🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Raqchi — Temple of Wiracocha
Inca Late Horizon 1430–1532 CE · Inca (Tawantinsuyu)
Inca temple 92 m, 11 m wall, 152 qollqas, Wiracocha oracle.
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🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Medieval (c.1140 CE) · Norman Benedictine
Small tidal granite islet 3.5 km N of Mont Saint-Michel, Neolithic chipping floors under 12th-c priory ruins, now gull colony with restricted access.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Inca Late Horizon 1430–1532 CE · Inca (Tawantinsuyu)
Inca temple 92 m, 11 m wall, 152 qollqas, Wiracocha oracle.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Late Shang Dynasty c.1300–1046 BCE (Anyang period) · Shang Chinese
Late Shang capital (1300–1046 BCE) on Huan River, premier Bronze Age urban site of East Asia covering 30 km² with palatial foundations, royal tombs (Fu Hao intact 76), 150,000 oracle bones with…
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Iron (2000 BCE – 500 BCE) · Karasuk to Pazyryk
River-level terrace with sun disks and yak riders opposite main cliffs.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate Period, Paracas to Nazca culture · Paracas / Nazca
Over 300 geometric and figurative geoglyphs etched by removing dark desert pavement to reveal light subsoil across 450 km² of arid Pampas, including 1.8 km hummingbird, monkey, spider, and trapezoids…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Ghazni, historically known as Ghaznayn or Ghazna, also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana, is a city in southeastern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Ghazni…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Kashkar, also known as Kaskar, (Classical Syriac: ܟܫܟܪ), was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its name appears to originate from Syriac ܟܪܟܐ karḵa meaning "citadel" or "town".
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Claimed Classical vs real Xinguano 800–1600 CE on same ridge · Claimed Atlantean/Carthaginian (Fawcett); real ridge ephemeral Xinguano and later Kalapalo
Phantom Z Ridge — Fawcett's imagined white stone city 25 km from real Kuhikugu; no verification, natural sandstone misread.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) · Black Desert nomadics
Three-arm wadi with 38 kites on basalt mesas above the Qa al-Qattafi playa: densest Black Desert kite field.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early to Middle Neolithic 3200-2800 BCE · Hebridean Neolithic (Unstan/Grooved Ware)
3200 BCE Neolithic timber-laced artificial island (32 m) at Eilean Domhnuill, North Uist - earliest crannog settlement in Scotland.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic 3500 BCE to Norse 1200 CE with broch Iron Age focus · Neolithic Grooved Ware to Iron Age broch to Norse
Stratified broch and settlement mound (3500 BCE - Norse) at Howe, Stromness, Orkney - 7-m type-section for Atlantic Iron Age.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Archaic to Formative (3000 BCE–800 CE) · Tarapacá altiplano foragers to caravan
North bofedal geoglyphs 6 km north of Huasco lagoons: 16 salt-crust figures including rayed anthropomorphs and Collacagua arrow at 3,810 m.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Middle Horizon (Alto Ramírez–Cabuza 400–800 CE) · South bank Camarones gorge groups
23 inverted south escarpment figures 480 m: head-downhill giants + pelican and open trapezoid across from north terrace binocular.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Megalithic Iron Age (500 BCE–100 CE) → Early Historic Sangam Chera 300 BCE–300 CE · Megalithic Tamil → Sangam Early Tamil (Early Historic South India)
Megalithic–Early Historic industrial village and cemetery (c.500 BCE–300 CE) on the Noyyal River near Erode — 40 ha settlement + 40 cairn-circle Megalithic burial ground with menhirs, excavated…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Late to Pottery Neolithic (7200–6200 BCE) · Black Desert PPNB pastoral hunters (Wisad Pools group)
11 central plateau kites 730 m: funnel walls 280–620 m to star pens with chert anvil, highest packing density on Wisad.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tumulus
Scythian Late Classical (4th c BCE, Philip II horizon) · Pontic Scythian (kingdom of Ateas / Late Scythian)
20-m, 110-m largest Pontic kurgan (350–325 BCE) — 80 Greek amphorae and gold gorytos, king Ateas candidate.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Iron Age (Luoyue) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang) Dian-related
Fusui east cliff of UNESCO Huashan 170-m hematite painting with 1100 frog-shamans and bronze drums, 500 BCE–200 CE.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Iron Age · Andronovo-influenced Ordos, Xiongnu
Daqingshan east Yinshan with 1500 petroglyphs, Andronovo chariot and Ordos deer-stone stags, Shang–Xiongnu.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
El Molle to Diaguita–Inca · Choapa–Diaguita agropastoralists
Southern fringe geoglyphs at Choapa (31°S): 12 transitional figures marking trans-Andean pass to Argentina.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Late Saka to Kangju · Lower Syr Darya delta culture
Lowest Central Asian kurgan (55 m) on Syr Darya delta: 42-m brick-vault mound with 4-horse sacrifice.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Late Norse (2700 BCE–14th c CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age Pictish → Norse (Scalloway Jarlshof horizon)
4,000-yr Shetland settlement (2700 BCE–14th c) — 10-m broch with 4 wheelhouses overlain by Norse longhouses at Sumburgh.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian (Shapur I–II) – UNESCO 1315 ensemble · Sasanian with Roman engineer captives
Sasanian Gargar diversion dam (210 m, 9 slots) feeding 47-km handmade canal watering Mianab plain.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tasmola 800-300 BCE · Tasmola Saka (western Saka)
Tasmola culture earthen kurgans (800-300 BCE) with 12-m dromoi catacombs, western Saka type-site at Karaganda.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Warring States to Han (contested) · Yue–Wu contested; possibly Chu or Han
Mystery siltstone quarry silos 30×40 m 10–35 m deep with cavetto walls, 1992 flooded rediscovery.
