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🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Formative Olmec (c.1500–500 BCE); Early–Middle Formative 1500–700 BCE (Olmec apogee 900–500 BCE), Late Formative 500–100 BCE, Epiclassic 500–900 CE · Olmec (Gulf Coast style) → Highland central Mexican Formative (Tlatilco–Olmec) → Late Formative Morelos
Olmec Highland hill-carved ceremonial terraces (c.1500–500 BCE) with 9 Olmec relief panels outside Gulf heartland (Grove).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (Sechín–Casma) · Sechín / Casma
Sechín polity satellite mound at Sechín Norte — 25 m adobe pyramid 6 m high c.1500 BCE, 2 km north of Cerro Sechín relief walls.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Old Hittite to Empire (1650–1200 BCE) · Hittite (Hattic substrate)
Old Hittite cult terrace that produced the four-register Inandik vase (acrobats and goddess).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Late Bronze Age, Hittite Empire (~1300–1180 BCE; refurbished under Tudhaliya IV) · Hittite (Hatti–Hurrian)
Two natural limestone chambers behind Hattusa where 90 reliefs carved into living rock depict the Hurrian–Hittite pantheon procession: Chamber A shows 12 underworld gods, sword-god Nergal and the…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Neo-Assyrian 690 BCE · Neo-Assyrian Sennacherib
Mountain head reliefs and 17-spring capture merging to 55 km Nineveh canal.