🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Tamuda (Tetouan)
Mauretanian to Late Roman (2nd c BCE–5th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Mauri / Phoenician / Roman
Moorish–Roman Tamuda at Tetouan with Punic fort and garum factories destroyed AD 40.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Somnath Temple Gujarat
Chaulukya 11th c. reconstruction; current 1951 · Gujarati Hindu (Chaulukya/Solanki)
Somnath Jyotirlinga – 12 shrines legend first jyotirlinga, at Prabhas Patan Triveni sangam. Chalukya 11th c.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Buried Street Grid Submerged 87 — Italy Region 3
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Buried Street Grid Submerged 87 — Italy Region 3 in Italy Region 3, Italy is a Iron Age submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Hampi Aqueducts and Stepped Tanks
Vijayanagara 14th–16th c. · Vijayanagara Hindu
Hampi hydraulic – Vijayanagara capital's Tungabhadra canal system: 15 km Raya canal, aqueduct on pillars crossing 2-tier, Pushkarini stepped tanks (6.8m deep chlorite schist, geometric black basalt…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat of Gonabad
Achaemenid to Sassanian (~700 BCE – 300 CE) · Persian (Achaemenid, Sassanian)
Possibly the oldest and deepest qanat in Iran, the Qasabeh Qanat of Gonabad extends 33 km with a mother-well 300 m deep — the deepest vertical shaft ever hand-dug.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Deer Stones of the Mongolian Plateau
Late Bronze Age (~1400–700 BCE) · Karakhush / Deer Stone–Khirigsuur culture (Bronze-Age pastoralist)
Over 1,200 granite stelae across Mongolia present stylized reindeer in airborne gallop covering the stone from antler to hoof, interspersed with suns, daggers and human face-belts marking the waist.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Ancient Agora of Athens
Archaic to Roman 600 BCE–267 CE, Classical peak 5th c. BCE · Athenian Greek
Democratic square of Athens with intact Hephaisteion, Stoa of Attalos and Socratic stoa.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Tumulus Cemetery Temple 78 — Egypt Region 6
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Tumulus Cemetery Temple 78 — Egypt Region 6 in Egypt Region 6, Egypt is a Iron Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Mural Hall Europe 75 — Turkey Region 3
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Mural Hall Europe 75 — Turkey Region 3 in Turkey Region 3, Turkey is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Mural Hall Temple 30 — Armenia Region 6
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Mural Hall Temple 30 — Armenia Region 6 in Armenia Region 6, Armenia is a Iron Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Tumulus
Hillfort Rampart Africa 95 — Morocco Region 11
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Hillfort Rampart Africa 95 — Morocco Region 11 in Morocco Region 11, Morocco is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Selinunte Archaeological Park
Archaeic-Classical 651–409 BCE · Greek (Megaran colonists)
Largest Greek archaeological park with colossal unfinished Temple G.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Stone Circle Ridge Americas 33 — Peru Region 9
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Stone Circle Ridge Americas 33 — Peru Region 9 in Peru Region 9, Peru is a Bronze Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Buried city
Tumulus Cemetery Buried 16 — Italy Region 4
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Tumulus Cemetery Buried 16 — Italy Region 4 in Italy Region 4, Italy is a Neolithic buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Kurgan Field Asia 52 — Mongolia Region 4
Period Medieval · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Kurgan Field Asia 52 — Mongolia Region 4 in Mongolia Region 4, Mongolia is a Bronze Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Delos Archaeological Site
Archaeic to Hellenistic-Roman 9th c. BCE–69 BCE, sacred from Bronze Age · Greek (Ionian) to Hellenistic-Roman
Sacred island birthplace of Apollo - entire island is UNESCO open-air museum.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Agrigento Valley of the Temples
Archaeic-Classical Greek 6th–5th c. BCE, peak 480–406 BCE · Greek (Doric Greeks from Gela/Rhodes-Crete)
Greek city ridge with best-preserved Doric temple in world: Concordia.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Atapuerca — Gran Dolina and Galería Trench
Early to Middle Pleistocene · Acheulean / Homo antecessor
Key trench complex (Gran Dolina, Galería, Elefante) in Cueva Mayor-Cueva del Silo system, Sierra de Atapuerca, yielding Homo antecessor (850 ka, TD6), Homo heidelbergensis and earliest cannibalism…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Buried Street Grid Submerged 60 — Egypt Region 12
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Buried Street Grid Submerged 60 — Egypt Region 12 in Egypt Region 12, Egypt is a Bronze Age submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Hydraulic works
Saddang Ancient Canal & Rice Terrace Hydraulics (South Sulawesi Bugis)
Bugis Kingdom to early colonial · Bugis (South Sulawesi) sawah engineers
Bugis lowland hydraulic on Saddang delta: 18 km earthen canals with bamboo bunds feeding 12,000 ha sawah + tambak.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Puquios de la Achirana
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1450 CE · Inca (Quechua) imperial engineers
12 Inca puquios gallery aqueducts (17 km, 1450 CE) of the Achirana canal, Inca ashlar aqueduct feeding Ica Valley.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Temple of Zeus at Aizanoi
Roman Imperial (High Empire) · Roman Phrygia (Aezanitai polis under Rome)
Hadrianic Ionic pseudodipteral 9×15 with intact vaulted cryptoporticus, Phrygian Roman gem.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Buraimi Aflaj System (Oman-UAE Border Oasis)
Iron Age to Modern (Hafit to Islamic) · Hajar oasis (Magan to Islamic)
Cross-border aflaj network (320 m, 24°15′N 55°45′E Buraimi) extending the UNESCO Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman (1207, 2006) from Nizwa-Sharqiyah to the Hajar-Buraimi piedmont.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Earthwork
Engaruka
Iron Age Iraqw / Sonjo (15th–19th c intensive agricultural) · Iraqw / Sonjo (Datoga/Maasai pressure oral)
3,000 ha irrigated stone terrace and furrow system with 500+ compounds and 5 km canals on Rift escarpment – irrigation without state.