🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Midhowe Broch
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Cucuteni Neolithic Settlement (Type Site)
Chalcolithic (4800–3500 BCE, Cucuteni A–B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Cucuteni A–B)
Hilltop tell Cetățuia at Cucuteni, Iași, eponym of Cucuteni culture (western Cucuteni-Trypillia), excavated 1884 by Teodor Burada and 1909–10 by Hubert Schmidt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost major pyramid at Saqqara: 5th Dynasty Djedkare Isesi (c.2414–2375 BCE), 52.5 m high originally, now 24 m ruin with early Pyramid Texts tradition.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Neith — Queen of Pepi II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Largest and northernmost of the three queens pyramids surrounding Pepi II at South Saqqara, built for Queen Neith, eldest daughter of Ankhenespepi I and Pepi I, and principal wife of Pepi II.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Hurlers Stone Circles
Early to Middle Bronze Age · Bodmin Moor Bronze Age
Triple line of three Bronze Age granite circles (33–41.5 m) on Bodmin Moor with paired outlying stones.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
İnandıktepe
Old Hittite to Empire (1650–1200 BCE) · Hittite (Hattic substrate)
Old Hittite cult terrace that produced the four-register Inandik vase (acrobats and goddess).
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Cairn du Petit Mont
Early to Late Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Three-phase promontory cairn (60 m) at Arzon with two superimposed passage graves and anthropomorphic art.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Great Zimbabwe — Valley Enclosure North Wall Terrace
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Great Zimbabwe — Valley Enclosure North Wall Terrace in Masvingo, Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attr…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hierapolis — Apollo Temple North Portico (Denizli)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Hierapolis — Apollo Temple North Portico (Denizli) in Denizli, Hierapolis, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed …
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Baalbek — Jupiter Temple North Colonnade
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Baalbek — Jupiter Temple North Colonnade in Beqaa, Baalbek, Lebanon is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Multi-perio…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Gordion — Citadel Gate South (Midas Mound)
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Gordion — Citadel Gate South (Midas Mound) in Ankara, Polatlı, Gordion, Turkey is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Halls…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset
Iron Age · Durotriges
Maiden Castle Hillfort Dorset at Dorset, United Kingdom is a Iron Age earthwork of the Durotriges tradition, built c. 600 BCE for 47 acre bivallate hillfort.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Sinki Pyramid at Abydos South
Late 3rd Dynasty (Huni, c.2630–2613 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom, Huni)
Smallest provincial step pyramid (Huni, late 3rd Dynasty, 3-step, 12.55 m base, 4 m high today) near Naga el-Khalifa south of Abydos.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tall-e Bakun
Chalcolithic (Bakun, c.4000–3500 BCE) · Fars Chalcolithic Bakun culture
Marv Dasht Bakun twin mounds (c.4000–3500 BCE, painted Bakun ware, sealings, pillared hall) 3 km S Persepolis.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Cahuachi — Pyramid Ancillary Plaza (Nasca)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old Kingdom / Middle Kingdom
Cahuachi — Pyramid Ancillary Plaza (Nasca) in Ica, Nasca, Cahuachi, Peru is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom / Mid…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Fıstıklı Höyük
Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Kumma Fortress — Semna East
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Rectangular eastern counterpart to Semna West across the 500 m Semna gorge, built to close the eastern channel and form a fortified river gateway with coupled gate signals.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Hyrax Hill
Pastoral Neolithic to Sirikwa Iron Age (1500 BCE–1900 CE) · Pastoral Neolithic (Elmenteitan) → Sirikwa Iron Age pastoralists
Leakey's Nakuru type-site Hyrax Hill with Sirikwa holes and Neolithic pit-houses.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Amphitheatre of El Jem (Thysdrus)
Roman Imperial (c.230–238 CE under Gordian I/II) · Roman (Africano)
Largest amphitheatre in Africa and third-largest in Roman world: olive-oil city Thysdrus (later Gordian revolt 238 CE) built c.238 CE, 149×124 m outer axes, 65×39 m arena, 35,000 capacity seating…
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Theopetra Cave
Palaeolithic–Neolithic (130,000–3000 BCE) · Palaeolithic to Neolithic — Thessalian cave sequence
Limestone cave near Meteora, Thessaly, with the longest continuous stratigraphic sequence in Greece, spanning 130,000 years from Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tell
Trypillia (Trypillya) Type Site
Chalcolithic (5500–3500 BCE, Trypillia A–CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia
Eponymous type site of the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, excavated 1893 by Vikentiy Khvoika (Chvojka) on the Dnieper near Kyiv.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Kfar Samir — Chalcolithic Olive Press and Burial Reed-mat Village
Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (Wadi Rabah 6000 BCE; Chalcolithic 5000–3800 BCE olive) and Late Pottery Neolithic/Chalcolithic? Kfar Samir overlain waterlogged · Chalcolithic olive press (4800 BCE Kfar Samir submerged 400 m line 7 hr press)
Kfar Samir Galili 1990s, Kfar Samir 4800 press 100k olive stones.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Su Nuraxi di Barumini
Bronze Age · Nuragic civilisation (Bronzo Medio/Recente)
UNESCO archetype nuraghe in central Sardinia — trilobate basalt tower with four bastions, tholos chambers and 55-hut village, 1500-1000 BCE.