🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Garagay Archaeological Complex — Lima Temple with Polychrome Reliefs
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1400–500 BCE · Central coast Chavínoid
U-shaped temple 23 m polychrome reliefs 1400–500 BCE.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Asuka 593–710 CE (Suiko–Jomei) · Asuka Buddhist (Baekje immigrant artisan school → Japanese)
Asukadera (Hōkō-ji) — first full Buddhist temple in Japan (596 CE) at Asuka, founded by Soga no Umako with immigrant Baekje artisans (Koreans) per Nihon Shoki.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Temple complex
Greco-Bactrian 3rd–2nd c BCE → Kushan 1st–4th c CE · Greco-Bactrian → Kushan Bactria (Amu Darya Oxus cult)
Takhti-Sangin — Hellenistic–Kushan temple city (3rd c BCE–4th c CE) at Vakhsh–Panj confluence forming Amu Darya (Oxus), excavated 1976–91 Pichikyan and Litvinsky (Academy Tadjik).