🇦🇷 Argentina · Archaeological wonder
Talampaya National Park
Talampaya National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Talampaya) is a national park located in the east/centre of La Rioja Province, Argentina.
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🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Archaeological wonder
Later Stone Age Ishango · Ishango LSA fisher-foragers
Lakeshore fishing village (25–20 ka LSA) famed for 25,000 barbed bone harpoons and Ishango Bone – baboon fibula with tally marks (perhaps 20 ka lunar calendar or arithmetic, oldest maths artefact,…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Archaeological wonder
Talampaya National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Talampaya) is a national park located in the east/centre of La Rioja Province, Argentina.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Iron Age · Bantu / Luo (Kabwa)
Largest of 138 Lake Victoria dry-stone enclosures (15th–19th c), UNESCO 2018. Concentric walls 1–4.2 m high ×51–152 m diam with internal compounds, shafts, and livestock pens.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
North ridge of Tsagaan Salaa valley exposing 200+ Bronze Age horse-herd processions and Early Kalgutinsky ibex, part of 20 km Tsagaan Salaa–Baga Oigor complex dated Late Pleistocene–Turkic.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
See Tira for other sites with similar names. At-Tiri (Arabic: الطيري, romanized: aṭ-Ṭīrī) is a municipality located in the kaza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Beidha (Arabic: البيضا al-baīḍā, "the white one"), also sometimes Bayda, is a major Neolithic archaeological site a few kilometres north of Petra near Siq al-Barid in Jordan.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) · Magdalenian
Major Magdalenian cave on the Sella River with 12 galleries of polychrome paintings (c. 22,000–10,000 BP), including horses, reindeer and famous anthropomorph, plus habitation deposits.
🇳🇴 Norway · Archaeological wonder
Lunner Church (Norwegian: Lunner kirke) is a medieval era stone church in Lunner municipality of Akershus county, Norway. The church dates from the 12th century.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huankarán (possibly from Quechua wanqara a kind of drum) is an archaeological site with a rectangular tower, a couple of buildings and stone tombs (chullpa) in Peru.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Archaeological wonder
Mamai–Hora is the largest multicomplex burial mound of national importance in the Northern Black Sea region.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Geißkopf is a foothill, 359 m above sea level (NHN), near Berghaupten in the south German state of Baden-Württemberg.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Archaeological wonder
Aquae Helveticae was a vicus and mineral spa established in the 1st century AD near the Roman legion camp of Vindonissa. It is in and was the origin of the name of Baden in Switzerland.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Archaeological wonder
Areni (Armenian: Արենի) is a village and the center of the Areni Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (4000 BCE–1500 CE) · Nok-related / Hausa
National park shelters with 12 iron furnaces and Shira rock paintings.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cochabamba (possibly from Quechua qucha lake, pampa a large plain) is an archaeological site of the Inca period in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chacamarca Historic Sanctuary (Spanish: Santuario Histórico de Chacamarca), is a historical site in Junín Province, Junín, Peru.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Archaeological wonder
Gor Khatri (Urdu and Hindko: گورکهتری; Pashto: ګورکترۍ; lit. 'Grave of Kshatriya') is an archeological site located in Peshawar, Pakistan.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Kfar Abida_Fadous (Arabic كفرعبيدا _فدعوس), sometimes spelled Kfar Aabida_Fadaous or Kfaraabida_Fad'ous, is a village located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Batroun in the Batroun District of the…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Guellayhuasin (possibly from Quechua q'illay iron, wasi house) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
The Castle of Aamaj (from Arabic: قلعة آماج, (Persian: قلعه آماج), Aamaj castle is one of the most significant examples for trench-enclosed, fortified structures in the Kukherd District, Hormozgan province in south Iran.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Old Kingdom / Second Intermediate · Egyptian
Lost capital of Xoite 14th Dynasty (76 kings) contesting Hyksos Avaris. Stepped temple of Amun and 8 m Hyksos walls detected by magnetometry; Herodotus lists Delta metropolis.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Enkorika is a village and neolithic site in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. It is located in an upslope area, about 100 by 130 m. It was an Iron Age smelting site. Geologically it forms part of the Enkorika Fissure Zone.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Chinkana (Quechua for labyrinth) is an archaeological site in Bolivia situated on the Isla del Sol, an island of Lake Titicaca. It is located in the La Paz Department, Manco Kapac Province, Copacabana Municipality.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Archaeological wonder
Et-Tell (Arabic: التل, lit. 'the ruin-heap') or Khirbet et-Tell (also meaning "heap of ruins") is an archaeological site in the West Bank in Palestine. The site is commonly identified with the biblical city of Ai.
