🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Antequera Menga Dolmen Quarry
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Antequera Menga Dolmen Quarry in Andalusia, Antequera, Spain is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Serra da Capivara
Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (9000 BCE – 500 CE) · Nordeste / Agreste
Serra da Capivara in Piauí, Brazil is a Paleo-Indian to Late Prehistoric (9000 BCE – 500 CE) rock art attributed to Nordeste / Agreste culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Nuri Pyramid Nu 20 Pylon
Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic)
Nuri Pyramid Nu 20 Pylon in Northern, Nuri, Sudan is a Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
İkiztepe
Late Chalcolithic → EB I–III → MBA (4300–2000 BCE) · Pontic EBA (Kızılırmak Black Sea, Balkan-Caucasus interface)
Black Sea delta cemetery-tell (4300–2000 BCE) — 2400 EBA gifted graves with arsenical copper, Pontic metallurgy nexus.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ghirza Romano-Libyan Tomb South A
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Ghirza Romano-Libyan Tomb South A in Misrata, Ghirza, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hacilar Level II Burned House 7
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hacilar Level II Burned House 7 in Burdur, Hacılar, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Gargar Secondary Canal (Shushtar Gargar Diversion Canal)
Sasanian (Shapur I post-Edessa 260) · Sasanian with Roman prisoner engineers
Gargar canal: 12-km Sasanian 260 CE cliff canal diverting Karun through Shushtar mills, UNESCO 1315.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Sechin Bajo Plaza Circular
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Sechin Bajo Plaza Circular in Ancash, Sechín Bajo, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai Grand Anicut East Channel
Early Historic to Medieval · Early Chola, Medieval Chola, Vijayanagara
800-m-east Kallanai east channel with 9-sluice Chola regulator feeding east delta.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient village
Mumba Cave
Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age to Pastoral Neolithic · MSA → LSA foragers → Pastoral Neolithic
130-ka Eyasi rockshelter Mumba with 18 burials and Still Bay to LSA microlith transition.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Thamusida (Sidi Ali ben Ahmed)
Phoenician to Islamic (6th c BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Mauri / Roman
River limes fort Thamusida with Praetorium frescoes and cohors II Syrorum camp.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Deir el-Bersha
Early Dynastic to Late Period (2950–650 BCE; decorated peak Middle Kingdom) · Ancient Egyptian / Coptic
Hare nome necropolis with Djehutihotep colossus sledge 172 men and earliest Book of Two Ways coffins.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Dendera Temple of Hathor
Late Ptolemaic to Roman (54 BCE–117 CE; zodiac 50 BCE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Best-preserved Hathor temple with 24 sistrum columns, crypt 'Dendera light' reliefs and zodiac ceiling (54 BCE).
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
La Corona
Early to Late Classic (520 – 790 CE) · Maya (Kaanul vassal)
La Corona in Petén, Guatemala is a Early to Late Classic (520 – 790 CE) ancient city attributed to Maya (Kaanul vassal) culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Bulla Regia
Numidian to Late Roman (6th c BCE–5th c CE; villas 2nd–4th c) · Numidian / Carthaginian / Roman
Unique Numidian–Roman town with two-storey subterranean villas and intact hunt mosaics preserved by burial.
🇪🇬 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.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Solnitsata (Provadia-Solnitsata)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo–Varna sequence) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița associated
Earliest prehistoric town in Europe (c.5600–4350 BCE, Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic) — fortified stone-walled (3 m thick) salt-production centre at Mirovo rock salt spring, the oldest salt mine in…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Mes Aynak Monastery Complex
Kushan-Gandhara 3rd c BCE Bronze Age mining → Buddhist 3rd–7th c CE · Gandhara–Sassanian Buddhist (Kushan–Shahi)
Mes Aynak Monastery Complex — major Buddhist settlement (3rd–7th c CE, Bronze Age mines beneath) 40 km SE Kabul, world's 2nd largest copper deposit overlying 100-acre (40 ha) monastery.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Tombos Pyramidal Tombs — Third Cataract
New Kingdom to early Kushite, c.1550-750 BCE (18th Dynasty onward) · Ancient Egyptian / Kushite
Tombos island and east bank cemetery at Tombos quarry 3rd Cataract: pyramidal tombs (8×8 m base) with chapels and shafts for Egyptian officials and Kushite successors (1400-750 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Shahr-i Sokhta — The Burnt City
Early Bronze Age Helmand–Jiroft horizon (c.3200–1800 BCE; variant 3200–2350 then eclipse) · Helmand/Sistan Bronze Age (Burnt City culture) — network with Shahr-i Sokhta, Mundigak, Indus
151 ha Burnt City between Sumer and Indus — animated goat bowl, artificial eye and 40,000 graves.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Dia (Shoma)
Iron Age to Islamic (800 BCE–1700 CE) · Soninke / Bambara (Dia inland delta)
500-ha Niger Delta cluster with Shoma 47-ha wall-47, 40 tell-mounds and 2500-year 800 BCE–1700 CE sequence.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Buto (Tell el-Fara'ein)
Predynastic (Buto-Maadi) to Dynastic to Greco-Roman · Lower Egyptian (Buto-Maadi) → Unified Egyptian
Dual city Pe and Dep — cult centre of cobra goddess Wadjet (tutelar of Lower Egypt) and predynastic–archaic capital that gives 'Buto-Maadi' culture (c.4000–3400 BCE, Palestine-like beveled rims,…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Theveste (Tebessa)
Roman to Byzantine (75-647 CE; peak 2nd-4th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Legionary Theveste with arch.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Avaris – Tell el-Dab'a (Hyksos Capital)
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (c. 2000–1150 BCE; Hyksos peak 1670–1550) · Egyptian / Hyksos Canaanite / Minoan palace artisans
Hyksos capital with Minoan frescoes and donkey burials — 3 m under Delta fields, excavated since 1966.