🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Mousa Broch
Iron Age (c.300–100 BCE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Shetland)
World's tallest surviving broch (13.3 m), perfectly preserved Iron Age tower on uninhabited Mousa island.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Iron Age (c.300–100 BCE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Shetland)
World's tallest surviving broch (13.3 m), perfectly preserved Iron Age tower on uninhabited Mousa island.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ptolemaic (237–57 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian (Hellenistic Pharaonic)
Best-preserved temple in Egypt: Ptolemaic Temple of Horus built 237–57 BCE (180 years) after plan of Old Kingdom then New Kingdom prototypes, buried by Nile silt and desert sand until re-excavated by…