🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Gasr Isawi
Roman Tripolitania (2nd–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitanian Lim.
Tarhouna centenarium fort (60×40 m) controlling olive terraces.
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🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Roman Tripolitania (2nd–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitanian Lim.
Tarhouna centenarium fort (60×40 m) controlling olive terraces.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Greek / Roman · Greek (Cyrenean)
Agrarian interior capital of Pentapolis founded 560 BCE by Cyrene exiles, mother of Ptolemais port. Agora terrace, Amun temple, theatre and Hellenistic walls.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Period Classical · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Harbour Mole Submerged Asia 26 — South Korea Region 2 in South Korea Region 2, South Korea is a Bronze Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Quarry Gallery Americas 79 — United States Region 7 in United States Region 7, United States is a Neolithic earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Period Classical · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Hillfort Rampart Asia 90 — South Korea Region 6 in South Korea Region 6, South Korea is a Bronze Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Earthwork Enclosure Temple 111 — Armenia Region 3 in Armenia Region 3, Armenia is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Hydraulic Reservoir Temple 91 — Armenia Region 7 in Armenia Region 7, Armenia is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Predynastic to Roman · Egyptian / Roman
Caravan terminus of Wadi Hammamat road to Red Sea moving gold, bekhen-stone and incense. Temple of Min–Isis (Elkab-scale).
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Earthwork Enclosure Europe 82 — Greece Region 10 in Greece Region 10, Greece is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Tumulus Cemetery Submerged 35 — Cyprus Region 11 in Cyprus Region 11, Cyprus is a Neolithic submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age, Early to Middle La Tene 456-395 BCE · Iron Age La Tene Lincolnshire
456/395 BCE Iron Age timber causeway (175 m) at Fiskerton, Witham Valley with 11 votive swords and logboats.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 1500-1000 BCE · Late Bronze Age Thames estuary farmers/fishers
1500 BCE Late Bronze Age intertidal brushwood causeway (120 m) at Beckton, Thames estuary tidal trackway.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Sassanian to Ya'rubi (500–1650 continuous) · Rustaq Batinah tribe communities
Batinah piedmont aflaj swarm: 18 lines (1.2-8 km) feeding Rustaq fortress oasis on Hajar bajada.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Late Bronze Age (Building 2) + Mesolithic footprint shelf · Severn estuarine saltmarsh dwellers (Later Bronze)
Second Severn intertidal brush-hurdle footway 42 m southeast of Goldcliff Iron Age building.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age 1200 BCE - 300 BCE · Late Bronze to Iron Age Hebridean
1200 BCE - 300 BCE nucleated roundhouse village (12 houses) at Cladh Hallan, South Uist with composite peat-preserved mummies (1500 BCE).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB to Late Neolithic (Ghassanian) · Southeastern Badia foragers
Eight kites with engraved kite petroglyph pillar and twin shrines on chert pavement southeast of Amman.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Iron Age II to Islamic (1000 BCE–present; active) · Iron Age Oman (Lizq–Rumaylah) → Sasanian → Islamic Ya'aribah
3.5-km Iron Age daudi qanat (c.1000 BCE, 8 shafts) delivering 70 l/s — UNESCO aflaj flagship at Birkat al-Mouz.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Warring States (Qin to Han) · Qin Sichuan, Bashu
Min River Fish-Mouth levee splitting Waijiang north flood vs Neijiang south irrigation with Lidui cut, 256 BCE Li Bing.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Neolithic (pottery Neolithic, 5000 BCE) · Late Neolithic Arabian pastoralists
70 mustatil rectangles (5000–3500 BCE)—communal cattle-cult enclosures on the Jowf plain.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Middle Horizon (Alto Ramírez to Cabuza-Tiwanaku) · Alto Ramírez / Cabuza / Tiwanaku valley interface
50+ Alto Ramírez–Cabuza hillside figures (800 BCE–1000 CE) in Lluta Valley Precordillera.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Qin (Warring States unification) · Qin Central, Bashu, Baiyue
Xing'an Xiang north 70% vs Lingqu south 30% divide with Huazui spillway and 36 pound locks, 219 BCE Shi Lu Qin.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Early Old Kingdom (Djoser–Sneferu) · Old Kingdom Egyptians (Memphite)
World's oldest dam (2650 BCE)—110-m Old Kingdom embankment diverting Wadi Garawi floods.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Byzantine to Ayyubid–Ottoman palimpsest (Roman origins 4th c BCE–14th c CE continuity) · Byzantine / Ayyubid (Norias mainly Ayyubid 12th–14th c)
Seventeen surviving norias (river-driven water wheels) on Orontes River through Hama (285 m), largest Al-Muhammadiya 21 m diameter (largest noria in world, 1207 Ayyubid), lifting Orontes water 15–21…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka (Uygarak) to Sauromatian · Lower Syr Darya Sakas (Uygarak culture)
Inkardarya delta type-site: 70 low mounds (8-32 m) with standing-stag plaques spanning 300 years.