🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Labyrinth of Hawara
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty c.1860–1814 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Amenemhat III)
Herodotus's 3000-room labyrinth beside Faiyum now rubble field.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Mount Nemrut (Nemrut Dağı)
Hellenistic Commagene (c.62 BCE under Antiochos I Theos) · Commagenian (Armenian/Greek/Persian syncretic) Hellenistic
Hierotheseion (tomb-sanctuary) of Antiochos I of Commagene (69–34 BCE), Nemrut Dağı tops 2,150 m peak with 50 m tumulus of crushed rock surrounded by three terraces bearing 8–10 m colossal seated…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Nagar Pediment Archaeological Complex
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Nagar Pediment Archaeological Complex in Piauí, Brazil is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Qanat Grove
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ancient City of Qanat Grove in Fars Province, Iran is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Bhimbetka Rock Shelters
Upper Paleolithic to Medieval (100,000 BCE – 2nd century BCE – 1500 CE) · South Asian hunter-gatherer to early historic
Cluster of about 750 sandstone shelters on the Vindhyan fringe with a layered sequence of paintings spanning Mesolithic hunting scenes to historic horsemen and battle processions.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Oyu Stone Circles
Late Jomon 2000–1500 BCE · Jomon Late
Twin Late Jomon double-stone circles (2000–1500 BCE) — Manza (46 m dia) and Nonakado (42 m dia) placed either side of prefectural road at Oyu, Kazuno, each concentric with sundial-like 2.1 m central…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburnica (Sidi Ali Belgacem)
Roman (Late Republic to Late Antiquity; peak 1st–3rd c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Veteran colonia near Chemtou with monumental Roman bridge and basilica.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Turunku
Iron Age Nok Culture (500 BCE–500 CE; iron from 550 BCE) · Nok Culture
Turunku in Kaduna's Nok Valley is a Nok Culture iron-smelting precinct and terracotta site, 500 BCE–500 CE, revealing sub-Saharan Africa's earliest iron (c.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Southwest Bajada Geoglyphs (Bajada del Sur)
Formative (600 BCE–800 CE) · Tarapacá–Atacama
Southwest bajada descending from Salar del Sur margin toward Pampa del Tamarugal corridor (2,280 m).
🇳🇵 Nepal · Ancient city
Tilaurakot-Kapilavastu Archaeological Site
Painted Grey Ware to Early Historic 900 BCE–200 CE · Shakya (Koliya confederacy)
Walled city (900 BCE–c.200 CE) identified by P.C. Mukherji (1899) as Kapilavastu — Shakya capital where Prince Siddhartha spent 29 years before Great Renunciation — 1.5×2 km walled enclosure with…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ahar-Banas Culture Sites
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE (Period I–III) · Ahar-Banas / Mewar Chalcolithic
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas culture cluster (3000–1500 BCE) along Ahar and Banas rivers around Udaipur, Rajasthan, copper-working villages exploiting Aravalli Khetri copper belt.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
La Joya
Classic Veracruz 100–1000 CE · Classic Veracruz (Remojadas-Early Gulf)
26-m earthen platform pyramid on Gulf coastal plain, 100–1000 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Naachtun
Maya Classic 150–950 CE · Maya (Naachtun/Masuul and K'an affiliation)
Strategic Classic Maya city between Tikal and Calakmul, 150–950 CE.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Sabratha
Phoenician to Byzantine (c.500 BCE–643 CE; monumental Roman 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
Tripolitanian Phoenician port (5th c BCE) with Hellenistic and then Roman city: Theatre of Sabratha – most complete Roman theatre in Africa (Marcus Aurelius era 175–200 CE, cavea 92.6 m, three-storey…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Shushtar Hydraulic System
Achaemenid foundation to Sassanian peak (5th century BCE – 3rd century CE) · Achaemenid, Sassanid Persian (with Roman engineering)
Sassanid re-engineering of the Karun River where the Band-e Kaisar (Caesar's Dam) — said built by Roman soldiers captured with Emperor Valerian — diverted the river into the Gargar canal feeding 40…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Daimabad
Savalda → Late Harappan → Daimabad → Malwa → Jorwe 2300–1000 BCE · Late Harappan intrusive over Deccan Chalcolithic
Southernmost Harappan outpost (2200–1000 BCE) on Pravara River in Maharashtra, 20 ha mound famous for Daimabad hoard — four Late Harappan bronze sculptures (elephant, rhinoceros, chariot and bull,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Nawamis of the Sinai Desert
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (~4000–3000 BCE) · Sinai pastoralist (Nawamis culture, Timnian)
Fields of roughly 100 dry-stone beehive tombs 2–5 m diameter on the high Sinai plateau between Ein Khudra and Wadi Watir, each a corbelled cairn with single entrance facing west.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Azelik Takedda Copper Smelting Field (Takedda Azelik)
Medieval Trans-Saharan (10th–15th c. CE) · Tuareg / Songhai / Sanhaja
Copper-mining metropolis visited by Ibn Battuta (1353) with 200 mine shafts.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Beng Mealea
Angkor Early–Classical transition · Hindu (Vishnu? Shaiva debated)
Unrestored jungle-strangled temple-city (early 12th c., possibly Suryavarman I–Suryavarman II transition, ~1110–1120) at 110×120 m moated eastern face now collapsed into rubble choked by silk-cotton…
🇮🇳 India · Cave
Jwalapuram — Toba Ash Layer
Middle Palaeolithic (74000 BCE) · Middle Palaeolithic
Jwalapuram — Toba Ash Layer in Andhra Pradesh, Jurreru Valley, India is a Middle Palaeolithic (74000 BCE) cave attributed to Middle Palaeolithic culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Rock art
Fugoppe Cave
Late Jomon to Epi-Jomon / Zoku-Jomon (c.300 BCE–350 CE, figures ~1600 BP) · Zoku-Jomon
Zoku-Jomon rock art cave (800 engravings, ~1600 BP) — winged figures pecked into soft Miocene tuff on Maruyama Hill.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Saywite Monolith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Babylon
Old Babylonian to Neo-Babylonian and Hellenistic (1894 BCE–141 BCE; monumental peak Nebuchadnezzar II 604–562 BCE) · Babylonian / Assyrian / Persian / Hellenistic
Capital of Babylonian empire (1894 BCE–539 BCE) on Euphrates, Babylon at its greatest under Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE): Processional Way, Ishtar Gate (glazed brick dragons and…
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Messak Settafet Rock Art
Neolithic Pastoral ~8000–2000 BP · Pastoral Neolithic Saharan
Fezzan escarpment's elephant and giraffe engravings marking Holocene Sahara greening.