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🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Preceramic Kotosh-Mito 3000–1700 BCE (Galgalda north mound 3000 BCE south 2200) · Kotosh-Mito tradição La Galgada (Grieder group) with 3050 BCE mound
La Galgada Grieder 1978 Mitodouble 3050–1700.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
3rd Dynasty Huni provincial (c.2670 BCE) Abydos province · Old Kingdom
Sinki Abydos surveyed by Petrie, intact 12 m.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic Iron Age (1000–300 BCE taula peak 800 BCE) · Balearic Talayotic taula builders (Menorca)
Menorca taulas 3.8 m T-shape Talayotic iron.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Late Bronze Alasia (1600–1050 BCE) Enkomi palace 1450 BCE copper port of Alasia letters Amarna · Cypriot Alasia (Mycenaean-Cypriot Late Bronze) Amarna copper Alashiya, 1180 Sea Peoples destruction
Enkomi SCE Schaeffer 1934 Alasia 1600–1180.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (700–300 BCE) Trepuco taula highest 4.20 m · Talayotic chiefdom Trepuco 700 BCE high taula 4.2 m with wall 3 m high
Trepuco 1930s Trepuco taula 4.20 m tallest.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3000 BCE) Beira Alta Cunha Baixa complex (type-site Beira dolmen) · Beira Neolithic Cunha Baixa painted pottery group
Cunha Baixa excav Leisure 1960s sun motif.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Iron Age Phoenician (1050 BCE Amathus port) through Ptolemaic to Roman harbour 1st c. CE submerged 365 CE quake · Phoenician Greek Cypriot Amathus (Aphrodite temple) 800 BCE large vase Amathus 1.85 m Louvre
Amathus Petit excav, vase 1.85 m 700 BCE.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Greek Archaic (510 BCE Battus II colonization) → Byzantine Justinian wall 530 CE · Greek Cyrene colonization Dorieus? Taucheira 510 BCE
Tocra Boardman 1950s Taucheira Greek 510.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Late Napatan (330 BCE Nastasen, last Napatan king at Nuri) · Late Napatan Nastasen
Nuri Nastasen Nu.12 excavated by Dunham.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Naviform Late Bronze Age (1700–1300 BCE naviform house 18 m × 12 m) · Naviform Late Bronze Mallorca pre-Talayotic houses (1700–1300)
Can Gaià naviform 18 m house 1700 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial Period (1400–400 BCE Garagay culture 1200 BCE major three-armed U-temple; Chavín 800 BCE feline repaint) · Garagay (Chillón) → Chavín cup style with feline dragon facing
Garagay feline atrium 2.5 m 1200.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE group 7 dolmens in 1 km) · Galician Neolithic cluster Pedra da Arca 7 tombs
Pedra da Arca 7 dolmens cluster.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1300 BCE early naveta S'Hospitalet to 650 BCE enclosing wall 360 m; Post-Talayotic 500 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca Artà (Ses Païsses talayotic village 9000 m² walled 360 m perimeter 3 m high with horseshoe portal 3.5 m)
Ses Païsses Artà 650 wall 360 m.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) 4-antas series along 1 km corde · Vale de Rodrigo Neolithic necropolis 4 dolmens 4000–3000
Vale Rodrigo Leisner 4-antas.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3800 BCE) Monte da Toca regional variant · Alentejo Neolithic Toca group
Monte da Toca excavated.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Minoan · Minoan
Phaistos (Festòs) in Crete, Heraklion, Greece is a Minoan ancient city attributed to Minoan culture. Settlement complex with stratified occupation, demonstrating urban planning and craft production.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker West Group
Large TRB hunebed D17 at Rolde (c. 3400 BCE), 17 m chamber with 8 capstones, one of the intact Drenthe passage graves near Rolde church. Excavated and restored showing pottery and flint assemblage.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Table des Marchands in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic attributed to Armorican Neolithic culture. Megalithic construction with granite; evidence of ceremonial and funerary use.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Neolithic Hongshan (4700–2900 BCE; ritual peak 3500 BCE) · Hongshan culture (Liao River painted pottery, jade)
Niuheliang is Hongshan culture's ritual centre (4700–2900 BCE) — Goddess Temple with clay female figurine, 16 altar platforms, and 30 stone-cairn tombs with jade pig-dragons on Yanshan piedmont.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Swift Creek–Weeden Island 350–750 CE · Swift Creek – Weeden Island
Woodland Mound A 17 m, Swift Creek 350–750 CE.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Neolithic Majiabang (7000–5800 BCE) · Majiabang culture (Taihu Lower Yangtze rice)
Majiabang is the type site of Majiabang culture (7000–5800 BCE) — earliest Lower Yangtze rice paddy village with pile-dwelling houses, jade, and Hemudu-type black pottery on the Taihu plain.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Cruciform setting: central circle 13 m diameter with 4.8 m monolith and avenues N,S,E,W. Most prominent of 19 Callanish sites on ridge above Loch Roag. Potential lunar standstill alignment.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Temple complex
Malay–Srivijaya to Muara Jambi (680–1300 CE) · Melayu Kingdom to Srivijaya to Mauli (Batanghari)
Candi Muaro Jambi is the largest Buddhist temple complex in Southeast Asia — 398 ha with 82 red-brick candi (7th–13th c) along the Batanghari River, center of Malayu–Srivijaya scholarship.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker — Emsland
Emsland passage grave (c. 3300 BCE) near Meppen, 15 m hunebed with chamber and oval enclosure, TRB Emsland group. Capstones partly displaced but chamber well preserved in forest clearing.
