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Tagsoba
2 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Earthwork
Early to Late Edo Kingdom (800–1897 CE; peak 13th–16th c) · Edo (Bini) / Igodomigodo → Kingdom of Benin
16,000 km of ramparts and 20 m high ditch-bank earthworks enclosing 6,500 km² – world's longest pre-mechanical earthwork.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ninevite 5 to Neo-Assyrian (2800 BCE–600 BCE; peak OB 1800–1700 BCE) · EBA → Old Babylonian (Qattara, Shamshi-Adad) → Kassite → Neo-Assyrian
Shamshi-Adad winter capital Qattara 1775 BCE — Oates temple palaces & 400 tablets.