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🇹🇳 Tunisia · Tumulus
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Pyramid Outlier Africa 73 — Tunisia Region 1 in Tunisia Region 1, Tunisia is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Period Medieval · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Temple Terrace Africa 9 — Ethiopia Region 9 in Ethiopia Region 9, Ethiopia is a Iron Age tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Earthwork
Period Classical · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Temple Terrace Americas 92 — Mexico Region 8 in Mexico Region 8, Mexico is a Neolithic earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3150–2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
South Ronaldsay chambered cairn excavated by J. Hedges (1976), yielding 16,000 human bones, 725 bird bones including white-tailed eagle talons, and Beaker pottery — headland cliff-edge site.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Bono state (c. 1200–1723 CE; sacked by Asante) · Akan (Bono / Brong)
First Akan walled capital, Bono Manso's laterite wall (1.9 km) encloses iron workshops and overlooks granite rock domes with shrine caves, sacked 1723 by Asante, memory in Techiman...
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Period Classical · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Dolmen Avenue Buried 120 — Italy Region 12 in Italy Region 12, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Period Medieval · Regional culture Pyramid-Variant
Hydraulic Reservoir Pyramid 14 — Egypt Region 2 in Egypt Region 2, Egypt is a Neolithic pyramid with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Mural Hall Europe 75 — Turkey Region 3 in Turkey Region 3, Turkey is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Misc 99 — China Region 3 in China Region 3, China is a Iron Age hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Stone Circle Ridge Americas 33 — Peru Region 9 in Peru Region 9, Peru is a Bronze Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Hyksos to Ptolemaic (1720 BCE – 73 CE) · Hyksos / Egyptian / Ptolemaic Jewish (Onias)
Northern spur of the classic double-tell of Yahudiya, with Hyksos rampart extension and Onias-period Jewish cemetery north of the temple platform where Petrie found inverted pots a...
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Tell of Painted Ware Asia 42 — China Region 6 in China Region 6, China is a Iron Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Tumulus Cemetery Buried 16 — Italy Region 4 in Italy Region 4, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Period Classical · Regional culture Pyramid-Variant
Geoglyph Panel Pyramid 115 — Mexico Region 7 in Mexico Region 7, Mexico is a Neolithic pyramid with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Period Medieval · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Pyramid Outlier Buried 13 — Italy Region 1 in Italy Region 1, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Period Medieval · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Stone Circle Ridge Americas 50 — Peru Region 2 in Peru Region 2, Peru is a Neolithic earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Temple Terrace Buried 61 — Syria Region 1 in Syria Region 1, Syria is a Bronze Age buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Hillfort Rampart Asia 109 — China Region 1 in China Region 1, China is a Neolithic megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
ED to OB (c.3000–1750 BCE) · Sumerian → Akkadian → OB
Marad (Wannat es-Sadum) on Euphrates is a Sumerian–Ak K border town with Lugal temple; OB tablets show Kish sphere. Iraqi soundings reveal ED city wall and OB h...
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Mural Hall Americas 62 — Brazil Region 2 in Brazil Region 2, Brazil is a Bronze Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 1 — Syria Region 1 in Syria Region 1, Syria is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Djenné-Djeno phase (250 BCE – 1400 CE; West Mound 300–900 CE) · Djenné-Djeno (Inland Niger Delta urbanism)
Western extension of Djenné-Djeno city cluster (2 km from central tell) with 450×400 m mound, floodplain ditch, iron workshops and terracotta of Inland Niger urbanism 800 years pre...
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Fortress Citadel Mideast 4 — Jordan Region 4 in Jordan Region 4, Jordan is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Fortress Citadel Mideast 41 — Israel Region 5 in Israel Region 5, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
