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7 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Median Kingdom (750-550 BCE) – earlyMedian · Median (western Iranian)
Median rockfill dam and plastered cistern (42 m x 4.8 m, 2,200 m³) at fire-temple citadel of Nush-i Jan (750 BCE).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kangju–Kushan Khorezmian 200 BCE–200 CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) Zoroastrian
Khorezmian ceremonial city (c.2 c. BCE–2 c. CE) at Kazakly-Yatkan near Beruni — 10 ha double-walled town with ceremonial palace complex (Columned Hall 30×30 m with 20 columns), fire temple, and…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan 2nd c CE (Kanishka) · Kushan imperial dynastic — Bactrian fire cult with Hellenistic architecture
Surkh Kotal Fire Temple — Kushan dynastic sanctuary (2nd c CE Kanishka period) on Surkh Kotal hill 18 km NE Puli Khumri, excavated 1952–63 by D. Schlumberger (DAFA).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex
Khorezmian Kalaly to Kushan 400 BCE–300 CE · Khorezmian Zoroastrian
Zoroastrian temple town (c.400 BCE–300 CE) 2 km southeast of Kalaly-Gyr 1 — walled sacred precinct 120×90 m with tripartite fire temple, columned ayvan, and ossuary chambers, excavated 1981 by M.G.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan 100–250 CE (Kanishka–Huvishka zenith) · Kushan–Bactrian (Yuezhi) with Greco–Bactrian substrate
Kushan dynastic fire temple (100–200 CE) on Surkh Kotal pass — 50 m terraced sanctuary with Kanishka statues and Bactrian inscription.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Sasanian Empire 224–651 CE (peak 5th–7th century) → Ilkhanid 13th century reuse · Sasanian Zoroastrian → Ilkhanid Mongol Islamic palace phase
Sasanian Great Fire temple on a 120 m artesian lake — shahs' coronation sanctuary, later Ilkhanid palace.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Gonur / Togolok phase BMAC 2300–1700 BCE · Bactria–Margiana (Oxus) civilization
BMAC (Bactria–Margiana) monumental temple-fortress (c.2300–1700 BCE) on Murghab alluvium, satellite of Gonur Tepe, built of mud-brick with central fortified court 30×40 m, fire temple, part of Viktor…
