🇮🇩 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Sangiran
prehistory
archaeological excavation site in Java in Indonesia
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Hydraulic works
Saddang Ancient Canal & Rice Terrace Hydraulics (South Sulawesi Bugis)
Bugis Kingdom to early colonial · Bugis (South Sulawesi) sawah engineers
Bugis lowland hydraulic on Saddang delta: 18 km earthen canals with bamboo bunds feeding 12,000 ha sawah + tambak.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Megalith
Angel Mounds Temple Mound North — Central Java (Yogyakarta)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Angel Mounds Temple Mound North in Central Java, Indonesia is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Borobudur Hidden Foot Relief North Panel 12
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Borobudur Hidden Foot Relief North Panel 12 in Central Java, Borobudur, Indonesia is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Ancient village
Borobudur North Gallery Relief Panel 77
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Borobudur North Gallery Relief Panel 77 in Central Java, Magelang, Indonesia is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Pyramid
Borobudur — Ancillary Terrace North (Central Java)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Borobudur — Ancillary Terrace North (Central Java) in Central Java, Magelang, Borobudur, Indonesia is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attri…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Prambanan Shiva Temple Nandi Mandapa
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Prambanan Shiva Temple Nandi Mandapa in Yogyakarta, Prambanan, Indonesia is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Prambanan — Candi Lumbung Ancillary Shrine North
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Prambanan — Candi Lumbung Ancillary Shrine North in Central Java, Prambanan, Candi Lumbung, Indonesia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Pyramid
Sukuh — Ancillary Pyramid Terrace North (Central Java)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Sukuh — Ancillary Pyramid Terrace North (Central Java) in Central Java, Karanganyar, Sukuh, Indonesia is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid at…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Hydraulic works
Subak Irrigation System — Bali Cultural Landscape
Warmadewa to Majapahit to colonial (9th–20th c.) · Balinese Hindu Dharma (Shaiva–Water, Tri Hita Karana) with Buddhist layer
9th-c. 1200-km canal 19,500 ha terraces coordinated by water temples (Ulun Danu–Jatiluwih–Pakerisan), Tri Hita Karana.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Borobudur
Medang Kingdom Sailendra 780–835 CE · Mahayana Buddhist under Sailendra dynasty central Java
World's largest Buddhist Mandala mountain with 72 latticed stupas.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Pyramid
Borobudur Pyramid Temple
Sailendra / Mataram Kingdom Late Classical 780–840 CE · Javanese Sailendra (Mahayana Buddhist)
9th-century Mahayana Buddhist stepped pyramid-mandala: 122 × 122 m base, 35.4 m high (originally 42 m with umbrella), 9 platforms (6 square 3 circular) crowned by central stupa 72 perforated stupas…
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Borobudur Temple Compounds
Mataram Sailendra c.780–830 CE · Central Javanese Buddhist (Sailendra/Mataram)
Mahayana Buddhist mandala-mountain (c.775–825 CE) of Sailendra/early Mataram, 34.5 m high terraced pyramid with 2,672 relief panels (longest Buddhist narrative reliefs 2.5 km) and 504 Buddha statues.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Candi Muaro Jambi
Malay–Srivijaya to Muara Jambi (680–1300 CE) · Melayu Kingdom to Srivijaya to Mauli (Batanghari)
Candi Muaro Jambi is the largest Buddhist temple complex in Southeast Asia — 398 ha with 82 red-brick candi (7th–13th c) along the Batanghari River, center of Malayu–Srivijaya scholarship.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Rock art
Leang Bulu Sipong 4 Rock Art
Late Pleistocene (43.9 ka) · Early modern humans of Wallacea (pre-Austronesian)
Sulawesi 43.9 ka therianthrope pig hunt — oldest figurative art globally.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Prambanan Temple Compounds
Mataram Hindu-Buddhist c.850–900 CE (peak Rakai Kayuwangi) · Central Javanese Hindu (Trimurti Shivite)
Largest Hindu temple complex in Southeast Asia (c.850 CE) of Mataram Pu Sanjay, with 47 m Shiva terraced shrine (Candi Siwa) surrounded by 238 smaller shrines in concentric mandala, opposite Sewu…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Đông Sơn (Dong Son)
Dong Son Bronze–Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE (Phùng Nguyên → Dong Dau → Go Mun → Dong Son → Han) · Dong Son (Vietic Austroasiatic, Austro-Tai contact) — ancestors of Kinh Vietnamese
Type-site for Dong Son culture (c.1000 BCE–100 CE) on the Mã River near Thanh Hóa — Bronze–Iron Age village with famous bronze drum foundry, excavated 1924 by Madeleine Colani (first Dong Son…