🇪🇨 Ecuador · Fortress
Rumicucho Pucará — Quito
Late Integration to Inca (1400–1532 CE) · Quitu–Cara / Inca
Rumicucho Pucará — Quito in Pichincha Province, Ecuador is a Late Integration to Inca (1400–1532 CE) fortress attributed to Quitu–Cara / Inca.
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🇰🇭 Cambodia · Hydraulic works
Jayavarman VII (1181–1218 CE) · Khmer (Jayavarman VII)
Kampong Kdei Bridge — Spean Kaek in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia is a Jayavarman VII (1181–1218 CE) hydraulic attributed to Khmer (Jayavarman VII).
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Temple complex
Champa Kingdom 4th–13th c CE (peak 7th–12th c) · Cham Hindu (Shaiva, formerly Champa)
Champa Hindu temple valley (4th–13th c CE) with 70 red-brick Shaiva towers (kalan) along Thu Bon River, the longest continuous Hindu-Byzantine tradition in Vietnam.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Fortress
Late Integration to Inca (1400–1532 CE) · Quitu–Cara / Inca
Rumicucho Pucará — Quito in Pichincha Province, Ecuador is a Late Integration to Inca (1400–1532 CE) fortress attributed to Quitu–Cara / Inca.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian
Tel Keisan — Acco Plain in Galilee coastal plain, Israel is a Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture · Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan)
Tell es-Sawwan — Samarra Bowl Village in Salah ad-Din, Iraq is a Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5000 BCE) Samarra culture tell attributed to Samarra culture (Tell Sawwan).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kushan to Sasanian (1st–5th century CE) · Kushan → Sasanian Kidarites
Kushan–Sasanian delta city in Surkhandarya — 15 ha shahristan mapped by multispectral remote sensing.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Formative to Integration (1500 BCE–1532 CE) · Machalilla to Manteño / Valdivia predecessor
Agua Blanca — Machalilla / Manteño spa in Manabí Province, Ecuador is a Formative to Integration (1500 BCE–1532 CE) ancient-city attributed to Machalilla to Manteño / Valdivia predecessor.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Old Kingdom to Late Antique (2700 BCE–7th c. CE) · Egyptian (nome capital)
Nome capital Tjebu with Ptolemy IV temple 18-column pronaos on high tell.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Preceramic Norte Chico Bandurria 4000–2000 BCE (3500 BCE main) · Norte Chico (Bandurria, Preceramic)
Northern mound at Bandurria 4 km south of Huacho on Huaura coastal plain: flat-topped platform 12 m high 90×70 m with sunken circular plaza 15 m diameter on summit, contemporaneous with Caral-Supe.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE) · Khmer (Suryavarman II)
Beng Mealea — Outer Eastern Enclosure in Siem Reap Province, Cambodia is a Angkor Wat period (12th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Suryavarman II).
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Mesolithic to Historic (8000 BCE–1500 CE) · Central Indian rock art tradition (Raigarh)
Bhima Bharos / Raigarh-Onakona – Chhattisgarh rock art province (Singhanpur, Kabra Pahad, Chitwa Dongri) with cupules, giant footprint petroglyphs ('Bhima footprints'), hunting scenes, geometric…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hillfort
Neolithic tor enclosure (3700 BCE) and Iron Age hillfort (600 BCE) · Cornish Neolithic & Iron Age
Carn Brea Hillfort — Redruth in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Neolithic tor enclosure (3700 BCE) and Iron Age hillfort (600 BCE) hillfort attributed to Cornish Neolithic & Iron Age.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Nara Period 710–784 CE (with brief return 745–784) · Yamato / Nara Japanese (Ritsuryo)
Imperial palace of Heijō-kyō capital (710–784 CE) modeling Tang Chang'an, 1.2×1.6 km enclosure with Daigokuden audience hall, Suzaku Gate and Eastern Palace Garden ponds.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Ming Dynasty 1372–1540 CE (major 1484 rebuild) · Ming Han Chinese
Ming western gateway fortress (1372–1540) on Hexi Corridor terminus of Great Wall, 33,500 m² bastioned rammed-earth and brick rectangle abutting Qilian foothills and Black Mountain gorge.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Mesolithic to Medieval (9000 BCE – 1200 CE) · Azov steppe pastoral to Nogai Turkic
North end shelters with cart/chariot and Turkic tamga palimpsest.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Karaz (Kahraman) Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Erzurum Province.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Lower Paleolithic (2.0–1.4 Ma) · Homo habilis/ erectus
Koobi Fora — Turkana Paleocoast Ridge in Marsabit County (Turkana), Kenya is a Lower Paleolithic (2.0–1.4 Ma) ancient-village attributed to Homo habilis/ erectus.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (3500 BCE), collapsed 1815 re-erected · Cornish Neolithic
Lanyon Quoit — Madron in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3500 BCE), collapsed 1815 re-erected megalithic attributed to Cornish Neolithic.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tumulus
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Mizpe Zohar Tumulus in Cholula, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tumulus attributed to Medieval culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE?) · Cornish Bronze Age
Mên-an-Tol — Morvah in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Bronze Age (2000–1500 BCE?) megalithic attributed to Cornish Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
River Cut Section West in Susiana, Iran is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) tell attributed to Bronze Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient village
Cucuteni B1/Trypillia BII (c.4050–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
8 ha Cucuteni B1 fortified promontory at Stolniceni–Cetate (Stolniceni I) on the Cubolta meander, with ditch-palisade and 50+ burned houses in oval. Excavations by V.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Mycenaean to Roman (1500 BCE–395 CE) · Eleusinian
Telesterion of Eleusis — Hall of Mysteries in Attica, Greece is a Mycenaean to Roman (1500 BCE–395 CE) temple-complex attributed to Eleusinian.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Tell
Late Bronze to Early Iron (c.1500–500 BCE; Yaz I–III Iron 1200–500, Achaemenid Yaz III) · Margiana (BMAC) → Yaz I (Early Iron handmade) → Yaz II–III (Median–Achaemenid)
Yaz Depe in Murghab delta is type-site of Yaz I–III Iron culture (c.1200–500 BCE) — Early Iron fortified village with handmade painted Yaz ware, successor to BM...
