🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Tel Kabri
MB II–LB I (c.1850–1550 BCE) · Canaanite MB II with Aegean influence → Phoenician
Palatial MB II Canaanite centre (32 ha) with Minoan-style painted plaster palace (c.1850–1550 BCE), excavated by Aharon...
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Tell Beydar — Acropolis Temple Terrace (Nabada)
Early Dynastic III, c.2600–2350 BCE · Kish civilization / Nagar
Acropolis temple staircase at Tell Beydar (ancient Nabada, c.2600–2350 BCE, Early Dynastic).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Pavement South
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Pavement South in Tigris Plain, Iraq is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) tell attributed to Iron Age culture. Systematic survey and LiDAR document architectural phasing and stratified deposits.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Masin
Early–Middle Bronze Age (c.2700–1600 BCE) · Syrian EBA–MBA (Qatna–Qadesh sphere)
Homs hinterland EB–MB tell 9 m high (MB glacis, Qatna corridor satellite) east of Qadesh.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Bandurria — Main Pyramid Mound
Late Preceramic (Norte Chico), c.3200–2900 BCE · Norte Chico (Caral–Bandurria)
Main pyramid at Bandurria (c.3200–2900 BCE, Late Preceramic Norte Chico), 12 m high, 70 × 40 m base quadrangular platform with subrectangular sunken court 15 × 13 m. Contrasts with Caral; A.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Troyville Earthworks
Woodland Troyville culture 400–700 CE peak (with Baytown 100 BCE–400 CE foundations) · Baytown / Troyville-Coles Creek (Woodland to early Mississippian)
Nine-mound complex at Jonesville where 21st Louisiana's tallest pre-Columbian mound (Great Mound, 82 ft) stood until levee leveling. Baytown-Troyville-Coles Creek sequence with plaza and embankment.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Sarissa
Hittite (c.1600–1180 BCE; peak 1500–1200 as weather-god city) · Hittite (Empire, weather-god cult)
Sarissa (Kuşaklı) on a windswept 1600-m ridge is the Hittite sacred city of the weather-god — planned Hittite city with 2-km wall, dam and granary, built under...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
İmamoğlu Höyük
EBA-Iron Age (c.3000-700 BCE) · Amuq/Syro-Hittite (Amuq A-J to Iron Age Patina)
İmamoğlu Höyük — buried eba-iron tell/village at Gaziantep Province.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ain Mallaha (Eynan)
Late Natufian (c.12000–9600 BCE) · Natufian
Natufian open-air hamlet (c.12000–9600 BCE) at the Hula lake edge, excavated by Jean Perrot. Over 50 round semi-subterra...
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Bynum Mounds
Middle Woodland Miller culture Hopewell horizon 100 BCE–100 CE · Miller (Hopewell)
Six mounds at Natchez Trace Milepost 232.4 including large flat-topped Mound A and conical burial Mound B (10 ft high) with crematory basin and greenstone artifacts.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell al-Rimah — High Temple Mound (Qatara)
Old Babylonian to Middle Assyrian, c.2000–1350 BCE · Old Babylonian / Assyrian (Qatara/Karana)
Tell al-Rimah (ancient Qatara/Karana) high temple mound with Old Babylonian temple and casemate ziggurat-mimic platform (c.2000–1600 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tilki Tepe
Chalcolithic-EBA (c.5000-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes / Early Transcaucasian (Karaz-Pulur)
Tilki Tepe — buried chalcolithic-eba tell/village at Van Province.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Chicanna — Structure XX, Central Plaza Pyramid
Maya Late Classic, c.600–830 CE · Maya (Río Bec – Chenes)
Main pyramid Structure XX at Chicanna (c.600–830 CE, Late Classic Río Bec-Chenes transition), 12 m high temple-pyramid. Small tiered pyramid with Chenes false doorway and Río Bec twin-tower top?
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
El-Kurru Pyramid Ku.1 (King Piye / Piankhy)
Napatan founding, c.750 BCE · Kushite Napatan
Founder's pyramid Ku.1 at El-Kurru for King Piye/Piankhy (c.747–716 BCE, founder of 25th Dynasty who conquered Egypt).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tal-i Iblis — Kerman Copper Workshop Tell
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (5000–2500 BCE) · Kerman Chalcolithic (Iblis)
Tal-i Iblis — Kerman Copper Workshop Tell in Kerman Province, Iran is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (5000–2500 BCE) tell attributed to Kerman Chalcolithic (Iblis).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plum Bayou Mounds
Late Woodland Plum Bayou 650–1050 CE (Baytown-Coles Creek to Mississippian transition) · Plum Bayou (Baytown/Coles Creek, Late Woodland Arkansas)
Premier Late Woodland platform mound center: 18 mounds (tallest Mound A 12 m) enclosing 16 ha plaza with embankment ditch and astronomical causeway aligned to 1-degree solar solstice.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Shicras North Platform
Late Archaic Preceramic 3000–1800 BCE, Norte Chico Caral-Supe tradition · Norte Chico (Caral-Supe, Late Preceramic)
North Platform 600 m north of main Shicras pyramid at Chancay Valley: 10 m high stepped platform 35×30 m built with shicra woven bags filled with river cobbles (ancient construction textile…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Khoshi
Halaf–Early Dynastic (c.5700–2500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid → Ninevite 5
Jaghjagh tell 10 m high (Halaf–ED, Ninevite 5 silos) north of Tell Hawa.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Buried Pyramid of Sekhemkhet
Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty, c.2645 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Unfinished step pyramid of Sekhemkhet (c.2645 BCE, 3rd Dynasty), southwest of Djoser. Henri Zakaria Goneim 1951-54 excavated alabaster sarcophagus (empty) and gold armlets.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Batash
MB to Iron Age (c.2000–600 BCE; peak Philistine Timnah c.1200–600) · Canaanite → Philistine (Timnah) → Judah
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah in Sorek Valley — Samson's Timnah (Judges 14) and Philistine border town between Ekron and Gezer. Mazar/Kelm 1977–89 revealed MB g...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroë North Cemetery — Pyramid Beg. N.9 (King Tabirqo)
Meroitic Kingdom, c.180–170 BCE · Kushite (Meroitic)
Royal pyramid Beg. N.9 in North Cemetery of Meroë belonging to King Tabirqo (Adikhalamani Tabirqo, c.180–170 BCE).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Batan Grande — Huaca La Merced (Sicán Capital)
Middle Sicán (Lambayeque), c.750–1050 CE, peak 900–1050 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque)
Huaca La Merced (Huaca Sialupe) in Batan Grande — Sicán capital pyramid (c.750–1050 CE, Middle Sicán).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Pampa Grande — Huaca Fortaleza
Moche Late (Moche V), c.550–750 CE · Moche (Late Moche Pampa Grande)
Huaca Fortaleza at Pampa Grande — Late Moche capital pyramid (c.550–750 CE), 290 × 250 m base, 38 m high, largest Moche V pyramid's administrative palace.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Chogha Gavaneh — Central High Mound
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, c.7000–800 BCE (massif c.3200 BCE) · Halaf / Ubaid / Uruk / Kura-Araxes
Central high mound at Chogha Gavaneh (7th–6th millennium BCE Neolithic to Bronze Age high platform, 15 m high, 80 m diameter).