🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Lanyon Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Penwith portal dolmen — 5.5 m capstone (12 t) on three 1.5 m uprights, collapsed 1815 and reset lower.
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🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Early Medieval (7th–12th c.) · Chandra-Pala
Ananda Vihara — Mainamati in Comilla District, Mainamati Hills, Bangladesh is a Early Medieval (7th–12th c.) temple complex attributed to Chandra-Pala culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Ancient City of Ras Motte in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Penwith portal dolmen — 5.5 m capstone (12 t) on three 1.5 m uprights, collapsed 1815 and reset lower.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB–Late Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) · PPNB–Late Neolithic
Eastern spur of Wadi al-Qattafi system 8 km east of Maitland's Mesa (685 m) toward Jibal al-Khashabiyeh kite corridor (Kennedy).
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Axeitos is a prehistoric megalithic dolmen just to the northwest of the village Axeitos, in the parish of Oleiros, in the municipality of Ribeira, on the Barbanza Peninsula in the estuary…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (750–1450 CE; peak 1350 CE) · Hohokam (Gila–Casa Grande community, Ancestral O'odham)
Classic Hohokam Gila village 1350 CE — 60 ha compounds around Great House.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Hasanlu IV 1100–800 BCE) · Giyan → Hasanlu IV (Mannaean/Urartian sphere) → Urartian
Hasanlu is the great Iron Age walled city south of Lake Urmia — Hasanlu IV (1100–800 BCE) citadel with columned halls, ivory workshop, and violent destruction b...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Coire Ancient Village in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Court Tomb tradition (Western Neolithic Ireland)
55.5 m court tomb on Sligo coast — 13×10 m oval court to twin gallery, best preserved in northwest.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Late Horizon 1420–1438 CE (pre-Pachacuti) · Inca (pre-imperial)
Wiraqocha's 3600 m royal estate above Sacred Valley with 40 m Kallanka, terraces and reservoir 23 m.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Rock-Cut Tombs of Butte Easton Tall in Sicily, Italy is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Protoneolithic (10500–9500 BCE) · Zarzian Epipalaeolithic–PPN
Protoneolithic (10500–9500 BCE) Zarzian Epipalaeolithic–PPN ancient village at Erbil Governorate, Greater Zab tributary – open-air forager base preceding first villages (dims Scatter 3000 m² with huts and ground stone).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Archaic–Woodland 1000 BCE–1000 CE · Woodland / Archaic
36.5-m quartz eagle effigy, 1000–500 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1900–1100 BCE) · Egyptian turquoise mining
Serabit el-Khadim South Pillar — Hathor Turquoise Terrace Extension in South Sinai, Egypt is a Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1900–1100 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Egyptian turquoise mining.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Earthwork
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Dolmen Cairn Mound Complex in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) earthwork attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Rock art
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Rock Art of Ghat Hamlet in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) rock art attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1000 BCE–100 BCE Son Fornés chiefdom; Talayot 1 1100 BCE, 2 500 BCE, 3 400 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca village with 105 iron swords hydria? Iron age 1100–100 BCE + Post-Talayotic 550 BCE houses
Son Fornés Gasperini 1970s, triple talayot 1100–400, 105 iron.
🇮🇳 India · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic (74000 BCE) · Middle Palaeolithic
Jwalapuram — Toba Ash Layer in Andhra Pradesh, Jurreru Valley, India is a Middle Palaeolithic (74000 BCE) cave attributed to Middle Palaeolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (950–1350 CE; peak 950–1200 CE) · Hohokam (Tucson Basin)
Hohokam platform precursor 950 CE — 600 bedrock mortars & ballcourt (Bayman).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Medieval Christian–Islamic Nubia (500–1317 CE; peak 800–12th c.) · Makuria (Christian Nubia) / Islamic
Old Dongola on Nile opposite Letti is Makuria Christian Nubia's capital 500–1317 CE, 45 ha walled town with colonnaded citadel, palace of Ioannes (11th c.) 28×18 m with frescoes, five churches…
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Aoudaghost (c. 500–1400 CE; Berber–Ghanaian citadel) · Berber (Sanhaja) / Soninke Ghanaian conquest 1055
Berber ksar on Aoukar dune edge, Aoudaghost West preserves citadel, mosque and cavern granaries that stored caravan millet, described by al-Bakri and Ibn Hawqal; Ghana 1055 seizure...
🇮🇷 Iran · Quarry
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Tell Bajada Quarry in Fars Province, Iran is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) quarry attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Ain Ghazal — Plaster Statue Cache East in Amman Governorate, Ayn Ghazal, Jordan is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attributed t…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Malay–Srivijaya to Muara Jambi (680–1300 CE) · Melayu Kingdom to Srivijaya to Mauli (Batanghari)
Candi Muaro Jambi is the largest Buddhist temple complex in Southeast Asia — 398 ha with 82 red-brick candi (7th–13th c) along the Batanghari River, center of Malayu–Srivijaya scholarship.
