🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Oea (Tripoli)
Phoenician to Ottoman (7th c BCE–present) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Islamic
Phoenician Emporion under Tripoli with 163 CE tetrapylon arch of Marcus Aurelius and silted harbour.
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🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Phoenician to Modern (7th c BCE–present; peak Punic 5th–3rd c BCE and Roman 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Medieval Spanish
Punic–Roman promontory citadel Russadir forming core of Melilla la Vieja.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Phoenician to Ottoman (7th c BCE–present) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Islamic
Phoenician Emporion under Tripoli with 163 CE tetrapylon arch of Marcus Aurelius and silted harbour.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Late Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Wusun, Turkic
Central tributary gorge of the Tamgaly (Tanbaly) UNESCO landscape 170 km NW Almaty, comprising 4.5 km of northwest-facing Chu-Ili schist panels with ~800 engravings.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Haifa Lee Breakwater Light is a lighthouse in Haifa, Israel. It is located at the end of the quay serving as the inner breakwater of the Port of Haifa.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Amlaq Qatih or Amlaq el Qatih is a Heavy Neolithic archaeological site of the Qaraoun culture that is located 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) northwest of Baaloul, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Qaraoun,…
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Outer Delphi Ridge Central — Delphi (60-37) at Delphi, Greece is a Medieval (regional) archaeological wonder of the Medieval tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Archaeological wonder
Djarkutan (also Dzharkutan; Uzbek: Jarqoʻton) is a prehistoric proto-urban settlement in Uzbekistan and a center of ancient civilizations in Bactria, the area from which may be the founder of the…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Roman Imperial (18 CE–4th c. CE; peak Hadrianic 130–200 CE) · Roman
Mons Porphyrites (Jabal Abu Duhhan) is the world's only imperial porphyry source, 950 m Red Sea mountain, producing purple leucocratic andesine porphyry monolithic columns and sarcophagus of…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Maya civilization
La Amelia is a Pre-Columbian Maya archaeological site near Itzan, in the lower Pasión River region of the Petén Department of Guatemala.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Great Hattusa Temple I — Hattusa (60-25) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Medieval (regional) archaeological wonder of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 CE for temple and associated settlement.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
The Chavarri Palace (Spanish: Palacio Chávarri) is a building in the Flemish style in the city of Bilbao, the most outstanding around the Elíptica Square.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Kelteminar Neolithic (4000–3000) → Kangju–Khorezmian 4 c. BCE–1 c. CE · Kelteminar → Khorezmian (Chorasmian)
Khorezmian desert fortress (c.4 c. BCE–1 c. CE) in the Uyaz valley of Karakalpakstan — small rectangular fort 200×170 m with 10 bastions and Neolithic Dzhanbas-4 settlement 2 km away (Kelteminar…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Archaeological wonder
Juhor (Serbian Cyrillic: Јухор, pronounced [jûxɔr]) is a mountain in central Serbia, near the city of Paraćin. Its highest peak, Veliki Vetren, is at an elevation of 774 metres above sea level.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Badia Neolithic peak-pass hunters
Jabal Ithnayn twin-peak gap: 5 kites using two 35-m basalt peaks as natural funnel walls.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan to Ikshvaku 300 BCE–400 CE · Satavahana / Ikshvaku
Largest Buddhist stupa in Deccan (c.300 BCE–300 CE), 50 m diameter drum plus 15 m high dome and 42 m high railing, capital of Satavahana (Andhra) empire's Buddhist centre Dhanyakataka.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Archaeological wonder
The Ruins of Quilmes is an archaeological site in the Calchaquí Valleys, Tucumán Province, Argentina. The site was the largest pre-Columbian settlement in the country, occupying about 30 hectares.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7200–6200 BCE) · PPNB Black Desert hunters
West hamada piedmont 6 km west of Jabal Wisad inselberg (690 m) on flat basalt pavement with scattered chert.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Armant (Arabic: أرْمَنْت; Ancient Egyptian: jwn.w-n-mnṯ.w or jwn.w-šmꜥ.w; Bohairic: ⲉⲣⲙⲟⲛⲧ; Sahidic: ⲣ̄ⲙⲟⲛⲧ), also known as Hermonthis (Ancient Greek: Ἕρμωνθις), is a town located about 19 km (12…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Shunga 187–78 BCE · Shunga (Maurya successors)
Great Shunga Buddhist stupa (c.150 BCE) whose 8 m-high gateway and 3.2 m limestone railing — longest early Indian stone railing (40 m diameter stupa) — was dismantled in 1873–76 by Cunningham and is…
🇨🇱 Chile · Archaeological wonder
Lasana is a small village located 40 km (25 mi) northeast of the city of Calama in the Calama province of Chile's northern Antofagasta Region. It sits along the banks of the Loa River.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (~3000–1500 BCE; Callanish I ~2900 BCE, satellites 2000–1500 BCE) · Late Neolithic Hebridean (Grooved Ware to Beaker)
Six stone circles and ellipses arrayed within 1.5 km of the Calanais I cross-shaped megalith – primary in the database – extend the main alignment: Callanish II (stone ellipse of 7 slabs), Callanish…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca coastal 1470–1532 CE · Inca (coastal Pisco Chinchaysuyu)
Best-preserved polychrome Inca adobe palace enclosure on Pisco coast, 1470–1532 CE.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (8000 BCE–1500 CE) · Kansyore fishers → Elmenteitan herders → Urewe Iron Age Bantu
Stratified river terrace Gogo Falls — Kansyore fisher sequence at Kuja rapids.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Gravettian–Solutrean ~27–19 ka BP · Gravettian–Solutrean coastal
Submerged 27 ka painted cave 37 m under Mediterranean with great-auk and hand stencils.
