🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Lothal Dockyard Eastern Warehouse Annex
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Lothal Dockyard Eastern Warehouse Annex in Gujarat, Ahmedabad, India is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
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🇵🇸 Palestine · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Jericho Kenyon Trench Spiral Stair in Jericho Governorate, Palestine is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Turkic Khaganate · Afanasievo, Okunev, Andronovo, Saka-Pazyryk, Turkic
North bank Yaloman terrace 1.8 km upstream of main Kalbak-Tash with elk-boat panels.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Lothal Dockyard Eastern Warehouse Annex in Gujarat, Ahmedabad, India is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
Lovelock Culture (2500 BCE – 1830 CE) · Lovelock / Paiute-Shoshone
Lovelock Cave in Nevada, United States is a Lovelock Culture (2500 BCE – 1830 CE) cave attributed to Lovelock / Paiute-Shoshone culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE) · Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE)
Lowry Pueblo in Colorado, Montezuma County, Canyons of Ancients, United States is a Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE) settlement attributed to Pueblo II (1000–1200 CE) culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Marajoara Phase (Polychrome Tradition) · Marajoara (Arauan-derived Amazonian Polychrome)
Marajoara chiefdom mounds (800–1400 CE)—40-m tesos and funerary urn fields on Amazon's delta island.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroitic (300 BCE-350 CE) · Meroitic
Meroe North Pyramid Field N12 Annex — Northern Annex in River Nile, Meroe, Sudan is a Meroitic (300 BCE-350 CE) pyramid attributed to Meroitic.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Harappan Early-Mature (3200-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Rakhigarhi Citadel Mound Annex 7 South in Haryana, Hisar, India is a Harappan Early-Mature (3200-1900 BCE) ancient city attributed to Harappan.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Fortress
Late Horizon Inca (c.1480–1534 CE) – Yumbo anterior occupation · Inca – Yumbo (pre-Inca)
Rumicucho (Kichwa rumi stone + cucho corner/hill) is the northernmost Inca fortress-temple of Pichincha, 13 km north of Quito at Mitad del Mundo (Equator monument zone) at 2,420 m.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Samarra Buried Abbasid Palace Dar al-Khilafa in Salah ad-Din, Samarra, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Early Formative 1500–900 BCE (San Lorenzo phase, Olmec apogee 1500–1200) · Olmec (Olmeca, earliest Gulf Olmec capital)
Earliest Olmec capital (1500–900 BCE) on 50 ha artificial plateau (700 m long) raised 50 m above floodplain with surrounding ditch and berm modification of natural hill, controlling Coatzacoalcos…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pre-Clovis (Topper) to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Topper)/Clovis
Pre-Clovis chert quarry (15,000 BCE) with debated lower horizon below Clovis on Savannah River, South Carolina.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Early to Late Bronze via Early Iron · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor, Urartian fringe
Lower southeast lava field 1.1 km from crater lake with 380 boulders and vishap cart motifs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Buried city
Late Horizon Neo-Inca (1539 – 1572 CE) · Neo-Inca State (Manco, Sayri, Titu Cusi, Tupac Amaru)
Last Inca capital valley floor — Espíritu Pampa Vilcabamba lowland terraces and causeway 0.5–1 m under floodplain jungle below Vitcos ridge.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic (5700-4500 BCE) · Vinca Culture
Vinca Belo Brdo Deep Sounding East in Belgrade, Vinca, Serbia is a Late Neolithic-Chalcolithic (5700-4500 BCE) tell attributed to Vinca Culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Abusir Queen's Pyramid Lepsius XXV East Chapel in Giza, Abusir, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Akrotiri West House Upper Floor in Cyclades, Thera, Greece is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Middle to Late Intermediate (Maitas–Gentilar) · Azapa valley folk (Maitas–Gentilar)
Mid-Azapa hillside: 28 figures at km 14 including 32-m feathered anthropomorphs above olive valley.
🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art
Early Holocene Bubalus Period (8000–5000 BCE) · Early Holocene Saharan hunter-pastoralists (Bubalus tradition)
Aïr life-size 5.8-m giraffes with leashes 8000–5000 BCE, largest Saharan engravings.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) · Harappan
Dholavira Bailey Reservoir North Embankment Annex in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Harappan Mature (2600-1900 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Harappan.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Grotta di Fumane Aurignacian Level in Veneto, Fumane, Italy is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Neolithic (Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B) · Late PPNB steppe-hunting tradition
Eastern rim kite chain of the Jordanian Harrat basalt plain (880 m, 31°02′21″N 37°30′00″E) where basalt peneplain meets limestone Hamad: 18 desert kites arrayed along 17 km N-S per Jibal…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman · Ionian, Carian, Hellenistic
Kıyıkışlacık peninsula agora tetrastyle Artemis Astias 150 BCE with Roman mausoleum, Iassic Gulf fishing town.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Mongol Ikhanid–early Timurid (1300–1400 CE) original; Safavid extension 1680 · Ilkhanid–Safavid
South-bank secondary spillway extension 0.4 km south of main Kebar arch dam (26 m high, 55 m crest, oldest surviving arch dam c.1300, already in DB as kebar-dam-qom-iran) at 1,520 m.
