🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Zuojiang Huashan West Chongzuo Rock Art
Bronze Age to Han · Luoyue / Lạc Việt (ancient Zhuang ancestors), Dian periphery
West bank cliff opposite main Hua Mountain with bronze-drum anthropomorph sequence.
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🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Han · Luoyue / Lạc Việt (ancient Zhuang ancestors), Dian periphery
West bank cliff opposite main Hua Mountain with bronze-drum anthropomorph sequence.
🇸🇴 Somaliland · Rock art
Neolithic pastoral (3500–1500 BCE pastoral art) · Pastoral Cushitic (early Somali ancestor) / Pre-Somaliland
14 m sandstone shelter with 22 polychrome fat-tailed sheep pastoral panel 3500 BCE – among earliest domestic sheep iconography.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sabaean (700 BCE–580 CE) pylons phased · Sabaean
Third limestone pylon (7.2 m high, 4.5 m wide) of Sadd al-Arim south sluice at Marib Dam (1,085 m), 80 m south of Pylon 1 (main dam axis).
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Early Medieval (Early Christian Ireland) · Early Medieval Irish (Uí Briúin)
850-m early medieval alder causeway and 12 x 8 m platform (680–800 CE) — bog-edge iron working.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age (Middle–Late Iron Age, 350–50 BCE) · British Iron Age (Meare–Glastonbury ware, southwest Iron Age)
Iron Age (350–50 BCE) Meare East lake village — 400 x 90 m east island with 20 brushwood roundhouses.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Topará / Early Nazca) · Paracas-Topará / Early Nazca
30+ trapezoid and anthropomorph lines (200 BCE–300 CE) on inland Pisco River pampas.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Ptolemaic to Roman (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Lake Qarun crocodile temple town Dime es-Sobai with 320-m lion dromos to harbour.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Early Islamic · Sasanian / Early Islamic Khorasan
35-km double-branch Sasanian qanat (500–800 CE) — 70-m mother well, 45 L/s to Ferdows oasis.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Chola Middle (Rajaraja I) · Tamil Chola (Muvendar)
95-ha Chola eri tank (c.1010 CE) at Kallur — Brihadeeswarar temple hydraulic outlier.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Ötzi Discovery Ridge Hauslabjoch in Trentino-Alto Adige, Schnalstal, Italy is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Iron Age Neo-Assyrian Empire (705–681 BCE Sennacherib) · Neo-Assyrian imperial engineers under Sennacherib
690 BCE Assyrian 300-m stone arch aqueduct—world's oldest bridge-aqueduct carrying Nineveh's 80-km canal.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–1700 → Malwa 1700–1500 BCE → Historic · Kayatha–Ahar–Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic sequence
Malwa Chalcolithic mega-village (2100–1500 BCE) south of Kayatha — 8 ha type assemblage of painted Malwa ware with 200 houses per phase.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Altamira Polychrome Ceiling Panel North in Cantabria, Santillana del Mar, Spain is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇮🇱 Israel · Earthwork
PPNB to Early Bronze Age · Levantine Neolithic pastoral-hunters
100 Negev kites on desert plateau—30-cm walls funneling gazelle into live-capture pens (7000–3000 BCE).
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Early Horizon–Early Intermediate 250–200 BCE (Initial Late Chavín to Wari interstice, Casma-Sechín tradition) · Casma–Sechín / Pampas ( north-central desert, precedent to Moche for Casma valley, not Inca)
Oldest solar observatory in Americas (250–200 BCE): 13 evenly spaced 2–5 m towers on 300 m ridge crest marking annual solar horizon from two enclosed observation pavilions (western fortress hill and…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
West Kennet Long Barrow East Chamber in Wiltshire, Avebury, United Kingdom is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (peak Iron Age) · Bronze Age to Iron Age Severn communities
Iron Age corduroy trackways (1000–100 BCE) on Goldcliff intertidal peat shelf — 30-m brushwood causeways.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze I (Timnian–Beersheva) · Sinai–Negev Late Neolithic (Timnian, Ghassulian)
20 Sinai gateway kites (arms 60–140 m) funneling Ibex through Kossaima Pass — navamis-associated.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Tre'r Ceiri Summit Hut Circle 12 in Gwynedd, Llanaelhaearn, United Kingdom is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Pentre Ifan Capstone Quarry Source in Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Archaic to Formative (Tulán–Puripica) · Atacama caravan (Tulán, Puripica, early Atacameño)
20 high-salar ignimbrite geoglyphs (1200 BCE–1000 CE) at 4,316 m above Salar de Tara cathedrals.
🇬🇷 Greece · Hydraulic works
Archaic (600–500 BCE) · Ionian Greek (Samian) — engineer Eupalinos of Megara
Herodotean 1,036-m tunnel 550 BCE dug from both ends with 60 cm meet error.
🇮🇱 Israel · Hydraulic works
Byzantine (Justinianic) · Byzantine Palestina Prima
Byzantine 6.5-ha reservoir (c.530 CE) on Nahal Taninim — Caesarea hinterland water buffer.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Brodgar Outlier Stone 14 in Orkney, Ness of Brodgar, United Kingdom is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.