🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
Classical 429–400 BCE · Ancient Greek Arcadian (Phigalian)
Iktinos' mountain Apollo temple mixing all three orders with earliest Corinthian capital.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Sora Cave of Swimmers
Early to Mid Holocene (6000–3000 BCE) · Saharan pastoral Neolithic (Gilf Kebir)
Wadi Sora (Wadi Sura) Cave of Swimmers (Cave II) in Gilf Kebir is Saharan pastoral rock art 6000–3000 BCE, famous for 1933 Almasy discovery of 'swimming' floating figures (actually swimming in wadi…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Plazuelas
Epiclassic Bajío 600–900 CE · Bajío Tradition (Northern frontier)
Hilltop city with 1,324 rock-carved building models, 600–900 CE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Tre-Fell
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Ancient City of Tre-Fell in Thessaly, Greece is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Fajada Butte
Pueblo II–III Bonito 1000–1150 CE · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Chacoan Sun Dagger butte: three slabs create dagger beam on spirals marking solstices and lunar standstill.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Archaeological wonder
Grotto Archaeological Complex
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Grotto Archaeological Complex in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Cantalloc Puquios Aqueducts
Paracas to Early Nazca ~300 BCE–600 CE · Nazca (and earlier Paracas)
Nazca spiral puquio filtration galleries - 600 m underground still watering desert after 1,400 years.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Archaeological wonder
White South Archaeological Complex
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
White South Archaeological Complex in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Oyu Stone Circles
Late Jomon 2000–1500 BCE · Jomon Late
Twin Late Jomon double-stone circles (2000–1500 BCE) — Manza (46 m dia) and Nonakado (42 m dia) placed either side of prefectural road at Oyu, Kazuno, each concentric with sundial-like 2.1 m central…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Temple of Edfu
Ptolemaic (237–57 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian (Hellenistic Pharaonic)
Best-preserved temple in Egypt: Ptolemaic Temple of Horus built 237–57 BCE (180 years) after plan of Old Kingdom then New Kingdom prototypes, buried by Nile silt and desert sand until re-excavated by…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Karnak Temple Complex
Middle Kingdom to Ptolemaic (c.2000 BCE–100 CE; major phase New Kingdom 1550–1070 BCE) · Egyptian Pharaonic (Middle Kingdom to Greco-Roman)
Largest temple complex in Egypt – 200 acres built over 1,500 years from Senusret I (1956 BCE) to Romans.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur Southwest Bajada Geoglyphs (Bajada del Sur)
Formative (600 BCE–800 CE) · Tarapacá–Atacama
Southwest bajada descending from Salar del Sur margin toward Pampa del Tamarugal corridor (2,280 m).
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Archaeological wonder
Spring Dargah Archaeological Complex
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Spring Dargah Archaeological Complex in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Oracle of Claros
Hellenistic to Late Roman ~300 BCE–395 CE · Greek (Colophonian) then Roman Ionian
Underground water-oracle of Apollo where prophet drank sacred pool to versify prophecies.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Font-de-Gaume Cave
Magdalenian ~17–14 ka BP · Magdalenian
Vézère polychrome gallery with 230 Magdalenian figures, last original painted cave open to public.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Stratonikeia and Lagina Sanctuary of Hekate
Hellenistic to Roman Imperial 281 BCE–300 CE · Seleucid Greek over Carian; later Roman
Seleucid league city and Hekate crossroads sanctuary linked by 8 km sacred way with frieze.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Tito Bustillo Cave
Solutrean to Magdalenian ~18–11 ka BP · Magdalenian Cantabrian
Ribadesella polychrome Magdalenian cave sealed until 1968 with 14 ka harpoon culture art.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Beng Mealea
Angkor Early–Classical transition · Hindu (Vishnu? Shaiva debated)
Unrestored jungle-strangled temple-city (early 12th c., possibly Suryavarman I–Suryavarman II transition, ~1110–1120) at 110×120 m moated eastern face now collapsed into rubble choked by silk-cotton…
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Saywite Monolith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Berdín Palace
The Berdín Palace (Spanish: Palacio de Berdín; Galician: Pazo de Berdín) is located in the village of Doiras, in Boal, Asturias, Spain.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Dala Hill
Iron Age to Modern (c. 400–1900 CE; ritual ongoing) · Iron Age (Early Kano) / Hausa / Fulani
Dala Hill (Goron Dutse pair) is Kano's 534-m granite inselberg nucleus where Kano city was founded by Dala Iron Age smiths (c. 400 CE) before Hausa walling, with 999-step stair.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Ancient Building Complex in the Wudang Mountains
Tang → Yuan → Ming Yongle peak → Qing · Taoist (Zhenwu / Xuanwu school)
Taoist sacred mountain complex on 72 peaks 800–1612 m, 9 palaces, 36 convents and 72 cliff temples built primarily 1412–1424 under Ming Yongle emperor (200,000 artisans) as political legitimation…
🇳🇬 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.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Kulpak — Kolanupaka Temple
Early Medieval (11th c.) · Chalukya
Kulpak — Kolanupaka Temple in Telangana, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri, India is a Early Medieval (11th c.) temple complex attributed to Chalukya culture.