🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Tipasa
Phoenician / Roman / Early Christian · Phoenician / Roman / Christian
Phoenician-Roman-Christian cape town with Great 7-aisle basilica (largest in Africa) and St Salsa martyrion.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Capsa (Gafsa)
Epipaleolithic to Modern (10,000 BCE-present; peak Capsian 8000-6000 BCE and Roman 1st-4th c CE) · Capsian Epipaleolithic / Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Capsian oasis fortress Capsa.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Kangla Grottoes (Minhe) — Yellow River Tibetan Fringe
Northern Dynasties to Qing (Western Wei to 19th c.) · Han-Tibetan Buddhist communities of Longxi
Yellow River Tibetan fringe 5-cave scarp Western Wei 540 CE seated Buddha with Tibetan repaint.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chechar
Neolithic–Chalcolithic Narhan (2000–1300) → Early Historic NBPW (700–300 BCE) · Narhan–Chechar Middle Ganga Chalcolithic → Mauryan
Early Ganga Neolithic–Chalcolithic hamlet (c.2000–600 BCE) at Chechar–Kutubpur in Vaishali district on the Ganga north bank — excavated 1977–79 by Ranjit Singh and later BHU teams, yielded buried hut…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Teraji
Kofun Middle–Late 400–600 CE (Kibi culture) · Kofun Kibi (Seto Inland-Kibi chiefdom)
Kibi keyhole tumulus (400–600 CE) at Teraji near Soja — 65 m yokoana corridor with Sue ware and Gaya bronze horse gear.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Kom Ombo Temple
Ptolemaic to Roman (2nd c BCE–1st c CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Symmetrical double temple on Nile bluff dedicated jointly to Haroeris (falcon) and Sobek (crocodile) with duplicate courts and surgical relief.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Mikulčice
Early Medieval Great Moravia 600–907 (peak 830–907) · Great Moravian Slavs (Veligrad hypothesis; Mojmirid)
Mikulčice-Valy — largest Great Moravian agglomeration (6th–10th c, peak Veligrad phase 830–907) on Morava floodplain at Slovak border, 30–50 ha fortified core + suburbs 150 ha.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Archaeological wonder
Keselo
Keselo (Georgian: კესელო) is a small medieval fortress just above the village of Omalo in Tusheti (historic geographic area in eastern Georgia).
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Masada — Desert Fortress of Herod
Hasmonean to Roman (2nd c. BCE–73 CE; Herodian peak) · Hasmonean Jewish → Herodian (Idumaean-Jewish client of Rome) → Sicarii → Roman legion → Byzantine monks
Herod's 440 m mesa fortress over Dead Sea — hanging palaces, desert cisterns and preserved Roman siege ramp.
🇿🇲 Zambia · Rock art
Mwela Rock Paintings
Later Stone Age to Iron Age (2000 BCE–1500 CE) · Batwa / Bantu
700 Later Stone Age paintings at Mwela Rocks near Kasama — Kasama–Isoka bush gallery.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Ed Dur
Ed Dur, also known as Al Dour and Ad Dour (Arabic: ٱلدُّوْر, romanized: Ad-Dūr, lit. 'The Houses') is an ancient Near Eastern city, today located in Umm Al Quwain, United Arab Emirates.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Archaeological wonder
Mayda (Maida) – Crescent Phantom of the Atlantic
Medieval–Modern cartography (1367 Pizzigani – 1906) · Italian Majorcan–Bristol cartographic
Much-copied Atlantic crescent since 1367 — crescent concave east at 46N 20W surviving to Admiralty 1906.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Navdatoli (Maheshwar)
Chalcolithic Malwa 1700 BCE → Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Early Historic 600 BCE–200 CE · Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic (Narmada) → Satavahana
Type Narmada Chalcolithic village (1800–1000 BCE) on Narmada gorge opposite Maheshwar — 30 houses per phase, 7 m deposit.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Farmana (Daksh Khera)
Early Harappan → Mature Harappan 3500–2000 BCE · Indus Valley (Sothi-Siswal / Harappan)
Largest Harappan necropolis in Haryana (c.2600–2000 BCE) at Daksh Khera near Farmana, Rohtak — 18.5 ha settlement plus 1.2 ha cemetery mound with 70 burials (extended, flexed, secondary) excavated…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
El-Lisht (Itj-tawy necropolis)
Middle Kingdom (12th Dyn) · Ancient Egyptian
Mit Rahina–Itj-tawy necropolis El-Lisht with pyramids of Amenemhat I and Senwosret I.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Kumari Kandam Second Pseudo – Axial Tilt Lemuria Variant
Pseudoarchaeology 1890–1953 (claimed Sangam I 10,000 BCE) · Tamil purist revival + Scott-Elliott Lemuria
1890s Tamil Lemuria variant claiming 49 Tamil sangams on mid-Indian Ocean continent — axial tilt pseudo.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Al-Ghadf Kites (Azraq South Ghadf Depression)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Azraq depression hunters
Wadi al-Ghadf depression: 4 single-arm kites using 8-m natural caliche bluff as wall.
🇲🇾 Malaysia · Archaeological wonder
Istana Negara, Jalan Istana
The Royal Museum (Malay: Muzium Diraja) along Jalan Istana was the former National Palace (Istana Negara) and former residence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Supreme King) of Malaysia.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Ushivika Kofun Cluster
Yayoi late 3rd c → Kofun 4th–6th c CE · Yayoi–Kofun transition — Suo Bay Kitakyushu
Ushivika Kofun Cluster — late Yayoi to Kofun burial cluster (3rd–6th c CE, 11 mounds) on Suo Bay terrace at Kanda, north Kyushu, surveyed 1970s–90s.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Camera Obscura (San Francisco)
The Camera Obscura is a large-scale camera obscura, in the Lands End area of the Outer Richmond District in western San Francisco, California.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Aynuna
Aynuna (Arab. عينونة, ʿAynūna) – a village in northwestern Saudi Arabia, in the Tabuk Region, located about 5 km from the Red Sea coast, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Archaeological wonder
Merke Turkic Sanctuaries
The Turkic Sanctuaries of Merke (Kazakh: Мерке түрік ордасы, romanized: Merke türik ordası) are located in southern Kazakhstan, roughly 37 km south of present-day Merke in the Jambyl Province.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Aktobe Besoba Terrace Kurgan (Karaganda Steppe Pyramid)
Early Saka Tasmola (6th–5th c. BCE) · Tasmola culture
Besoba terrace satellite: 32-m Tasmola kurgan 340 m south of steppe pyramid mausoleum, Karaganda.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Eran Gupta Temple Complex
Saka–Gupta 1st c BCE–6th c CE · Saka–Gupta Brahmanical (Vishnu–Varaha) — Early Classical
Eran Gupta Temple Complex — ancient Airikina (Saka–Gupta 1st c BCE–510 CE) on Bina River at Sagar, famed for earliest Gupta temples and Eran boar (Varaha) inscription of Toramana (510 CE) and Alchon…