🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Ruins of Jala
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Ruins of Jala in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Middle Neolithic (~4000–3500 BCE; medieval chapel atop) · Armorican / Channel Neolithic (Norman Neolithic)
Jersey's paramount Neolithic monument crowns a 12-m artificial mound containing a cruciform passage grave with a 12-m roofed chamber aligned so equinox sunrise illuminates the rear cell.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Ruins of Jala in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Hopewell 1–500 CE (Middle Woodland, peak 100–400 CE) · Hopewell tradition (Scioto Hopewell)
Finest Hopewell enclosure: 13-acre (5.3 ha) flat-topped earthen-walled enclosure (1,211 m perimeter, 1–1.8 m high) near Scioto River enclosing 24 conical, elongated and effigy mounds.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Archaeological wonder
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Ruins of Howe Strath in Balochistan, Pakistan is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Ancient City of Syke Geoglyph in Sicily, Italy is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Creswell Crags in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, Creswell, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇸🇿 Eswatini · Archaeological wonder
Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (43,000 BCE–400 CE) · MSA/MSA modern humans
Ngwenya (Lion Cavern) is the world's oldest mine, hematite and specularite 43,000 BCE Middle Stone Age open-cast pit 25 m deep with radiocarbon mining tools and 43 ka charcoal, extracting red ochre…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Ancient City of Bala Cairn in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Moche (100–800 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Moche culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman (1st–6th c. CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Southern suburb of Cuicul beyond Severan Arch with fullery and funerary basilica.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Pleistocene to Holocene (c.45,000 BCE–present; classic Panaramitee tradition) · Aboriginal Australian (Adnyamathanha, etc)
Panaramitee – pan-continental pecking tradition (Panaramitee style) of classic circle, dot, crescent, track and line motifs on desert varnished rocks; type site Panaramitee Station South Australia.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Mauretanian to Islamic (5th c. BCE–8th c. CE; Roman peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Mauretanian / Roman
Rirha (ancient Gilda) on the Sebou River is a Mauretanian city turned Roman colonia, 5th c. BCE–8th c. CE, excavated by Callegarin 2005–.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Late Horizon Chachapoya-Inca 1470–1532 CE · Chachapoya–Inca
219-mummy cliff mausoleum over alpine lake, 1470–1532 Chachapoya-Inca.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman 7th c. BCE–300 CE · Thracian-Greek mystery cult (pan-Hellenic pilgrimage)
Mystery sanctuary on Samothrace where Winged Victory crowned a sacred torrent ravine.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Acheulean (1200000 BP) · Acheulean
Isampur — Hunsgi Acheulean in Karnataka, Hunsgi, India is a Acheulean (1200000 BP) ancient village attributed to Acheulean culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (4th c BCE – 7th c CE) · Punic / Numidian / Roman
Seybouse spa city with marble-lined north baths (45×35 m), hillside theatre (62 m) restored by Joly 1905, and Byzantine citadel reusing theatre seats. Hot aquae still flow 28°C.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
New Kingdom to British (1470 BCE – 1902 CE) · Egyptian New Kingdom with British Aswan regulation
Quarry slipway and basin 150 m to float 42 m Unfinished Obelisk and blocks to Nile.
🇧🇼 Botswana · Rock art
Later Stone Age to recent (~8000 BCE – historical) · San (Basarwa) hunter-gatherer and Bantu pastoralist
Four quartzite inselbergs rising abruptly from the Kalahari sandveldt preserve over 4,500 paintings across 500 sites, dominated by the 1,400-m Male Hill.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Geometric to Roman 776 BCE–393 CE; classical temple peak 5th c. BCE · Ancient Greek (pan-Hellenic, Eleian administration)
Sacred grove of Zeus and birthplace of Olympic Games with Phidias' Wonder statue temple.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Maurya to Gupta (3rd c. BCE–5th c. CE; Great Stupa core 260 BCE, gateway 1st c. BCE) · Mauryan, Sunga, Satavahana, Gupta Buddhist
Great Stupa No.1 at Sanchi – Ashoka's 3rd c. BCE relic mound enlarged to 36m hemispheric brick-and-stone anda, 16m high stone torana gateways (Satavahana 1st c.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical High 444–440 BCE · Athenian Greek
Pericles' white cliff-top Poseidon temple guarding Attica's maritime gateway.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Hatun Misapata or Misapata (Quechua hatun big, misa table, pata elevated place; above, at the top; edge, bank, shore, also spelled Qatun Mesapata or Mesapata) is an archaeological site in the…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic Pastoral (c.5000–3000 BCE; dated by stratum ceramics) · Early Cushitic Pastoral Neolithic / Horn of Africa pastoralists
Exceptionally preserved Neolithic rock art shelters discovered 2002 by French team (Xavier Gutherz): 10 granite alcoves with polychrome paintings 5000–3000 BCE – long-horned cattle with udders,…
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ruins of Holm-Pit in Andalusia, Spain is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–7th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Colonia with circus and amphitheatre on imperial saltus.
