Verified archaeological wonders

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress

Pevensey Roman Fort

Roman (290–400 CE) · Roman (Saxon Shore)

Pevensey Roman Fort in East Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Roman (290–400 CE) fortress attributed to Roman (Saxon Shore) culture.

🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder

Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument

Mogollon Tularosa 1275–1300 CE · Mogollon

46 rooms in five caves 1275–1300 CE, Mogollon.

🇹🇭 Thailand · Temple complex

Ayutthaya Historical Park

Ayutthaya Period 1351–1767 CE · Siamese / Thai (Ayutthayan)

Ruins of second Siamese capital (1351–1767) on an island at confluence of Chao Phraya rivers, with prang-pattern temples like Wat Mahathat (Buddha head in tree roots), Wat Phra Si Sanphet and Wat…

🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter

Boila Rockshelter

Late Upper Palaeolithic · Epigravettian

Small Epigravettian rockshelter in the Voidomatis Gorge, 2 km from Klithi, with 14,000–10,000 BP deposits including microliths, bone tools and faunal remains of ibex and chamois.

🇬🇷 Greece · Cave

Theopetra Cave Extension — West Chambers

Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic / Neolithic

Western chambers and exterior talus of Theopetra Cave, whose 130,000-year sequence documents Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village

Brough of Birsay

Pictish (7th–9th c.) and Norse (9th–12th c.) · Pictish / Norse (Earldom of Orkney)

Tidal islet at Birsay linked by causeway, famous for Pictish and Norse settlements overlapping. Pictish symbol stones and Norse earldom complex (9th–11th c.) with broch foundations underneath.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village

Thimlich Ohinga – Enclosure Stone Town (Lake Victoria)

Late Iron Age · Bantu / Luo (Kabwa)

Largest of 138 Lake Victoria dry-stone enclosures (15th–19th c), UNESCO 2018. Concentric walls 1–4.2 m high ×51–152 m diam with internal compounds, shafts, and livestock pens.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art

Tsagaan Salaa North Ridge Rock Art

Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic

North ridge of Tsagaan Salaa valley exposing 200+ Bronze Age horse-herd processions and Early Kalgutinsky ibex, part of 20 km Tsagaan Salaa–Baga Oigor complex dated Late Pleistocene–Turkic.

🇪🇸 Spain · Cave

Cueva de Tito Bustillo

Upper Palaeolithic (Magdalenian) · Magdalenian

Major Magdalenian cave on the Sella River with 12 galleries of polychrome paintings (c. 22,000–10,000 BP), including horses, reindeer and famous anthropomorph, plus habitation deposits.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Rock art

Yankari Rock Shelters

Late Stone Age to Iron Age (4000 BCE–1500 CE) · Nok-related / Hausa

National park shelters with 12 iron furnaces and Shira rock paintings.

🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city

Tipasa of Mauretania – Coastal Basilicas

Punic (6th c BCE) – Roman – Christian (5th c CE) · Punic / Mauretanian / Roman

Coastal UNESCO port with Punic necropolis (6th c BCE tophet), Roman forum, theatre, and two Christian basilicas (Salsa martyr shrine) on promontory with offshore islet. Numidian–Ma...

🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city

Xoïs (Sakha) – Delta Capital of the Xoite Dynasty

Old Kingdom / Second Intermediate · Egyptian

Lost capital of Xoite 14th Dynasty (76 kings) contesting Hyksos Avaris. Stepped temple of Amun and 8 m Hyksos walls detected by magnetometry; Herodotus lists Delta metropolis.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city

Heracleopolis Magna (Ihnasya el-Medina)

Old to Middle Kingdom / Late Period · Egyptian

Capital of Heracleopolitan dynasty (Dyn 9–10, 2160–2055 BCE) whose 'Instruction for Merikare' defines First Intermediate Period.

🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city

Madauros (M'Daourouch) – University City of Apuleius

Numidian / Roman · Romano-Berber

High-plateau Roman university town famed as birthplace of Apuleius (Golden Ass) and Augustine's school.

🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith

Hillfort Rampart Asia 90 — South Korea Region 6

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.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Great Serpent Mound

Disputed: either Adena 320 BCE–200 CE or Fort Ancient 1070–1200 CE (latest C14 favors Fort Ancient 1120 CE) · Adena culture or Fort Ancient culture

Quarter-mile (411 m) effigy mound in shape of serpent with oval head swallowing an egg, 3 ft high, coiled tail atop meteor-crater plateau above Ohio Brush Creek, largest surviving effigy mound in…

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith

Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Asia 118 — Mongolia Region 10

Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Asia-Megalith

Rock-Cut Tomb Cluster Asia 118 — Mongolia Region 10 in Mongolia Region 10, Mongolia is a Iron Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance.