🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Hillfort Dolmen
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Hillfort Dolmen in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) megalithic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Lehedzyne Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Trypillia BI–BII (c.4100–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Trypillia BI)
One of the classic Trypillia BI mega-sites near Lehedzyne (Legedzine), 90 ha with ~1100+ houses identified by magnetometry, excavated and famously reconstructed as a full-scale burning experiment in…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Pyramid of Ridge-Scar
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Pyramid of Ridge-Scar in Ancash, Peru is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Cave
Rig Ach Grotto
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Rig Ach Grotto in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) cave attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Uaxactún Group H South
Middle–Late Preclassic 400 BCE–200 CE · Maya (Preclassic Uaxactún)
Second E-Group observatory 800 m south of classic Group E with twin stela-altars and mural palace.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient city
Cairn Newfield Ancient City
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Cairn Newfield Ancient City in County Kerry, Ireland is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) ancient city attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Keşan Höyük
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) · Thracian Bronze Age
Middle–Late Bronze (2000–1200 BCE) Thracian Bronze Age tell at Edirne Province, Thrace – thracian bronze age mound on thracian plain (dims Mound 6 m high, Bronze deposits with Troy imports).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Kumtepe
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Kumtepe — buried eba tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Lachish
Early Bronze to Babylonian destruction 587 BCE · Canaanite → Israelite/Judahite
Major Canaanite city-state and Judahite fortress second only to Jerusalem (Joshua, Hezekiah, Sennacherib's 701 BCE reliefs at British Museum).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Necropolis
Necropolis of Roxby Dale
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Necropolis of Roxby Dale in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) necropolis attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to early nomadic (~2000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Andronovo, Karasuk, Saka and Turkic nomadic
Arid gorge in the Chu-Ili massif preserving five major groups with over 5,000 petroglyphs, famed for anthropomorphic sun-headed figures up to 80 cm tall with rayed haloes.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Tassili n'Ajjer
Epipaleolithic to Late Pastoral (c.8000 BCE–1000 CE; major painting phases Round Head 6000 BCE–5000 BCE, Pastoral 4500–2000 BCE) · Kel Tamasheq predecessor hunter-gatherer / Pastoral Neolithic / Garamantes
72,000 km² sandstone plateau with one of world's largest rock art concentrations: 15,000 engravings and paintings spanning 6000 BCE–first centuries CE – Bubalus, Round Head (10,000–6000 BCE,…
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Kepoi – Submerged Aphrodite Colony
Archaic to Medieval (c.580 BCE – 10th c.) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan / Sarmatian
590 BCE neighbour to Phanagoria whose harbour quarter is now under Taman Bay.
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock-cut
Moss Cairn Rock-Cut Complex
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Moss Cairn Rock-Cut Complex in Thessaly, Greece is a Moche (100–800 CE) rock_cut attributed to Moche culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Sheikh Hamad
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.1400–600 BCE; provincial capital 900–600) · Mittani → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian provincial
Dur-Katlimmu on lower Khabur is largest Assyrian provincial centre (110 ha: 25-ha citadel + 85-ha walled lower town), Kühne excavations 1978–. Neo-Assyrian capi...
🇦🇷 Argentina · Megalith
Terramare Mount Standing Stones
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Terramare Mount Standing Stones in Catamarca, Argentina is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Valley of the Kings
New Kingdom (c.1539–1075 BCE; 18th–20th Dynasties) · Egyptian New Kingdom
Rock-cut royal necropolis where for 500 years (16th–11th c BCE) 63 tombs of New Kingdom pharaohs and nobles were cut into Theban hills: KV62 Tutankhamun (Carter 1922 with near-intact burial), KV34…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ashkelon
Early Bronze to Crusader 1191 CE · Canaanite → Philistine → Phoenician → Roman
Five-period tells (Canaanite vaulted mudbrick gate — oldest arch in the world c.1850 BCE, 4 m high; Philistine emporium of titans with 15,000 sq m market; Phoenician Tyrian-purple, Greek, Roman,…
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tal-e Atashi
Late 5th millennium BCE · Kerman Chalcolithic
Late 5th millennium BCE Kerman Chalcolithic tell at Kerman Province, Bam plain – chalcolithic village near bam with mudbrick houses (dims Mound 3 ha, 6 m Chalcolithic).
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
Dolmen de Wadi Settlement
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Dolmen de Wadi Settlement in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Nazca culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Hydraulic works
Henge Gallery Aqueduct
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Henge Gallery Aqueduct in Sicily, Italy is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) hydraulic attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Tell
Tell el-Edge Ben
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Tell el-Edge Ben in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) tell attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Pyramid
Torr-Convent Pyramid
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Torr-Convent Pyramid in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) pyramid attributed to Harappan culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Horyu-ji Temple Complex Nara
Asuka Period 607 CE; reconstructions 670, 8th c. · Japanese Asuka Buddhist (Prince Shōtoku)
Hōryū-ji – world's oldest surviving wooden structures (Kondō, five-story pagoda, Chūmon gate late 7th c., UNESCO 1993 first Japanese inscription).