🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Silbury Hill
Late Neolithic 2400–2300 BCE · Late Neolithic Britons (Grooved Ware)
Europe's tallest prehistoric mound – 39-m artificial hill with unknown purpose.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic 2400–2300 BCE · Late Neolithic Britons (Grooved Ware)
Europe's tallest prehistoric mound – 39-m artificial hill with unknown purpose.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Preclassic to Early Classic, c.500 BCE–300 CE · Maya (Preclassic Lowland)
Pyramid E-VII-sub in Uaxactun Group E (c.500 BCE–200 CE, Preclassic–Early Classic). Eastern triadic platform of the canonical E-Group solar observatory: western pyramid E-VII aligned to three eastern…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Maya Early to Late Classic, c.250–900 CE (I: c.400 CE, rebuild 600–700) · Maya (Kanul / Snake dynasty)
East Acropolis pyramid Structure I (? not largest Structure II 55 m, but I is 40 m) at Calakmul (c.250–900 CE, Classic megapower, rival of Tikal).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Maya Late Classic, c.730–734 CE, reign Hasaw Chan K'awil · Maya (Classic Lowland)
Temple I — Gran Jaguar — pyramid over tomb of Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Hasaw Chan K'awil, r.682–734 CE), north of Great Plaza, 47 m high.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Old Akkadian to Middle Assyrian, c.2600–1200 BCE · Assyrian
Ziggurat of Assur at Qal'at Sherqat — holy city of Ashur, earliest Assyrian capital (c.2600–614 BCE, core Old Akkadian/Ur III, restored Shamshi-Adad I, Shalmaneser I).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2332 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Tiny queens pyramid south of Pepi I pyramid for Ankhesenpepi I — wife of Pepi I and mother of Merenre. 20.2 m base, limestone core, ancillary brick temple.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 3rd Dynasty, c.2640 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Layer Pyramid (c.2640 BCE) at Zawiyet el-Aryan attributed to Khaba (3rd Dynasty terminus). 84 m square, 14 layers of inclined limestone forming step pyramid with unfinished apex (~20 m extant).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
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).
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan, c.538–519 BCE · Kushite Napatan
Pyramid Bar.2 at Jebel Barkal north cemetery for King Amaninatakilebte (c.538–519 BCE, Napatan 27th Dynasty contemporaneous with Persian Egypt).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, Neferefre, c.2460 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Small cult pyramid east of unfinished Pyramid of Neferefre (Raneferef) at Abusir (5th Dynasty, c.2460 BCE). 21.3 m base, limestone core with casing foundation trench.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, Merenre I, c.2287–2278 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Cult pyramid SE of Merenre Nemtyemsaf I pyramid (c.2283 BCE, 6th Dynasty) at South Saqqara. 15.7 m base, limestone, SE corner of enclosure, matching Pepi I pattern.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, Pepi II Neferkare, c.2278–2184 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Cult pyramid southeast of Pepi II pyramid (c.2278 BCE, 6th Dynasty) — last great Old Kingdom pyramid complex. 15.7 m base cult pyramid documented by Jéquier (1927-32) and Leclant.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2330 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Western queens row pyramid west of Pepi I, belonging to Mehaa (Mery-ankh?) wife of Pepi I, excavated by Jéquier and re-cleared by Labrousse.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, c.2328 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Easternmost queens pyramid east of Pepi I for Khuit II (not Teti Khuit), wife of Pepi I, 21 m canon. French-Swiss mission found canopic chest fragment with queen's titulary and bead net.