-Deverel-Rimbury)
A 1-km line of 60,000 oak posts forming a causeway and platform across Flag Fen where Francis Pryor excavated systematic votive deposits: over 300 metalwork items deliberately broken (swords bent,…
