🇲🇽 Mexico · Hydraulic works
Texcotzingo
Late Postclassic Aztec (1400 – 1521 CE) · Acolhua (Texcoco)
Texcotzingo in State of Mexico, Mexico is a Late Postclassic Aztec (1400 – 1521 CE) hydraulic attributed to Acolhua (Texcoco) culture.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Matara (Metara)
Pre-Aksumite Ethio-Sabaean to Late Aksumite (800 BCE–800 CE) · Ethio-Sabaean D'MT / pre-Aksumite → Aksumite
10 ha highland caravans town with Hawulti 5.5 m Sabaean obelisk, Aksumite stelai, palace of Kaskase and dam reservoir.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Tombos Pyramidal Tombs — Third Cataract
New Kingdom to early Kushite, c.1550-750 BCE (18th Dynasty onward) · Ancient Egyptian / Kushite
Tombos island and east bank cemetery at Tombos quarry 3rd Cataract: pyramidal tombs (8×8 m base) with chapels and shafts for Egyptian officials and Kushite successors (1400-750 BCE).
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Alignements du Ménec — Carnac
Early to Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3000 BCE) · Carnac Neolithic (Castellic/Chasséen-derived Atlantic)
Ménec (Early–Middle Neolithic c.4500–3000 BCE) is the westernmost and largest Carnac alignment: 11 parallel rows 1,167 m long with 1,099 menhirs descending from a western cromlech (egg-shaped 100 ×…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tell el-Maskhuta (Pithom)
MK through Roman; Saite-Persian peak · Middle Kingdom → Hyksos → Saite Necho II → Persian Achaemenid → Ptolemaic
Wadi Tumilat gateway tell — Middle Kingdom fort, Hyksos, Saite grain silos (600 m³) and Darius I canal station, biblical Pithom/Heroöpolis.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Cantona Pyramid — Acropolis South (Puebla)
Classic to Epiclassic · Cantona culture (highland central Mexico)
High-altitude lava-block pyramid city at Cantona — 15 m acropolis pyramid at 2550 m c.600 CE with 24 ball courts and walled lava causeways.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Jibal Thumamah Kite Cluster – Qassim Desert
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Najd Late Neolithic
24 easternmost kites (6000–3500 BCE) on Qassim limestone scarp — sand-sea margin.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Nuraghe Arrubiu — Orroli, Sardinia
Middle to Final Bronze Age (c.1500–900 BCE) · Nuragic (Middle–Late Bronze)
Nuraghe Arrubiu (Middle–Final Bronze Age c.1500–900 BCE) on the basalt Pran'e Muru plateau near Orroli is Sardinia's largest nuraghe (3,000 sq m): a central keep 15 m high preserved plus five bastion…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Ayaz-Kala
Chorasmian (Khorezm) 4 c. BCE–8 c. CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) with Kangju–Kushan phases
Khorezmian hilltop fortress complex (c.4 c. BCE–7 c. CE) on the Kyzylkum edge near Ayazkol lake — three forts: Ayaz Kala 1 (4 c. BCE–2 c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Boncuklu Tarla
PPNA through PPNB and early Pottery Neolithic · PPNA/PPNB Pre-Pottery Neolithic (Euphrates-Tigris transitional)
Ilısu north-bank mega hamlet (10300–7200 BCE) with 20 m pillared communal building — T-pillar stelae and largest PPNA stone assemblage in Upper Tigris, Mardin salvage.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Shahr-i Sokhta — The Burnt City
Early Bronze Age Helmand–Jiroft horizon (c.3200–1800 BCE; variant 3200–2350 then eclipse) · Helmand/Sistan Bronze Age (Burnt City culture) — network with Shahr-i Sokhta, Mundigak, Indus
151 ha Burnt City between Sumer and Indus — animated goat bowl, artificial eye and 40,000 graves.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Calden Gallery Grave — Eckhardshausen
Late Neolithic (Wartberg c.3400–2800 BCE; Erdwerk c.3700 BCE) · Wartberg (with Michelsberg enclosure precursor)
Calden II is one of two Wartberg gallery graves (c.3400–3000 BCE) on the Calden plateau north of Kassel, a 10-m gallery chamber of limestone slabs within a 12 × 4 m mound, adjacent to the 7-hectare…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Salmon Ruins (Salmon Pueblo)
Chacoan to Post-Chaco (Late Pueblo II to III) · Chaco Culture → Mesa Verde–San Juan (ancestral Pueblo)
Northern Chaco great-house outlier (c.1090–1280 CE) — 300-room 2-storey sandstone Chacoan great house built 1090 CE by Chaco Canyon elite as toll/ grain colony on San Juan, then reoccupied 1125–1280…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Chaviña Pampa North Ridge Geoglyphs (Cerro Chaviña Norte)
Early Nasca to Wari · Nasca–Huarpa–Wari
Chaviña north ridge: 15 crest lines on 3,420 m hilltop with solstice-aligned avenue.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Submerged site
Oc Eo – Funan Canal Port, Mekong Delta
Funan to Khmer (2nd c. BCE – 1200 CE) · Funan (Austroasiatic) / Indianized / Khmer
Funan moated canal port 3 km² – brick quay 100 m buried 2 m under Mekong delta paddy.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Dimini Neolithic Settlement — Thessaly
Late Neolithic to Mycenaean (c.4800–1200 BCE) · Thessalian Late Neolithic (Dimini) and Mycenaean Iolkos area
Dimini (Late Neolithic c.4800–4000 BCE, Early Helladic 2800–2000 BCE) 5 km northwest of Volos is a fortified hill settlement 0.8 ha with six concentric stone circuit walls 2–3 m thick enclosing a…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Carrowmore — Listoghil Central Tomb
Middle Neolithic – Bronze Age · Carrowmore passage/boulder tradition (early)
Ireland's largest cemetery — ~30 boulder dolmens around Listoghil passage tomb (3600 BCE), oldest on Cúil Irra peninsula.
🇸🇾 Syria · Geoglyph
Jebel Druze (Jabal al-Arab) Kite Field
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Late Neolithic / Ghassulian
48 Late Neolithic montane kites (6000–3500 BCE) on Jebel Druze volcanic slopes.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Makimuku Keyhole Kofun
Early Kofun 250–300 CE (transition Yayoi→Kofun) · Yayoi–Early Kofun — Makimuku/Yamato nucleus (Kinai)
Makimuku Keyhole Kofun — Makimuku Kofun cluster's keyhole trio at Miyama foothills 3 km south Sakurai, earliest keyhole zenpo-koen (late 3rd c CE) defining Yamato Kofun genesis before Hashihaka…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Al-Qattafi North Playa Kites (Qa' Al-Qattafi North Shore)
PPNB to Chalcolithic · Badia Neolithic playa-foragers
North Qa' al-Qattafi: 8 playa hardpan kites semicircular on 10 km² pan edge.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Mari — Tell Hariri Ziggurat and Palace Mound
Early Bronze to Old Babylonian (2900–1759 BCE) · Sumerian, Amorite
Legendary Euphrates emporium at Tell Hariri, 120 km south-east of Deir ez-Zor, capital of Amorite kingdom under Yahdun-Lim and Zimri-Lim, sacked by Hammurabi 1761 BCE, freezing palace archive of…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell Harmal — Shaduppum Temple Mound
Isin-Larsa / Old Babylonian (2000–1760 BCE) · Amorite / Old Babylonian (Eshnunna kingdom)
Tell Harmal — Shaduppum Temple Mound in Baghdad eastern Diyala, Tell Harmal (ancient Shaduppum), Iraq is a Isin-Larsa / Old Babylonian (2000–1760 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Amorite / Old…
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Dia (Shoma)
Iron Age to Islamic (800 BCE–1700 CE) · Soninke / Bambara (Dia inland delta)
500-ha Niger Delta cluster with Shoma 47-ha wall-47, 40 tell-mounds and 2500-year 800 BCE–1700 CE sequence.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Habuba Kabira (Ursu?)
Late Uruk (LC5) southern colony · Uruk (southern Mesopotamian)
Uruk planned colonial city (c.3500–3300 BCE, LC5, contemporary with Jemdet Nasr south) on Euphrates terrace — mother colony that proved Uruk expansion: fully gridded 18-ha walled town built ex novo…