🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Choapa Pampa Geoglyphs (Salamanca–Los Vilos Corridor)
El Molle to Diaguita–Inca · Choapa–Diaguita agropastoralists
Southern fringe geoglyphs at Choapa (31°S): 12 transitional figures marking trans-Andean pass to Argentina.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Tegisken Kurgan Mausoleum (Aral–Syr Darya Delta)
Late Saka to Kangju · Lower Syr Darya delta culture
Lowest Central Asian kurgan (55 m) on Syr Darya delta: 42-m brick-vault mound with 4-horse sacrifice.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Jarlshof Broch & Iron Age–Norse Settlement Complex (Sumburgh, Shetland)
Late Neolithic to Late Norse (2700 BCE–14th c CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age Pictish → Norse (Scalloway Jarlshof horizon)
4,000-yr Shetland settlement (2700 BCE–14th c) — 10-m broch with 4 wheelhouses overlain by Norse longhouses at Sumburgh.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Gargar Canal & Dam (Shushtar Darian Canal Head)
Sasanian (Shapur I–II) – UNESCO 1315 ensemble · Sasanian with Roman engineer captives
Sasanian Gargar diversion dam (210 m, 9 slots) feeding 47-km handmade canal watering Mianab plain.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Tasmola Kurgans
Early Iron Age Tasmola 800-300 BCE · Tasmola Saka (western Saka)
Tasmola culture earthen kurgans (800-300 BCE) with 12-m dromoi catacombs, western Saka type-site at Karaganda.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Longyou Grottoes
Warring States to Han (contested) · Yue–Wu contested; possibly Chu or Han
Mystery siltstone quarry silos 30×40 m 10–35 m deep with cavetto walls, 1992 flooded rediscovery.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Temple of Eshmun — Bustan el-Sheikh, Sidon
Persian (Achaemenid) to Roman Imperial · Phoenician Sidonian; Achaemenid Persian patronage; Hellenized then Romanized
Phoenician Asclepieion 529 BCE–300 CE on Awali/Bostrenos: Throne of Astarte and baby votive healing pool.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Atlantis on Celtic Shelf – Lyonesse Extension Pseudo-Atlantis
Pseudoarchaeology claim (1970s–present conflation) · Pseudo Atlantis literature / Celtic myth conflation
Pseudo-Atlantis on Celtic Shelf – claim that Brittany–Cornwall shelf at –100 m is Plato's drowned island via Lyonesse conflation.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hydraulic works
Eifel Aqueduct (Eifelwasserleitung) — Roman Aqueduct to Cologne
Roman Imperial (Flavian to Late Roman, 1st–3rd c CE) · Roman Gallo–German (Colonia Agrippina)
95-km Flavian Roman concrete aqueduct (c.80 CE) delivering 20,000 m³/day from Eifel springs to Cologne.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Tsagaan Salaa North — Bayan-Ölgii Baga Oigor Panels
Upper Palaeolithic to Medieval · Palaeolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Turkic
North bank of Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor UNESCO valley, 7000 petroglyphs including 12000 BCE mammoth-hunt.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Nafud Desert Kites - Hail Fringe
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic, Nafud Neolithic · Northern Arabian Neolithic hunters
22 sand-edge desert kites (5500-4200 BCE) at Nafud-Hail fringe with pit-traps cut into calcrete, oryx drive along dune corridors.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Boralday Saka Kurgans (Boralday Steppe Necropolis)
Early Saka (Scythian) Iron Age · Saka Tigrakhauda (pointed-hat Sakas)
Saka steppe royal cemetery 28 km from Almaty: 81 kurgans 45-105 m with tigrine gold plaques.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Xinglongwa
Xinglongwa culture 6200–5400 BCE → Zhaobaogou → Hongshan · Xinglongwa (Liao River Neolithic, Proto-Mongolic?)
Type-site for Xinglongwa culture (c.6200–5400 BCE, 8200–7400 BP) on the Aohan hills near Chifeng, Inner Mongolia — earliest Neolithic on the Mongolian plateau, 120 pit-house village with central…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Hatfield Moor Neolithic Trackway (Lindholme Trackway) – South Yorkshire
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Humberhead communities (Grooved Ware)
821-m Neolithic pine corduroy trackway (2435 BCE) on Hatfield Moor — longest British Neolithic.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Awazu Shell Midden
Incipient Jomon (12000) → Early Jomon 8000–6000 BCE (Jomon lakeshore forager) · Jomon (Lake Biwa Incipient–Early Jomon)
Incipient–Early Jomon lakeshore shell midden (c.12000–6000 BCE) on Lake Biwa eastern bank at Awazu, Otsu — 0.8 ha freshwater shell mound (Seta shijimi clam) excavated 1962–86 by Shiga Prefecture,…
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Pesse Canoe – World's Oldest Boat
Mesolithic (Maglemosian/Boreal) · Northern European Early Mesolithic forest foragers (Maglemose)
8040 BCE Scots pine dugout—world's oldest preserved boat, fire-hollowed Mesolithic canoe.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient city
Khao Sam Kaeo Chumphon
Iron Age 4th c BCE–2nd c CE early historic port · Kra isthmus Iron Age port — Thai–Indian–Han–Silla crossroads
Khao Sam Kaeo Chumphon — Iron Age trans-Asian port (4th c BCE–2nd c CE) on Khao Sam Kaeo hill at Thai Kra Isthmus 5 km Gulf of Thailand 5 km from Chumphon, excavated 1991–2007 by B. Bellina–P.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Cerro Sombrero Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate (Tarapacá / Pica) · Tarapacá / Atacameño caravan
16 Tarapacá hilltop geoglyphs (900–1400 CE) on Cerro Sombrero mesa NW of Pintados.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Paititi — Inambari Petroglyph Ridge at San Gabán (Puno South)
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon · Hypothetical Inka / Amazónico
Hypothetical Inambari petroglyph ridge — 22 boulder claim vs erratics and fault scarp.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Torihama Shell Midden
Incipient→Early→Middle Jomon 10000–1000 BCE (Jomon hunter-fisher-gatherer with peat preservation) · Jomon (Wakasa Bay Incipient–Early Jomon, Neolithic without agriculture)
Early–Middle Jomon shell midden and wetland village (c.12000–3000 BP, 10000–1000 BCE) at Torihama lowland wetland near Lake Mikata, Wakasa, Fukui — 2 ha peat midden excavated 1962–85 by Wakasa Mikata…
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Pataleshwar Cave Temple, Pune
Early Medieval (Rashtrakuta) · Rashtrakuta Shaivite Brahminical (Kannarid influence)
Urban Deccan basalt 8th-c Shiva quarry-temple 40×28 m with circular Nandi mandapa, unfinished Rashtrakuta.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tumulus
Solokha Royal Kurgan — Scythian Gold King (Lower Dnieper, Ukraine)
Scythian Classical (4th c BCE, Scytho-Greek contact) · Pontic Scythian (Scythian–Bosporan Greek elite network)
18-m Pontic Scythian royal hill-mound (430–400 BCE) with Greek-Scythian gold comb and 1.4-kg queen diadem.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Rock art
Gobustan Kichikdash South Petroglyphs
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age · Gobustan hunters, Kura-Araxes, Classical (Roman contact)
South slope of Kichikdash with 1100 boat and aurochs hunt cupule petroglyphs.
🇳🇴 Norway · Burial field
Borre
Migration → Viking Age 600–900 Vestfold Yngling dynasty · Norwegian Viking Age (Vestfold Yngling) — Borre Style eponym
Borre (Borrehaugene, Borre mound cemetery) — Viking Age royal mound park (c.600–900 CE, 7 great mounds 6–9 m high 35–45 m diam, 25 smaller cairns) 5 km east Horten on Oslofjord east shore, Vestfold's…