🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Castillo de Huarmey — Wari Imperial Mausoleum
Wari Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE · Wari (Huari imperial)
Wari mausoleum 64 tombs gold queens 600–800 CE, intact 2012.
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🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Wari Middle Horizon 600–1000 CE · Wari (Huari imperial)
Wari mausoleum 64 tombs gold queens 600–800 CE, intact 2012.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Archaic–Initial 3500–1500 BCE · Casma-Sechín tradition
First Plaza 3500 BCE, Third Platform 16 m × 300 m.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Late Napatan to Early Meroitic, c.350–300 BCE · Kushite
South Cemetery pyramid Beg. S.10 (c.350–300 BCE) for Queen (?) Amanislo fragment? 12 m base, heavily eroded sandstone pyramid with mudbrick chapel forecourt.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Byzantine (c.300 BCE–600 CE; Seleucid foundation 301 BCE) · Seleucid → Roman → Byzantine Euphrates
Seleucid gridded city (301 BCE) on Euphrates east bank — fossil Hellenistic plan at Jebel Khaled.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Initial–Early Horizon 1000–250 BCE · Kuntur Wasi tradition
Gold-temple four platforms, gold burials 800 BCE.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Neolithic (c.8000–7100 BCE; Bestansur horizon) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic B → Pottery Neolithic Shahrizor
Shahrizor PPNB town (8000–7100 BCE) with courtyard houses and plaster floors SE of Sulaymaniyah.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Pliocene–Pleistocene · Early hominids
Koobi Fora & Turkana Basin Hominid Sites in Marsabit County, Turkana, Kenya is a Pliocene–Pleistocene archaeological wonder attributed to Early hominids culture.
GR · Submerged site
Mycenaean to Late Roman (LH III – 5th c. CE harbour) · Mycenaean / Elean / Olympic
Olympia seaport — Homeric Pheia harbour basin and Pontikokastro islet now 4–6 m under Katakolo Bay.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Preclassic Mirador fluorescence 400 BCE–150 CE · Maya (Mirador Basin)
Mirador Basin satellite 10 km SE of El Mirador on 12 km raised sacbe to Nakbe. Structure 1 retains 6 m stucco sculpture of jaguar paw and Structure 2 has cranial caches.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Old to Middle Kingdom (2600–1650 BCE) · Egyptian (Hare Nome)
Nomarch tombs and quarry road with colossus-on-sledge painting (1900 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Aceramic Neolithic (c.8500–7700 BCE) · Zagros PPN (Sheikh-e Abad horizon)
Sahneh PPN mound (8500 BCE) with plastered houses and early goat — sister to Ganj Dareh.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Temple complex
Pagan Kingdom 1044–1287 CE (Bagan period 11th–13th century) · Bamar / Burmese Buddhist (Theravada)
Sacred landscape on Irrawaddy River bend with over 2,200 surviving Buddhist temples, stupas and monasteries from 11th–13th century Pagan Kingdom; at peak >10,000 structures, including Ananda,…
GR · Ancient city
Archaic to Byzantine (c.600 BCE – 14th c. CE harbour) · Corinthian / Classical / Hellenistic / Roman
Corinth Gulf western harbour — 600 m Canopus-style canal + Long Walls, now 2–3 m subsided northwest of Corinth.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
Late Period to Roman (600 BCE–300 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Hermopolis necropolis with 1-million ibis catacombs and Petosiris fusion tomb.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Cave
Early to Late Pleistocene · Oldowan / Mousterian / Kozarnikian
Palaeolithic cave in northwest Bulgaria with 1.6 million year sequence, yielding Early Pleistocene lithics, Homo erectus remains, Middle Palaeolithic layers and Upper Palaeolithic Kozarnikian…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Classic to Postclassic (500–1500 CE, peak 1000–1400) · Unknown Mosquitia culture (possibly Pech/Cahut) linked to Mesoamerican sphere
Recently confirmed pre-Columbian urban complex in Mosquitia rainforest, revealed 2012 LiDAR, excavated 2015 with plazas, earthworks, ballcourt, caches of jaguar effigy vessels (500+ sculptures) dated…
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Helladic to Late Minoan · Minoan-influenced / Mycenaean
World's oldest known submerged town (c.3500–2800 BCE, occupation to 1000 BCE), submerged by earthquakes c.1000 BCE, with intact streets, two-storey houses, tombs, garden terraces off islet; never…
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
Rapa Nui Period 900–1500 CE; ahu construction 1000–1600 CE · Rapa Nui (Polynesian)
Remote Polynesian island 3,700 km west of Chile with nearly 900 basalt moai monoliths (up to 10 m, 86 t, one unfinished 270 t) carved 900–1500 CE at Rano Raraku tuff quarry and erected on stone ahu…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Early Chalcolithic · Vinča
Vinča culture settlement at Pločnik (c. 5500–4700 BCE) on Toplica River terrace, renowned for earliest copper metallurgy (c. 5000 BCE), pit houses and Vinča figurines.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Earthwork Enclosure Europe 82 — Greece Region 10 in Greece Region 10, Greece is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Late Antiquity (543 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Greek
SE drowned insulae of Phanagoria — 3–4.5 m under Taman Bay with Hellenistic quay and workshop debris.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1700 BCE) · Old Kingdom Egyptian (Memphite)
Southern Pharaonic harbour of Ayn Sukhna — gallery caves and mole at 0.5–2.5 m in Gulf of Suez south bay.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Sassanian to Ya'rubi (500–1650 continuous) · Rustaq Batinah tribe communities
Batinah piedmont aflaj swarm: 18 lines (1.2-8 km) feeding Rustaq fortress oasis on Hajar bajada.
🇵🇱 Poland · Earthwork
Early Middle Ages (8th c. tribal; Piast 960–1039) · Piast Poland (Mieszko I, Bolesław I)
Ostrów Lednicki – Piast Stronghold on Lake Lednica in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Gniezno County, Lednica lake island near Lednogóra, Poland is a Early Middle Ages (8th c.