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🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) · Satavahana
Dhulikatta — Buddhist Stupa Fort in Telangana, Karimnagar, India is a Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Early Medieval (8th–9th c. CE) · Pala Empire
Halud Vihara — Naogaon in Naogaon District, Rajshahi, Bangladesh is a Early Medieval (8th–9th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Pala Empire culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Early Historic (350 BCE–500 CE) · Kalchuri
Malhar — Chhattisgarh Urban Centre in Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India is a Early Historic (350 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Kalchuri culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1536 CE · Inca
Qhapaq Ñan tambo with 28-niche polygonal usnu platform of perfectly fitted octagonal andesite.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Tang → Yuan → Ming Yongle peak → Qing · Taoist (Zhenwu / Xuanwu school)
Taoist sacred mountain complex on 72 peaks 800–1612 m, 9 palaces, 36 convents and 72 cliff temples built primarily 1412–1424 under Ming Yongle emperor (200,000 artisans) as political legitimation…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period to Early Middle Ages (c.500–1150 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia / Early Swedish Kingdom
Magnate complex with three monumental Vendel Period royal burial mounds (Östhögen, Mellanhögen, Västhögen, 50–75 m diameter, 8–11 m high, c.550–600 CE), Thing mound and a 12th-century church on the…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic 1000 BCE – Late Classic 900 CE; peak 600–900 CE · Maya (Yaxhá kingdom)
Major Late Classic lakeside Maya city 237 structures and 40 stelae on Yaxhá Lake isthmus: Twin North Acropolis, East Acropolis triadic Temple 216 (26 m high, painted red, largest in Yaxhá, second…
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Sixteen Kingdoms → Qing 420–1911 · Buddhist (Hexi Silk Road)
Yellow River gorge sanctuary of 183 caves and 694 statues cut into 60 m yellow sandstone cliff above reservoir since 420 CE (Western Qin) to Qing, famous for 27 m Maitreya Buddha (Tang) carved from…
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Pala (8th c.) · Pala
Paharpur Satellite Vihara — Dhirkuta in Naogaon District, Paharpur plain, Bangladesh is a Pala (8th c.) temple complex attributed to Pala culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Historic (200 BCE–300 CE) · Satavahana
Kesanapalli — Guntur Stupa in Andhra Pradesh, Guntur, India is a Early Historic (200 BCE–300 CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Sultanate (15th c. CE) · Bengal Sultanate
Kherua Masjid — Sherpur in Bogra District, Sherpur, Bangladesh is a Sultanate (15th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Bengal Sultanate culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Medieval (11th c.) · Chalukya
Kulpak — Kolanupaka Temple in Telangana, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri, India is a Early Medieval (11th c.) temple complex attributed to Chalukya culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Middle Formative Olmec 1000–400 BCE (pyramid c. 1000–600 BCE) · Olmec
Olmec capital La Venta (1000–400 BCE) great pyramid Complex C: 31–33 m high clay mound (150 × 130 m base, volume 100,000 m³), earliest known intentional pyramid in Mesoamerica (1000 BCE) – uniquely…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Medieval (11th c. CE) · Kalchuri
Bhoramdeo Temple — Kawardha in Chhattisgarh, Kabirdham, India is a Early Medieval (11th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Kalchuri culture.
🇨🇳 China · Pyramid
Western Han Wen-Jing 157–141 BCE · Western Han imperial
Mausoleum complex of Emperor Jing of Han (Liu Qi, r.157–141 BCE) and Empress Wang Zhi on Wei River terrace north of Xi'an, core of Western Han imperial necropolis (11 tombs).
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Gupta-Pala (5th–8th c.) · Gupta
Bhasu Vihara — Shibganj in Bogra District, Shibganj, Bangladesh is a Gupta-Pala (5th–8th c.) temple complex attributed to Gupta culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Satavahana to Rashtrakuta 100 BCE–950 CE · Buddhist Hinayana → Mahayana → Vajrayana
Largest Buddhist cave-university in western India with 109 basalt caves spanning 1st c. BCE–10th c.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Barrow Tall Temple Complex in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Moche (100–800 CE) temple complex attributed to Moche culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Inca Imperial 1450–1530 Neo-Inca to 1572 · Inca (Pachacuti? Topa Yupanqui)
Inca cloud-city with white stone llamas paving terraces above Apurimac canyon.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Classic Maya Late Classic 300–900 CE · Maya (Lakamtuun polity)
Island Maya city on karst lakes: 30 islands linked by causeways with temple islets and raised fields.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period Casma-Sechín 1800–900 BCE · Casma/Sechín (Moxeke–Pampa de las Llamas polity)
Second platform of earliest planned city in Peru: 30 m Moxeke pyramid with warrior friezes over 200 compounds grid.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Temple complex
Khmer Angkor (10th–13th century CE, Jayavarman VII peak late 12th) · Khmer (Mahayana Buddhist under Jayavarman VII)
Largest Khmer temple in Thailand — Prasat Phimai facing Angkor on Ancient Highway (10th–13th cent).
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Late Bronze – Iron Age II (Syro-Hittite) · Hittite – Syro-Hittite (Aramaean)
Syro-Hittite temple (1300–740 BCE) with 1-m footprints and sphinxes — Solomon's Temple parallel, destroyed 2018.
🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
Late Bronze Age Egyptian (1300 BCE) with pillars 20 m · Egyptian (Ramesses III) then Midianite Desert temple
Timna Pillars — Solomon's Mines Pillars Temple Ridge in Southern District, Israel is a Late Bronze Age Egyptian (1300 BCE) with pillars 20 m temple-complex attributed to Egyptian (Ramesses III) then…
