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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age (Early Saka, Tasmola culture, 8th–5th c BCE) · Tasmola (early Saka, Central Kazakhstan)
Tasmola royal dromos kurgan (760–520 BCE) 45 m — eponymous early Saka mound with 200 gold plaques.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Wari–Late Intermediate–Inca · Wari–Ychsma with modern megalith folklore
Mythic paramo stone forest (4000 m) 8 km trek from San Pedro de Casta east of Lima, with 40 natural granite monoliths anthropomorphized (Monument of Humanity 25 m, Face of Man 8 m,...
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Iron Age Neo-Assyrian · Aramaean Hadatu → Assyrian province
Assyrian provincial Hadatu with 2.5 km walls, 11 lion gates and Phoenician ivory hoard.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan 3rd c BCE → Satavahana 1st c BCE–3rd c CE · Mauryan–Satavahana Buddhist (Bhima valley)
Kanaganahalli — mega Buddhist stupa complex (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) 3 km SE Sannati on Bhima River, Kalaburagi, excavated 1994–2002 by Karnataka Archaeology Dept (K.P. Poonacha).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Hellenistic (3500 BCE–100 BCE) · Chalcolithic Cilician → Hittite → Neo-Hittite → Hellenistic
Tatarlı Höyük South Acropolis is the southern citadel mound of Tatarlı Höyük on the Cilician plain west of the Ceyhan River — controlling the Kizzuwatna–Assyria (Qode) route.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Pleistocene Son Vi / Hoabinhian c.10,000–6000 BCE · Son Vi → Hoabinhian (central Highland)
Central Highlands Son Vi (11,600 BP) — 11,500 m2 chopper settlement at Lung Leng, Kon Tum (Se San dam).
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Gajendragad (also called Gajendragada) is a Town Municipal Council city in Gadag district, Karnataka, India, with population of 32,359 as of 2011 Census data.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3800–1900 BCE, Gumla–Gomal) · Gumla culture (Gomal plain, Tochi-Gomal)
Gumla Mound — Gomal Pakistan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dera Ismail Khan, Gomal plain (Gumla), Pakistan is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3800–1900 BCE, Gumla–Gomal) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Later Stone Age to Recent (130 ka occupation; paintings 2000 BCE–1000 CE) · San hunter-gatherers (Damara area ancestors)
2,573 m inselberg with >1,000 rock shelters, including Maack 'White Lady' 2,000 BCE shaman panel and 45,000 individual paintings.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Middle Bronze to Neo-Babylonian (c. 2000 – 603 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Judahite / Assyrian / Babylonia
Philistine olive oil harbour industrial city – 115-press oil zone and Sorek canal basin 30 m at –1.5 m.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1900–1070 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier
Twin customs forts Semna–Kumma bracketing Second Cataract with Sesostris III's negro-ship decree.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Governor Aker Observatory is an astronomical observatory, part of Eastern Arizona College's Discovery Park Campus (formerly known as Discovery Park) in Safford, Arizona (US).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (1470 – 1524 CE) · Kaqchikel Maya
Iximche Alt in Chimaltenango, Guatemala is a Late Postclassic (1470 – 1524 CE) ancient city attributed to Kaqchikel Maya culture.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Archaeological wonder
Koshoy Korgon or Qoshoy Qorgon (Kyrgyz: Кошой Коргон [qoʃoj qorʁón]) is a ruined fortress of uncertain date located in At-Bashy District, Kyrgyzstan.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Roman to Merinid (1st c CE to 14th c) · Roman / Mauretanian / Merinid Islamic
Roman port Sala Colonia beneath Merinid walled necropolis with stork-colonised minaret and Roman spolia throughout Islamic masonry.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Gantoftadösen (or Jättestugan - "giant's home") is a partially destroyed dolmen in the area of Helsingborg in Scania, Sweden.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Pre-Aksumite D'mt to Aksumite (700 BCE–600 CE) · D'mt / Sabean-Eritrean / Aksumite
Qohaito (Koloe) is a 750 ha pre-Aksumite to Aksumite highland city on the Eritrean plateau edge at 2595 m, flourishing 500 BCE–600 CE as D'mt precursor to Aksum.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (300 BCE–1500 CE, mask palace 300–500 CE) · Maya (Northwestern Yucatán – Acanceh)
Maya town in central-north Yucatán occupied continuously 300–1500 CE with unique layered architecture: Early Classic steep step-pyramid buried under Palace of the Stuccos (1st c.
🇺🇸 United States · Cemetery
Late Archaic (3000 – 1500 BCE) · Shell Mound Archaic
Indian Knoll in Kentucky, United States is a Late Archaic (3000 – 1500 BCE) cemetery attributed to Shell Mound Archaic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Carseae or Karseai (Ancient Greek: Κάρσεαι), or Careseae or Kareseai (Καρησέαι), also known as Karseis or Kerasai or Kerateis, was a town of ancient Mysia or of Lydia, cited by Polybius.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Deccan Jorwe Chalcolithic 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic 700 BCE–100 CE · Jorwe (Deccan Early Farming) → Megalithic–Vidarbha
Largest Jorwe urn cemetery (1400–1000 BCE) in Sangli — 42 burials with amputated legs and copper bangles under houses.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (3rd c BCE–5th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Ptolemaic–Roman grain city Karanis with 85 ha mudbrick and papyri archive.
🇦🇹 Austria · Ancient city
Carnuntum (from Ancient Greek Καρνοῦς (Carnous) according to Ptolemy) was a Roman legionary fortress (Latin: castra legionis) and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Cave del Valle (Spanish: Cueva del Valle, The Valley's Cave), locally also known as La Viejarrona (Old Girl), is located near El Cerro Village in the municipality of Rasines in Cantabria, northern…
