🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Deir el-Bersha Quarry and Nomarch Tombs
Old to Middle Kingdom (2600–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (Hare Nome)
Nomarch tombs and quarry road with colossus-on-sledge painting (1900 BCE).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Timgad North Quarter (Thamugadi)
Roman (100 CE – 7th c CE; Trajanic foundation) · Roman (Numidia, Legio III Augusta veterans)
The northern insula quarter of the perfect Trajanic grid city (12×12 insulae), Timgad North exposes veterans' houses, library with mosaic, northern baths and market, beyond the bli...
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Rusadir
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Mauri
Punic-Roman cape town beneath Melilla with dye vats and tophet.
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Rock art
Matupi Cave (Ituri) – 40-ka Rainforest Foragers
Later Stone Age · Rainforest foragers (pre-Bantu)
10 m stratified rainforest sequence proving equatorial forest foraging since 40 ka (charcoal, palm nuts, phytoliths, toolkit).
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Machu Picchu
Late Horizon (Inca Imperial, ~1450–1530 CE) · Inca (Quechua)
15th-century Inca citadel perched at 2,430 m on a narrow saddle between Machu Picchu and Huayna Picchu peaks above the Urubamba Valley.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Pueblo II–III 850–1250 CE (Chacoan fluorescence 1020–1140) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) / Chacoan
Chacoan canyon with 15 monumental Great Houses (Pueblo Bonito 650 rooms, 35 kivas) and engineered roads, built 850–1150 CE by Ancestral Puebloans as ritual and trade center for San Juan Basin,…
🇱🇦 Laos · Megalith
Plain of Jars
Iron Age 500 BCE – 500 CE (some lids to 800 CE) · Unknown Austroasiatic? Ancestors of Lao-Tai
Megalithic landscape of >90 sites with >2,100 large carved sandstone jars (1–3 m tall, up to 14 t) scattered across Xiangkhouang plateau, carved 500 BCE–500 CE, associated with mortuary rites and…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Ollantaytambo
Inca Imperial 15th century; continued as Neo-Inca stronghold 1537–1572 · Inca
Inca royal estate and ceremonial center in Sacred Valley with unfinished Temple Hill featuring six massive pink rhyolite monoliths (Wall of Six Monoliths) and extensive terraces that doubled as…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Naqlun (Nekloni) Monastery
Late Roman to Mamluk (5th–14th c. CE) · Coptic Christian
Coptic hermitage complex (90 cells) with Church of Gabriel and wall paintings.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Temple complex
Musawwarat es-Sufra – Lion Temple Complex
Kushite (3rd c BCE – 4th c CE; Lion Temple c. 300 BCE) · Kushite (Meroitic, King Arnekhamani)
Vast Kushite labyrinth (180×150 m Great Enclosure with 55 columns) and Lion Temple of Apedemak with vivid reliefs of king and lion-god, possibly elephant training ground; Hintze ex...
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Gajiganna Culture Complex (Borno)
Chad Basin Late Stone Age · Gajiganna culture
Urn-field mound complex defining Gajiganna culture bridging Saharan and sub-Saharan pastoralism before Kanem.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Qasr el-Sagha (Zarew) Temple
Middle Kingdom (1990–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (12th Dynasty)
Unfinished Sobek temple with 7 shrines on Lake Qarun shore.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Begho (Dwinfuor) – Akan Gold Entrepôt
Akan gold trade (c. 1000–1750 CE; peak 14th–17th c) · Akan (Bron) / Hausa Wangara merchants
Sprawling 45 ha Akan trading city with four ethnic quarters (Brong, Kramo Wangara Muslim, artisans, market), producing brass crucibles and glass beads for gold–kola caravans to Jen...
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Submerged 65 — Greece Region 5
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Submerged 65 — Greece Region 5 in Greece Region 5, Greece is a Bronze Age submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇫🇷 France · Temple complex
Harbour Mole Submerged Europe 113 — France Region 5
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Harbour Mole Submerged Europe 113 — France Region 5 in France Region 5, France is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Sacsayhuamán
Inca Imperial, 15th century; possibly Killke antecedents · Inca
Cyclopean fortress-temple complex 2 km northwest of Cusco with three zigzagging dry-stone ramparts of limestone blocks up to 120 tonnes and 9 m high, fitted without mortar with sub-millimeter…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Quarry Gallery Submerged 119 — Turkey Region 11
Period Medieval · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Quarry Gallery Submerged 119 — Turkey Region 11 in Turkey Region 11, Turkey is a Bronze Age submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Tell of Painted Ware Temple 106 — India Region 10
Period Medieval · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Tell of Painted Ware Temple 106 — India Region 10 in India Region 10, India is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Jodrell Bank Observatory
astronomical observatory in Cheshire, England, UK
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park
Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park is a national park in the Judaean Foothills of central Israel, containing a large network of caves recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Valongo Wharf
The Valongo Wharf (Portuguese: Cais do Valongo) is an old dock located in the port area of Rio de Janeiro, between the current Coelho e Castro and Sacadura Cabral streets.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Casma-Sechin Geoglyphs
Initial Period to Early Intermediate (Sechin-Recuay) · Casma-Sechin / Recuay
Initial Period desert geoglyphs (1800-1000 BCE) on Casma pampa: feline and anthropomorph lines precursing Nazca.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Upano — Huapula Southern Platform at Sangay South
Formative to Regional Development (500 BCE–1400 CE) · Kilamope (Upano) culture; Sangay phase Huapula
Southern Huapula platform of Upano — 22 mounds and drained fields at Huapula–Upano confluence, Sangay south gate.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai Grand Anicut
Sangam Period, Early Historic to Colonial · Tamil Chola (Sangam)
2nd century Chola granite anicut (329 m, 150 CE) on Kaveri River, oldest functional dam in world irrigating one million acres.