🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Didyma Temple of Apollo
Hellenistic to Roman 313 BCE–558 CE · Greek (Milesian) and Roman Imperial
Giant unfinished oracle temple with 19.7 m columns and Sacred Way to Miletus.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huánuco Pampa
Inca Late Horizon 1460–1532 CE · Inca (Wanka mitma)
Inca storehouse city 500 qollqas on Qhapaq Ñan, 1460–1532 CE.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Archaeological Site of Carthage
Punic to Byzantine (814 BCE–698 CE; Punic peak 550–146 BCE; Roman from 44 BCE) · Phoenician/Punic / Roman / Byzantine / Vandal
Phoenician metropolis founded 814 BCE by Tyrian princess Elissa (Dido), Carthage became Mediterranean superpower until Third Punic War destruction 146 BCE, then rebuilt as Roman Africa capital.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Hatra
Parthian to Sassanian (c.200 BCE–241 CE) · Parthian-Arab (Hatrene Aramaic) / Hellenistic influence
Fortified Parthian-Arab desert city (2nd c BCE–241 CE) with circular walls 6.4 km circuit resisting Trajan (117) and Septimius Severus (198).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Dolmen Avenue Mideast 56 — Israel Region 8
Period Medieval · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Dolmen Avenue Mideast 56 — Israel Region 8 in Israel Region 8, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Temple complex
My Son Sanctuary
Champa Kingdom 4th–13th c CE (peak 7th–12th c) · Cham Hindu (Shaiva, formerly Champa)
Champa Hindu temple valley (4th–13th c CE) with 70 red-brick Shaiva towers (kalan) along Thu Bon River, the longest continuous Hindu-Byzantine tradition in Vietnam.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Mont Saint-Michel Bay — Tombelaine Priory Tidal Islet
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
Raqchi — Temple of Wiracocha
Inca Late Horizon 1430–1532 CE · Inca (Tawantinsuyu)
Inca temple 92 m, 11 m wall, 152 qollqas, Wiracocha oracle.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi al-Qattafi Kite Field (Three-Arm Wadi System)
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.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar de Huasco North Bofedal Geoglyphs (Northern Peatland Terrace)
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
Camarones South Escarpment Geoglyphs (Southern Gorge Rim)
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
Kodumanal
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
Jabal Wisad Central Plateau Kites (Central Wisad Basalt Table)
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.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Zuojiang Huashan East Cliff — Fusui Mingjiang Rock Paintings
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
Yinshan East Panel — Daqingshan Wolf Mountain Petroglyphs
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
Choapa Pampa Geoglyphs (Salamanca–Los Vilos Corridor)
El Molle to Diaguita–Inca · Choapa–Diaguita agropastoralists
Southern fringe geoglyphs at Choapa (31°S): 12 transitional figures marking trans-Andean pass to Argentina.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Longyou Grottoes
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.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Temple of Eshmun — Bustan el-Sheikh, Sidon
Persian (Achaemenid) to Roman Imperial · Phoenician Sidonian; Achaemenid Persian patronage; Hellenized then Romanized
Phoenician Asclepieion 529 BCE–300 CE on Awali/Bostrenos: Throne of Astarte and baby votive healing pool.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hydraulic works
Eifel Aqueduct (Eifelwasserleitung) — Roman Aqueduct to Cologne
Roman Imperial (Flavian to Late Roman, 1st–3rd c CE) · Roman Gallo–German (Colonia Agrippina)
95-km Flavian Roman concrete aqueduct (c.80 CE) delivering 20,000 m³/day from Eifel springs to Cologne.
🇱🇦 Laos · Archaeological wonder
Vilabouly (Sepon Copper Belt)
Bronze Age copper 2000 BCE–500 CE (Sepon culture) → Iron Age · Sepon Copper culture (Vilabouly Bronze, Truong ceramic? → Iron Age Laotian)
Ancient copper production complex and mine–foundry network (c.2000 BCE–700 CE) in the Vilabouly–Sepon valley of Savannakhet, Laos — 30 km copper smelting corridor excavated 2006–14 by Franco-Lao…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Nafud Desert Kites - Hail Fringe
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic, Nafud Neolithic · Northern Arabian Neolithic hunters
22 sand-edge desert kites (5500-4200 BCE) at Nafud-Hail fringe with pit-traps cut into calcrete, oryx drive along dune corridors.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Boralday Saka Kurgans (Boralday Steppe Necropolis)
Early Saka (Scythian) Iron Age · Saka Tigrakhauda (pointed-hat Sakas)
Saka steppe royal cemetery 28 km from Almaty: 81 kurgans 45-105 m with tigrine gold plaques.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Xinglongwa
Xinglongwa culture 6200–5400 BCE → Zhaobaogou → Hongshan · Xinglongwa (Liao River Neolithic, Proto-Mongolic?)
Type-site for Xinglongwa culture (c.6200–5400 BCE, 8200–7400 BP) on the Aohan hills near Chifeng, Inner Mongolia — earliest Neolithic on the Mongolian plateau, 120 pit-house village with central…
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Awazu Shell Midden
Incipient Jomon (12000) → Early Jomon 8000–6000 BCE (Jomon lakeshore forager) · Jomon (Lake Biwa Incipient–Early Jomon)
Incipient–Early Jomon lakeshore shell midden (c.12000–6000 BCE) on Lake Biwa eastern bank at Awazu, Otsu — 0.8 ha freshwater shell mound (Seta shijimi clam) excavated 1962–86 by Shiga Prefecture,…