🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Pattadakal Temple Complex
Early Chalukya 7th–8th century CE, peak 740–760 CE · Hindu (Shaiva, Vaishnava) under Chalukya Vikramaditya II
Chalukya structural temples laboratory fusing Nagara and Dravida shikhara styles.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Hillfort Rampart Temple 93 — Armenia Region 9
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Hillfort Rampart Temple 93 — Armenia Region 9 in Armenia Region 9, Armenia is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Africa 63 — Ethiopia Region 3
Period Medieval · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Africa 63 — Ethiopia Region 3 in Ethiopia Region 3, Ethiopia is a Iron Age tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Moche Canal System and Puquios
Moche 100–800 CE; Wari continuation · Moche (La Libertad)
Moche Canal System – north coast Peru Moche Valley hydraulic (100–800 CE): 30 km intervalley canals (La Cumbre, Ascope) diverting Moche River to arid Chicama, puquios spiral-wells tapping aquifer…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Tumulus Cemetery Temple 32 — India Region 8
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Tumulus Cemetery Temple 32 — India Region 8 in India Region 8, India is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Afrosiab (Afrasiyab)
Achaemenid to Mongol (c.500 BCE–1220 CE, Sogdian peak 6th–8th cent CE) · Sogdian / Kushan / Islamic
Ancient Samarkand (Maracanda) — 220 ha Sogdian walled plateau with 7th-century Afrasiab murals of Eurasian envoys.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient city
Sacred City of Anuradhapura
Anuradhapura Period 377 BCE–1017 CE (peak 1st–10th c CE) · Sinhalese Theravada Buddhist (Anuradhapura Kingdom)
Sinhalese capital for 1,400 years (377 BCE–1017 CE) and great Theravada monastic center with three 4th–2nd c BCE brick dagabas among tallest premodern structures: Jetavanaramaya (originally 122 m,…
🇧🇪 Belgium · Archaeological wonder
Spy Cave
Spy Cave (French: Grotte de Spy) is located in Wallonia near Spy in the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, Namur Province, Belgium above the left bank of the Orneau River.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Temple Terrace Africa 3 — Egypt Region 3
Period Classical · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Temple Terrace Africa 3 — Egypt Region 3 in Egypt Region 3, Egypt is a Bronze Age tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 96 — Turkey Region 12
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Mideast 96 — Turkey Region 12 in Turkey Region 12, Turkey is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Hydraulic works
Sultan Kala Dam Merv Oasis
Seljuk 11th c. (Sultan Sanjar) with Abbasid foundation · Seljuk Islamic (Merv oasis)
Sultan Kala – Medieval Merv oasis headworks on Murghab: 12m Sultan Dam (Murghab bifurcation barrage), Razik canal, Majan canal lattice and 55 km Abdullah canal irrigating 2,500 km² oasis supporting…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Temple of Preah Vihear
Khmer Empire 893–1150 CE (peak 11th–12th c) · Khmer Hindu (Shaiva)
Dangrek escarpment Shiva temple (9th–12th c) aligned 800 m north-south axial causeway stairway rising 525 m, built by six kings (Yasovarman I to Suryavarman II).
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Ughtasar Trapet Basin — Pilgrim Lake Shore Petroglyphs
Bronze Age (3500–1000 BCE) · Syunik Bronze to Urartian pastoral
Crater tarn shore with bull, net and 3-m wheel calendar at 3220 m.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Zygri
Hellenistic to Roman (3rd c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Greek / Roman
Marmarica dye harbour with Hellenistic tower and cisterns.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Dolmen Avenue Temple 59 — India Region 11
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Dolmen Avenue Temple 59 — India Region 11 in India Region 11, India is a Iron Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Island of Meroe — Archaeological Sites
Kushite Meroitic (300 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite Meroitic (Egyptianizing Nubian)
Island of Meroe is the UNESCO 1332 heartland between Nile–Atbara–Blue Nile (not true island) with 3 Kushite sacred complexes: City of Meroe (pyramids North/South cemeteries, Amun Temple), Musawwarat…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Kalyani Stepped Well East
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Kalyani Stepped Well East in Rajasthan, India is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Mogao Northern Caves — Dunhuang Oasis North Cliff Monastic Cells
Sixteen Kingdoms to Yuan (366 – 1368 CE) northern cells 960–1300 · Buddhist monastic Dunhuang oasis international
North cliff austere monastic cells 1000–1300 CE opposite southern painted scripture halls.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Tumulus
Pyramid Outlier Africa 73 — Tunisia Region 1
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Pyramid Outlier Africa 73 — Tunisia Region 1 in Tunisia Region 1, Tunisia is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Wadi Hammamat Petroglyphs Eastern Desert
Predynastic to Islamic (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Predynastic Egyptian and later quarrying expeditions
Wadi Hammamat – Eastern Desert wadi between Nile and Red Sea dense with 5,000+ petroglyphs (Predynastic hunters, 4000 BCE ostrich boats, Pharaonic quarrying inscriptions Old Kingdom–Roman).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Buried Street Grid Submerged 6 — Egypt Region 6
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Buried Street Grid Submerged 6 — Egypt Region 6 in Egypt Region 6, Egypt is a Neolithic submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Matobo Hills Pomongwe Cave Rock Art
Stone Age 13,000 BCE–19th c. CE · San and Iron Age farmers
Matobo Hills Pomongwe (Pondongwe) Cave – granite kopje landscape with 3,000+ rock art sites; Pomongwe frieze of kudu, giraffe and white bovid panels; Bambata Cave MSA 125 ka deposits.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Archaeological wonder
Björkö (Ekerö)
Björkö (Swedish for "Birch Island") is an island in Lake Mälaren in eastern-central Sweden. It is mostly famous for housing the excavation site Birka populated c.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Mycenae
Mycenaean Helladic 1600–1100 BCE, peak 1350–1200 BCE · Mycenaean Greeks
Homeric citadel with Cyclopean walls, Lion Gate and gold mask tombs.