🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Choquequirao
Inca Imperial 1450–1530 Neo-Inca to 1572 · Inca (Pachacuti? Topa Yupanqui)
Inca cloud-city with white stone llamas paving terraces above Apurimac canyon.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Kajuru Hill Settlement
Iron Age to Late Medieval (500 BCE–1800 CE) · Nok–Koro–Atyap continuum
Kajuru Hills are dramatic inselberg hillforts above southern Kaduna plain, occupied Nok-terminal to Koro–Atyap phases 500 BCE–1800 CE, with dry-stone terracing and hilltop granaries akin to Sukur's…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Phnom Bakheng
Angkor Yasodharapura 889–928 · Hindu Shaiva (Linga)
Mountain-temple on 65 m natural Bakheng hill (c.889–910 CE, Yasovarman I) at centre of first Angkor capital Yasodharapura, five-tier pyramid with 108 shrines plus central quincunx representing Mt.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Vazi Sarara
Punic/Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Vazi Sarara (Henchir Bez) is an inland Byzacena/ Africa Proconsularis colonia on the Siliana plain, founded as peregrine civitas and promoted colonia under Probus.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Oshoro Stone Circle
Late Jomon (c.1500 BCE) · Late Jomon
Sea-bluff Jomon stone circle (1500 BCE, 33×22 m oval, 440 stones) — burial and market above Sea of Japan.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Wamanmarca
Wari to Inca 1000–1532 CE · Wari–Cusco–Inca
Terraced Wari–Inca ushnu spring shrine on Cusco–Abancay road, 1000–1532 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Nakbe
Maya Preclassic 1400 BCE–100 CE · Maya (Mirador Basin Preclassic)
46-m Preclassic triadic pyramid, earliest monumental Maya 1400 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Toro Muerto Petroglyphs
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate ~900–1450 CE · Wari to Collagua / Inca fringe
5,000-boulder petroglyph desert - world's densest - Wari-Collagua dancers over 10 km².
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Khoit Tsenkher South Gallery — Chandmani Base Cave Art
Upper Paleolithic to Mesolithic (19,000–8000 BCE) · Malta-Buret related early Holocene hunter
Sun-facing lower gallery with 15 ka ibex/ostrich ochre and pecked figures 220 m below main cave.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Long Man of Wilmington
Early Modern likely 16th–17th c.; Bronze Age claim unproven · Early Modern British; alternate prehistoric hypothesized
69-m hill figure with staffs on South Downs, enigmatic later date.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza
Late Classic to Postclassic Maya (9th–12th c. CE; Toltec-Maya fusion) · Maya (Itza) with Toltec influence
El Castillo (c.900–1100 CE) – 24m nine-step pyramid with 91 steps per stair plus top platform (365), dedicated to Kukulkan feathered serpent.
🇳🇦 Namibia · Rock art
Twyfelfontein Rock Engravings
Late Stone Age to early pastoral (6000 BCE – 1000 CE) · San hunter-gatherer (Ju/'hoansi ancestors)
Namibia's sole UNESCO World Heritage site besides Brandberg, Twyfelfontein holds over 2,500 engravings pecked into a 600-m sandstone outcrop of Etjo formation.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pyramid Outlier Europe 51 — Turkey Region 3
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Pyramid Outlier Europe 51 — Turkey Region 3 in Turkey Region 3, Turkey is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Badaling Great Wall
Ming Dynasty 1505 (Jiajing) rebuild over Northern Qi core · Ming Han Chinese
Best-preserved Ming Great Wall pass (1505) at 1,015 m Juyongguan defile north of Beijing, 7.8 m high crenellated brick-stone ramparts with 19 watchtowers, widened for five horses abreast and beacon…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Mumba Rock Shelter (Lake Eyasi) – Middle Stone Age Stratigraphy
Middle Stone Age / Later Stone Age · Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers
60 m deep sequence from Acheulean bifaces to 30 ka ostrich-eggshell beads and 19 ka geometric microliths bridging Middle Stone Age–Neolithic. Rock paintings overlie MSA horizons.
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Pueblo Bonito - Chaco Canyon Great House
Chacoan Phenomenon 828–1126 CE · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) Chaco
Pueblo Bonito – Chaco's 800-room D-shaped great house (828–1126 CE), 4 stories, 650 rooms, theatral central plaza and 32 kivas, aligned to cardinal directions and Chaco meridian.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
La Quemada Archaeological Zone
Classic–Epiclassic 350–900 CE · Northern Mesoamerican frontier
Northern hill fortress Salón de Columnas, 350–900 CE, Chicomóztoc candidate.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Pyramid Outlier Asia 83 — Japan Region 11
Period Medieval · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Pyramid Outlier Asia 83 — Japan Region 11 in Japan Region 11, Japan is a Iron Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Axel Heiberg Lost City North — Pozzuoli Bay (Naples)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Classical
Axel Heiberg Lost City North in Pozzuoli Bay, Italy is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Dolmen Avenue Temple 40 — Greece Region 4
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Dolmen Avenue Temple 40 — Greece Region 4 in Greece Region 4, Greece is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numlulis (Henchir el-Maabda)
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian
Cliffside municipium with mausolea and nymphaeum over waterhole.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Pomoná
Maya Late Classic 600–900 CE · Maya (Pomoná Pacbul?)
Hill-terraced Maya port with Palenque war record, 600–900 CE.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash West Lake Shelf Petroglyphs
Saka to Qarakhanid · Saka, Wusun, Qarakhanid
Lake-margin boulder bar at the tarn below Saimaluu-Tash West cirque, a 400-m shoreline shelf with 180 panels on glacially-rafted quartzite.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Capsa (Gafsa) – Fossatum Oasis City
Capsian Mesolithic / Numidian / Roman / Byzantine · Capsian then Numidian / Roman
Artesian oasis pools of Roman Capsa, type-site of Capsian Mesolithic.