🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Wadi Rum Kite Corridor – Hisma Desert
Late Neolithic · Hisma Neolithic pastoralists
21 Late Neolithic sandstone kites (6000–4500 BCE) against Wadi Rum inselbergs — southernmost Levantine corridor.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Pampa de Majes Geoglyphs
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate Wari-Chuquibamba · Wari-influenced Majes valley
35+ broad trapezoidal geoglyphs (600-900 CE) on Pampa de Majes with 600-m highways converging on cairn huacas.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Lixus
Phoenician to Early Islamic (8th c BCE–8th c CE; peak Mauretanian-Roman) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Mauretanian / Roman
Phoenician tell 8th c BCE of Hesperides legend with garum factories, hybrid theatre-amphitheatre and Helios mosaic.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Euxinograd
Euxinograd (Bulgarian: Евксиноград [ɛfˈksinoɡrat], also transliterated as Evksinograd) is a late 19th-century Bulgarian former royal summer palace and park on the Black Sea coast, 8 kilometres (5.0…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Akchakhan-Kala (Kazakly-Yatkan)
Kangju–Kushan Khorezmian 200 BCE–200 CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) Zoroastrian
Khorezmian ceremonial city (c.2 c. BCE–2 c. CE) at Kazakly-Yatkan near Beruni — 10 ha double-walled town with ceremonial palace complex (Columned Hall 30×30 m with 20 columns), fire temple, and…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Lambaesis (Lambèse)
Roman (Flavian to Late antique; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber
Headquarters of Legio III Augusta 81–238 CE with Praetorium aedicula, amphitheatre and 3,000+ Latin inscriptions.
🇳🇪 Niger · Archaeological wonder
Bura Culture (Bura-Asinda-Sikka)
Late Iron Age (3rd–13th c CE) · Bura
834-tomb iron funerary field 3rd–13th c with equestrian terra-cotta sculptures and urn spears.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Dibba Al-Hisn
Dibba Al-Hisn (Arabic: دبا الحصن, white Dibba) is a semi-exclave of the emirate of Sharjah, one of the seven United Arab Emirates.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Uyuk Valley Second Kurgan Terrace (North Arzhan Satellite)
Early Iron Age (Arzhan-Chertomlyk) · Arzhan (Early Scythian / Saka Royal)
Second terrace north of Uyuk River (950 m, 52°03′N 93°51′E) in the Tuva Valley of the Kings, complementing Arzhan 1 (9th c BCE) and Arzhan 2 (7th c BCE) on south terrace and Tunnug 1 (9th c) centre.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Utica
Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Late Antique · Phoenician / Roman
Phoenician port 1101 BCE now 12 km inland due to siltation; Roman capital of Africa with waterfall mosaic house.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ghirza (Gerisa)
Roman to Islamic (1st–7th c; peak 3rd–4th c) · Libyan (Nasamones) / Roman / Byzantine
Desert frontier with 40 tower temple-tombs, foggara dams and Libyan relief ethnography 150 km inland.
🇯🇪 Jersey · Archaeological wonder
La Motte, Jersey
La Motte (French pronunciation: [la mɔt]) is a tidal island, and listed archaeological site, also known as Green Island, located in the Vingtaine de Samarès in the parish of St Clement on the…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Deorkothar
Maurya 3 c. BCE → Sunga 2–1 c. BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Maurya → Sunga Buddhist (Ashokan sphere)
Four-stupa Mauryan–Sunga Buddhist hilltop complex (3 c. BCE–6 c. CE) on Vindhyan escarpment between Rewa and Prayag.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kaundinyapura
Maurya 300 BCE → Sunga 187 BCE → Satavahana 50 BCE–230 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Vidarbha Early Historic (Satavahana–Vakataka) with Mahabharata memory
Mahabharata Kundina trading city on Wardha (300 BCE–400 CE) — 1.5 km wall with Satavahana–Roman trade and carbonized rice.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Kot Diji
Kot Diji (3300–2600 BCE) → Early Harappan → Mature Harappan · Kot Diji / Early Harappan (Indus formative)
Pre-Harappan fortified citadel and type-site for Kot Diji culture (c.3300–2600 BCE) on the Rohri Hills piedmont east of the Indus in Khairpur, Sindh — 2.5 ha citadel mound with massive mudbrick…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Balathal Chalcolithic Mound
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE → Early Historic 6th c BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (Mewar) — Black-and-Red Ware
Balathal Chalcolithic Mound — type-site of Ahar-Banas complex ( Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE with Early Historic overlay) excavated 1994–2000 by V.N.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Jorwe
Deccan Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–700 BCE (Early → Late) · Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) — Maharashtra Chalcolithic climax
Jorwe — type-site of Jorwe culture (1400–700 BCE late Chalcolithic) on Pravara River, excavated 1950–51 by H.D. Sankalia and B. Deo.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Sehel Island
Predynastic to Roman (3200 BCE–364 CE; peak New Kingdom and Ptolemaic) · Ancient Egyptian
Granite islet with ~600 cataract boulder inscriptions including Famine Stela 32 columns and predynastic boats.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Ust-Koksa Kurgan Field (Katun Headwaters, Altai)
Early Iron Age (Pazyryk culture) · Pazyryk (Altai Scythian)
Katun River headwaters kurgan field (973 m, 50°16′11″N 85°36′39″E 50.2697,85.6108) on moraine terrace above Katun (Ust-Koksa village 973 m, Dfc climate, UTC+7), bridging Pazyryk culture (5th-3rd c…
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Junnar
Maurya → Satavahana 230 BCE–220 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Satavahana Early Buddhist (Hinayana) → Brahmanical
200+ Satavahana rock-cut caves on Nanaghat pass (300 BCE–400 CE) — Naganika Brahmi inscription of Vedic rites.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Kyzyl-Uzuk Kurgan Field (Upper Yenisei, Tuva)
Early Iron Age (Scythian / Uyuk-Sagly) · Uyuk / Sagly Scythian (Arzhan-derived)
Mid-Uyuk-Seedling kurgan chain (850 m, 51°43′N 94°27′E) in Ulug-Khem (Upper Yenisei) floodplain north of Kyzyl, on terrace between Tuva's Uyuk Valley (Arzhan) and Sayan foothills.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Azelik (Takadda)
Medieval (10th–16th c) · Tuareg / Songhai / Hausa copper miners
15-km 600-furnace copper metropolis visited by Ibn Battuta 1353 with Kufic mosque 20 m.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Pirak
Late Harappan → Pirak I–III 1800–800 BCE → Iron Age · Pirak culture (post-Harappan / early Iron Age, Indo-Iranian?)
Post-Harappan / Iron Age settlement (c.1800–800 BCE) south of Sibi at the Bolan Pass mouth, Balochistan — type-site for Pirak culture documenting the Harappan → Iron Age transition.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tulum
Late Postclassic 1200–1550 CE (settlement from ~564 CE but walls/frescos 1200–1500) · Maya (Eastern coast, Postclassic International style, Chetumal polity, Mayapán confederacy)
Late Postclassic (1200–1550 CE) clifftop walled port with Caribbean panorama: 6 m limestone wall and pyramid Temple of the Frescoes with mural interiors, El Castillo (12 m pyramid with columns as…