🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Colossus of Rhodes site
Hellenistic 292–280 BCE; destroyed 226 BCE · Greek Rhodian (Hellenistic)
33-m bronze sun-god toppled by earthquake 54 years after raising.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sicca Veneria (El Kef) – Numidian Cult Citadel
Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine · Numidian / Roman
Cliff-top Venus cult city of Numidia–Rome, now kasbah-crowned El Kef.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Sierra Pintada Geoglyphs
Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche
30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Gò Mun
Gò Mun 1200–700 BCE (Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun → Dong Son) · Red River Gò Mun (Vietic Austroasiatic) — last pre-Dong Son Bronze
Phùng Nguyên successor culture site (c.1200–700 BCE, Gò Mun culture) near the Phùng Nguyên village group on the Red River western terrace — type-site excavated 1969 by Ha Van Tan, bridging Đồng Đậu…
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Locmariaquer Pierres Plates South Chamber
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Locmariaquer Pierres Plates South Chamber in Brittany, Locmariaquer, France is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Turunku
Iron Age Nok Culture (500 BCE–500 CE; iron from 550 BCE) · Nok Culture
Turunku in Kaduna's Nok Valley is a Nok Culture iron-smelting precinct and terracotta site, 500 BCE–500 CE, revealing sub-Saharan Africa's earliest iron (c.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Hatun Machay
Hatun Machay (possibly from Quechua hatun big, mach'ay cave) is a rock forest with archaeological remains in Peru. It was declared a National Cultural Heritage by Resolución Directoral No.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
La Pasiega Cave
Middle Paleolithic to Magdalenian ~64–11 ka BP · Neanderthal and later Solutrean/Magdalenian
Monte Castillo cave with 64 ka Neanderthal ladder motif and 700 parietal figures.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Tell of Painted Ware Mideast 23 — Jordan Region 11
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Tell of Painted Ware Mideast 23 — Jordan Region 11 in Jordan Region 11, Jordan is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Ghazni
Ghazni, historically known as Ghaznayn or Ghazna, also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana, is a city in southeastern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Ghazni…
🇯🇵 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,…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Samrong Sen
Samrong Sen Neolithic 1500–500 BCE → Bronze 500 BCE–200 CE → early Chenla · Samrong Sen (Mekong Neolithic rice, Austroasiatic Khmer ancestor?)
Oldest Khmer Neolithic mound and cemetery (c.1500 BCE–200 BCE, Samrong Sen culture) on the Tonle Sap west bank near Kampong Chhnang — 7 ha hill slope with 3 m shell-rich layers excavated 1901–02 by…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Jebel Hasma Mustatil Field North (Tabuk)
Late Neolithic (Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Chalcolithic) · Northern Arabian Late Neolithic (Hisma facies)
Northern mustatil concentration on the Hisma sandstone plateau (1,050 m, 28.50°N 36.80°E) north of Tabuk, extending the Harrat-based mustatil province south-eastward into sandstone.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Eaton (Eau Brink) Peat Trackway (Cambridgeshire Fens)
Bronze Age to Iron Age · Fenland Bronze Age / Iron Age (East Anglian)
Fen-edge timber trackway (18 m asl, 52°21′N 00°03′E approx 51.78,0.65 Many River fen edge) bridging the prehistoric fen causeway zone between dryland and Flag Fen basin (Flag Fen Bronze Age 1300 BCE)…
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Kimberley Gwion Gwion Rock Art
Late Pleistocene to Holocene (c.12,000–4000 BCE Gwion phase) · Aboriginal Australian (Kimberley)
Kimberley Gwion (Bradshaw) – elegant, tasselled dancing figures with elaborate headdresses and dillybag (c.12,000–4,000 BCE), 2,800+ sites on Kimberley Plateau.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Xlapak
Maya Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE · Maya (Puuc Chenes)
Puuc mosaic palace with stacked Chaac masks, 600–900 CE.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Mural Hall Americas 62 — Brazil Region 2
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Americas-Mound
Mural Hall Americas 62 — Brazil Region 2 in Brazil Region 2, Brazil is a Bronze Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Aït Benhaddou
Aït Benhaddou (Berber languages: ⵉⵖⵔⵎ ⵏ ⴰⵢⵜ ⴱⵏ ⵃⴷⴷⵓ, Arabic: آيت بن حدّو) is a historic ighrem or ksar (fortified village) along the former caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakesh in Morocco.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Sheikh Zayed Palace Museum
Museum in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emireates
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Kashkar
Kashkar, also known as Kaskar, (Classical Syriac: ܟܫܟܪ), was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its name appears to originate from Syriac ܟܪܟܐ karḵa meaning "citadel" or "town".
🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Kukiya, Mali
Kukiya is an archaeological site and ancient city on the banks of the Niger River in present-day Mali. It was an early capital of the Songhai people, preceding the founding of the city of Gao.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Ifri Oudadane
Ifri Oudadane is an archaeological site in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco. It is located on the southwestern coast of the Cape Three Forks on the Mediterranean Sea, and is one of the most…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Band of Holes
The Band of Holes, also known in Spanish as Monte Sierpe (serpent mountain) or Cerro Viruela (smallpox hill), is a structure consisting of approximately 5,200 human-sized and stone-lined pits found…
🇬🇪 Georgia · Archaeological wonder
Katskhi Pillar
The Katskhi Pillar (Georgian: კაცხის სვეტი, kac'xis svet'i) is a natural limestone monolith located at the village of Katskhi in western Georgian region of Imereti, near the town of Chiatura.