🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Knockroe Passage Tomb
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Kilkenny dual-passage tomb with lavish megalithic art, aligned to both midwinter sunrise and sunset.
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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works
Early Abbasid (Harun al-Rashid–Al-Amin) · Abbasid (Zubaydah bint Ja'far patronage)
Ayn Zubaydah: 35-km Abbasid 809 CE spring aqueduct from Wadi Nu'man to Haram, Makkah.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (El-Maghara-related) · Sinai Neolithic coastal hunters
First documented North Sinai kites (45 m asl, 31°01′N 33°09′E) on Bardawil lagoon sabkha plain south of Bir al-Abd, bridging Sinai to Negev corridor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (1800–900 BCE), Early Horizon transition · Cupisnique-Caballo Muerto (Formative Andean)
Most elaborate Initial Period (1500–1200 BCE) platform pyramid (40x30 m base, U-shaped complex 55x35 m overall) within 2 km² Caballo Muerto field of eight mounds (Moche Valley).
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan 3rd c BCE → Satavahana 1st c BCE–3rd c CE · Mauryan–Satavahana Buddhist (Bhima valley)
Kanaganahalli — mega Buddhist stupa complex (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) 3 km SE Sannati on Bhima River, Kalaburagi, excavated 1994–2002 by Karnataka Archaeology Dept (K.P. Poonacha).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200–2800 BCE) · Boyne Valley Passage Tomb tradition
Kilkenny dual-passage tomb with lavish megalithic art, aligned to both midwinter sunrise and sunset.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Mature Harappan (2400–1900 BCE, Lothal dockyard phase) · Harappan (Gujarat coastal, Lothal A–B)
Lothal Mound — Gujarat Harappan Port in Gujarat, Ahmedabad District, Sabarmati estuary (Lothal dockyard), India is a Mature Harappan (2400–1900 BCE, Lothal dockyard phase) pyramid/mound site…
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Early Medieval Great Moravia 800–907 Mojmirid Veligrad phase · Great Moravian Slavs (Veligrad core, Mojmir I–Svatopluk)
Staré Město (Veligrad) — core of Great Moravian Veligrad agglomeration (8th–10th c, peak 833–907) on Morava terrace at Uherské Hradiště, with Staré Město–Uherské Hradiště–Modrá 250 ha complex.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Ubaid through Early Dynastic I (c.4000–2800 BCE); Ubaid 4, Uruk, Jemdat Nasr, ED I · Ubaid → Uruk colonial (southern Mesopotamian) → Jemdet Nasr → ED I Diyala
Hamrin Uruk colonial tell with bevelled-rim and cylinder sealings (c.3800–3100 BCE) — Roaf’s Ubaid→ED sequence.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern fish-salting harbour of Tyritake at Kamysh-Burun south — 16 vats at –1.5 m and 70 m quay at –2 m.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern fish-salting harbour of Tyritake at Kamysh-Burun south — 16 vats at –1.5 m and 70 m quay at –2 m.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Early Holocene to Camel Period (Pastoral/Horse/Camel) · Pastoral Saharan / Garamantine / Tuareg
Archetypal Saharan wadi gallery Mathendous with Bubalus-to-Camel engravings of extinct megafauna.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Sogdian 7th c BCE → Samanid 9th–10th c → Mongol 1220 CE · Sogdian Maracanda → Sasanian → Samanid Samarkand
Afrasiab — ancient Samarkand / Maracanda (7th c BCE–1220 CE) 3 km north Registan, excavated 1874–present by Vyatkin, Shishkina, Grenet.
🇦🇱 Albania · Submerged site
Archaic to Venetian (627 BCE – 1501 CE) · Greek-Corinthian / Illyrian / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine / Venetian
Via Egnatia terminus harbour – twin Roman moles 60 m and 40 m at –2.5 m in Durrës Bay.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Early Napatan (Tumulus c.890–750 BCE, Napatan pyramids 750–650 BCE) · Kushite (Early Napatan, 25th Dynasty founders, Egyptianised post-Piye)
Ancestral royal cemetery of Kush at Napata (890–650 BCE, Tumulus generation to early Napatan) with 20 pyramids (Ku. Tum. 1–6 early tumulus-pyramids 12 m, Ku.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Pre-Inca Atacama (500 – 1450 CE) · Atacameño / Tarapacá
Pintados Geoglyphs in Tarapacá, Chile is a Pre-Inca Atacama (500 – 1450 CE) geoglyph attributed to Atacameño / Tarapacá culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic 2300–1500 → Chalcolithic 1500–600 BCE → NBPW 600 BCE · Kaimur Neolithic–Chalcolithic — Vindhyan–Gangetic transition
Senuwar Bihar Neolithic Mound — Neolithic–Chalcolithic village (2300–600 BCE) on Kaimur plateau edge near Son River, excavated 1986–91 by B.P. Singh (BHU).
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan 2nd c CE (Kanishka) · Kushan imperial dynastic — Bactrian fire cult with Hellenistic architecture
Surkh Kotal Fire Temple — Kushan dynastic sanctuary (2nd c CE Kanishka period) on Surkh Kotal hill 18 km NE Puli Khumri, excavated 1952–63 by D. Schlumberger (DAFA).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Preclassic to Postclassic Huastec (600 BCE–1520 CE, Florescent 600–900) · Huastec (Tenek – Maya linguistic isolate)
Great Huastec city (600 BCE–1520 CE, peak 600–900 CE) on Tampaón River bend covering 50 sq ha with 70 mounds, artificial lagoons and plazas: 21×40 mound group, Stepped Pyramid of the Moon, Temple of…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Hellenistic (3500 BCE–100 BCE) · Chalcolithic Cilician → Hittite → Neo-Hittite → Hellenistic
Tatarlı Höyük South Acropolis is the southern citadel mound of Tatarlı Höyük on the Cilician plain west of the Ceyhan River — controlling the Kizzuwatna–Assyria (Qode) route.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Late Roman (6th c BCE–5th c CE; villas 2nd–4th c) · Numidian / Carthaginian / Roman
Unique Numidian–Roman town with two-storey subterranean villas and intact hunt mosaics preserved by burial.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman Imperial · Ionian Greek, Hellenistic (Alexander to Attalid), Roman
72-m east stoa and Doric temple adyton of Apollo Clarios oracle between Ephesus and Smyrna.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (631 BCE–643 CE) · Greek / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
100-ha Theran Greek metropolis with Apollo and Zeus sanctuaries, agora and 1000+ sarcophagus tombs.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Maurya 3 c. BCE → Sunga 2–1 c. BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Maurya → Sunga Buddhist (Ashokan sphere)
Four-stupa Mauryan–Sunga Buddhist hilltop complex (3 c. BCE–6 c. CE) on Vindhyan escarpment between Rewa and Prayag.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Preclassic to Late Classic · Maya (Northern Lowlands)
Yucatán megacity (300 BCE–1200 CE) beneath Yellow City — 6 Preclassic megapyramids incl. 35-m Kinich Kakmó.
