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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon Wari (550–1100 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Pikillacta — Wari Administrative Center in Cusco Region, Peru is a Middle Horizon Wari (550–1100 CE) ancient-city attributed to Wari (Huari).
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Satavahana (200 BCE–300 CE) · Buddhist Hinayana and Mahayana
Pitalkhora Caves — Aurangabad Basalt Vihara in Maharashtra, India is a Satavahana (200 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Buddhist Hinayana and Mahayana.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Late Pleistocene to Holocene (c.35000–10000 BP Hoabinhian) · Hoabinhian hunter-gatherers
Hoabinhian karst rockshelter (35,000–10,000 BP) — continuous pebble-tool sequence before Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Megalith
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Major Taş Tepeler sister site to Göbekli Tepe, ~15 ha with quarries, 266 T-pillars and special building with 11 pillars and phallic/human-head statuary. Reveals 12-site hilltop sanctuary network.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid (988–1029 Marmashen by Prince Vahram Pahlavuni, main 988–1029) · Bagratid Pahlavuni (Vahram same as Amberd)
Marmashen excavated by Sargsyan, Vahram Pahlavuni 988 family monastery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) · Lycian (Balboura) Kibyra tetrapolis
Balboura — Lycian Mountain City in Burdur Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic–Roman (300 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Lycian (Balboura) Kibyra tetrapolis.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Miller culture Hopewell horizon 100 BCE–100 CE · Miller (Hopewell)
Six mounds at Natchez Trace Milepost 232.4 including large flat-topped Mound A and conical burial Mound B (10 ft high) with crematory basin and greenstone artifacts.
🇷🇴 Romania · Cave
Coliboaia Cave (Romanian: Peștera Coliboaia, pronounced [koliˈbo̯aja]) is in Apuseni Natural Park, Câmpani, Bihor County, Romania.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor (11th c. CE) · Khmer (Suryavarman I)
Phnom Chisor — Takeo Hill Temple in Takeo Province, Cambodia is a Angkor (11th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Suryavarman I).
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient city
Polonnaruwa Period 1070–1232 CE (Chola 993–1070 preceding) · Sinhalese / Chola Tamil Buddhist and Hindu
Second Sinhalese capital (1070–1232 CE) after Anuradhapura's sack, 12th c metropolis of Parakramabahu I with 3,400-ha Parakrama Samudra reservoir, Atadage Dalada Maligawa tooth relic temple, and Gal…
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a Hindu temple complex located in Chino Hills, in southwestern San Bernardino County in southern California.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic–Epiclassic (800–1400 CE) · Western Mexico (Toltec influence?)
El Chanal Archaeological Zone — Colima in Colima, Mexico is a Postclassic–Epiclassic (800–1400 CE) ancient-city attributed to Western Mexico (Toltec influence?).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age (600 BCE–43 CE) · Durotriges
Dorset's type-site excavated by Wheeler 1934–37, war cemetery 52 burials from Vespasian's 43 CE siege, Neolithic causewayed enclosure underlying.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Table des Marchands in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic attributed to Armorican Neolithic culture. Megalithic construction with granite; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Dilberjin Tepe, also Dilberjin or Delbarjin (Persian: دلبَرجین), is the modern name for the remains of an ancient town in modern (northern) Afghanistan.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Minoan 1900–1450 BCE · Minoan
Third Minoan palace with mysterious kernos stones for ritual offerings.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Early Byzantine (332 BCE–641 CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian–Greek
Menouthis Bay — Canopic Annex in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt is a Ptolemaic to Early Byzantine (332 BCE–641 CE) submerged-city attributed to Ptolemaic Egyptian–Greek.
🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
The Chalcolithic temple of Ein Gedi is a Ghassulian public building dating from around 3500 BCE.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Cooper's Cave is a series of fossil-bearing breccia filled cavities. The cave is located almost exactly between the well known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Kromdraai and…
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
Central Yaloman terrace 200 m above Chuya at 723 km tract, a 40-m-wide sandstone cliff with 180 peckings of Kalgutinsky elk, Saka deer-masks and Turkic horsemen.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
The Battle of Badli-ki-Serai was fought early in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 as it has since been termed in Indian histories of the events.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Neolithic to Phoenician (5000–1200 BCE) · Byblos culture
Byblos — Seaside Neolithic Harbour in Keserwan-Jbeil, coast, Lebanon is a Neolithic to Phoenician (5000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Byblos culture culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early Hindu 8th–11th c + Gujarat Sultanate 1484–1535 CE · Rajput / Chalukya Hindu + Gujarat Sultanate Islamic
Concentrated ensemble of 8th–16th c heritage within 1,329 ha: Chalukya hill fort and Lakulisa temples on Pavagadh (737 m cone), and Sultanate Champaner – pre-Mughal Islamic city (1484–1535) of Mahmud…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Iulia Constantia Zilil (called later Arzeila) was an ancient Roman-Berber city in Dchar Jdid, located 40 km southwest of Tangier and 13 km northeast of Asilah.
