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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn
Cotswold-Severn long barrow at Notgrove, 48 m with transepted chambers, c.3700 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Cave
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Palace Jabal Cave in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Moche (100–800 CE) cave attributed to Moche culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Quarry
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Port Playa Quarry in Ancash, Peru is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) quarry attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Necropolis
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Syke-Bagh Necropolis in Ohio, United States is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) necropolis attributed to Harappan culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA → MBA → LBA → Phrygian → Persian (2600–500 BCE) · Anatolian EBA → Assyrian Colony fringe → Phrygian
EBA–Iron steppe tell (2600–500 BCE) — Haymana corridor walled town, Gordion-Hattusa buffer.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Thornby Grove Ancient City in Thessaly, Greece is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) ancient city attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Solomonic or late pre-Christian (~1200–1400 CE; contested to 1000 BCE) · Gurage / Sidamo (Ethio-Semitic, Southern Ethiopian megalithic)
One of 160 stelae fields in the Soddo region containing 36 standing pillars, 32 of which are sculpted with swords, paired circles and enigmatic leaf-like motifs up to 3.64 m high.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Paleolithic to Iron Age (8,000 BCE–16th c. CE peak; Epipaleolithic to medieval) · Camunni (Iron Age Alpine) and earlier hunter groups
Valcamonica – 140,000+ petroglyphs carved over 8,000 years (8th millennium BCE–16th c.) across 250 km² Brescia Alps. 8 parks (Naquane 104 rocks, Seradina-Bedolina map).
🇱🇾 Libya · Tumulus
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Wadi Burial Mound in Fezzan, Libya is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) tumulus attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇵🇱 Poland · Fortified settlement
Great Moravian to Piast (9th–12th century) · Vistulan / Piast Poland
Vistulan tribal hillfort and Piast stronghold at Wiślica on Nida (4 ha) with massive 9th c baptismal basin (4.5 m oval plastered tub debated as Great Moravian Methodius mission 880) under later…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Wessex
Chambered long barrow on Walkers Hill above Alton Barnes, 70 m, c.3650 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Irish Court Tomb tradition
Court tomb near Crossmaglen, 13 m gallery with shallow court, at foot of Ring of Gullion, c.3500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Hillfort
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Ard-Wall Camp in Ohio, United States is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) hillfort attributed to Nazca culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Necropolis
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Easton Rock Necropolis in Ancash, Peru is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) necropolis attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian Fort Walton 1100–1550 CE · Fort Walton (Mississippian Pensacola variant)
Fort Walton culture temple mound on Choctawhatchee Bay, 1100–1550 CE.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Geoglyphs of New Sura in Negev, Israel is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Parthian to Sassanian (c.200 BCE–241 CE) · Parthian-Arab (Hatrene Aramaic) / Hellenistic influence
Fortified Parthian-Arab desert city (2nd c BCE–241 CE) with circular walls 6.4 km circuit resisting Trajan (117) and Septimius Severus (198).
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic to Mesolithic (19,000–8000 BCE) · Malta-Buret related early Holocene hunter
Sun-facing lower gallery with 15 ka ibex/ostrich ochre and pecked figures 220 m below main cave.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Early Modern likely 16th–17th c.; Bronze Age claim unproven · Early Modern British; alternate prehistoric hypothesized
69-m hill figure with staffs on South Downs, enigmatic later date.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Hillfort
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Pala-Playa Camp in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) hillfort attributed to Nazca culture.
🇨🇦 Canada · Hillfort
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Rig Ach Camp in British Columbia, Canada is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hillfort
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Roxby Hillfort in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) hillfort attributed to Harappan culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) · Halaf to Neo-Hittite
Neolithic–Iron (6000–600 BCE) Halaf to Neo-Hittite tell at Gaziantep Province – citadel on aleppo–carchemish road (dims Mound 25 m high, lower town 10 ha).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic Norte Chico, c.3800–2800 BCE (peak 1800 BCE) · Norte Chico (Vichama)
Templo Mayor at Vichama (c.3800–3300 BCE with major Late Preceramic build c.2800 BCE, Norte Chico), 50 × 70 m base, 16 m high terraced pyramid with summit plazas and elaborate stucco reliefs of…
