🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Dwarfie Stane
Late Neolithic · Orcadian Neolithic
Rock-cut tomb carved from single 8.6 m boulder on Hoy, the only one in Britain, c.3000 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Keet Seel Cliff Dwelling — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇨🇳 China · Earthwork
Liangzhu — Mojiaoshan Platform North Terrace
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Liangzhu — Mojiaoshan Platform North Terrace in Zhejiang, Hangzhou, Liangzhu, China is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) earthwork attributed…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Maeshowe tradition
Rousay's unique two-storey cairn — lower and upper chambers stacked in 15 m round mound.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Cantalloc Puquios Aqueducts
Paracas to Early Nazca ~300 BCE–600 CE · Nazca (and earlier Paracas)
Nazca spiral puquio filtration galleries - 600 m underground still watering desert after 1,400 years.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Tell el-Amarna — North City Buried House N49.18 (Amarna)
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Tell el-Amarna — North City Buried House N49.18 (Amarna) in Minya, Amarna, North City, Egypt is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Anta Grande do Zambujeiro
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Alentejo Megalithic / Évora group
Iberia's largest dolmen near Évora — seven 8 m pillars with 12 m corridor, 4000-3500 BCE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Temple of Edfu
Ptolemaic (237–57 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian (Hellenistic Pharaonic)
Best-preserved temple in Egypt: Ptolemaic Temple of Horus built 237–57 BCE (180 years) after plan of Old Kingdom then New Kingdom prototypes, buried by Nile silt and desert sand until re-excavated by…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Emerald Mound
Plaquemine Mississippian Emerald phase 1250–1600 CE · Plaquemine (Natchez)
Second-largest mound in N America, 10.7 m terraced pyramid, 1250–1600 CE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Haga Dolmen
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Haga Dolmen in Bohuslän, Sweden is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Stoney Littleton Long Barrow
Early Neolithic (~3750 BCE) · Cotswold-Severn Neolithic
One of Somerset's finest Severn-Cotswold tombs extending 30 m with a distinctive trapezoidal mound and seven lateral chambers opening from a central passage.
🇫🇮 Finland · Rock art
Astuvansalmi Rock Paintings
Neolithic–Bronze Age (4000–1000 BCE) · Comb Ceramic / Pit-Comb Ware hunter-gatherers
Finland's largest and best-known rock painting site on a sheer granite cliff above Lake Yövesi, part of Lake Saimaa.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica — Anaktoron Terrace Necropolis Sector E
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Pantalica — Anaktoron Terrace Necropolis Sector E in Sicily, Syracuse, Sortino, Italy is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock…
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Altamira Cave
Solutrean–Magdalenian ~18–14 ka BP · Solutrean/Magdalenian Cantabrian
Great Ceiling of polychrome bison — the Paleolithic Sistine Chapel at Santillana del Mar.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Tomb
El-Kurru — Pyramid Ku 6 Ancillary Courtyard (Kush)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
El-Kurru — Pyramid Ku 6 Ancillary Courtyard (Kush) in Northern, El-Kurru, Sudan is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed to Old–New Kingd…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Hasanlu
Bronze to Iron Age (c.3000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Hasanlu IV 1100–800 BCE) · Giyan → Hasanlu IV (Mannaean/Urartian sphere) → Urartian
Hasanlu is the great Iron Age walled city south of Lake Urmia — Hasanlu IV (1100–800 BCE) citadel with columned halls, ivory workshop, and violent destruction b...
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Naveta des Tudons
Late Bronze Age · Talayotic culture of Menorca (Pretalayotic)
Menorca's iconic boat-shaped naveta tomb — 14 m cyclopean funerary monument 1200-750 BCE, UNESCO 2023.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Castellum Dimmidi
Roman Severan (198–238 CE) · Roman
Castellum Dimmidi (Messaad) is Rome's southernmost Algerian outpost, 350 km south of Algiers into true Sahara, a Severan isolated vexillation fort 40×40 m with corner bastions built 198 CE by Legio…
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Creevykeel Court Tomb
Early Neolithic · Court Tomb tradition (Western Neolithic Ireland)
55.5 m court tomb on Sligo coast — 13×10 m oval court to twin gallery, best preserved in northwest.
🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
Dura-Europos — Citadel North Tower Gate
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Dura-Europos — Citadel North Tower Gate in Deir ez-Zor, Dura-Europos, Syria is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age for…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Iput II — Queen of Pepi II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Central queens pyramid of Pepi II group, built for Queen Iput II (not to be confused with Iput I of Teti), sister of Pepi II or daughter of Pepi I.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Ajanta — Cave 17 Veranda Niche Painting
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Ajanta — Cave 17 Veranda Niche Painting in Maharashtra, Aurangabad, Ajanta, India is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Karatepe-Aslantaş
Neo-Hittite / Iron Age (c.720–680 BCE) · Neo-Hittite (Adanawa Quwe) / Phoenician
Neo-Hittite fortified retreat of Azatiwada (late 8th c BCE) on Ceyhan River, Karatepe-Aslantaş preserves two gated circuits with 30+ basalt orthostats showing Late Hittite–Phoenician bilingual…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Qasr Amra
Umayyad Caliphate (c.711–715 CE) · Umayyad Arab / Byzantine influence
Umayyad desert castle bathhouse (qasr) built by Caliph Walid I (705–715 CE) famous for extensive frescoes: vaulted audience hall with hunting scenes, musicians, six kings (Byzantine, Sasanian,…