🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Palpa Lines and Geoglyphs
Paracas (800–200 BCE) to Topará (200 BCE–200 CE) to early Nazca · Paracas and Topará–Nazca
1,000 hill-crest geoglyphs (1000 BCE–800 CE) — the Paracas predecessor to Nazca on Palpa terraces.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Karanovo Tell South Sector
Early Neolithic to Late Chalcolithic (6200–3800 BCE) · Karanovo I–VII → KGK VI (Gumelnița–Karanovo VI)
Karanovo Tell South Sector is the southern lobe of Karanovo tell — the type-site for Balkan Neolithic–Chalcolithic chronology (Karanovo I–VII, 6200–3800 BCE) on the Thracian plain.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Pyla-Koutsopetria – Roman Anchorage off Cyprus Southeast Coast
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (200 BCE – 650 CE) · Hellenistic Greek / Roman / Early Byzantine
Roman coastal roadstead on Cyprus — 120 m mole rubble and ballast piles 1–3 m off Pyla beach.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Kizil Caves (Bezeklik precursor)
Six Dynasties to Tang ~300–800 CE · Tocharian Kuchean Buddhist with Gandharan influence
Kucha's 236 lapis-blue Jataka caves - China's earliest Buddhist grottoes on the Silk Road.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Syene Granite Quarries
Old Kingdom to Roman (2700 BCE–500 CE; peak 1500–30 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian / Roman
Syene (Aswan) granite quarries are Old–Ptolemaic hardstone source producing 100-m-long unfinished obelisk of Hatshepsut (1,200 t) abandoned in bedrock crack, plus sarcophagi, colossi and pavements…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Ofune Jomon Site
Early–Middle Jomon 3500–2000 BCE · Jomon Early–Middle Hokkaido maritime
Early–Middle Jomon coastal settlement (3500–2000 BCE) on Ofune River terrace facing Uchiura Bay, Hokkaido, renowned for 100+ deep pit graves, stone pile graves, and massive whale-bone midden (sperm…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Shunet el-Zebib, Abydos
Early Dynastic 2nd Dynasty ~2750 BCE · Early Egyptian Dynastic
2750 BCE 137 m mudbrick enclosure - Egypt's oldest monumental walls prototyping pyramid complex.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Drakensberg uKhahlamba Rock Art
Later Stone Age ~4000 BP–1800 CE · San (Bushman) hunter-gatherer
35,000 San paintings in 600 Drakensberg shelters - shamanic eland dance archive.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Tell of Painted Ware Submerged 49 — Turkey Region 1
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Tell of Painted Ware Submerged 49 — Turkey Region 1 in Turkey Region 1, Turkey is a Neolithic submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Necropolis
Abusir Necropolis
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty (mainly); Early Dynastic to Late Period · Ancient Egyptian (Memphite)
Abusir (Egyptian pr wsjr, 'House of Osiris'; Arabic Abu Sir) is the Fifth Dynasty royal necropolis on the Western Desert plateau edge between Giza and Saqqara, part of the Memphis and its Necropolis…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Tianluoshan
Hemudu culture 6500–5000 BCE (Early → Middle → Late Hemudu) · Hemudu (Lower Yangzi Neolithic, Austroasiatic? → later Wu-Yue)
Hemudu culture waterlogged village (c.6500–5000 BCE, 7000–5800 cal BP) in Yuyao, Zhejiang — 3 ha Neolithic settlement between two hills 7 km northeast of Hemudu, excavated 2004–07 by Zhejiang…
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Histria (Istrus) Greek Colony on the Black Sea
Archaic Greek to Early Medieval (657 BCE – 7th c. CE) · Milesian Greeks → Getae → Romans → Byzantines
Histria (Istrus) Greek Colony on the Black Sea in Dobruja, Constanța County, Istria commune, Sinoe Lake shore near Danube delta, Romania is a Archaic Greek to Early Medieval (657 BCE – 7th c.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Turpan Karez (Kariz) Irrigation System — Turfan Depression
Han to Qing (2nd c. BCE – 19th c. CE) · Han Chinese, Turkic Uyghur, Gaochang Tokharian, Hui
Tianshan 5,000-km 1784-karez gravity snow-melt system below sea level Han–present.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Valcamonica Rock Engravings – Naquane National Park
Epipalaeolithic to modern with Iron Age peak · Camunni (Rhaetic-adjacent Alpine) and predecessors
140,000 figures on 2,000 Alpine slabs—world's densest European rock art valley (UNESCO 1979 No.1 Italy).
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Kalbak-Tash Petroglyph Complex
Neolithic to Early Medieval (6000 BCE – 800 CE) · Neolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Okunev, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Kok-Pash, Turkic Khaganate
Chuysky gorge 5,000-image palimpsest 6 ka BCE to Turkic across Katun-Chuya confluence.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Chauvet Pont d'Arc Brunel Chamber
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Chauvet Pont d'Arc Brunel Chamber in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Southern Extension
Medieval (1075-1220 CE) · Mapungubwe
Mapungubwe Hill Summit Enclosure South Annex — Southern Extension in Limpopo, Musina, South Africa is a Medieval (1075-1220 CE) ancient city attributed to Mapungubwe.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Southern Extension
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) · Hissar Culture
Tepe Hissar Burned Building Annex West — Southern Extension in Semnan, Damghan, Iran is a Chalcolithic-Bronze Age (4000-2000 BCE) tell attributed to Hissar Culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Elephantine Island
Predynastic to Medieval (3500 BCE–10th c CE; peak Old Kingdom and Persian-Jewish) · Ancient Egyptian / Jewish-Aramaic / Nubian
1.8-km cataract island with Khnum temples, nilometer 90 steps and Elephantine Aramaic Jewish papyri archive.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Terracotta Army Pit 2 Cavalry Flank
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Terracotta Army Pit 2 Cavalry Flank in Shaanxi, Lintong, China is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Harla Necropolis Cairn Field East Sector — Eastern Outlier
Medieval (800-1500 CE) · Harla
Harla Necropolis Cairn Field East Sector — Eastern Outlier in Harari, Harar, Ethiopia is a Medieval (800-1500 CE) tumulus attributed to Harla.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Hydraulic works
Khettaras of Figuig Oasis (Figuig Khettara Network)
Almoravid to Marinid (11th–14th c.) · Zenaga Berber oasis (Figuig ksour)
Figuig oasis: 14 khettaras 28 km Atlas piedmont irrigating 650 ha seven-ksar border oasis 32.12N 1.23W.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Deir el-Bahari
Middle to New Kingdom (2055–1435 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
Theban cliff triple terraces: Mentuhotep 2055 BCE and Hatshepsut Djeser-Djeseru with Punt reliefs.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Panticapaeum – Bosporan Acropolis on Mount Mithridat
Milesian Greek to Late Roman (600 BCE – 370 CE; Byzantine reoccup. 6th c.) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan Scythian / Mithridatic Pontic / Roman
Bosporan Kingdom capital on Mount Mithridat — acropolis above with harbour terraces now 1–3 m under Kerch Strait.