🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Cacaxtla
Epiclassic (650 – 900 CE) · Olmeca-Xicalanca
Cacaxtla in Tlaxcala, Mexico is a Epiclassic (650 – 900 CE) ancient city attributed to Olmeca-Xicalanca culture.
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🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty–New Kingdom · Ancient Egyptian (fortified settlement)
Greatest of Middle Kingdom Nubian forts, originally named Iken, built by Senusret III at narrow Second Cataract gorge on west bank, comprising a massive outer fortress enclosing harbour and an inner…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Epiclassic (650 – 900 CE) · Olmeca-Xicalanca
Cacaxtla in Tlaxcala, Mexico is a Epiclassic (650 – 900 CE) ancient city attributed to Olmeca-Xicalanca culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca (c.1450 – 1572 CE) · Inca (Quechua) Pachacuti — Tupac Yupanqui
Choquequirao northern Coriwayrachina saddle — Inca terraces 4 m and quartz llama enclosures across saddle from central plaza.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2600–2000 BCE, Farmana cemetery) · Harappan (Farmana / Daksha, Mature Harappan)
Farmana Mound — Haryana Daksha in Haryana, Rohtak District, Ghaggar plain (Farmana/Daksha), India is a Mature Harappan (2600–2000 BCE, Farmana cemetery) pyramid/mound site attributed to Harappan…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Safavid (500–1700 CE) · Sasanian–Islamic
Highland qanat chain at Deh-shir plain Mehriz County (1,450 m) with 18 km gallery from Shir Kuh massif (3,200 m) alluvial fan piedmont.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Neolithic through Iron Age and Byzantine (c.5000 BCE–600 CE); Chalcolithic, EBA–MB, LB II Amarna Kumidi, Iron–Persian · Chalcolithic → EBA–MBA Beqaa → LB Egyptian vassal (Kumidi) → Iron Phoenician–Persian → Hellenistic
Beqaa Kumidi — Amarna Egyptian vassal palace with cuneiform archive and fresco (26 m, 16 m stratigraphy, LB II).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Classic · Maya (Petexbatun)
Petexbatun war capital (629–761 CE) — Tikal breakaway dynastic citadel with 40-m El Duende pyramid and trench walls.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1000–1300 CE) · Mississippian (Sellars phase)
Middle Cumberland Mississippian (1000–1300 CE) platform mound town on Spring Creek 3 km south of Cumberland River: single 5-m-high substructure mound (60×40 m) with refurbished summit structure and…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Boca de Potrerillos is an archeological site located some 14 km from the municipal head of Mina, Nuevo León, Mexico.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland 1–500 CE (Pinson phase) · Middle Woodland (Pinson Mound culture, Hopewell-influenced)
Largest grouping of platform mounds in Tennessee and largest Middle Woodland earthwork complex: 17 mounds (12 platform, burial, effigy) in 1,200-acre Forked Deer River park, with Saul's Mound (Sauls’…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Late Roman (Berber–Punic village to 5th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Berber / Punic / Roman / Early Christian
55 ha roadside city with Capitolium, twin baths 3,800 m², and Temple of Baalit-Caelestis on Carthage–Theveste road.
🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
The Baroque fortifications in the Black Forest (German: Barocke Verteidigungsanlagen im Schwarzwald), also called Baroque Schanzen (Barockschanzen) or Black Forest lines (Schwarzwaldlinien), are…
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Archaeological wonder
Ca. Cañari 900–1460 CE + Late Horizon Inca 1460–1532 CE · Cañari + Inca (Quechua, Tawantinsuyu frontier, Inca–Cañari mestizo architecture)
Highest Inca administrative-religious center in Ecuador and sole true Inca site with ashlar (Inca) + adobe Cañari fusion: elliptical Temple of the Sun (39×15 m mortised ashlar ellipse unique in Inca…
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
Late Mississippian (Nodena phase) · Mississippian (Nodena phase, Oneota-related)
Type site of Nodena phase (1350–1650 CE) — palisaded Late Mississippian town on Mississippi River with 15 mounds.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan (Makran coastal)
Southern Makran Harappan port (2600–1900 BCE)—4.7 ha hilltop citadel with 8-m walls and cistern, Shadi Kaur estuary.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Islamic (5600 BCE–1500 CE; urban peak MBA 2000–1500 BCE) · Zagros Chalcolithic → Early Dynastic Zagros → Old Babylonian peripheral → Kassite → Islamic
45 m Zagros mound with Old Babylonian archive linking Babylon to Iranian intermontane valley.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate, c.400-600 CE (Moche / Mochica) · Andean (Moche)
Huaca del Sol at Moche (Huacas de Moche archaeological complex) 5 km south Trujillo: enormous adobe pyramid 340×136 m base, 41 m high, built with 140 million adobes each marked by labor gang (ayllu)…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Early Dynastic to Ur III · Sumerian (Umma dynasty / Ur III province)
Shara temple ziggurat mound at Umma (Tell Jokha) — 60×45 m platform c.2500–2100 BCE, city-god Shara's E-mah towering over Umma–Lagash frontier.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Batujaya is an archeological site located in the village of Batujaya, Karawang in West Java, Indonesia.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Late Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Tripolye C2 → Usatovo (c.3500–3200 BCE) → Early Yamnaya fringe · Late Trypillia C2 → Usatovo (Post-Trypillia) steppe–farming synthesis → Early Yamnaya infiltration
Usatovo village–kurgan cemetery (c.3500–3200 BCE) on liman — Trypillia→Yamnaya bridge with stelae and copper (Petrenko).
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Iron Age Saharan (900 BCE–200 CE) · Proto-Garamantian / Garamantian
80-m black-capped mesa hillfort 900–400 BCE pre-Garamantian stone rampart enclosing 2-ha citadel.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
The Shrine of al-Khidr Elias (Arabic: مقام الخضر إلياس) is a small religious complex dedicated to al-Khidr located on the Shawaka shores of the Tigris river in Baghdad, Iraq.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (1800–800 BCE) · Casma Las Haldas culture / Initial Coastal
Pacific-terrace Initial Period city Las Haldas (1800–1000 BCE): 20 m stone central pyramid with 300×200 m plazas on 30 m marine terrace above sea, coastal Initial tradition without ceramics.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Kakuyid (450 CE, repaired 1050 CE) · Sasanian Zagros (Eqlid terrace farmers)
Tang-e Boraq: 420-m Sasanian 450 CE cliff aqueduct in 85-m Zagros gorge, Eqlid 30.55N 52.32E.
