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🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
The Castro of Monte Valinhas, alternately the Castro of São João de Valinhas, is an archaeological site in Portugal, in the civil parish of Santa Eulália, in the municipality of Arouca, notable for…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
The Horns of Hattin ( Hebrew: קרני חיטין, romanized: Karnei Hittin; Arabic: قرون حطين, romanized: Qurūn Haṭṭīn) is an extinct volcano with twin peaks overlooking the plains of Hattin in the Lower…
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter
Late Upper Palaeolithic · Epigravettian
Small Epigravettian rockshelter in the Voidomatis Gorge, 2 km from Klithi, with 14,000–10,000 BP deposits including microliths, bone tools and faunal remains of ibex and chamois.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Kunturmarka (Quechua kuntur condor, marka village / storey, Hispanicized spelling Condormarca) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Archaeological wonder
Altyn Tamgan Tarhan inscription or Ihe Ashete inscription is an inscription on a stele erected by Bilge Ishbara Tamgan Tarkhan, the son of Ashina Duoxifu.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
The Lilla Vilunda runestones are three Viking Age memorial runestones that were erected by members of the same family and which are located at Lilla Vilunda (also known as Stallgatan) in Upplands…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Collor (possibly from Quechua quyllur, star) is an archaeological site in Peru. It is situated in the Cajamarca Region, Cajamarca Province, Namora District.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Lödöse (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈlø̂ːˌdøːsɛ]), also known as Gamla Lödöse is a locality situated in Lilla Edet Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden.
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic / Neolithic
Western chambers and exterior talus of Theopetra Cave, whose 130,000-year sequence documents Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Archaeological wonder
The Puerto Hormiga archaeological site is located in the Bolivar department, Colombia, in the lower Magdalena basin near the Caribbean coast. It dates to 4000-3100 BC.
🇴🇲 Oman · Archaeological wonder
al-Akhḍar (literally, the green) in Wadi Samad (22°50'37"N, 58°10'39"E, 577 m altitude) is an archaeological site in Mudhaibi Wilayat Sharqiyah, in Central Oman.
🇿🇲 Zambia · Archaeological wonder
Acheulean / Sangoan · Homo heidelbergensis (?) woodworking
235 m single-drop waterfall with gorge stratigraphy preserving 500–300 ka Acheulean woodwork: 476-ka interlocking logs (world's oldest wooden structure, Barham Nature 2023) and 500 ka mortised timber.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Pictish (7th–9th c.) and Norse (9th–12th c.) · Pictish / Norse (Earldom of Orkney)
Tidal islet at Birsay linked by causeway, famous for Pictish and Norse settlements overlapping. Pictish symbol stones and Norse earldom complex (9th–11th c.) with broch foundations underneath.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huayrapongo (possibly from Quechua wayra wind, punku door) also known as Ventanillas de la Playa El Tambo, is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Archaeological wonder
Gevninge is a small town, with a population of 1,636 (1 January 2026), in Lejre Municipality on the island of Zealand in Denmark.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Hoch Eissa (Arabic: حوش عيسى) is a city in Beheira Governorate, Egypt. The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Hoch Eissa as a nahiyah in the district of Abu Hummus in Beheira Governorate; at that time,…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huamanmarca (possibly from Quechua waman falcon, marka village) (also spelled Huamanmarka or Wamanmarka) is an archaeological site in the region of Cusco, Peru.
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Archaeological wonder
Later Stone Age Ishango · Ishango LSA fisher-foragers
Lakeshore fishing village (25–20 ka LSA) famed for 25,000 barbed bone harpoons and Ishango Bone – baboon fibula with tally marks (perhaps 20 ka lunar calendar or arithmetic, oldest maths artefact,…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Archaeological wonder
Talampaya National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Talampaya) is a national park located in the east/centre of La Rioja Province, Argentina.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Late Iron Age · Bantu / Luo (Kabwa)
Largest of 138 Lake Victoria dry-stone enclosures (15th–19th c), UNESCO 2018. Concentric walls 1–4.2 m high ×51–152 m diam with internal compounds, shafts, and livestock pens.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
North ridge of Tsagaan Salaa valley exposing 200+ Bronze Age horse-herd processions and Early Kalgutinsky ibex, part of 20 km Tsagaan Salaa–Baga Oigor complex dated Late Pleistocene–Turkic.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
See Tira for other sites with similar names. At-Tiri (Arabic: الطيري, romanized: aṭ-Ṭīrī) is a municipality located in the kaza of Bint Jbeil in the Nabatieh Governorate in Lebanon.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Beidha (Arabic: البيضا al-baīḍā, "the white one"), also sometimes Bayda, is a major Neolithic archaeological site a few kilometres north of Petra near Siq al-Barid in Jordan.
🇪🇸 Spain · Cave
Upper Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) · Magdalenian
Major Magdalenian cave on the Sella River with 12 galleries of polychrome paintings (c. 22,000–10,000 BP), including horses, reindeer and famous anthropomorph, plus habitation deposits.
