🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Sayburç
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A–B · Taş Tepeler / Upper Mesopotamian PPN
Taş Tepeler PPN sanctuary with narrative leopard-human-phallus reliefs matching Karahan Tepe phallic imagery.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca Soledad (Casma Valley) Pyramid Mound
Initial Period (Casma–Sechín culture) · Sechín / Casma (Initial Period)
Casma-Sechín satellite pyramid at Huaca Soledad — 35 m platform pyramid 8 m high c.1600 BCE, part of Sechín Alto 300 m cluster.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Dokki Gel Sacred City at Kerma South
Early Kerma to Classic Kerma (Ancient Kerma 2500 BCE to Classic 1700 BCE, peak 2000–1500 BCE) · Kerma culture (Nubian, pre-Kushite)
Completely buried sacred city 1.5 km south of Kerma Western Deffufa, discovered by Bonnet-Honegger Swiss mission 2003 with magnetometry: 250×200 m oval enclosure with palisade, ditch, and 13…
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
El Brujo
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon · Moche (North Coast)
Moche polychrome pyramid complex (100 BCE–750 CE) with Lady of Cao tattooed queen burial and 30-m muraled Huaca.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Las Haldas
Initial Period (Early Formative) · Casma–Sechín (Las Haldas coastal)
Arid coastal initial pyramid center (1800–1000 BCE) on dune 20 km south of Casma at 35 m above Samanco Bay, with four sequential sunken circular/plaza courts descending to Main Mou...
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell Haddad (Me-Turan) — Twin Mounds and Ekur Ziggurat Terrace
Early Dynastic to Isin-Larsa (2600–1760 BCE) · Sumerian–Akkadian (Me-Turan / Simurrum)
Twin-mound Late Early Dynastic to Isin-Larsa city (Me-Turan) on Diyala-Adhaim confluence engulfed by Hamrin reservoir fringe.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell ʿAbr 3
Early Neolithic PPNA (c.9600–8800 BCE) · PPNA Euphrates village culture (with Jerf el Ahmar and Tell Qaramel)
PPNA farming village with painted communal building and rye-cultivation proof, drowned by Tishrin Dam.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Ancient city
Armaztsikhe and Bagineti — Armazi, Capital of Iberia
Hellenistic Iberia to Early Medieval (4th c. BCE–8th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Kartvelian Iberian (Eastern Georgian) → Hellenistic influence → Roman client → Sasanian interlude → early Christian
Iberian kingdom capitals — Bagineti acropolis and Aramaic bilingual city across Kura gorge.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Soleb
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ~1380 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (imperial Nubia) and Napatan
Largest Egyptian temple in Nubia (Amenhotep III, c.1380 BCE), 135 m long, with Napatan pyramid cemetery.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hasankeyf
Assyrian to Ottoman (12th c. BCE–1920); peak Artukid–Ayyubid 12th–13th century · Assyrian → Roman → Byzantine → Artukid Kurdish → Ayyubid → Ottoman
Cliff-cut Tigris citadel with 10,000 caves, Artukid bridge and salvage-relocated Timurid tomb now under reservoir.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca La Florida
Initial Period to Early Horizon (2200–800 BCE) · Andean Initial Period (Rímac tradition, pre-Chavín)
Initial Period U-shaped pyramid 11 km up Rímac Valley (c.1500 BCE, 17 m high, 500 m arms).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Nakum Acropolis Pyramids
Maya Classic to Postclassic · Maya Nakum polity
Holmul River city Nakum (250–1200 CE): 15 m Acropolis Building 99 palace-pyramid and triadic Group East, Postclassic stela plaza — rare Terminal Classic continuity.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Arad
Early Bronze II to Iron II / Persian (c.3000–400 BCE; EB peak 2950–2650, Iron 1000–587) · EB Canaanite → absent MB → Israelite Judahite → Babylonian era → Persian
Double-stacked tell: 2950 BCE walled EB city plus Iron Age Judahite fortress-temple twin of Jerusalem.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
El Meco (Bel'maan) Maya Port
Late Classic to Late Postclassic East Coast (600–1520 CE, peak 1200–1520) · Maya (East Coast – Cupul / Ecab)
Ancient Beel'maan port city (600–1520 CE, port apex 1200–1520) 8 km north of Cancún on Caribbean beach ridge: 14 structures around plaza dominated by El Castillo 12.5-m-high five-stage pyramid-temple…
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Chogha Zanbil
Elamite Middle Elamite (1344–1300 BCE) · Elamite (Middle Elamite)
Largest Mesopotamian-related ziggurat outside Mesopotamia: Elamite holy city Dur-Untash by King Untash-Napirisha (1344–1306 BCE) for god Inshushinak.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaricoto Temple-Mound (Callejón de Huaylas)
Initial Period to Early Horizon (Kotosh–Chavín) · Kotosh / Chavín (highland)
Highland ceremonial mound at Huaricoto — 30 m Kotosh-Chavín temple c.2100–500 BCE with hearth chambers, earliest Callejón de Huaylas cult center.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Bubastis – Tell Basta (Cult of Bastet)
Old Kingdom to Late Antiquity (4th Dyn – 4th c. CE) · Egyptian (Delta Libyan dynasties)
Bastet cat-goddess capital – island red-granite temple and 100,000 cat mummies on 14 m tell.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Kurt Tepesi
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPNA–PPNB) · Taş Tepeler
Tektek ridge T-pillar sanctuary linking Karahan and Harbetsuvan, ~5 ha with twin enclosures.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Myra and Andriake
Classical Lycian to Byzantine · Lycian → Hellenistic Greek → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian cliff-tomb metropolis of St Nicholas with river theatre and purple-dye port granary.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Río Bec Structure V-N Pyramid (Central Plaza)
Late Classic Maya (Río Bec) · Maya (Río Bec)
Type-site false-tower pyramid Structure V-N at Río Bec — 8 m solid-tower platform pyramid c.650–850 CE anchoring 100-structure Río Bec city.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Tabo Temple Mound on Argo Island
New Kingdom antecedent to Napatan (Taharqo 690 BCE) to Meroitic 350 CE · Kushite (Napatan-Meroitic, Taharqo)
Kushite temple (Argo Island, largest Nile island c.30 km long) founded Taharqo 25th Dynasty (688 BCE) over New Kingdom levels, 35×25 m sandstone temple with pylon, pronaos and sanctuary on granite…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Tell Khafajah (Tutub) — Temple Oval and Dur-Samsuiluna Platform Mound
Jemdet Nasr to Old Babylonian (3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian–Akkadian (Diyala)
Major Diyala valley city (3000–1800 BCE) with the iconic Temple Oval — 80x75 m double-walled oval enclosure with inner 36 m oval temple terrace rising 4 m — earliest oval ziggurat precursor (Jemdet…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Coatetelco
Late Postclassic (Aztec) · Aztec (Tlahuica)
Lakeside Aztec temple center (1200–1521 CE) on Lake Coatetelco — 8-m pyramid on island causeway.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Dan
Neolithic to Iron Age/Crusader (peak Middle Bronze to Iron II, 2000–733 BCE) · Canaanite (Sidonian) → Israelite (Dan tribe) → Aramaean → Israelite kingdom → Assyrian
Bubbling Jordan spring tell with world's oldest intact triple mudbrick arch (1750 BCE) and House of David stele.