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🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Yadava (1500 BCE–1400 CE) · Savaldas–Malwa to Satavahana–Vakataka–Yadava
Tell 1500 BCE–1400 CE (900×750 m)—Mahabharata's Bhogavardhana, 14 levels Chalcolithic to Yadava.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Elamite, Middle Elamite period (1250–640 BCE) · Elamite (Middle Elamite)
Chogha Zanbil Ziggurat — Elam in Khuzestan Province, Chogha Zanbil (ancient Dur-Untash), Iran is a Elamite, Middle Elamite period (1250–640 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to Elamite (Middle…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate to Middle Horizon, c.200 BCE–600 CE (Lima / Pinazo) · Andean (Lima / Pinazo)
Huaca Huallamarca (originally Pancho Fierro) in San Isidro, Lima: truncated adobe pyramid 85×70 m base, 20 m high, with interior ramps and courts.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (1800–800 BCE) · Pre-Cupisnique / Rímac Initial Period (Manchay-related)
Early U-shaped pyramid Huaca La Florida (1700–1000 BCE) Rímac Valley: 17 m central pyramid with 300×200 m U arms enclosing 140×80 m plaza — Pre-Inca Lima's earliest mega-temple.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic to Eneolithic (5500–3500 BCE) · Boian → Hamangia → Gumelnița → Cernavodă
Hârşova Tell Block M is the eastern lobe of Hârşova tell — the largest tell in Romania (200×60 m base, 11 m high) on the Danube right bank above ancient Carsium.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic to EBA (Marmara Neolithic, Chalcolithic) · Marmara Neolithic (Fikirtepe) → Late Chalcolithic (İznik) → EBA
Marmara lakeside Neolithic tell (5800–3500 BCE) with waterlogged wooden tools — wattle-daub village, bone sickles, then ditched Chalcolithic mound, İznik Lake type-site.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tomb
Late Bronze Age I–II (c.1500–1000 BCE; peak 1300–1100 BCE) · Caspian highland Amarlou/Gilan local — Amardian? (pre-Median); strongly Iranian plateau but northern forest littoral
53-tomb Gilan gold necropolis with winged-bull rhyta and Marlik Gold Cup — Mycenae of the Caspian.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic Late Natufian (12,500–11,700 BP) · Late Natufian (Levant)
Late Natufian lake-margin hamlet with carved pebbles and bedrock mortar village near Sea of Galilee.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Middle Woodland Hopewell (200 BCE–300 CE) · Hopewell
Hopewell enclosure pair on Scioto River terrace 9 km southwest of Chillicothe: large sub-square 160×140 m (3 ha) with 1.2 m embankment and interior ditch, conjoined at corner to 80 m diameter circle…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Middle to New Kingdom · 12th Dynasty to 18th Egyptian
Serabit el-Khadim Turquoise Temple Sinai at Sinai, Serabit el-Khadim, Egypt is a Middle to New Kingdom temple complex of the 12th Dynasty to 18th Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
New Kingdom, 18th–19th Dynasty, ~1345 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Amarna and Ramesside)
Akhenaten fortified temple-town on Nile west bank (c.1345 BCE), 200×100 m fortress with Aten temple.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Late to Final Jomon 1800–400 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (southwestern Hokkaido)
Late–Final Jomon collective cemetery (c.1800–400 BCE) adjoining Irie Site at Lake Toya, Toyako, Hokkaido — paired with Irie as single property Irie–Takasago (UNESCO 1632 dual).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPN to Late Neolithic · PPNB / Yarmoukian
32 PPNB–Late Neolithic limestone kites (8000–4500 BCE) on Wadi Arabilah scarp.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Hadhrami Old South Arabian · Hadhramawt kingdom
220-m Hadhrami diversion dam (700 BCE–400 CE) on Wadi Jirdan tributary — Hadramawt palm irrigation.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman (Trajanic to Byzantine; peak Severan 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber / Christian
Mountain Roman ridge town at 900 m with Arch of Caracalla, Severan baths and finest polychrome mosaics.
🇻🇪 Venezuela · Earthwork
Late Pre-Columbian to modern hypotheses contested Late Intermediate (?)/1930s (?)? · Pemón / Wayaka? / miner (contested)
Tepui foot earthen mound 6 m and 45 m dry wall at Kukenán 1350 m — Pemón dyke vs landslide hummsock vs miner claim, 1200 CE Wayaka ware scatter.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Pre-Narhan Neolithic-Chalcolithic 3500–1400 BCE → Overlapped by Narhan · Sarayupar Pre-Narhan (Vindhyan-derived)
Pre-Narhan early farming settlement (c.3500–2000 BCE) in the Sarayupar plain at Gorakhpur, immediately preceding Narhan — excavated 1992–96 by Purushottam Singh and Rakesh Tewari, Imlidih Khurd…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Early Dynastic to Late Antiquity (c.3100 BCE – 641 CE Arab conquest) · Egyptian (all periods), Persian, Greek, Roman
3100 BCE 'White Walls' capital covering 8 km – now invisible under fields except Ptah temple colossus.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Classic Period Hohokam (1100–1450 CE) · Hohokam Classic Period (Pueblo Grande region)
Mesa Grande Hohokam Platform Mound Extension is the eastern lower terrace of Mesa Grande Ruin — the largest extant Hohokam platform mound in the Salt River Valley, within modern Mesa.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Safavid with Sasanian spolia · Safavid Khuzestan
Band-e Ahmadi: 180-m Safavid 1680 bridge-dam 4 km south of Shushtar UNESCO, 12 arches.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Proto-Elamite / Early Bronze (Sialk III–IV) · Proto-Elamite / Sialk Culture
Proto-ziggurat terrace at Tepe Sialk (Kashan) c.3000 BCE: early Iranian high temple platform with Proto-Elamite connections, precursor to Mesopotamian ziggurat tradition.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Late Mississippian (Medley–Dorena phases) · Mississippian (Bootheel)
Fortified Late Mississippian center (1000–1350 CE) with 7 mounds and bastioned palisade on Bootheel terrace.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient village
Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (3600–1400 BCE; peak Kura-Araxes 3000–2500 BCE) · Urmia Chalcolithic → Kura-Araxes (Transcaucasian) → Early Urmia Bronze
Lake Urmia Kura-Araxes lakeside tell with black burnished round houses and metal workshops.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian (Thruston phase 1000–1370 CE) · Mississippian (Middle Cumberland – Thruston)
Mississippian mound-and-village on Mansker Creek near Nashville: platform mound 6 m high (50×35 m) rebuilt four times, truncating earlier Woodland component; village 4 ha with 300+ stone-box graves,…
