🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Komchen
Formative to Early Classic 350 BCE–600 CE · Maya (Komchen formative)
Formative slate-ware town before Dzibilchaltun, 350 BCE–600 CE.
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🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chola 12th c. (1146–1172 CE) · Chola Hindu (Rajaraja II)
Airavatesvara (1146–1172, Rajaraja II) – Chola chariot temple (Skt ratha) where front mandapa wheels are stone chariot wheels, music steps that resonate seven tones, and yali_balustrade.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Formative to Early Classic 350 BCE–600 CE · Maya (Komchen formative)
Formative slate-ware town before Dzibilchaltun, 350 BCE–600 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Inka Tampu or Inkatampu (Quechua inka Inca, tampu inn, "Inca inn", Hispanicized and mixed spellings Incatambo, Inkatambo, Inca Tambo) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Hatunmarka (Quechua hatun big, marka settlement / storey, "big settlement", hispanicized spelling Hatunmarca, Jatun Malca) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Archaic Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek (Cyrenean) / Roman
Rock-cut shipsheds and breakwater on Phycus headland north of Cyrene.
🇦🇱 Albania · Archaeological wonder
Elbasan Inn is a historic inn in Korçë, Albania. It is said to be several centuries old and the oldest hotel in the city. It is built in the Ottoman architectural style.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Baabda Palace (or Presidential Palace, French: Palais présidentiel de Baabda, Arabic: قصر بعبدا), is the official residence of the President of Lebanon.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Kfar Qouq (and variations of spelling) is a village in Lebanon, situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Pee Dee Mississippian 1150–1400 CE · Pee Dee culture
Pee Dee Mississippian platform mound 1150–1400 CE.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Early Iron Age to Karakhanid (800 BCE – 1000 CE) · Saka to Kyrgyz–Karakhanid nomad
Mid-bench tarn with herder and Arabic blessing graffiti 600 m below plateau.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age 7000–2600 BCE (Mehrgarh Periods I-VIII) · Pre-Harappan / Neolithic Balochistan
Neolithic-Bronze Age farming village and cemetery on Kachi Plain at foot of Bolan Pass, occupied 7000–2600 BCE with mud-brick houses, granaries and early dentistry evidence.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Mauryan 3rd c BCE to Gupta 12th c CE (original 528 BCE) · Indian Buddhist (Mauryan, Gupta)
Sacred Buddhist deer park where Buddha gave first sermon Dhammacakkappavattana 528 BCE setting Wheel of Dharma in motion.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Earthwork
Konso · Konso people
UNESCO 2011 masterpiece of intensive hillside drystone terraces 60 km2 by Konso since 17th c (tradition 400 yr), stonewalled towns (paletas) with generation pa poles and waka anthropomorphic grave…
🇯🇲 Jamaica · Archaeological wonder
Built in 1888, Folly Lighthouse is a brick tower with lantern and gallery. It flashes a white light every 10 seconds that is visible for 13 miles (21 km). The light is solar powered.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Darra-e Kūr or Bābā Darwīsh, is an archaeological site in Badakhshan province in Afghanistan.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Archaeological wonder
The Grassalkovich Palace (Slovak: Grasalkovičov palác, Hungarian: Grassalkovich-palota) is a palace in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the residence of the President of Slovakia.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Pallava Dynasty 580–728 CE (Mamalla and Rajasimha phases) · Tamil / Pallava Hindu (Shaiva/Vaishnava)
Pallava (7th–8th c CE) coastal temple town with 40 rock-cut shrines: Shore Temple granite seaside, Five Rathas monolithic chariot-temples cut from single boulders, Arjuna's Penance 27 m bas-relief,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Machu Pitumarka (hispanicized spelling Machu Pitumarca, Machupitumarca) is an archaeological site with ruins of walls in Peru. It is situated in the Cusco Region, Canchis Province, Pitumarca District.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Archaeological wonder
Le Pinacle is a protruding pinnacle of rock, at the coastal edge of a Les Landes in the north-west of Jersey, with remains and ruins at its base dating from five periods including the Neolithic and…
🇹🇩 Chad · Ancient city
Early Islamic / Sahelian · Kanembu / Sayfawa Kanem
Dune-shrouded metropolis of Kanem (Sayfawa dynasty, 700–1380 CE) of 30,000 at lake-high stand, hub of trans-Saharan slave–gold–textile trade with Ifriqiya.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Khmer Empire, early Angkor period 1113–1150 CE · Khmer (Hindu then Theravada Buddhist)
Vishnuite then Buddhist temple-mountain and world's largest religious monument (162.6 ha), built early 12th century by Suryavarman II as state temple and center of Khmer Empire; oriented west with…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Berber-Punic to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Berber-Punic-Roman civitas beneath Sfax with salting vats and church mosaics.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Wari Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE · Wari (Huari imperial)
Wari mausoleum 64 tombs gold queens 600–800 CE, intact 2012.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Minoan Neopalatial 1700–1450 BCE, origin 1900 BCE Old Palace · Minoan civilization
Minoan palatial maze of 1300 rooms - Labyrinth origin and Europe's first advanced palace.
