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🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Pukara Stone Enclosure in Andean Highlands, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Formative to Imperial, 900 BCE–1500 CE active; origins possibly 1500 BCE · Aymara and pre-Aymara Andean; later Tiwanaku-Inca incorporation
Largest line network on Earth - 16,000 km of sacred Aymara pilgrimage lines.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Old Kingdom to Roman · Egyptian
Cliff sanctuary with rock-cut Hathor/Nemesis chapel, pink limestone quarries supplying Amarna, and 12th Dyn rock-tombs of nomarch Wahka with nautical graffiti. Miners' camp and Roman road station.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Sicán Middle (900–1050 CE Sicán metallurgy peak) + Inca later · Sicán (Lambayeque) bronze arsenic gold tumi metallurgy with Chimú later
Batan Grande Shimada 1978–, 900 Sicán capital metallurgy frenzy.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in North Coast, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in Yucatán, Mexico is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) temple complex attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Courtyard House Complex East in Delta, Egypt is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Middle Palaeolithic to Natufian (c.200 ka–9600 BCE) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Natufian
Karst cave at the mouth of Nahal Me’arot, type site of the Natufian culture (excavated Dorothy Garrod 1929–1934). 4 m st...
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Northern Wei to Tang (493 – 750 CE) · Buddhist imperial Luoyang under Empress Dowager Hu
Central Binyang 11 m Buddha of Northern Wei Emperor Xuanwu at Yi Gorge.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Mural Hall Asia 22 — China Region 10 in China Region 10, China is a Neolithic megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Naqa Lion Temple Outlier in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian / Nodena phase 1000–1541 CE · Mississippian Nodena
Moat-walled Mississippian Casqui town visited by de Soto 1541.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 3rd – early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Collapsing transitional pyramid built by Sneferu (or Huni) at the mouth of the Fayum: first straight-sided true pyramid attempt, originally seven steps encased to form 92 m true pyramid; outer casing…
🇺🇸 United States · Kurgan
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Saka Kurgan Chain East in Great Plains, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) kurgan attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Great Moravian (9th–early 10th century) · Great Moravian Slavic
Great Moravian church and settlement complex on Sady hill (210 m) above Morava — cruciform church with narthex (c.830), cemetery 86 graves with gold earrings, and adjoining settlement.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ghana to Mali to Songhai medieval (11th c. CE foundation; 14th c. peak Ibn Battuta 1352) · Soninke → Berber → Mali Empire caravan scholars
Walata occupied 1000–, Ibn Battuta 1352, manuscript ksar.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Middle to Late Bronze Age (c.2000–1200 BCE; Level VII palace 1650–1600 BCE) · Amorite / Yamhad / Hittite / Mitanni
Bronze Age capital of Mukish kingdom in Amuq plain, Alalakh yielded Levels VII–0 (Middle–Late Bronze) with cuneiform archives of King Idrimi's inscription (statue autobiography), Yarim-Lim palace,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chachapoya late (1300–1470 CE) · Chachapoya later Inca fringe
Abiseo Gran Pajatén discovered by Savoy 1963, excavated 1985, mosaic fretwork with human heads, UNESCO 1990 Rio Abiseo.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Bronze Age
Granary Pit Group South in Euphrates Valley, Syria is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Kurgan Field Mideast 80 — Syria Region 8 in Syria Region 8, Syria is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Kurgan Field Misc 105 — Peru Region 9 in Peru Region 9, Peru is a Bronze Age hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Meroitic (1st c. CE Amanitore/Natakamani) + earlier Amun temple 200 BCE · Meroitic Kandak Amanitore
Naqa excavated by Cailliaud 1822 and Wildung 1995–, Roman kiosk Hathor and Amanitore smiting relief.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Rock art
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Shikhara Spire South in Angkor, Cambodia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
As-Salam Palace (Arabic: قصر السلام, lit. 'Peace Palace') is a palace located on Al-Kindi Street in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq.
