Cahokia was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, a Mississippian settlement in Illinois built around a massive earthen pyramid called Monks Mound.
Kultepe is the site of ancient Kanesh in Turkey, where Assyrian merchants left over twenty thousand cuneiform tablets recording Bronze Age trade and family life.
Alacahoyuk is an ancient mound in central Turkey where Early Bronze Age royal tombs full of gold and bronze standards sit beneath a Hittite sphinx gate.
Nevali Cori is a Neolithic settlement in southeastern Turkey where carved stone pillars and a polished shrine floor, built nearly 11,000 years ago, now sit underwater.
Cayonu is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic site in southeastern Turkey where early farming, animal domestication, and organized architecture emerged nearly 11,000 years ago.