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🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Late Sarmatian (1st c BCE–1st c CE, Prokhorovka to Alan transition) · Late Sarmatian (Bashkir Prokhorovka–Alan transition)
Bashkir steppe Sarmatian chieftain mound (30 BCE–60 CE) 42 m with scale-armour horse and Parthian faience.
🇷🇺 Russia · Lake city
Legendary 1164–1237 foundation; literature 1780s–1810s Kitezh Chronicle (Ketija letopisets) · Vladimir-Suzdal Rus' / Old Believer / Orthodox folk eschatology
Batu Khan's 1237 target – Yuri's city that sank invisible into 30 m Svetloyar Lake, bells still claimed heard.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Late Neolithic (Wartberg culture, 3400–2800 BCE) · Wartberg (Funnel Beaker–Wartberg late group)
The Altendorf grave (Wartberg culture, late Neolithic c.3400–3000 BCE), on the Altenburg ridge near Naumburg 24 km southwest of Kassel, was a 17-m gallery grave chamber 17.5 m long inside a 17 × 5 m…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Pleistocene–Holocene shoal (natural) + epic Ramayana 7th–4th c. BCE; pseudo claim 2002 '18k Vishvakarma engineering' · Pleistocene natural shoaling + Tamil–Sinhalese tradition
29-km Palk Strait shoal chain — Ramayana epic bridge literature misread as 18k BCE engineered causway vs natural tombolo reef.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Pre-Columbian Xinguano (800 – 1600 CE) · Xinguano (Arawak-Karib)
Kuhikugu South in Mato Grosso, Brazil is a Pre-Columbian Xinguano (800 – 1600 CE) ancient city attributed to Xinguano (Arawak-Karib) culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB IV to Byzantine (c.2400 BCE–600 CE; peak Iron II) · Eblaite → Amorite → Hittite/Mitanni → Neo-Hittite/Aramaean
Aramaean Hatarikka with alphabetic stele and Iron Age gate sphinxes atop 28 ha tell near Idlib.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Archaeological wonder
Ajinateppa (Tajik: Аҷинатеппа, romanized: Ajinateppa, Russian: Аджина-Тепе; ) is a Buddhist monastery cluster located 12 kilometers east of the city of Bokhtar, Tajikistan.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Early Islamic to Medieval (757–1393 CE; peak 10th–14th c CE) · Berber Miknasa / Islamic / Maliki
Gold-mint entrepôt Sijilmassa on Trans-Saharan Ghana road south of Rissani.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early to Middle Bronze (2500–1800 BCE; peak 2400–2200 BCE) · Jiroft / Kerman Bronze Age (Proto-Elamite derived, Halil Rud)
Jiroft twin citadels — 21 m windowed fortress and chlorite workshop centre of Marhashi.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Late Bronze to Turkic Early Medieval · Northern Ordos, Xiongnu, Xianbei
Central ridge above Dahekou gorge bridging Yinshan naturalism and Helan mask styles.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Middle Horizon (600–800 CE), Recuay–Wari · Recuay (Pashash)–Wari (Huari)
Three-storey subterranean-tower pyramid-mausoleum (12 m high, 18x18 m square) of Recuay (Pashash) then Wari-Tiwanaku horizon (600–800 CE) in Callejón de Huaylas at 3400 m, built of dressed white…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Bronze Age, Classic Kerma (c.1750–1500 BCE, contemporary with Egyptian Second Intermediate Period–early New Kingdom) · Kerma culture (Nubian, Kingdom of Kush — pre-Napatan)
Tumulus KIII is among the largest royal tumuli in the Kerma Eastern and Western cemeteries capping the Kerma capital of the Dongola Reach (≈150 ha, oldest sub-Saharan city).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB → PPNC → Yarmoukian · Levantine PPNB/Yarmoukian
Mega-village (7250–5000 BCE) covering 15 ha, one of the largest Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic sites in the Near East.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, c.1890 BCE (Senwosret II / Sesostris II) · Ancient Egyptian (Senwosret II)
Pyramid of Senwosret II at Illahun (El-Lahun) desert edge Faiyum: 48 m high mudbrick pyramid (107 m base) with limestone casing, northern annex enclosure and 8 queen's pyramids (including Queen…
🇪🇸 Spain · Temple complex
Iron Age Tartessian (c.500–400 BCE) · Tartessian Orientalizing (Guadiana valley)
Casas del Turuñuelo (Tartessian 5th century BCE, c.500–400 BCE) near Guareña in the Guadiana valley is a monumental 2,500-sq-m mudbrick palace-sanctuary under a 8-m artificial mound, revealed 2015–22…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Late Intermediate (700–1500 CE) · Atacameño, Tarapacá and Altiplano caravan cultures
400 Atacama caravan geoglyphs (700–1500 CE) etched in desert varnish above the Tamarugal pampa.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Hydraulic works
Sanhaja Berber to Marinid · Touat Zenete–Sanhaja oasis
Touat Adrar: 84 foggaras 140 km Africa's densest Sahara foggara corridor 27.87N.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works
Late Pre-Islamic to Early Islamic · Nabataean–Himyarite to Umayyad
110-m two-phase dam (320 BCE–750 CE) on Wadi al-Khanaq — Khaibar oasis northern reservoir.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Early Village to Islamic (6000 BCE–1000 CE; peaks Ubaid–Uruk and Old Elamite) · Deh Luran Village → Ubaid → Uruk → Proto-Elamite → Elamite → Islamic
Deh Luran's largest tell (15.5 ha) with 6000 BCE-to-Elamite sequence and Amorite seal.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
New Kingdom Amarna Period (1353–1332 BCE) · Egyptian (Atenist reform)
Akhenaten's 1346 BCE desert sun capital – 12 km planned city and 382 Amarna Letters, abandoned after one reign.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) · Early Harappan (Kunal–Hakra ware, pre-Kot Diji)
Kunal Mound — Haryana Saraswati in Haryana, Fatehabad District, Saraswati palaeochannel (Kunal), India is a Early Harappan (4000–2800 BCE, Kunal culture, Hakra ware) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇷🇴 Romania · Burial field
Eneolithic Cucuteni A3–B (4500–3800 BCE) Moldavian Plateau · Cucuteni A3–B (Moldavian Iași variant)
Hoișești (Hoișești-La Pădure/La Izvor) — Cucuteni A3–B tell-necropolis (c.4500–3800 BCE, 2 ha settlement + extramural cemetery 50 graves) on Bahlui watershed, Iași County, Moldavian Plateau.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Bronze Age → Early Iron Age 1100–500 BCE Gotland · Nordic Bronze Age Gotlandic (Gotland stone-ship tradition)
Gannarve — Gotland stone ship (skeppssättning) Late Bronze–Early Iron Age (c.1100–500 BCE) on Gannarve farm ridge 4 km NE Sandhamn, Fröjel, Gotland west coast, 25 km south Visby.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan 2nd c CE (Kanishka) · Kushan imperial dynastic — Bactrian fire cult with Hellenistic architecture
Surkh Kotal Fire Temple — Kushan dynastic sanctuary (2nd c CE Kanishka period) on Surkh Kotal hill 18 km NE Puli Khumri, excavated 1952–63 by D. Schlumberger (DAFA).
