🇲🇦 Morocco · Buried city
Buried City of Nahal Well
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Buried City of Nahal Well in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) buried city attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Caddo Mounds State Historic Site
Caddoan Mississippian 800–1300 CE (Early Caddo) · Caddoan (Hasinai)
Southernmost Caddoan Mississippian center with three mounds, plaza and El Camino trace.
🇸🇾 Syria · Rock art
Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Hamlet Nagar
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Sanctuary of Hamlet Nagar in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Moche (100–800 CE) temple complex attributed to Moche culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Village of Drumlin Wood
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Village of Drumlin Wood in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) ancient village attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Cliff Palace
Pueblo III 1190–1280 CE (Ancestral Puebloan florescence) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Pueblo III)
Largest cliff dwelling in North America: 150 rooms, 23 kivas, 128–150 inhabitants in alcove 88 m deep, 27 m high below mesa top, with coursed sandstone masonry, tower structures and painted plaster,…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Qasr Al-Haj
Medieval to Modern (12th c. CE–20th c.; peak 13th–19th c.) · Berber (Nafusi) / Islamic
Qasr Al-Haj (near Gharyan) is a circular Berber granary (aghadir/ qasr) 12th c. CE, 30 m diameter ring of 114 ghurfas (cells) four storeys high around central courtyard, built of rock and gypsum…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Rock Art of Cross-Cliff
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Rock Art of Cross-Cliff in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) rock art attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Sproxton Ditch Ley Buried Settlement
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Sproxton Ditch Ley Buried Settlement in Chiapas, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) buried city attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Takalik Abaj
Preclassic to Classic Olmec–Maya transition 800 BCE–900 CE · Olmec to Maya (K'iche' Pacific)
Olmec-Maya transition site with earliest Long Count stela 126 CE.
🇨🇦 Canada · Tumulus
Tumulus of Hill Aber
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Tumulus of Hill Aber in British Columbia, Canada is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) tumulus attributed to Roman culture.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Borre Mound Cemetery
Iron Age–Viking Age (600–900 CE) · Yngling / Vestfold Viking
Largest burial mound cemetery in Nordic Europe, seven monumental mounds (6–45 m diameter, up to 6 m high) and 21 smaller ones along Oslofjord near Horten, traditional burial of Yngling sea-kings…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Fortress
Fortress of Kurgan Ton
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Fortress of Kurgan Ton in Catamarca, Argentina is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) fortress attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Medinet Habu (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III)
New Kingdom 20th Dynasty (c.1186–1155 BCE under Ramesses III) · Egyptian New Kingdom
Mortuary temple of Ramesses III (1186–1155 BCE) modeled on Ramesseum, Medinet Habu is best-preserved New Kingdom mortuary complex with complete circuit walls, fortified Migdol gate inspired by…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Oldendorfer Totenstatt
Middle Neolithic to Bronze Age · Funnel Beaker → Corded Ware → Bronze Age
Lüneburg Heath megalithic necropolis of four Funnel Beaker long dolmens spanning 3400-1000 BCE on heath ridge.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hillfort
Otteburg Inner Rampart — Bernburg Center
Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Otteburg Inner Rampart — Bernburg Center in Saxony-Anhalt, Bernburg, Germany is a Early Iron Age (800–400 BCE) hillfort attributed to Hallstatt / Early Iro…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Ankhenespepi III — Queen of Merenre/Pepi II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Small queens pyramid south of Pepi I complex, built for Ankhenespepi III, daughter of Merenre Nemtyemsaf I and granddaughter of Pepi I/Ankhenespepi I, who married Pepi II.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Sweet Track
Early Neolithic (~3807 BCE) · British Early Neolithic
The oldest engineered timber trackway in northern Europe, a 1.8-km raised walkway of oak planks pegged to transverse ash rails, dendro-dated to construction in the winter–spring of 3807 BCE.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Dunhuang — Mogao Cave 96 Ancillary Corridor
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Dunhuang — Mogao Cave 96 Ancillary Corridor in Gansu, Dunhuang, Mogao, China is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut trad…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Puruchuco Palace
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon Lima Ychsma–Inca 1200–1532 · Ychsma–Inca
Tapia palace with 1,000-burial cemetery, 1200–1532 CE Lima–Inca.
🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Ridge-Scar Buried Settlement
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Ridge-Scar Buried Settlement in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) buried city attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Turner Group Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–400 CE · Hopewell tradition (Turner phase)
Hopewell enclosure-mound group source of copper effigies and mica tombs on Little Miami terrace.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field in Sicily, Syracuse, Cozzo Pantano, Italy is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attrib…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Dufuna Canoe
Early Holocene (6550 BCE) · Early Holocene Saharan fisher–hunters (Lake Mega-Chad)
Dufuna Canoe is an 8.4-m dugout canoe excavated 1987 from 5 m deep Komadugu Gana floodplain, dated 6556/6384 cal BCE (8500±300 BP), oldest boat in Africa and third oldest worldwide, predating…