🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Dahekou III East Baiyin Rock Art
Late Neolithic to Bronze · Majiayao, Qijia, Siba (Gansu corridor Neolithic–Bronze)
2025 east-bank Yellow River deer paintings opposite Dahekou west bank pecked panels.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Dahekou Yellow River — Baiyin Pingchuan East Bank Petroglyphs
Late Neolithic to Qin–Han (3000 BCE – 200 CE) · Qiang-related pastoralist Hexi corridor culture
Two-panel deer and archer ochre hillside at Yellow River east bank, 3000–4000 BP.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Bingling Temple Lower Grottoes — Liujia Gorge Yellow River Cliffs
Western Jin to Yuan (300 – 1300 CE) · Buddhist Hexi nomad to Tang imperial
Lower cliffs with 420 CE earliest inscribed cave 169 of 169 caves at Liujia Reservoir.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Ras Motte
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Ancient City of Ras Motte in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Ruins of Jala
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Ruins of Jala in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Pura
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Ancient City of Pura in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Pediment Chapel
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ancient City of Pediment Chapel in Ancash, Peru is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇦🇺 Australia · Megalith
Wurdi Youang Stone Arrangement
Wathaurong estimated pre-contact >11,000 years? Potentially 5,000–10,000 BP; verified historical · Wathaurong Aboriginal
50 m egg-shaped (~50×35 m) stone arrangement with 100 basalt boulders (20 kg–500 kg) with Aboriginal Wathaurong alignment to equinox and solstice sunsets over distinct outlier stones.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Kafara South Embankment — Wadi Garawi Secondary Dam Wing
Old Kingdom Early Dynastic–3rd Dynasty (2700 – 2600 BCE) · Egyptian Old Kingdom (Sneferu–Djoser period)
South wing of oldest masonry dam 2650 BCE 113 m long unfinished collapse in Wadi Garawi.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Wadi Dhana South Dam — Sabaean Southern Oasis Spillway
Sabaean to Himyarite (800 BCE – 575 CE) · Sabaean Kingdom (Saba) and Himyarite maintenance
South dam and spillway of Sabaean 763 m rock-fill marvel feeding southern oasis.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Yungang Western Cliffs — Datong Grottoes West End Caves
Northern Wei to Liao (453 – 525 CE peak) · Buddhist Tanyao imperial under Emperor Wencheng
Western 5 caves 40–45 with Tanyao Buddhas 15 m of Northern Wei Pingcheng capital.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash Araköl Lake — Mid-Mountain Boulder Field
Early Iron Age to Karakhanid (800 BCE – 1000 CE) · Saka to Kyrgyz–Karakhanid nomad
Mid-bench tarn with herder and Arabic blessing graffiti 600 m below plateau.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Augila Oasis Complex
Garamantian to Islamic (5th c. BCE–present) · Garamantian / Berber / Islamic
Herodotean palm grove oasis with foggaras and ksour granaries (200 chambers).
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Ditch-Newton Archaeological Complex
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Ditch-Newton Archaeological Complex in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Ubaid culture.