✦Archaeological wonders

🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder

Land of Frankincense

The Land of Frankincense (Arabic: أرض اللبان, romanized: ʿArḍ al-Lubān or Arabic: أرض البخور, romanized: ʿArḍ al-Bakhūr) is a site in Oman on the Incense Road.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Spiro Mounds

Mississippian Spiro phases Harlan–Sprio 950–1450 CE (Craig Mortuary climax 1200–1400) · Caddoan Mississippian (Spiroan, ancestors of Wichita/Caddo)

Premier Mississippian and Caddoan necropolis and ceremonial center on Arkansas River: 12 mounds (Craig Mound – 10 m high, hollow burial chamber or ‘Spirit Lodge’ with shell-carved ‘Great Mortuary’…

🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder

Langweiler (archaeological site)

Langweiler (German pronunciation: [ˈlaŋvaɪlɐ] ) is an archaeological site situated in the Merzbach Valley on the Aldenhovener Plateau of western Germany.

🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph

Azapa Alto de Azapa Geoglyphs (Upper Azapa Precordillera)

Early Formative Alto Ramírez I–II · Alto Ramírez upper-valley

Upper Azapa precordillera: 18 steep-slope figures at 980 m marking valley bottleneck to highlands.

🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city

Harunotsuji (Iki)

Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Ikikoku under Wei Zhi Wa federation) · Yayoi Iki–Tsushima maritime (Wa – Wei Himiko federation)

Wei Zhi Ikikoku maritime capital (300 BCE–300 CE) at Harunotsuji Iki — 100 ha with 2 km moat, 47 Han mirrors and plaza warehouse.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Kyrykoba Kurgan Field — Sarmatian Royal Cemetery (Aktobe, West Kazakhstan)

Early to Middle Sarmatian (Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian, 500–350 BCE) · Sauromatian–Early Sarmatian (Prokhorovka transitional)

40+ Sarmatian royal mounds (5th–4th c BCE) with 820-g gold torque and Amazon warrior — West Kazakh Ural steppe.

🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village

Campen Plank Road – Emsland Bog Trackway (Landegge)

Early Iron Age (Hallstatt C) · Ems-Hunte Iron Age (Pre-Roman)

1.2-km split-oak corduroy (668 BCE) across Campen Moor — earliest Emsland Bohlenweg.

🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder

Písac (Písaq)

Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1530 CE (built under Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui) · Inca (Quechua, Late Horizon, Sacred Valley expansion)

Inca royal estate and agricultural terraces considered among finest Inca ashlar engineering beyond Machu Picchu: Intihuatana (Sun-hitching stone) solstice-gnomon ridge, Qalla Q'asa fortress on…

🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder

Kish-Ombor Bog Track Cluster (Ballycroy, Mayo)

Neolithic to Iron Age (Céide to La Tène) · Mayo Neolithic to Iron Age

Atlantic blanket bog trackway cluster (35 m asl, 54°07′12″N 09°27′00″W 54.12,-9.45 Ballycroy Owenduff) within Wild Nephin Ballycroy National Park, Neolithic to Iron Age (3700-200 BCE) 7 toghers on…

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city

Uthina (Oudhna)

Numidian to Early Islamic (2nd c BCE–9th c CE; peak 2nd–4th c) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine / Early Islamic

90-ha Augustan veteran colonia with half-buried 16,000-seat amphitheatre and Zaghouan-fed baths.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder

Akkar plain foothills

The Akkar plain foothills are the location of several surface archaeological sites found between Halba and Adbe in Akkar Governorate, Lebanon.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph

Wadi Rum Kite Corridor – Hisma Desert

Late Neolithic · Hisma Neolithic pastoralists

21 Late Neolithic sandstone kites (6000–4500 BCE) against Wadi Rum inselbergs — southernmost Levantine corridor.

🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph

Pampa de Majes Geoglyphs

Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Majes valley

35+ broad trapezoidal geoglyphs (600-900 CE) on Pampa de Majes with 600-m highways converging on cairn huacas.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder

Euxinograd

Euxinograd (Bulgarian: Евксиноград [ɛfˈksinoɡrat], also transliterated as Evksinograd) is a late 19th-century Bulgarian former royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast, 8 kilometres (5.0…

🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city

Akchakhan-Kala (Kazakly-Yatkan)

Kangju–Kushan Khorezmian 200 BCE–200 CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) Zoroastrian

Khorezmian ceremonial city (c.2 c. BCE–2 c. CE) at Kazakly-Yatkan near Beruni — 10 ha double-walled town with ceremonial palace complex (Columned Hall 30×30 m with 20 columns), fire temple, and…

🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city

Lambaesis (Lambèse)

Roman (Flavian to Late antique; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber

Headquarters of Legio III Augusta 81–238 CE with Praetorium aedicula, amphitheatre and 3,000+ Latin inscriptions.

🇳🇪 Niger · Archaeological wonder

Bura Culture (Bura-Asinda-Sikka)

Late Iron Age (3rd–13th c CE) · Bura

834-tomb iron funerary field 3rd–13th c with equestrian terra-cotta sculptures and urn spears.

🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder

Dibba Al-Hisn

Dibba Al-Hisn (Arabic: دبا الحصن, white Dibba) is a semi-exclave of the emirate of Sharjah, one of the seven United Arab Emirates.

🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan

Uyuk Valley Second Kurgan Terrace (North Arzhan Satellite)

Early Iron Age (Arzhan-Chertomlyk) · Arzhan (Early Scythian / Saka Royal)

Second terrace north of Uyuk River (950 m, 52°03′N 93°51′E) in the Tuva Valley of the Kings, complementing Arzhan 1 (9th c BCE) and Arzhan 2 (7th c BCE) on south terrace and Tunnug 1 (9th c) centre.

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city

Utica

Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Late Antique · Phoenician / Roman

Phoenician port 1101 BCE now 12 km inland due to siltation; Roman capital of Africa with waterfall mosaic house.

🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Ghirza (Gerisa)

Roman to Islamic (1st–7th c; peak 3rd–4th c) · Libyan (Nasamones) / Roman / Byzantine

Desert frontier with 40 tower temple-tombs, foggara dams and Libyan relief ethnography 150 km inland.

🇯🇪 Jersey · Archaeological wonder

La Motte, Jersey

La Motte (French pronunciation: [la mɔt]) is a tidal island, and listed archaeological site, also known as Green Island, located in the Vingtaine de Samarès in the parish of St Clement on the…

🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Deorkothar

Maurya 3 c. BCE → Sunga 2–1 c. BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Maurya → Sunga Buddhist (Ashokan sphere)

Four-stupa Mauryan–Sunga Buddhist hilltop complex (3 c. BCE–6 c. CE) on Vindhyan escarpment between Rewa and Prayag.