🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Alepotrypa Cave
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Final Neolithic / Early Helladic
Vast Neolithic cave complex at Diros Bay, Laconia, used as settlement and burial site 6000–3200 BCE before earthquake sealed entrance.
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🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman to Hafsid (2nd c. BCE–15th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Hilltop municipium with amphitheatre reused as Borj fortress.
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Final Neolithic / Early Helladic
Vast Neolithic cave complex at Diros Bay, Laconia, used as settlement and burial site 6000–3200 BCE before earthquake sealed entrance.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Leuke Kome (Greek: λευκή κώμη, lit. 'white village') was a Nabataean port city located on the Incense Route.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
The Jal Mahal, also known as the Jal Mahal of Narnaul or the Water Palace, is a late 16th century palace, fortification, and artificial lake located in Narnaul, Haryana, India.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Phoenician / Numidian / Roman · Mauretanian / Roman
Splendid royal capital of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene (25 BCE) then capital of Mauretania Caesariensis, with harbour, great theatre, amphitheatre and museums of Greek copies.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Archaeological wonder
Kosmaj (Serbian Cyrillic: Космај, pronounced [kɔ̌smaːj]) is a mountain south of Belgrade. With an elevation of 626 meters, it is the highest point of the entire Belgrade City area and is nicknamed…
🇧🇿 Belize · Archaeological wonder
Bugle Caye Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Belize. The station was originally established in 1885 and has a focal plane 19 m (62 ft).
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Lower Palaeolithic Acheulean · Homo erectus / early Homo
Open-air Acheulean handaxe factory of Homo erectus (1200–400 ka) with in-situ butchery of extinct giant baboon and hippo, with volcanic stratigraphy teaching hominin handaxe evolution from…
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Temple complex
Pagan Kingdom 1044–1287 CE (Bagan period 11th–13th century) · Bamar / Burmese Buddhist (Theravada)
Sacred landscape on Irrawaddy River bend with over 2,200 surviving Buddhist temples, stupas and monasteries from 11th–13th century Pagan Kingdom; at peak >10,000 structures, including Ananda,…
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Claim 9600 BCE (Etna 500 ka volcano) · Pseudo Sicilian / Volcanology
Pseudoarchaeology – Schulten 1927 Tartessos–Sicily Aitna (Etna) Atlantis mirror misplaces Plato's island to Sicily Etna plain; Hausmann 1990s Sicilian Atlantis.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient village
Later Stone Age Kintampo · Kintampo culture
Kintampo culture villages (2100–1400 BCE) with figurative terracotta 'cigars', ground stone axes and pioneering pearl millet + cowpea cultivation evidence (earliest in Ghana).
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Archaeological wonder
The former city of Dehistan/Mashhad-i Misrian (Turkmen: Dehistan), now in the Balkan Region of western Turkmenistan, was a major economic center from the 10th to the 14th centuries CE.
🇳🇴 Norway · Archaeological wonder
The Gokstad Mound (Norwegian: Gokstadhaugen) is a large burial mound at Gokstad Farm in Sandefjord (formerly Sandar municipality) in Vestfold County, Norway.
🇦🇱 Albania · Archaeological wonder
Kardhiq Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Kardhiqit) is a ruined Ottoman Turkish hill fortress located in Kardhiq, southern Albania.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Late Medieval / Tuareg / Songhai · Tuareg (Kel Air) / Songhai tributary
Paired Saharan stations: Agadez (c.1400 Tuareg sultanate capital with 27 m mudbrick minaret) and medieval Takedda copper industrial estate (14th c, Ibn Battuta 1353: 'copper mine of Takadda') 150 km…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Greek to Islamic (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Pentapolis metropolis at Derna with harbour moles and layered cathedral-mosque.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Late Period to Roman (600 BCE–300 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Hermopolis necropolis with 1-million ibis catacombs and Petosiris fusion tomb.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
El Dahir (Somali: Ceel-Daahir) formerly known as El Dofar (Somali: Ceel Doofaar), is a town in Bari, Somalia region of Puntland state of Somalia.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Cave
Early to Late Pleistocene · Oldowan / Mousterian / Kozarnikian
Palaeolithic cave in northwest Bulgaria with 1.6 million year sequence, yielding Early Pleistocene lithics, Homo erectus remains, Middle Palaeolithic layers and Upper Palaeolithic Kozarnikian…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Late Period / Graeco-Roman / Byzantine · Egyptian / Graeco-Roman
Mudbrick gateway fortress guarding Pelusiac Nile branch, scene of Cambyses 525 BCE, Antiochus battles, Pelusium lions legend and Baldwin I death 1118.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Claimed 9600 BCE (Gadir Phoenician 1104 BCE) · Phoenician / Plato
Cádiz Erytheia Phoenician 1104 BCE island claimed Atlantis — no 9600 BCE plain Recorded context — Period: Claimed 9600 BCE (Gadir Phoenician 1104 BCE); Culture: Phoenician / Plato; Field status: not…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek / Roman (Cyrenaica)
Red-soil harbour with bath-kiln and Mid Roman amphora production.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder
Bweni is an administrative ward in Pangani District of Tanga Region in Tanzania. The ward covers an area of 20.6 km2 (8.0 sq mi), and has an average elevation of 33 m (108 ft).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Iron Age to present (500 BCE–present) · Mandara / Wandala / Kanuri
Mandara terrace villages with 10 km stone terraces and iron forges.
