🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Bisica Lucana (Henchir Bijga)
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian
Hill municipium with double temples and siphon aqueduct.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Etowah Indian Mounds
Mississippian, Etowah phase 1000–1550 CE · Mississippian (Muscogean ancestors)
19-m Mississippian Temple mound with copper falcon plates and marble effigies.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Mehrgarh
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age 7000–2600 BCE (Mehrgarh Periods I-VIII) · Pre-Harappan / Neolithic Balochistan
Neolithic-Bronze Age farming village and cemetery on Kachi Plain at foot of Bolan Pass, occupied 7000–2600 BCE with mud-brick houses, granaries and early dentistry evidence.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Sarnath
Mauryan 3rd c BCE to Gupta 12th c CE (original 528 BCE) · Indian Buddhist (Mauryan, Gupta)
Sacred Buddhist deer park where Buddha gave first sermon Dhammacakkappavattana 528 BCE setting Wheel of Dharma in motion.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Group of Monuments at Hampi (Vijayanagara)
Vijayanagara Empire 1336–1565 CE (Sangama to Tuluva) · Vijayanagara Hindu (Telugu-Kannada)
Ruined imperial capital of Vijayanagara Empire (1336–1565 CE) sprawling 25 km² on Tungabhadra River among boulder hills.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Seressi (Henchir Oum el-Abouab)
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Municipium on Fahs plain with forum, amphitheatre earthwork and aqueduct feeder.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Earthwork
Konso Cultural Landscape – Terraces & Waka Pillars
Konso · Konso people
UNESCO 2011 masterpiece of intensive hillside drystone terraces 60 km2 by Konso since 17th c (tradition 400 yr), stonewalled towns (paletas) with generation pa poles and waka anthropomorphic grave…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Wadi Faynan — Khirbat Faynan
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4500 BCE+) · Chalcolithic
Wadi Faynan — Khirbat Faynan in Aqaba Governorate, Wadi Araba, Jordan is a Chalcolithic to Byzantine (4500 BCE+) hydraulic attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Blythe Intaglios
Late Prehistoric 1000–1500 CE (OSL), possibility Protohistoric · Mojave/Quechan; Patayan culture
Mojave giant desert figures: 50-m human intaglios above Colorado River.
🇹🇩 Chad · Ancient city
Njimi (N'jimi) – Capital of Kanem Empire
Early Islamic / Sahelian · Kanembu / Sayfawa Kanem
Dune-shrouded metropolis of Kanem (Sayfawa dynasty, 700–1380 CE) of 30,000 at lake-high stand, hub of trans-Saharan slave–gold–textile trade with Ifriqiya.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient city
Silchester Roman Town
Iron Age to Roman (25 BCE–450 CE) · Atrebates / Roman
Silchester Roman Town in Hampshire, South East England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age to Roman (25 BCE–450 CE) ancient city attributed to Atrebates / Roman culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Taparura
Berber-Punic to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Berber-Punic-Roman civitas beneath Sfax with salting vats and church mosaics.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Howick Mesolithic House
Mesolithic (7800 BCE) · Mesolithic Howick
Howick Mesolithic House in Northumberland, North East England, United Kingdom is a Mesolithic (7800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Mesolithic Howick culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Knossos Palace
Minoan Neopalatial 1700–1450 BCE, origin 1900 BCE Old Palace · Minoan civilization
Minoan palatial maze of 1300 rooms - Labyrinth origin and Europe's first advanced palace.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Housesteads Roman Fort
Roman (124–400 CE) · Roman (Hadrianic)
Housesteads Roman Fort in Northumberland, Hadrian's Wall, United Kingdom is a Roman (124–400 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman (Hadrianic) culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Gobedra Rock Shelter – Aksum's Hinterland
Later Stone Age / Aksumite · Pre-Aksumite / Aksumite
45 m long granite shelter with paintings of plough oxen, humpless cattle and inscriptions, plus 13 ka LSA through Aksumite stratigraphy.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Must Farm Pile Dwelling
Late Bronze Age (1000–800 BCE) · Deverel-Rimbury
Must Farm Pile Dwelling in Cambridgeshire, The Fens, United Kingdom is a Late Bronze Age (1000–800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Deverel-Rimbury culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Phaistos Palace
Minoan 1900–1400 BCE, peak Neopalatial · Minoan
Minoan hilltop palace where undeciphered Phaistos Disc was found in 1908.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Arbeia Roman Fort
Roman (160–400 CE) · Roman (Severan)
Arbeia Roman Fort in Tyne and Wear, North East England, United Kingdom is a Roman (160–400 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman (Severan) culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Vindolanda Roman Fort
Roman (85–410 CE) · Roman
Vindolanda Roman Fort in Northumberland, South of Hadrian's Wall, United Kingdom is a Roman (85–410 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Taxila
Gandhara 6th c BCE–5th c CE (Achaemenid to late Kushan) · Gandharan / multi-empire (Persian, Greek, Buddhist)
Palimpsest city spanning Gandhara civilization 6th c BCE–5th c CE with three successive cities (Bhir Mound, Sirkap, Sirsukh) and Buddhist monastery complex Dharmarajika.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Poverty Point (Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point)
Late Archaic 1700–1100 BCE (peak 1500–1200 BCE) · Poverty Point culture
Late Archaic earthwork complex (1700–1100 BCE) with six concentric C-shaped ridges (1.2 km outer diameter) and six mounds, including 22 m-high Mound A – one of largest Archaic earthworks in North…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Rudston Monolith
Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) · Grooved Ware
Rudston Monolith in East Yorkshire, Wolds, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) megalithic attributed to Grooved Ware culture.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Great Wall of China (Ancient Segments)
Warring States to Han Dynasty 7th c BCE – 220 CE (early segments); Ming 1368–1644 (classic brick) · Han Chinese (Qin, Han dynasties)
World's longest wall system (21,196 km including branches) with earliest rammed-earth frontier walls from Warring States and Han (7th c BCE–2nd c CE) preserved in Gansu corridor (Han Dunhuang walls),…