🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Deir el-Hagar (Egyptian Deir el-Hagar)
Roman (mid-1st c CE) · Roman Egyptian
Roman sandstone temple Deir el-Hagar on Dakhla oasis — Nero to Domitian.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Thimlich Ohinga
Late Iron Age (15th–19th c CE) · Luo (Bantu-Luo Nilotic) / Gusii
UNESCO Luo walled town Thimlich Ohinga — 4-m dry-stone walls enclosing hill settlement.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Askut Island Fortress
Middle Kingdom to X-Group (1860–500 BCE peak 1850 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian occupier
Mid-Nile island kite-fort Askut guarding Second Cataract channel.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Breitenbach (archaeological site)
The archaeological site near the village of Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany is an important open-air settlement that dates to the period of initial colonization of Europe by anatomically modern…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El-Gabal el-Ahmar
El-Gabal el-Ahmar (Arabic: الجبل الأحمر) is a quarry located today within the boundaries of modern-day Cairo, near Nasr City. The name means "The Red Hill".
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Kashafrud
Kashafrud Basin (Persian: کشفرود) is an archaeological site in Iran, known for the Lower Palaeolithic artifacts collected there; these are the oldest-known evidence for human occupation of Iran.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mitathal
Sothi → Mature → Late Harappan / OCP 3000–1500 BCE · Indus Valley (Sothi–Harappan Eastern Domain)
Key Indus Eastern Domain type-site (c.3000–1500 BCE) on the Drishadvati–Sarasvati divide at Bhiwani, Haryana — two mounds (A 23 ha citadel, B 10 ha lower town) excavated 1968 by Suraj Bhan revealing…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Go Thap (Óc Eo–Funan)
Óc Eo 100 BCE–300 CE → Funan 200–600 CE → Chenla 600–800 CE → Khmer influence 800–1200 · Óc Eo–Funan (pre–Angkorian Mekong hydraulic with Indianization)
Mekong Delta Óc Eo–Funan secondary city (100 BCE–600 CE) at Go Thap Tháp Mười — 400 ha with Vishnu Garuda and 20 km canal to Oc Eo.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Château de Bouxwiller
The Château de Bouxwiller was a moated castle situated in the département of Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France, constructed in the 15th century under its lords, the von Lichtenberg family.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Hiraizumi (Chūson-ji)
Heian–Kamakura 1087–1189 CE (Fujiwara Ōshu) · Northern Fujiwara (Ōshu) — Frontier Pure Land Buddhist
Hiraizumi — northern Fujiwara capital (1087–1189 CE) 35 km south Morioka, Iwate Hiraizumi, excavated 1950s–2010s.
🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Fortress
Chilhudzhra
Sogdian 5th–8th c → Samanid–Karakhanid 10th–13th c · Sogdian → Samanid Islamic (Zeravshan valley)
Chilhudzhra (Fortress of Forty Daughters) — Sogdian–Islamic mountain fortress (5th–13th c CE) 60 km east Panjakent, Zeravshan valley Fann foothills, excavated 1960s–80s Negmatov and Pulatov.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Archaeological wonder
Kaljaja (Teneš Do)
Kaljaja is an archaeological site, which is located in Teneš Do on the hill Kaljaja (municipality of Pristina) in Kosovo. Remains of fortress walls and buildings were uncovered at the site.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Archaeological wonder
Klasies River Caves
The Klasies River Caves are a series of caves located east of the Klasies River Mouth on the Tsitsikamma coast in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Lake Ichkeul
Lake Ichkeul (Arabic: بحيرة اشكل, romanized: Buḥayra ʾIshkul) is a lake in northern Tunisia, located 20 kilometres (12 miles) to Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
🇦🇱 Albania · Archaeological wonder
Libohovë Castle
Libohovë Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Libohovës) is an Ottoman-era castle in Libohovë, Gjirokastër county, southern Albania.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Le Mas-d'Azil
Le Mas-d'Azil (French pronunciation: [lə mas dazil]; Occitan: Lo Mas d'Asilh) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France, containing a cave that is the typesite for the prehistoric…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Columns of Rajajil
The Columns of Rajajil (Arabic: أعمدة الرجاجيل) is an archaeological site of sandstone pillars in the Al Jawf Region of Saudi Arabia, dated to the Chalcolithic period approximately 6,000 years ago.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Begusarai
Begusarai is a city in the Indian state of Bihar and the administrative headquarters of the Begusarai district.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Iraq ed-Dubb (Ain Hashara)
Early to Late Natufian (13,500–11,500 BP) · Natufian
Natufian rockshelter with earliest escarpment plant cultivation and cult basin prefiguring PPN shrines.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Maheshwar (Mahishmati)
Maheshwar I Chalcolithic 1400–600 BCE → II Early Historic 600 BCE–400 CE → IV Holkar 1760 CE · Maheshwar Chalcolithic → Satavahana → Holkar Maratha
Historic Mahishmati–Maheshwar city on Narmada (1400 BCE–1760 CE) — Chalcolithic below Holkar fort and Maheshwari textile loom.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Kidal Temple
Kidal (Indonesian: Candi Kidal) is a Hindu temple built under the Singhasari dynasty. It is situated in the Rejokidal village in the Tumpang district of East Java, approximately 20 km east of Malang.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Ban Non Wat (Mun Valley)
Neolithic 1750–1000 → Bronze Age 1000–400 → Iron Age 400 BCE–500 CE · Mun Valley Neolithic → Ban Chiang Bronze → Iron Age (Isan)
Ban Non Wat — 5000-year moated farming village (1750 BCE–500 CE, Neolithic→Iron Age) 50 km NE Nakhon Ratchasima, Mun floodplain, excavated 2002–12 Higham and Higham (Otago).
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Temple complex
Balalyk Tepe
Hepthalite 5th–7th c CE (Tokharistan Hepthalite) · Hepthalite Bactria (White Huns Tokharistan)
Balalyk Tepe — Hephthalite wall-painting palace (6th c CE) 30 km north Termez, excavated 1950s Stavisky.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Bagawat Necropolis Kharga Oasis
Late Antique · Roman Byzantine Egyptian
Bagawat Necropolis Kharga Oasis at Western Desert, Kharga Oasis, Egypt is a Late Antique necropolis of the Roman Byzantine Egyptian tradition, built c.