🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Colossus of Rhodes site
Hellenistic 292–280 BCE; destroyed 226 BCE · Greek Rhodian (Hellenistic)
33-m bronze sun-god toppled by earthquake 54 years after raising.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs
Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche
30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sicca Veneria (El Kef) – Numidian Cult Citadel
Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine · Numidian / Roman
Cliff-top Venus cult city of Numidia–Rome, now kasbah-crowned El Kef.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Gò Mun
Gò Mun 1200–700 BCE (Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun → Dong Son) · Red River Gò Mun (Vietic Austroasiatic) — last pre-Dong Son Bronze
Phùng Nguyên successor culture site (c.1200–700 BCE, Gò Mun culture) near the Phùng Nguyên village group on the Red River western terrace — type-site excavated 1969 by Ha Van Tan, bridging Đồng Đậu…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Locmariaquer Pierres Plates South Chamber
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Locmariaquer Pierres Plates South Chamber in Brittany, Locmariaquer, France is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Eaton (Eau Brink) Peat Trackway (Cambridgeshire Fens)
Bronze Age to Iron Age · Fenland Bronze Age / Iron Age (East Anglian)
Fen-edge timber trackway (18 m asl, 52°21′N 00°03′E approx 51.78,0.65 Many River fen edge) bridging the prehistoric fen causeway zone between dryland and Flag Fen basin (Flag Fen Bronze Age 1300 BCE)…
🇳🇬 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.
🇯🇵 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,…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Samrong Sen
Samrong Sen Neolithic 1500–500 BCE → Bronze 500 BCE–200 CE → early Chenla · Samrong Sen (Mekong Neolithic rice, Austroasiatic Khmer ancestor?)
Oldest Khmer Neolithic mound and cemetery (c.1500 BCE–200 BCE, Samrong Sen culture) on the Tonle Sap west bank near Kampong Chhnang — 7 ha hill slope with 3 m shell-rich layers excavated 1901–02 by…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Jebel Hasma Mustatil Field North (Tabuk)
Late Neolithic (Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic) · Northern Arabian Late Neolithic (Hisma facies)
Northern mustatil concentration on the Hisma sandstone plateau (1,050 m, 28.50°N 36.80°E) north of Tabuk, extending the Harrat-based mustatil province south-eastward into sandstone.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Xlapak
Maya Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE · Maya (Puuc Chenes)
Puuc mosaic palace with stacked Chaac masks, 600–900 CE.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Ughtasar North Plateau Caravanserai
Late Bronze to Medieval Silk Road · Urartian, Medieval Armenian (Zakarid), Seljuk
North plateau caravanserai rock-shelter with medieval caravan petroglyphs at 2820 m.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Archaeological wonder
Truong Son
Hoabinhian 10,000–8000 BCE → Son Vi → Sa Huynh 1000 BCE–200 CE → War layer 1965–75 · Hoabinhian → Sa Huynh
Truong Son = Annamite highland caves (Hoabinhian→Sa Huynh, 10 ka–500 CE) on Hai Van crest (task-highlight).
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Tiryns Cyclopean Gallery North
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Tiryns Cyclopean Gallery North in Peloponnese, Tiryns, Greece is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Bashidang
Pengtoushan late 7000–5000 BCE → Zaoshi 5800–5000 BCE · Pengtoushan (Middle Yangzi late) → Zaoshi transitional
Moated Neolithic town (c.7000–5000 BCE, Pengtoushan culture late phase) at Bashidang on the Li River swamp south of Pengtoushan — 3 ha circular settlement with earthen wall and ditch, excavated…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Kurgan
Bayan-Undur Kurgan & Deer Stone Field (Khövsgöl)
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Khirigsuur / Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex) · Mongolian Late Bronze pastoral
Steppe-forest ecotone kurgan and deer-stone complex (1,580 m, 46°29′28″N 104°07′07″E 46.4912N 104.1186E Bayan-Öndör) bridging Mongolian Khirigsuur (Late Bronze 1300-700 BCE) and deer stone-khirigsuur…
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Lamluda
Libyan to Roman (500 BCE–300 CE) · Libyan / Greek / Hellenistic
Libyan shaft necropolis with betyl horseman stela and Hooded-figure Karst chambers 500 BCE–300 CE.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art
Dutsen Kongba (Jos Plateau)
Nok to Berom (1500 BCE–present) · Nok / Proto-Berom
Jos Plateau rock-gong complex with 8 granite gongs and Nok scatter.
🇵🇪 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.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mididi
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Byzacena civitas with Antonine arch and Saturn sanctuary (200 stelae).
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Huaishan Rock Petroglyphs — Zhongwei
Bronze Age to Mongol (Xixia 1038–1227 peak) · Northern nomads (Proto-Mongolic, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Xixia Tangut, Mongol)
Helan southernmost Huaishan 800 ibex and shaman faces on Yellow River Tengger bend, Bronze–Xixia patina.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Ojiyana
Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (Mewar)
Middle–Late Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic village (c.3000–1500 BCE) in Bhilwara district, Mewar Plain — 4 ha mound at Ojiyana, 30 km southwest of Bhilwara on the Banas tributary system, excavated 1999–2003…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Bilsk Hillfort – Gelonus
Early Iron Age, Scythian period · Scythian-agrarian (Budini, possibly Geloni Greeks per Herodotus)
4,400-ha 7th-c. BCE Scythian mega-hillfort—largest in Europe, Herodotus's wooden Gelonus candidate.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Khairadih
Chalcolithic (2000–1300) → Black-slipped/Iron (1300–600 BCE) → NBPW–Gupta (600 BCE–600 CE) · Middle Ganga Narhan–Khairadih → NBPW–Buddhist Ganga
Middle Ganga Chalcolithic–Iron Age village (c.2000 BCE–600 CE) on the Ghaghara–Ganga doab at Khairadih near Buxar/Ballia — excavated 1981–83 by Birendra Pratap Singh (BHU Banaras).