✦Archaeological wonders

🇵🇭 Philippines · Archaeological wonder

Bugui Point Lighthouse

Bugui Point Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse located on Bugui Point in the town of Aroroy, in the northern tip of Masbate Island, province of Masbate, in the Philippines.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient city

Ter

Maurya 300–187 BCE → Satavahana 187 BCE–230 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Satavahana (Periplus Tagara)

Periplus Tagara emporium (300 BCE–400 CE) on Terna — 50+ Roman amphorae and Ter ivory lady with Roman hair, 40 ha rampart.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Tokwa

Neolithic (5500–3500) → Chalcolithic–copper (3500–1300 BCE) · Vindhyan Belan Neolithic–Chalcolithic (Tokwa culture)

Southern Belan Neolithic–Chalcolithic site (c.5000–1300 BCE) at the Vindhya–Ganga junction near the Belan–Tons confluence in Mirzapur district — Tokwa excavated 2000–02 by J.N. Pal and M.C.

🇺🇦 Ukraine · Archaeological wonder

Kerch

Kerch, also known as Kerich, is a city on the Kerch Peninsula in the east of Crimea. It has a population of 147,033 (2014 Census).

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder

Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga

classical antiquity · Kingdom of Numidia

The Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga (Mausoleum of Atban) is an ancient mausoleum located in Dougga, Tunisia.

🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder

Alexandria in the Caucasus

Hellenistic period

Alexandria in the Caucasus (Ancient Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια Alexándreia; medieval Kapisa, modern Bagram) was a colony of Alexander the Great.

🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder

Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus

The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus is a theatre in the Greek city of Epidaurus, located on the southeast end of the sanctuary dedicated to the ancient Greek God of medicine, Asclepius.

🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city

Cucuteni

Eneolithic Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5200–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni–Cucuteni (Western Cucuteni-Trypillia)

Cucuteni (Cucuteni-Cetățuia) — eponymous promontory type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1884 by N. Beldiceanu on Dealul Gosan above Cucuteni village, 30 km west Iași.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder

Dahr Al-Ahmar

Dahr Al-Ahmar (Arabic: ضهر الأحمر, romanized: Dahr al-ʾAḥmar) is a village in Lebanon, situated in the Rashaya District and south of the Beqaa Governorate.

🇿🇲 Zambia · Rock art

Kalambo Falls

Lower Paleolithic to Iron Age (Acheulean to Iron) · Acheulean → Sangoan/Lupemban → Magosian → Iron Age

221-m Kalambo waterfall with 476,000-year-old notched-log structure — earliest wood building.

🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Berenice (Benghazi) - Berenike

Archaic Greek to Islamic (6th c BCE–7th c CE; Hellenistic–Roman peak) · Greek / Ptolemaic / Roman / Jewish / Byzantine

Ptolemaic queen-city beneath Benghazi with salt-marsh promontory, Jewish menorah mosaic and silted harbour.

🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site

Neapolis (Nabeul)

Punic to Byzantine (5th c BCE–7th c CE; garum peak 1st–3rd c) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine

20-ha partly submerged garum metropolis with 80 cetariae and tsunami-drowned waterfront since 365 CE.

🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Old Town of Ghadames

Roman to Modern (19 BCE–present; medieval ksar 7th c CE onward) · Garamantine / Berber Ibadi / Arab / Ottoman

UNESCO saharan ksar Ghadames — whitewashed roof-terrace oasis fed by Ain Al Faras.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder

Darbechtar

Darbechtar (Arabic: دار بعشتار), also known as Darb Ishtar, is a village located on the South-Eastern periphery of the Koura District in the North Governorate of the Republic of Lebanon.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus

Korgantas Tasmola Kurgan 1 — Karaganda Tasmola Type-Site

Early Iron Age (Early Saka, Tasmola culture, 8th–5th c BCE) · Tasmola (early Saka, Central Kazakhstan)

Tasmola royal dromos kurgan (760–520 BCE) 45 m — eponymous early Saka mound with 200 gold plaques.

🇮🇳 India · Temple complex

Kanaganahalli

Mauryan 3rd c BCE → Satavahana 1st c BCE–3rd c CE · Mauryan–Satavahana Buddhist (Bhima valley)

Kanaganahalli — mega Buddhist stupa complex (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) 3 km SE Sannati on Bhima River, Kalaburagi, excavated 1994–2002 by Karnataka Archaeology Dept (K.P. Poonacha).

🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art

Brandberg (White Lady Rock Art)

Later Stone Age to Recent (130 ka occupation; paintings 2000 BCE–1000 CE) · San hunter-gatherers (Damara area ancestors)

2,573 m inselberg with >1,000 rock shelters, including Maack 'White Lady' 2,000 BCE shaman panel and 45,000 individual paintings.

🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city

Semna and Kumma Fortresses

Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (1900–1070 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier

Twin customs forts Semna–Kumma bracketing Second Cataract with Sesostris III's negro-ship decree.

🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder

Governor Aker Observatory

Governor Aker Observatory is an astronomical observatory, part of Eastern Arizona College's Discovery Park Campus (formerly known as Discovery Park) in Safford, Arizona (US).

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Archaeological wonder

Koshoy Korgon

Koshoy Korgon or Qoshoy Qorgon (Kyrgyz: Кошой Коргон [qoʃoj qorʁón]) is a ruined fortress of uncertain date located in At-Bashy District, Kyrgyzstan.

🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city

Chellah (Sala Colonia)

Roman to Merinid (1st c CE to 14th c) · Roman / Mauretanian / Merinid Islamic

Roman port Sala Colonia beneath Merinid walled necropolis with stork-colonised minaret and Roman spolia throughout Islamic masonry.

🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Chandoli

Deccan Jorwe Chalcolithic 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic 700 BCE–100 CE · Jorwe (Deccan Early Farming) → Megalithic–Vidarbha

Largest Jorwe urn cemetery (1400–1000 BCE) in Sangli — 42 burials with amputated legs and copper bangles under houses.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city

Karanis (Kom Aushim)

Ptolemaic to Late Roman (3rd c BCE–5th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman

Ptolemaic–Roman grain city Karanis with 85 ha mudbrick and papyri archive.