🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Agbia
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Ridge municipium controlling Dougga plain with triple arch and capitol.
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🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Ridge municipium controlling Dougga plain with triple arch and capitol.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Ptolemaic (c. 3500 BCE – 30 BCE; peak 1550–1070 BCE) · Egyptian (Naqada – New Kingdom – Late)
Twin to Hierakonpolis, El Kab's double walls 12 m high enclose predynastic to New Kingdom town with rock tombs narrating Hyksos expulsion (Ahmose son of Ibana biography). Temple of...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Buried Street Grid Submerged 60 — Egypt Region 12 in Egypt Region 12, Egypt is a Bronze Age submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (Alto Ramírez–Tarapacá) · Atacameño / Tarapacá caravan tradition
Southernmost caravan geoglyph cluster at Salar del Sur (23°S): 31+ cleared camelid and avenue figures on salt-crust pampa.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Earthwork
Neolithic Funnel Beaker 3300 BCE to Bronze Age · Funnel Beaker (TRB) culture
3300 BCE Neolithic heavy-haul bog road (800 m, 2.8 m wide) at Tin Tab, Drenthe, aligned to Emmen hunebed for megalithic sledge transport.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Ghaznavid to Durrani to British · Pishin Pashtun–Baloch valley tribal hydraulic engineers
Headwaters dam–karez hybrid at Zana Pass: 88-m rockfill dam feeding 3 galleries (1.8-4.2 km) irrigating 420 ha.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Harrat pastoral foragers
Historic type-site where RAF pilot Maitland coined 'desert kite' (1927): 11 kites and cairn chain on basalt mesa.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Pottery Neolithic · Black Desert pastoral foragers
Jabal Wisad plateau kites: 14 funnels on Black Desert inselberg above Neolithic Wisad Pools.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Iron Age, Late La Tene 148 BCE · Late Iron Age La Tene Ireland
147 BCE Iron Age oak plank highway (3.2 m wide, 1.6 km) across Corlea Bog, largest European timber road built in one year.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Hydraulic works
Bugis Kingdom to early colonial · Bugis (South Sulawesi) sawah engineers
Bugis lowland hydraulic on Saddang delta: 18 km earthen canals with bamboo bunds feeding 12,000 ha sawah + tambak.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Middle to Late Iron Age (Atlantic Iron Age) · Shetland Atlantic Iron Age builders
South Mousa second broch and wheelhouse village 1.2 km south of famous Mousa Broch: prototype 500 BCE.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Late Neolithic, Eastern Badia Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic hunters
7 mustatil enclosures (5500-5100 BCE) on Wadi al-Khub hammada, northernmost Levantine mustatil bridging Arabia to Jordan kite province.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1450 CE · Inca (Quechua) imperial engineers
12 Inca puquios gallery aqueducts (17 km, 1450 CE) of the Achirana canal, Inca ashlar aqueduct feeding Ica Valley.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB to Pottery Neolithic (wetland phase) · Azraq wetland foragers
Oasis-edge kite group on the Azraq mudflat–hamada beach ridge: 12 low-angle V-traps for wetland fauna.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Middle Iron Age Atlantic (vitrified forte) · Minch Hebridean islanders
Summit vitrified dun (28×18 m) with plastered rock-cut rain cistern (5.5 m³) on Garbh Eilean, Shiants.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom to modern (4th Dyn–Aswan High Dam 1970) · Memphite–Fayum basin engineers; Islamic fellahin maintenance
Delta apex basin system 58 km NW Cairo: 22-km Bahr Shibin canal + 9 dykes forming 14 flood basins (18 km²).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder
Late Bronze Age (Roscommon horizon) · Irish dryland-bog community
Late Bronze Age oak plank boardwalk (82 m, 1.4 m wide) across fen–raised bog transition at Monaghan.
🇮🇱 Israel · Hydraulic works
Middle Bronze II to Iron Age IIA–B (1800–580 BCE) · Canaanite (Middle Bronze) → Jebusite / Israelite–Judite
Jerusalem's 1800 BCE–701 BCE fortified perennial spring and karst shaft — 1,500-year water-security evolution.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
El Molle to Copiapó Culture · Copiapó Atacameño–Diaguita caravaneers
Dune-plinth geoglyphs south of Copiapó: 14 trench-revetted figures resisting barchan burial.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Aldy-Bel to Sagly · Aldy-Bel to Sagly Saka, Tuva
15 Saka kurgans (750-500 BCE) in Uyuk Valley elite line with rank-size hierarchy and Chu silk, satellite to Arzhan royals.
🇮🇱 Israel · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze I · Arava Chalcolithic–EB pastoral-miners
Rift-floor kite cluster 18 m asl in the Arava north of Eilat: 11 V-shaped Negev-type traps.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Tasmola Early Saka (8th–6th c BCE) with Korgantas secondary 400 BCE · Tasmola (Tagisken) + Korgantas Karaganda
58 m Tasmola massif annex 6.8 m with 12×14 m enclosure and 6 horse ditch sacrifices — central massif not satellite.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Sarmato-Saka Caspian · Sarmato-Saka Caspian lowland
Sarmato-Saka royal kurgan (480 BCE) at -5 m Caspian depression with mudbrick vault and female elite griffin headdress, lowest kurgan globally.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Middle Sarmatian · Western Sarmatian (Aorsian fringe)
Isolated Sarmatian priestess kurgan on red marl hill above Uil River: 38 m with stone circle and Levantine beads.