🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburnica (Sidi Ali Belgacem)
Roman (Late Republic to Late Antiquity; peak 1st–3rd c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Veteran colonia near Chemtou with monumental Roman bridge and basilica.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Ptolemaic (237–57 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian (Hellenistic Pharaonic)
Best-preserved temple in Egypt: Ptolemaic Temple of Horus built 237–57 BCE (180 years) after plan of Old Kingdom then New Kingdom prototypes, buried by Nile silt and desert sand until re-excavated by…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (Late Republic to Late Antiquity; peak 1st–3rd c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Veteran colonia near Chemtou with monumental Roman bridge and basilica.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age Nok Culture (500 BCE–500 CE; iron from 550 BCE) · Nok Culture
Turunku in Kaduna's Nok Valley is a Nok Culture iron-smelting precinct and terracotta site, 500 BCE–500 CE, revealing sub-Saharan Africa's earliest iron (c.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Western Jin to Yuan (300 – 1300 CE) · Buddhist Hexi nomad to Tang imperial
Lower cliffs with 420 CE earliest inscribed cave 169 of 169 caves at Liujia Reservoir.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Middle Sicán to Chimú 700–1375 CE · Sicán (Lambayeque) then Chimú
Golden Priestess tomb within twin truncated pyramids, 700–1375 CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic (c.2000 BCE–100 CE; major phase New Kingdom 1550–1070 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic (Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman)
Largest temple complex in Egypt – 200 acres built over 1,500 years from Senusret I (1956 BCE) to Romans.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative (600 BCE–800 CE) · Tarapacá–Atacama
Southwest bajada descending from Salar del Sur margin toward Pampa del Tamarugal corridor (2,280 m).
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Archaeological wonder
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Spring Dargah Archaeological Complex in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇳🇵 Nepal · Ancient city
Painted Grey Ware to Early Historic 900 BCE–200 CE · Shakya (Koliya confederacy)
Walled city (900 BCE–c.200 CE) identified by P.C. Mukherji (1899) as Kapilavastu — Shakya capital where Prince Siddhartha spent 29 years before Great Renunciation — 1.5×2 km walled enclosure with…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Ancient City of Ras Motte in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Tudor cartographic (1578 – 1865) · Tudor English fishery
1578 herring buss phantom west of Galway — ship-type vs island confusion that put a bank at 52N 35W for 300 years.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE (Period I–III) · Ahar-Banas / Mewar Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas culture cluster (3000–1500 BCE) along Ahar and Banas rivers around Udaipur, Rajasthan, copper-working villages exploiting Aravalli Khetri copper belt.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Solutrean–Magdalenian ~18–14 ka BP · Solutrean/Magdalenian Cantabrian
Great Ceiling of polychrome bison — the Paleolithic Sistine Chapel at Santillana del Mar.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Swahili Coast Medieval (9th–19th c; Sultanate peak 1100–1500) · Swahili (Bantu-Arab-Persian) / Shirazi dynasty / Portuguese interlude
Swahili stone-town entrepôt (9th–19th c) controlling Indian Ocean gold trade from Sofala and Great Zimbabwe: Gereza fortress (Portuguese 1505), Great Mosque (oldest sub-Saharan mosque 1131–1770…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Late Roman ~300 BCE–395 CE · Greek (Colophonian) then Roman Ionian
Underground water-oracle of Apollo where prophet drank sacred pool to versify prophecies.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman Severan (198–238 CE) · Roman
Castellum Dimmidi (Messaad) is Rome's southernmost Algerian outpost, 350 km south of Algiers into true Sahara, a Severan isolated vexillation fort 40×40 m with corner bastions built 198 CE by Legio…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Neolithic Longshan to Zhou (3000 BCE – 770 BCE) · Yangshao–Longshan farmer to Zhou frontier pastoral
Qinling foothill gorge with 30+ ibex and rayed humans of Longshan era.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Early–Middle Jomon 3500–2000 BCE · Jomon Early–Middle Hokkaido maritime
Early–Middle Jomon coastal settlement (3500–2000 BCE) on Ofune River terrace facing Uchiura Bay, Hokkaido, renowned for 100+ deep pit graves, stone pile graves, and massive whale-bone midden (sperm…
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Inca Empire with antecedents Wari/Tiwanaku (~1000–1532 CE; Inca 1438–1532 CE) · Inca (with pre-Inca antecedents)
The backbone of Tawantinsuyu, Qhapaq Ñan runs 6,000 km along the Andean crest from Colombia to Chile, with east–west transversal roads totalling over 23,000 km.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Magdalenian ~17–14 ka BP · Magdalenian
Vézère polychrome gallery with 230 Magdalenian figures, last original painted cave open to public.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Neo-Hittite / Iron Age (c.720–680 BCE) · Neo-Hittite (Adanawa Quwe) / Phoenician
Neo-Hittite fortified retreat of Azatiwada (late 8th c BCE) on Ceyhan River, Karatepe-Aslantaş preserves two gated circuits with 30+ basalt orthostats showing Late Hittite–Phoenician bilingual…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Classic Veracruz 100–1000 CE · Classic Veracruz (Remojadas-Early Gulf)
26-m earthen platform pyramid on Gulf coastal plain, 100–1000 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Maya Classic 150–950 CE · Maya (Naachtun/Masuul and K'an affiliation)
Strategic Classic Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, 150–950 CE.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Phoenician to Byzantine (c.500 BCE–643 CE; monumental Roman 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
Tripolitanian Phoenician port (5th c BCE) with Hellenistic and then Roman city: Theatre of Sabratha – most complete Roman theatre in Africa (Marcus Aurelius era 175–200 CE, cavea 92.6 m, three-storey…
