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🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Colonial to Classic (600–1450 CE) · Hohokam (Salt River)
Salt River Hohokam platform-mound barrio town (c.600–1450 CE, Colonial to Classic) now buried under central Phoenix Encanto — sister to Pueblo Grande 5 km east, controlling La Ciudad Canal (HoHo…
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1150–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Marana community)
Marana Hohokam Mound Phoenix Basin is the Los Robles platform mound community on the Santa Cruz River north of Tucson — Fish's Marana community (1150–1450 CE) showing Classic Hohokam platform…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Indus Valley Civilisation, Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Indus Valley (Harappan)
Mohenjo-daro Citadel Mound — Larkana in Sindh, Larkana District, Indus west bank, Pakistan is a Indus Valley Civilisation, Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Indus…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Postclassic Aztec (Tlahuica) · Tlahuica / Aztec (Tlahuica Chalca)
Tlahuica double-shrine pyramid Teopanzolco (c.1400–1521): 35×45 m 12 m twin temples Huitzilopochtli/Tlaloc, earthquake 2017 revealed earlier talud-tablero Teocalli inside.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom to early Kushite (1500–1000 BCE) · Egyptianized Nubian (New Kingdom Egyptian–Nubian elite)
Largely unsalvaged New Kingdom to early Kushite pyramid cemetery 22 km north of Semna system, with 15+ steep mudbrick pyramids (base 8–12 m, height inferred 10–15 m) over shaft tombs of Egyptianized…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze · Badia Late Neolithic with EB reuse
Maitland west slope: 4 kites descending 45-m mesa scarp from Maitland's historic fort hill.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
New Kingdom to Ottoman (1500 BCE–1813 CE) · Egyptian, Napatan, Meroitic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic
Sole major Lower Nubian site surviving inundation, perched on cliff now island in Lake Nasser, continuously occupied from New Kingdom fortress through Napatan citadel, Meroitic town, Roman fort…
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock-cut
Inca (1400 – 1532 CE) · Inca
Qenqo in Cusco, Peru is a Inca (1400 – 1532 CE) rock_cut attributed to Inca culture. Q'inqu (zig-zag) – Inca huaca with 19-niche amphitheater, carved puma, subterranean altar for capacocha.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Late Iron Age (15th–19th c CE) · Luo (Bantu-Luo Nilotic) / Gusii
UNESCO Luo walled town Thimlich Ohinga — 4-m dry-stone walls enclosing hill settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (600 – 800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Wiracochapampa in La Libertad, Peru is a Middle Horizon (600 – 800 CE) ancient city attributed to Wari (Huari) culture.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art
Neolithic to Pastoral (6000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic pastoralists / Libyco-Berber
Adrar plateau quartzite guelb rock engravings west of Atar with Neolithic interdune settlement.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Amri IA–IB (4000–3000) → Kot Diji (3000–2600) → Harappan · Amri culture / Nal-related → Early Harappan
Chalcolithic type-site for Amri culture (c.4000–3000 BCE) on the west bank of the Indus in Dadu/Jamshoro, Sindh — 4 ha mound with four periods: Amri IA–IB (thin red ware with geometric black…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Middle Kingdom to X-Group (1860–500 BCE peak 1850 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier
Mid-Nile island kite-fort Askut guarding Second Cataract channel.
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Iron Age (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Gallaeci Bracari, Celtic)
Castro de Santa Trega (Iron Age c.600–0 BCE, revived 100 BCE–100 CE) crowns the 341-m Santa Tegra mountain at the Miño–Atlantic confluence overlooking Portugal, a 7-hectare terraced castro-city of…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city
Late Bronze to Roman (c.900 BCE–100 CE) · Castro culture (Calaici–Bracari coastal)
Cividade de Terroso (Late Bronze Age–Roman, c.900 BCE–100 CE) on a 153-m hill 5 km east of Póvoa de Varzim beach is the coastal anchor of the Ave–Cávado castro system, a 12-hectare walled town with…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient village
Early Neolithic to Medieval (Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița → Thracian → Greek) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița → Thracian coastal
Island tell and lake necropolis spanning 6500 years continuously (c.5100 BCE Early Neolithic to 1000 CE medieval) — the longest stratigraphic column on Black Sea coast.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
late 3rd–early 4th Dynasty, c.2630 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Huni/Sneferu)
Small step pyramid at extreme southern end of Elephantine Island, Aswan: 11.5 m base, three steps, now 5 m ruin of granite rubble and limestone casing traces.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pre-Classic Hohokam (500–1100 CE) · Hohokam Pre-Classic (Pioneer–Colonial–Sedentary)
Grewe Site Casa Grande North Ballcourt is the northern ballcourt village of the Grewe Site — the 18-ha Pre-Classic twin settlement north of Casa Grande Great House on the middle Gila north terrace.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon — Ychsma (1100–1450 CE) then Inca (1450–1532 CE) · Ychsma (Ichma) then Inca
Island of five pyramids in dense Breña–Cercado between avenues Mariano Cornejo and Tingo María, Lima’s most important Ichma centre later co-opted as Inca provincial capital of the Chillón–Rimac…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Chalcolithic Trypillia B2 (c.3800–3600 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia)
Maydanets (Maidanetske) — giant Cucuteni-Trypillia B2 mega-settlement (c.3800–3600 BCE, 200–260 ha, ~1,575–2,900 houses, 9,000–46,000 estimates) on Talyanka River, Cherkasy.
🇸🇾 Syria · Megalith
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.4500–3000 BCE), some PPN reuse · Leja megalithic (Ghassulian–EB I)
Leja dolmen necropolis (232 dolmens, Chalcolithic–EB, basalt capstones 5 t) south of Tell Qarassa.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun Middle 4th–6th c CE (Yamato middle) · Mid-Kofun Yamato — Saki royal cemetery north Heijo
Saki Tatanami Kofun Cluster — massive 4th–6th c CE Kofun cemetery (7 km long, 120+ mounds) at Saki–Tatanami hills 4 km north Heijo Palace, northern Nara basin edge, surveyed 1970s–90s by Nara…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hohokam Pioneer–Sedentary (300 BCE–1150 CE) · Hohokam (Sonoran Desert tradition)
Hohokam type site (300 BCE–1150 CE) — pithouse village with 2 ballcourts and Gila River canals, Arizona.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic (c.3800–3300 BCE) · Orkney-Cromarty Neolithic (Caithness)
Paired Loch Calder chambered cairns (round and long horned) rescued before reservoir flooding, with classic Orkney-Cromarty chambers.
