🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Mogollon Tularosa 1275–1300 CE · Mogollon
46 rooms in five caves 1275–1300 CE, Mogollon.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Early to Middle Holocene (7000–5000 BCE ceremonial) · Nabta Playa Neolithic cattle pastoralists (Bunon?)
Bargat excavated by Wendorf & Schild combined archaeological project 1999–, cattle pastoralist ritual with Nabta solstice 45 km.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (1st–7th c CE) · Roman (Mauretania Caesariensis)
Cheliff valley fortified village with Donatist basilica, inscription of martyrdom 304 CE, and earthquake-prone castellum walls.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Mogollon Tularosa 1275–1300 CE · Mogollon
46 rooms in five caves 1275–1300 CE, Mogollon.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Classic · Maya/Andean
Huaca Ventarron — 2,500 BCE oldest mural.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Classic · Maya/Andean
Pampa de las Llamas — 700 collcas storage city.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Classic · Maya/Andean
Tikal Mundo Perdido — Teotihuacan enclave.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze IVA (2600–2300 BCE) archive · Early Syrian Eblaite
Mardikh excavated by Matthiae 1964–, 20,000 tablet fragments, bilingual Sumerian-Eblaite vocabularies and palace colonnade.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Mound
Iron Age to Kanem-Bornu · Chad Basin
Firki classic mound 5 m with cattle-trail causeways visible on SAR; compound enclosures vs kraals detected by magnetometry.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Anastasian Roman (505–530 CE) · Eastern Roman (Anastasius Justinian)
Tur-Abdin Roman city built to block Persian Nisibis, excavated by Keser 1986–, Procopius De Aedificiis description intact.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
900–1500 CE · Rapa Nui
Cross-ref quarry within Rapa Nui National Park main entry; tuff quarry with 400 moai in situ including El Gigante (~21 m).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
PPNB (7500–6500 BCE) + Nabataean later · PPNB Beidha
Beidha excavated by Kirkbride 1958–83, revealing early granaries and shift from round to rectilinear, near Siq al Barid.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (3300–3000 BCE) · Carrowkeel-Keshcorran group
Bricklieve Cairn K excavated by Macalister 1911, with cremations, bone pins and Carrowkeel Ware, views to Kesh above.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Labná Arch 3 m, 67-room Palace, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun (c. 411–453 CE Nintoku) · Yamato Kofun (Emperor Nintoku tradition)
Mozu kofun group excavated non-invasive by Sakai 1872, UNESCO 2019 as Mozu-Furuichi, Imperial mound unentered.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Claimed 30000 BCE (Sangam) vs Seychelles 65 Ma · Pseudo Sclater / Tamil nationalist
Sclater 1864 lemur continent south of Kanyakumari — drilling shows Seychelles microcontinent 65 Ma not 30000
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (2900–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic Hebridean
Lewis's Callanish IV, 3 km S of Callanish I, with elliptical setting and cairn, excavated depression 1960s.
