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🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Medio period (Casas Grandes, 1060–1340 CE) · Mogollon–Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
60+ adobe and rubble geoglyphs (1060–1340 CE) surrounding the Mogollon city of Paquimé — acolyte owl and avenues.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Khan Arnabah also spelt Khan Arnabeh and historically known as al-Uraynba, is a town in southwestern Syria, administratively part of the Quneitra Governorate (Golan Heights), in the portion of the…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Bustan Birke or Boustan el Birke is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture that is located 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) southeast of Kefraya, Lebanon.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Heidetränk Oppidum near Oberursel in the Taunus in Germany is one of Europe's most important Celtic oppida.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Hallstatt Late to Early La Tène · Northern German urnfield community
Hallstatt plank causeway in Huetberg moor 8 km east of Eckernförde: 68 m split-oak on birch sleepers (612 BCE).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Sarmatian Iron Age (450–350 BCE) with Hun reuse 410 CE · Sarmatian Aktobe–Uil (eastern Sarmatian) with Hun secondary
Kyzyl-Bulak Sarmatian mound 68 m diam 8.2 m with torc 340 g and ditch 22 m on Uil divide 142 km south of Aktobe.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (40,000 BCE–500 CE paintings peak) · Hunter-gatherer (Sandawe ancestors) / Pastoral Cushitic / Bantu Isanzu
Sub-cluster of Kondoa WH 150 shelters at Kolo with Kisese II stratified 40 ka to 1,500 CE and layered hunter-to-pastoral-to-Bantu style sequence.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic, Arabian Mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
19 high-altitude mustatil enclosures (5300-5000 BCE) on Harrat Uwayrid basalt at 1320 m, northernmost field.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Iron Age · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Lchashen-Metsamor
Syunik 3300-m crater-lake plateau with >4000 black basalt petroglyphs, chariot and solar calendar boulders.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
The Bouri Formation is a sequence of sedimentary deposits that is the source of australopithecine and Homo (that is, hominin) fossils, artifacts, and bones of large mammals with cut marks from…
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Archaeological wonder
Kutlug Timur minaret is a minaret in Konye-Urgench in north Turkmenistan, Central Asia. Constructed in 1011 during the Khwarazmian dynasty, the minaret stands at a height of 60 meters, with a base…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Black Desert ridge pastoralists
Ridge chain ESE of Maitland's Mesa: 9 notch-anchored kites along 6.2 km Ghabit basalt ridge.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early to Middle Saka · Saka of the eastern Aral–Karatau
Seven-hills ridge with 7 giant kurgans 42-72 m plus 14 satellites: Saka necropolis above Sozak oasis.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Tarapacá) · Tarapacá interior oasis people
South spur of Atacama Giant hill: 19 figures including lizard and raptor framing Giant viewshed.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Archaeological wonder
Dzalisi (Georgian: ძალისი) is a historic village in Georgia, located in the Mukhrani valley, 50 km northwest of Tbilisi, and 20 km northwest of Mtskheta.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Scythian (Arzhan horizon, early Saka, Aldy-Bel–Mongun-Taiga precursor) · Early Scythian (Aldy-Bel / Arzhan, Proto-Saka–Mongun-Taiga)
Late 9th-c BCE frozen royal kurgan (140 x 130 m, 1.8 ha) — earliest Scythian princely tomb in Siberian Valley of the Kings.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Glozel artifacts are a collection of over 3,000 artifacts, including forged clay tablets, sculptures and vases, some of which were inscribed, discovered from 1924 to 1930 in the vicinity of…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate Pica-Charcollo · Pica-Charcollo and Atacameno traders
80+ horizontal salt-flat geoglyphs (1000-1350 CE) on Salar de Llamara halite crust, caravan staging road.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Eifel Aqueduct was one of the longest aqueducts of the Roman Empire. The aqueduct, constructed in AD 80, carried water some 95 kilometres (59 mi) from the hilly Eifel region of what is now…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Sicán / Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque
Seasonal desert pampa (85 m) in lower La Leche basin (6°00′-6°40′S 79°10′-80°00′W) between the Sican capital Batan Grande and Túcume adobe pyramids, georeferenced by UNESCO tentative 6419 (Ceremonial…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Battle at the Harzhorn took place in the early 3rd century between Germanic and Roman troops near the Harzhorn hill between the towns of Kalefeld and Bad Gandersheim, in the state of Lower…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Late Neolithic to Bronze · Majiayao, Qijia, Siba (Gansu corridor Neolithic–Bronze)
2025 east-bank Yellow River deer paintings opposite Dahekou west bank pecked panels.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Archaeological wonder
Barāqish or Barāgish or Aythel (Arabic: براقش) is a town in north-western Yemen, 120 miles to the east of Sanaa in al Jawf Governorate on a high hill.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
The Diocese of Cusira is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Cusira was a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena, and is identifiable with Kessera (Kesra) in the…
