🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Filitosa
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age · Corsican Megalithic → Torréen (Bronze Age)
Corsican valley site with Torréen statue-menhirs bearing sculpted swords and faces protected by cyclopean towers, 3500-1200 BCE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Helgö Trading Island
Migration to Viking Age (c.200–1050 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Vendel–Viking
Small island (48 ha) in Lake Mälaren's Helgö, 5 km long, excavated 1954–74 (Holmqvist, Lundström) revealing 800 years of craft (bronze, iron, jewel, glass) and long-distance imports: Coptic bronze…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Ikom Monoliths — Alok Akwanshi Stone Field
Iron Age to Early Modern (200–1800 CE) · Ekoi / Ejagham (Legbok)
Ikom Monoliths are >300 basalt volcanic monoliths 1–1.8 m tall arranged in 30 circles (each 6 m Ø with 12 phallic pillars) around Ikom and Alok, dated 1st–18th c CE, uniquely carved with facial…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Jebel Barkal Pyramids
Kushite Napatan (c. 700 BCE–300 CE; field pyramids c. 300 BCE–100 CE) · Kushite (Napatan 25th Dynasty descendants)
Hill of Jebel Barkal sacred mountain (98 m flat-topped sandstone pinnacle) with 10+ small Kushite pyramids of Napatan kings (c.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Menteşe Höyük
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) · Marmara Neolithic
Neolithic (6400–6000 BCE, Fikirtepe) Marmara Neolithic tell at Bursa Province, Iznik Basin – fikirtepe hamlet on former lake terrace (dims Mound 120 m diam, 4 m Fikirtepe deposits).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mount Royal Archaeological Site
St Johns IIc–Mississippian 1050–1562 CE (midden 3000 BCE onward) · St Johns (Timucua ancestors)
St Johns platform mound 6.7 m with 300 m causeway and 6000-year midden, contacted 1562 by French.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Phnom Bakheng
Angkor Yasodharapura 889–928 · Hindu Shaiva (Linga)
Mountain-temple on 65 m natural Bakheng hill (c.889–910 CE, Yasovarman I) at centre of first Angkor capital Yasodharapura, five-tier pyramid with 108 shrines plus central quincunx representing Mt.
🇱🇾 Libya · Pyramid
Pyramid of Tel Floodplain
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Pyramid of Tel Floodplain in Fezzan, Libya is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) pyramid attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Fortress
Shallow Fortress
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Shallow Fortress in County Kerry, Ireland is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) fortress attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Shikarpur — Kutch
Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Shikarpur — Kutch in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Mature Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient village attributed to Harappan culture.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hillfort
Source Hillfort
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Source Hillfort in Oruro, Bolivia is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) hillfort attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Baiqa
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) · EB South Levantine (Ghouta)
Early Bronze (3000–2200 BCE) EB South Levantine (Ghouta) tell at Damascus Basin, Ghouta fringe – eb walled town on damascus oasis fringe (dims Mound 8 ha, wall 8 m thick).
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Mardikh — Ebla Lower Town South
EBA I to Old Syrian (3500–1600 BCE; peak Eblaite Palace G 2400 BCE) · EBA Eblaite → Eblaite Syrian → Old Syrian (Yamhad)
Eblaite capital lower town 2400 BCE — 17k tablets south quarter & Temple of Rock.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumuli de Champ-Châlon
Middle Neolithic · Poitou-Charentes Atlantic
Necropolis of four tumuli (B and C registered MH 1992) at Benon, Poitou-Charentes, trapezoidal passage graves, c.4000 BCE.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Tumulus
Tumulus of Canal Enclosure
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Tumulus of Canal Enclosure in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Moche (100–800 CE) tumulus attributed to Moche culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Mount Winton
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Ancient City of Mount Winton in Piauí, Brazil is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Nazca culture.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Armavir (Argishtikhinili)
Urartian 776 BCE to Orontid Hellenistic (to 2nd c. BCE) · Urartu → Orontid Armenia → Hellenistic
Two citadels (D-A Mound): Argishti I fortress Argishtikhinili built atop Metsamor EB hill, rock-cut canal from Araxes still visible, later Hellenistic wall with Aramaic ostraca of Erivan, mythic…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ballymeanoch Stone Row and Henge
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Neolithic/Bronze Age
Four-stone chlorite row (to 2.8 m) with 70 cup marks, adjacent cairns and ploughed henge in Kilmartin Glen.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Ban Don Ta Phet
Late Iron Age to Early Historic (c.400 BCE–200 CE) · Early Indian-influenced (Indian contact)」「West? actually Ban Don Ta Phet 400–0 BCE Indian contact
Iron Age cemetery with first South Asian beads across South China Sea (400 BCE–200 CE) — Indian bronze bowls at Kanchanaburi.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen de Mané-Bras
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Passage grave near Locmariaquer, Morbihan, part of Locmariaquer-Carnac megalithic concentration, c.4000 BCE.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Highfield-Narrow Wadi Ancient Village
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Highfield-Narrow Wadi Ancient Village in Fezzan, Libya is a Moche (100–800 CE) ancient village attributed to Moche culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Halula South — Euphrates Pre-Pottery Annex
PPNA to PPNB (7800–5400 BCE; main 7600–6000 BCE) · PPNB Mureybetian → PPNB (Euphrates)
PPNB mega-village 7600 BCE — communal plastered houses & skull cult (Molist).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Vazi Sarara
Punic/Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Vazi Sarara (Henchir Bez) is an inland Byzacena/ Africa Proconsularis colonia on the Siliana plain, founded as peregrine civitas and promoted colonia under Probus.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Didyma Temple of Apollo
Hellenistic to Roman 313 BCE–558 CE · Greek (Milesian) and Roman Imperial
Giant unfinished oracle temple with 19.7 m columns and Sacred Way to Miletus.