🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Gran Pajatén Archaeological Zone
Chachapoya 800–1532 CE · Chachapoya
Chachapoya cloud-forest citadel slate-mosaic friezes, UNESCO 548.
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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Epiclassic (550–650 CE) · Teotihuacan late / Coyotlatelco
Oztoyahualco Compound — Teotihuacan in Mexico State, Mexico is a Epiclassic (550–650 CE) ancient-village attributed to Teotihuacan late / Coyotlatelco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Chachapoya 800–1532 CE · Chachapoya
Chachapoya cloud-forest citadel slate-mosaic friezes, UNESCO 548.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Hinayana Buddhist, Satavahana period 2nd c. BCE – 2nd c. CE · Buddhist (Theravada) merchants and Satavahana dynasty
India's largest Buddhist chaitya hall (45 m) with original timber ribs, 1st c. BCE–CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, early 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
First king of 6th Dynasty's badly ruined 52.5 m high pyramid at Saqqara (78.5 m base) with interior Pyramid Texts and basalt sarcophagus.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Roman (160–400 CE) · Roman (Severan)
Arbeia Roman Fort in Tyne and Wear, North East England, United Kingdom is a Roman (160–400 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman (Severan) culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Large 6th Dynasty pyramid at South Saqqara (78.75 × 78.75 m base, 52.5 m high), most intact Pyramid Texts ( >2,300 lines) giving royal afterlife spells.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Fortress
Roman frontier (30 BCE–285 CE Tocolosida aux fort; 40 CE Claudian) · Roman Mauretania Tingitana frontier auxilia
Tocolosida surveyed by Euzennat 1960s, Volubilis limes hamlet 5 km.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic to Early Neolithic (c.21,000–6000 BCE; intensive 17,000–11,800 cal BP) · Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Early Neolithic
Epipalaeolithic flagship 900 m from Karain (17–11.8 ka) with engraved plaquettes and marine network.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Claimed Bronze Age 2000 BCE vs Doggerland Mesolithic 8000 BCE · Nordic Bronze / Doggerland Mesolithic
Spanuth Helgoland on Dogger Bank — real Doggerland Mesolithic plain 6200 BCE but no palace Recorded context — Period: Claimed Bronze Age 2000 BCE vs Doggerland Mesolithic 8000 BCE; Culture: Nordic…
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Chimú – Late Intermediate 1200–1532 CE · Chimú → Inca
Chimú hill-fort four walls, Inca tambo after 1470.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tlajinga Workshops — Teotihuacan South in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) ancient-village attributed to Teotihuacan.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork
Swahili–Pokomo (10th–16th c. CE) · Pokomo–Swahili
Monamalala — Tana Delta Mound (Gelegole remnant?) in Tana River County, Kenya is a Swahili–Pokomo (10th–16th c. CE) earthwork attributed to Pokomo–Swahili.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware Orcadian
Four surviving uprights of oval henge circle originally 12 stones up to 5.7 m tall on promontory between lochs. One of earliest henges in Britain (c.3100 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Severn-Cotswold
Portal dolmen near Cardiff with 35-tonne capstone on three orthostats, remnant of Severn-Cotswold long cairn.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic (300 BCE–30 BCE) · Seleucid Hellenistic
Nysa — Gymnasium Annex Hill in Aydın Province, Turkey is a Hellenistic (300 BCE–30 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid Hellenistic.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Goguryeo (414 CE erected) · Goguryeo (King Jangsu for Gwanggaeto)
Ji'an 414 CE stele re-discovered 1875, textual key to 4th-c Korea-Manchuria-Japan, UNESCO buffer.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 150 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 83 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, Pepi I, c.2332 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Small cult (ka) pyramid SE of Pepi I main pyramid (c.2332 BCE, 6th Dynasty). 15.7 m base, 15.7 m high, 63° slope, smooth limestone casing over limestone rubble.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman
Olive press village with Roman counterweights and vats still visible among olive groves, typical of High Tell oleoculture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3250 BCE) · Orcadian Grooved Ware
Mainland Orkney cairn excavated by Renfrew 1972–74, yielding 157 adults and children, dated to Early Neolithic with Grooved Ware sherds.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Middle Palaeolithic to Chalcolithic (c.250 ka–3500 BCE) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Kebaran → Natufian → Chalcolithic
Multi-period cave (6 m deposits) above the Hayonim terrace, excavated by Tamar Noy and Anna Belfer-Cohen. Sequence Moust...
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze to Islamic (c.3000 BCE–1400 CE; Mittani–Assyrian peak) · Early Jazira → Mittani → Neo-Assyrian → Islamic (Tunainir)
30-ha multiperiod tell at Jaghjagh–Khabur confluence with EB–Islamic continuity, Mittani–Assyrian town and casemate wall by magnetometry (Lyonnet). Nodal market...
