🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Cerro Unita South Geoglyph Extension (Gigante S Sur)
Late Intermediate (Tarapacá) · Tarapacá interior oasis people
South spur of Atacama Giant hill: 19 figures including lizard and raptor framing Giant viewshed.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat of Ghasemabad
Sassanian 6th c. to Ilkhanid 1226 CE to present · Sassanian then Islamic Yazd hydraulic community
12th century high-discharge qanat (14 km, 320 shafts, 190 L/s) feeding Ghasemabad bagh and Yazd mills.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Tunnug 1 (Arzhan 0) — Frozen Royal Kurgan, Uyuk Valley Tuva
Early Scythian (Arzhan horizon, early Saka, Aldy-Bel–Mongun-Taiga precursor) · Early Scythian (Aldy-Bel / Arzhan, Proto-Saka–Mongun-Taiga)
Late 9th-c BCE frozen royal kurgan (140 x 130 m, 1.8 ha) — earliest Scythian princely tomb in Siberian Valley of the Kings.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar de Llamara Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate Pica-Charcollo · Pica-Charcollo and Atacameno traders
80+ horizontal salt-flat geoglyphs (1000-1350 CE) on Salar de Llamara halite crust, caravan staging road.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
La Leche Valley Pampa Geoglyphs (Lambayeque)
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Sicán / Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque
Seasonal desert pampa (85 m) in lower La Leche basin (6°00′-6°40′S 79°10′-80°00′W) between the Sican capital Batan Grande and Túcume adobe pyramids, georeferenced by UNESCO tentative 6419 (Ceremonial…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Dahekou III East Baiyin Rock Art
Late Neolithic to Bronze · Majiayao, Qijia, Siba (Gansu corridor Neolithic–Bronze)
2025 east-bank Yellow River deer paintings opposite Dahekou west bank pecked panels.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Areni-1 North Chamber — Taper Cave Wine Annex
Chalcolithic (Late Copper Age) · Transcaucasian Chalcolithic (Areni, Sioni, Maikop-related)
North annex of Areni-1 cave with second Chalcolithic winery vat and oldest leather shoe stratum, 4300 BCE.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Dahekou II — Yellow River East Bank Baiyin Petroglyphs
Neolithic to Bronze Age · Majiayao, Qijia, Xindian
Baiyin east bank Yellow River 3000–4000 yr deer and ibex paintings/petroglyphs, 2025-discovered.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat of Gonabad (Qasabeh Qanat)
Iron Age to Sassanian (Achaemenid to late antiquity) · Persian (Achaemenid–Sassanian) hydraulicians
Oldest functioning qanat 33 km, 360-m mother well, Achaemenid c.700 BCE, 150 L/s Persian Qanat UNESCO.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Varna Necropolis – Chalcolithic Gold Cemetery
Chalcolithic (Copper Age Gumelniţa/Kodzhadermen–Gumelnitsa–Karanovo VI) · Varna culture (Late Copper Age Balkan)
4600 BCE cemetery with 6.5 kg gold—world's earliest large stratified gold treasure (Grave 43 penis sheath).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Lindholme Neolithic Trackway & Platform (Hatfield Moors, South Yorkshire)
Late Neolithic (2900–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Humberhead fen communities)
45-m Late Neolithic corduroy trackway (2900–2500 BCE) over Hatfield pool to platform — earliest in Britain.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Helan Mountains South Gorge — Helankou South Rock Art Park II
Bronze Age to Medieval · Xiongnu, Xianbei, Dangxiang Tangut, Mongol
Helankou south branch with 312 panels, Western Xia sun masks and tiger-bharal frieze, 1000 BCE–1200 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Koldihwa
Vindhyan Neolithic (7000–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000 BCE) · Vindhyan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara) → Chalcolithic
Belan Valley Neolithic type-site (c.7000–2000 BCE) on the Belan River 80 km southeast of Prayagraj (Allahabad) — Koldihwa (with Mahagara adjacent) excavated 1973–76 by G.R. Sharma and J.M.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Novozavedennoye Kurgan Field – Stavropol Steppe
Maikop to Sarmatian (3600 BCE–300 CE) · Maikop / Yamnaya / Catacomb / Sarmatian
Stratified Maikop–Catacomb–Sarmatian kurgan cemetery (3600 BCE–300 CE) — Caucasus-steppe anchor.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Kurgan
Solokha Scythian Royal Kurgan (Great Zaporizhzhia Mound)
Early Iron Age (Scythian Classic Royal) · Royal Scythian (Pontic Scythia)
Iconic Royal Scythian kurhan (45 m asl, 47°19′34″N 34°20′21″E 47.3269,34.3392 12 km southeast of Bol'shaia Znamenka, Vasil'evka Raion) excavated by Veselovski 1912-13 under 18 m high mound (4th-mill.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Syntas Kurgan Field (Aktobe Sarmatian Ridge)
Early Sarmatian (Sauromatian) · Sarmatian (eastern Ural–Aral)
Sarmatian ridge cemetery 38 km from Aktobe: 17 mounds with Greek kylix sherd and eagle gold.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Yungang Grottoes — Western Caves Extension (Caves 26–40)
Northern Dynasties (Northern Wei late) · Tuoba Wei (Xianbei) Buddhist with Han artisan school
UNESCO Yungang western 15-cave zone 494–525 with central-pillar and collapsed colossus.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Aflaj al-Ain Nizwa Branch — Daudi Falaj Highland Channel
Sasanian to Islamic · Omani, Sasanian Persian, Ibadi
Nizwa Daudi mother well 30 m with 8-km tunnel and shari'a sharing basin, UNESCO aflaj highland branch.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Arim Secondary Dam — Marib North Spillway
South Arabian (Sabaean to Himyaritic) · Sabaean Saba and Himyarite
Marib north secondary 750-m earthen with Almaqah sluice temple 50 musnad inscriptions, Sabaean 750 BCE spillway.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Must Farm Bronze Age Settlement
Late Bronze Age (~1000–800 BCE) · British Late Bronze Age fenland communities
900 BCE stilt village burned and silt-sealed—Britain's Pompeii with pots still stacked.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Philippovka Kurgans – Sarmatian Gold Necropolis
Iron Age Sarmatian (Prokhorovka culture) · Early Sarmatian (Sauromatian–Prokhorovka)
29 Sarmatian chief mounds (400–300 BCE)—26,000 gold appliqués and scale-armored elite on the Ural steppe.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Adulis (Adulis Bay & Gulf of Zula)
Pre-Aksumite to Late Aksumite to Early Islamic (500 BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–6th c) · Pre-Aksumite D'MT → Aksumite (South Arabian/Eritrean)
40 ha Aksumite–Roman Red Sea port of Periplus linking elephant ivory to Mediterranean with temple and 4th-c basilica plus trilingual Monumentum Adulitanum.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Salar de Uyuni Hill Figures & Salt-Flat Geoglyphs
Formative to Middle Horizon (Lípez–Intersalar) · Lípez / Intersalar–early Tiwanaku
25+ hill and salar-margin geoglyphs (800 BCE–800 CE) guiding Lípez salt caravans at 3,656 m.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Talianki – Cucuteni-Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic, Trypillia BII Cucuteni A-B · Cucuteni–Trypillia culture
3850 BCE 450-ha burnt-house proto-city—6,000 inhabitants, Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlement.