🇧🇯 Benin · Ancient city
Birnin Lafiya
Medieval (12th–18th c) · Songhai / Hausa / Niger bend trade
65-ha double-rampart Niger entrepôt 12th–18th c linking Bura-Gao ceramic chain with Hausa–Songhay frontier.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Preclassic to Late Classic (100 BCE–900 CE) · Maya (Kaan polity satellite)
Hugely sprawling 4 km² Late Classic centre (250–900 CE) between Tikal and Calakmul, dominated by Pyramid M1 (30x25 m, 14 m high with roof comb) and K2 double pyramid acropolis (two 12 m pyramids on…
🇧🇯 Benin · Ancient city
Medieval (12th–18th c) · Songhai / Hausa / Niger bend trade
65-ha double-rampart Niger entrepôt 12th–18th c linking Bura-Gao ceramic chain with Hausa–Songhay frontier.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Huaca Pucllana — Ancillary Ramp North (Lima, Wari-Lima) in Lima, Miraflores, Huaca Pucllana, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attrib…
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Rajasthan Necropolis Inner — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-13) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Neolithic (regional) megalithic of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Monte Albán Late I - IIIb (500 BCE–800 CE) · Zapotec (Monte Albán state – Cuicatlán colony)
Zapotec military-agricultural outpost (500 BCE–800 CE, fortress phase 300–700 CE) crowning Cerro Quiotepec massif at confluence of Río Santo Domingo and Río Grande forming Río Papaloapan: hilltop…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.300–100 BCE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Shetland)
World's tallest surviving broch (13.3 m), perfectly preserved Iron Age tower on uninhabited Mousa island.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Dramatic triangular mudbrick island fortress (c.1850 BCE) perched on rocky islet midstream of the formerly turbulent Second Cataract, complementing Semna system.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Iron Age (3000–600 BCE; Hittite peak 1400–1200 BCE) · Hattian → Hittite → Phrygian
Zippalanda candidate — Hittite storm-god city with palace letters and queen's festival archive.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Tang to Song (Late Tang Wei Junjing phase to Southern Song) · Sichuan Buddhist gentry (Dazu artisan guilds)
Dazu UNESCO eastern valley 150 niches Tang–Song 892–1169 with Avalokitesvara transformation.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
MBA to Hellenistic (2000 BCE–100 BCE) · MBA Levantine → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic Issos
Kinet Höyük North Harbour is the 15-ha northern basin of Kinet Höyük — identified with Issos, where Alexander beat Darius III (333 BCE).
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Rajasthan Sanctuary A — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-37) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) megalithic of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Middle Bronze to Neo-Assyrian · Hurrian → Mitanni → Assyrian
Neo-Assyrian library mound Huzirina with 600 tablets outside the gate – scholarly twin to Nineveh.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Archaeological wonder
Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya (Arabic: اللبّن الشرقية) is a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank, 20 kilometers south of Nablus, in the Nablus Governorate of the State of Palestine.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mauryan → Sunga–Satavahana 3rd c BCE–5th c CE · Sunga–Satavahana Vidisha — Early Historic Central India
Besnagar Vidisha Ancient City — capital of Dasharna janapada and Sunga Sungabhadra (3rd c BCE–5th c CE) on Betwa-Bes confluence 3 km north of Vidisha, excavated 1913–15 by Marshall–Lake and 1963–64…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Classic · Maya (Northwest Yucatan)
Grided Classic metropolis (350–650 CE) on NW Yucatan desert — 79 quadrangles, 30k at 300/km² without cenote.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Great Great Zimbabwe Reservoir I — Great Zimbabwe (57-46) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Iron Age (regional) ancient city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Bronze (9500 BCE–2000 BCE) · PPN → Chalcolithic → EBA
Grike Havuz Ritual Platform is the limestone-framed T-pillar pool edge at the karstic Havuz depression in the Karababa basin northeast of Şanlıurfa.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Old Rajasthan Citadel A — Rajasthan, Jaipur (54-40) at Rajasthan, Jaipur, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) temple complex of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Apteka Bank Shoal — Submerged Settlement North (Azov) in Krasnodar, Temryuk, Apteka Bank, Russia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged c…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Late Antique · Roman Byzantine Egyptian
Bagawat Necropolis Kharga Oasis at Western Desert, Kharga Oasis, Egypt is a Late Antique necropolis of the Roman Byzantine Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate, Chimú (900–1470 CE) · Chimú
Adjoining Chan Chan’s outskirts three blocks from Mansiche temple in urbanization La Esmeralda, this Chimú adobe pyramid is a U-shaped two-level mass with three terraces, ramps and courtyard…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Lima (200–700 CE) with Middle Horizon Wari intrusive 500–700 CE · Lima (Ichma predecessor of Pachacamac) with Huari (Wari) superstructure
Seven-storey adobe pyramid (500×100 m, 25 m high) in Miraflores, Lima, built bookcase-style (small vertical adobe bricks placed on edge like books) to resist earthquakes, with Wari cemetery above.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Archaeological wonder
Kalai Kafirnigan, also Kala-i Kafirnigan was a Buddhist temple in the region of Tokharistan (Classical Bactria), dated to the 7th-8th century CE.
