🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Sanctuary (Overton Hill)
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Omori Katsuyama Stone Circle
Late Jomon (2000–1000 BCE) · Late Jomon (Tsugaru–Iwaki region)
Late Jomon double stone circle (c.2000–1500 BCE) at the foot of Mt. Iwaki near Hirosaki, Aomori — two concentric andesite rings 48 m and 29 m diameter, with 77 standing stones up to 1.5 m high…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Hillat el-Arab Cemetery
Late New Kingdom to early Napatan (1200–750 BCE) · Kushite (Nubian, Napatan early, Egyptianised)
Napatan-period cemetery (1200–750 BCE, early Kush) 3 km south of Jebel Barkal near Karima, on low sandstone ridge.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Ankhenespepi II — Queen of Pepi I
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Largest of Pepi I’s queens pyramids, positioned south-west of Pepi I’s enclosure at South Saqqara, built for Ankhenespepi II, sister-wife of Pepi I who survived to become queen-mother of Pepi II as…
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Beersheba
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (peak Iron I–II, 1200–701 BCE) · Chalcolithic well-diggers → Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite → Assyrian → Byzantine
UNESCO biblical frontier tell with four-room houses and Israel's earliest engineered water-tunnel.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Khentkaus I
Old Kingdom, late 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Two-step flat-topped tomb of Queen Mother Khentkaus I (c.2494 BCE) on Giza cliff: 45.8 m hybrid step pyramid/mastaba, 18.5 m high, pivotal 4th–5th Dynasty transition monument.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Khuit — Queen of Teti
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Adjacent queens pyramid directly north-west of Teti pyramid, built for Queen Khuit (Khuyt), second principal wife of Teti.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Batán Grande — Sicán (Huaca Las Ventanas) Pyramid
Middle Sicán to Late Sicán (Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque (Moche descendant)
Sicán capital Batán Grande (800–1375 CE): 20 adobe pyramids (Huaca Loro 20 m with Lord of Sicán 2 kg gold mask and 22 sacrifices) in dry forest world-heritage necropolis.
🇨🇦 Canada · Ancient village
L'Anse aux Meadows
Viking Age 1000–1006 CE (Norse Vinland exploration) · Norse Greenlanders (Icelandic Norse under Leifr Eiríksson / Thorfinn Karlsefni saga context)
Only confirmed Norse village in North America and earliest European settlement (~1000–1006 CE): eight turf-and-timber sod houses (halls 25×5 m, iron smithy, carpentry shed, charcoal kilns) on Épaves…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Queens Pyramid G1-b (Eastern Cemetery, Great Pyramid of Khufu)
Old Kingdom, early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Middle subsidiary queens pyramid east of Khufu (4th Dynasty), base 49 m, height ~30 m, discrete enclosure and offering chapel east.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Queen Wedjebten (Pepi II Complex, South Saqqara)
Old Kingdom, very late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Westernmost and smallest of Pepi II's three queen pyramids (base 23.5 m, height ~13 m), dedicated to Wedjebten, likely late wife of Pepi II.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Luxor Temple
New Kingdom to Greco-Roman (c.1400 BCE–300 CE; main 1390–1225 BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom / Roman / Islamic layer
New Kingdom temple built by Amenhotep III (1388–1350 BCE), Tutankhamun, Horemheb and Ramesses II on Nile east bank.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Queen Ankhesenpepi II (Pepi I Queens Field, South Saqqara)
Old Kingdom, late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Major queen pyramid on the 'Avenue of Queens' south of Pepi I at South Saqqara, belonging to Ankhesenpepi II, wife of Pepi I and mother of Pepi II (late 6th Dynasty).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Naranjo (Sa'al) Pyramids
Maya Classic (Late Classic apogee) · Maya (Sa'al kingdom)
Classic Maya capital Sa'al (Naranjo) hilltop city: 32 m triadic Acropolis pyramid, hieroglyphic stairways of Lady Six Sky's wars with Tikal/Calakmul 500 BCE–950 CE.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Pyramid
Borobudur Pyramid Temple
Sailendra / Mataram Kingdom Late Classical 780–840 CE · Javanese Sailendra (Mahayana Buddhist)
9th-century Mahayana Buddhist stepped pyramid-mandala: 122 × 122 m base, 35.4 m high (originally 42 m with umbrella), 9 platforms (6 square 3 circular) crowned by central stupa 72 perforated stupas…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost major pyramid at Saqqara: 5th Dynasty Djedkare Isesi (c.2414–2375 BCE), 52.5 m high originally, now 24 m ruin with early Pyramid Texts tradition.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Neith — Queen of Pepi II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Largest and northernmost of the three queens pyramids surrounding Pepi II at South Saqqara, built for Queen Neith, eldest daughter of Ankhenespepi I and Pepi I, and principal wife of Pepi II.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Satellite Pyramid of Unas
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Small subsidiary or cult pyramid located 20 m south-west of Unas pyramid corner within same enclosure, built for the ka of the king as per 5th–6th Dynasty tradition after Djedkare.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Behenu — Queen of Pepi I/Pepi II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Queens pyramid north-east of Pepi I enclosure, attributed to Queen Behenu whose pyramid texts were discovered in 2010 re-excavation by French mission.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Queen Inenek-Inti (Pepi I Queens Field, South Saqqara)
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost large queen pyramid on Pepi I's queens street, for Inenek-Inti, eldest queen of Pepi I remembered as ritualist (title 'Great of Praises').
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Aztec Ruins National Monument
Pueblo II–III 1115–1287 CE (Chacoan 1120–1140; Mesa Verde 1200–1287) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan then Mesa Verdean)
Misnamed 12th-century Great House built by Chacoan Ancestral Puebloans (Aztec West, 400 rooms, 3 storeys) and later occupied by Mesa Verdeans: E-shaped pueblo with Great Kiva (14.6 m diameter,…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Amphitheatre of El Jem (Thysdrus)
Roman Imperial (c.230–238 CE under Gordian I/II) · Roman (Africano)
Largest amphitheatre in Africa and third-largest in Roman world: olive-oil city Thysdrus (later Gordian revolt 238 CE) built c.238 CE, 149×124 m outer axes, 65×39 m arena, 35,000 capacity seating…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Queen Iput II (Pepi II Complex, South Saqqara)
Old Kingdom, late 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Middle queen pyramid of Pepi II at South Saqqara, dedicated to Iput II (possibly daughter of Pepi I).
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation (Bronzo Medio/Recente)
UNESCO archetype nuraghe in central Sardinia — trilobate basalt tower with four bastions, tholos chambers and 55-hut village, 1500-1000 BCE.