🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chan Chan Tschudi Palace Audience Hall
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Chan Chan Tschudi Palace Audience Hall in La Libertad, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
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🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Early Classic to Late Classic (500 – 800 CE) · Maya (Wak Kab'nal)
Waka in Petén, Guatemala is a Early Classic to Late Classic (500 – 800 CE) ancient city attributed to Maya (Wak Kab'nal) culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Chan Chan Tschudi Palace Audience Hall in La Libertad, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3900 BCE) · Carnac–Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Mané-er-Hroëk (Neolithic c.4500–3900 BCE) crowns the Mané-er-Hroëk hill 800 m northeast of Locmariaquer village, a 100-m long trapezoidal passage grave under a 25-m high?
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) · Buddhist Gandhara (Taxila, Kushan, Indo-Greek heritage)
Julian Mound — Taxila Pyramidal Stupa in Punjab, Taxila Valley, Jaulian (Mohre Maliaran, Taxila), Pakistan is a Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) pyramid/mound…
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Roman Hadrianic to Byzantine Justinian · Roman–Byzantine coastal Levant
Nahr al-Kabir: 3.2-km Roman 2nd-c. canalized river reach on Syria 35.30N coastal plain, Latakia.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Pyramid
Archaic to Formative (Valdivia parallel) · Mayo-Chinchipe culture (Andean-Amazon)
Upper Amazon-Andean platform Santa Ana-La Florida (5300–2500 BCE) near Limón: 80×80 m stone spiral pyramid-mound with hearth plaza — earliest cacao (3300 BCE) and turquoise trade site.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Bonampak Mural Room 1 South Wall in Chiapas, Bonampak, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA/Uruk (5900–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk (North Mesopotamian painted then Uruk expansion)
Halaf-Ubaid (5900–4800 BCE) Uruk-contact village — 4 ha buried Euphrates village, Birecik Dam salvage type-site.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Early Bronze to Western Xia (Tangut) · Zhukaigou, Ordos, Han, Western Xia (Tangut)
Zhongwei Huaishan central terrace with naturalistic ibex and Western Xia inscriptions.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Igbo-Ukwu Bronzemound Workshop Floor in Anambra, Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kerma Western Deffufa Brick Massif in Northern, Kerma, Sudan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Little Petra Beidha Neolithic House 22 in Ma'an, Beidha, Jordan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Basketmaker to Historic Ute (500 BCE – 1850 CE) · Basketmaker-Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo), Fremont, Navajo, Ute
Utah Wingate cliff 650 figures 500 BCE–19th c. palimpsest from Basketmaker to Ute.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient technology
Plato 360 BCE description; metal 8th–5th c. BCE brass production · Greek (Platonic) + Sicilian Greek brass workers
Plato's orichalcum second-to-gold — 2015 Gela wreck 40 brass ingots proved high-zinc cementation brass, not superconductor.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sardis Lydian Fortification North Gate in Manisa, Sart, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ugarit Royal Palace North Court in Latakia, Ras Shamra, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Babylon Processional Street North Gate in Babil, Babylon, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom, c.2500-1500 BCE (Kerma–Egyptian) · Kerma (Kushite)
Dokki Gel sacred city 1 km south of Kerma (Ancient Dukki Gel): massive ceremonial city of Classic Kerma kingdom (2500-1500 BCE) with four successive cruciform palatial enclosures, each 100×100 m,…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Inga Stone Itacoatiara North Glyph in Paraíba, Ingá, Brazil is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Medieval (800-1500 CE) · Harla
Harla Necropolis Cairn Field East Sector in Harari, Harar, Ethiopia is a Medieval (800-1500 CE) tumulus attributed to Harla.
🇸🇳 Senegal · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ile de Gorée Precolonial Shell Midden 7 in Dakar, Gorée, Senegal is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tumulus
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jebel Moya Tumulus Field South Edge in Sennar, Jebel Moya, Sudan is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Troy VIh Pillar House East in Çanakkale, Hisarlık, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
