🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Beni Hasan
Old to Middle Kingdom (2350–1750 BCE; painted peak Twelfth Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
39 nomarch cliff tombs 2100–1750 BCE with Asiatic caravan 37 and wrestling 219 pairs proto-Doric.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Leo Petroglyph State Memorial
Late Woodland – Fort Ancient (1000–1650 CE) · Fort Ancient (Late Woodland Mississippian)
Sandstone cliff-face bearing 37 Fort Ancient–culture petroglyphs (1000–1650 CE) incised on Mississippian Black Hand sandstone at edge of unglaciated Allegheny Plateau.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Samun Dukiya (Nok satellite)
Nigerian Iron Age (1500 BCE–500 CE) · Nok
Waterlogged pit yielding 25 in-situ Nok heads 900 BCE–500 CE and early 550 BCE iron knives.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Archaeological wonder
Spirit Cave (Tham Lod Rockshelter)
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Hoabinhian 12000–7500 BCE · Hoabinhian (northwest Thailand hunter-gatherer, proto-Austroasiatic?)
Hoabinhian hunter-gatherer cave (c.12000–7500 BCE) in the Shan Hills karst near Pang Mapha, Mae Hong Son — type-site where Chester Gorman (1966) defined Hoabinhian.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Jebel Uweinat (Gebel Uweinat)
Neolithic to Middle Holocene (6000–1000 BCE) · Saharan Neolithic pastoral
1,940-m granite triple-border massif with Karkur Talh 25 km and bovid-hunter rock art 6000 BCE.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art
Adrar Bous (Adrar Bou Achchouch?? corrected: Adrar des Ifoghas sector)
Neolithic to Pastoral (6000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic pastoralists / Libyco-Berber
Adrar plateau quartzite guelb rock engravings west of Atar with Neolithic interdune settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
El-Qurn (Theban Peak)
Middle to Late New Kingdom and beyond (2100–1000 BCE cult) · Ancient Egyptian
420-m natural pyramid capping Thebes, shaping Valley of Kings orientation as Ta Dehent.
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock art
Franchthi Cave — Koilada, Argolid
Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic (c.38,000–3000 BCE) · Paleolithic–Mesolithic Greek and Early Aegean Neolithic
Franchthi Cave (Upper Paleolithic to Final Neolithic c.38,000–3000 BCE) is a vast 30-m wide limestone cavity on the Koilada Bay cliff 10 m above the now-submerged plain, containing a 5-m stratified…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Tanum Rock Carvings (Hällristningar Tanum)
Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Bohuslän rock art tradition)
UNESCO Bohuslän rock art — 600 panels / 2500 pecked figures (ships, sun, ploughs) on granite, 1700–500 BCE.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Royal Great Zimbabwe Enclosure South — Great Zimbabwe (57-09)
Early Historic (regional) · Early Historic
Royal Great Zimbabwe Enclosure South — Great Zimbabwe (57-09) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Early Historic (regional) rock art of the Early Historic tradition, built c.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Drakensberg — Game Pass Ancillary Shelter North (South Africa)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Drakensberg — Game Pass Ancillary Shelter North (South Africa) in KwaZulu-Natal, Drakensberg, Game Pass, South Africa is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Pedra Furada — Rock Shelter North Panel (Piauí, Brazil)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Pedra Furada — Rock Shelter North Panel (Piauí, Brazil) in Piauí, Serra da Capivara, Pedra Furada, Brazil is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–50…
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Three Rivers — Petroglyph Ancillary Ridge North (New Mexico)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Three Rivers — Petroglyph Ancillary Ridge North (New Mexico) in New Mexico, Three Rivers Petroglyph, United States is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (300…
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Rock art
Central Great Zimbabwe Village South — Great Zimbabwe (57-12)
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Central Great Zimbabwe Village South — Great Zimbabwe (57-12) at Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Chalcolithic (regional) rock art of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Kivik King's Grave (Kungagraven i Kivik)
Early Nordic Bronze Age · Nordic Bronze Age (Scania elite)
Scandinavian Bronze Age masterpiece — 75 m cairn with cist bearing eight slabs of ship and solar carvings, c.1400 BCE.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Rock art
Inca Cueva (Jujuy) – Quebrada Painted Caves
Paleo-Indian – Inca (c.10,620 BP – 1532 CE) · South Andean hunter-gatherer → Humahuaca → Inca (Coyas)
High puna painted cave system (10,620 BP – Inca 1450) in Humahuaca gorge: 6 caves (Inca Cueva 1,4,7) at 3680 m with stratified sequence: Fell-type projectile points 10.6k, early paintings of…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Meir (Mir)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1750 BCE peak Twelfth Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
14th nome ridge tombs with Senbi-Ukh-hotep 1970 BCE earliest daily-life genre scenes and pilgrimage frieze.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills
Pre-Pottery Neolithic · Taş Tepeler PPN
Sayburc Reliefs Karahan Hills at Adıyaman, Sayburc, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic rock art of the Taş Tepeler PPN tradition, built c. 9000 BCE for bedrock narrative relief human/animal/leopard.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Kondoa Irangi — Rock Paintings Ancillary Panel (Kolo)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Kondoa Irangi — Rock Paintings Ancillary Panel (Kolo) in Dodoma, Kondoa, Kolo, Tanzania is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art att…
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Chandra Shila — Rock Shelter West Face (Mizoram)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Chandra Shila — Rock Shelter West Face (Mizoram) in Mizoram, Lunglei, Chandra Shila, India is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art …
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Engare Sero — Footprint Tuff Ancillary Trackway
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Engare Sero — Footprint Tuff Ancillary Trackway in Arusha, Engare Sero, Tanzania is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pınarbaşı Höyük
Epipalaeolithic to Early Ceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic → Neolithic
Spring-side rockshelter and village where Epipalaeolithic to PPN aDNA links to Boncuklu and Çatalhöyük.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash West Ashu Pass Petroglyphs
Saka to Turkic Medieval · Saka, Wusun, Turkic
Western cirque shelf of Saimaluu-Tash at Ashu Pass, a glacial hanging valley 2 km west of Saimaluu-Tash I main valley floor at 3420 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Checta — Rock Art North Panel (Lima, Peru)
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Checta — Rock Art North Panel (Lima, Peru) in Lima, Checta, Peru is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Palaeolithic…