🇱🇾 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).
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Hunebed D27 Borger
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture West Group (TRB)
Netherlands' largest hunebed — 22.6 m passage grave with 9 capstones of Scandinavian erratics, c.3400 BCE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Huánuco Viejo (Wankapampa)
Pre-Inca to Late Intermediate 400 BCE–1470 CE · Kotosh–Wanka (Yarowilca?)
Puna hilltop predecessor village 144 houses above Huánuco Pampa, 400 BCE–1470 CE.
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock art
Kurangun
Elamite (c.2000–1000 BCE; peak Middle Elamite c.1500) · Elamite (Kurangun shrine of Inshushinak)
Kurangun is a massive Elamite open-air rock-cut shrine (20×7 m) on Mamasani cliff with 15 divine figures in low relief — gods enthroned, worshippers and fish-go...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Ek Balam
Late Classic Maya 600–850 CE · Maya (Talol kingdom)
146-m Acropolis with jaguar stucco frieze, 600–850 CE Maya city.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Hotnitsa North Tell — Veliko Tarnovo Gumelniţa
Late Chalcolithic Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen–Karanovo VI
Chalcolithic burned village 4600 BCE — 407 gold items neighbouring mound (Chohadzhiev).
🇹🇩 Chad · Ancient city
Ouara
Wadai Sultanate (1635–1911 CE) · Maba–Arab Wadai (Sudano-Sahelian)
Ouara (Wara) is the roofed sandstone capital of Wadai Sultanate (1635–1911), 40 km north of Abéché, with three palace complexes of faced sandstone 20×15 m halls, fortified kori walls and qaraya…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Timgad (Thamugadi)
Roman to Byzantine (100 CE–6th c; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber / Byzantine
Exemplar Roman colonial grid city founded ex nihilo by Trajan c.100 CE for veterans of Third Augustan Legion, Timgad displays perfect castrum plan: square 355×250 m, decumanus and cardo crossing at…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Goshono Jomon Site
Late Jomon 2500–1200 BCE · Jomon Late
Late Jomon pit-dwelling settlement (2500–1200 BCE) on Mabechi River plateau, UNESCO 2021 component 1632-010, with 20 pit-houses, 800+ pit graves, burnt mound middens and 4 m earthwork stone pavements…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell el-Fekheriye (Sikkan / Washukanni?)
Middle Bronze to neo-Assyrian (c.2000 BCE–700 BCE), peak Middle Assyrian · Mitanni Washukanni? / Sikkan Assyrian
Spring-resurgent mound with 1.5-m deep Middle Assyrian level and 9th-c. bilingual Old Aramaic–Old Assyrian Hadad statue inscription (stated first to transcribe Akkadian into Aramaic).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uchi Minus (Henchir Rhar ez-Zaatli)
Roman (1st c. BCE–6th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Smaller twin to Uchi Maius on Khalled tributary with haouanet tombs.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat Mound of Tell al-Hiba (Lagash — Ibgal)
Early Dynastic to Ur III · Sumerian (Lagash dynasty)
Early Dynastic temple platform ziggurat Ibgal of Inanna at Lagash (Tell al-Hiba) — 40×30 m platform c.2500 BCE, precursor to classic Ur ziggurat.
🇹🇩 Chad · Rock art
Ennedi Rock Art
Neolithic Pastoral to Iron Age ~7000 BP–1000 CE · Saharan Pastoralist to Toubou ancestors
Ennedi sandstone shelters with 7 kyr cattle-to-camel paintings around Saharan guelta lakes.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Mazghuna Pyramids (North & South)
Late Middle Kingdom, late 12th–13th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Two late 12th / early 13th Dynasty mudbrick pyramid ruins 5 km south of Dahshur at Mazghuna village: Southern pyramid 52.5 m base with intact quartzite sarcophagus and 42 t lid in U-shaped quartzite…
🇦🇺 Australia · Earthwork
Selby Earthwork
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Selby Earthwork in New South Wales, Australia is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) earthwork attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Azapa Cerro Belén Extension Geoglyphs (Belén Hillside North)
Formative (500 BCE–800 CE) · Alto Ramírez–Cabuza
North-facing 15° hillside of Cerro Belén at km 18, 120 m above valley floor, with 10 figures: 18-m double-headed camelid, 26-m fret, and 35-m avenue with central cairn line.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Boralday Southwest Kapchagay Road Kurgans (Kapchagay Corridor South)
Saka (480–320 BCE) · Saka
Southwest corridor 5 km southwest of Boralday Park toward Kapchagay Reservoir (760 m) with 7 mounds 20–48 m diam.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Citadel Grove Ancient Village
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Citadel Grove Ancient Village in Balochistan, Pakistan is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient village attributed to Harappan culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
Postclassic (Medio/Chihuahua culture) · Mogollon-Paquimé (Oasisamerica)
Largest pre-Hispanic pueblo city of northern Mexico (c.1130–1340 CE, 70 ha, population ~2,500) with multi-storey adobe apartments, T-shaped doors, I-shaped ballcourts (Mesoamerican), macaw breeding…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Shiloh Indian Mounds National Historic Landmark
Early to Middle Mississippian 1000–1350 CE · Mississippian (Shiloh phase)
Palisaded 8-mound Mississippi River town on Tennessee River, 1000–1350 CE.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen des Pierres Folles (Commequiers)
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Vendée Atlantic
18 m gallery grave (allée couverte) near Commequiers, Vendée, Pierre Folle road, 3000 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Knidos Apollo Temple — Datça Peninsula Karne Island Sanctuary
Archaic Dorian to Hellenistic (600 BCE – 100 BCE) · Dorian Knidians with Triopian league
Apollo Karneios doric 6×11 on double-harbour terrace of Triopian Dorian expansion city.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Charsadda — Pushkalavati Bala Hisar Extension
Achaemenid to Hindu Shahi (600 BCE–1000 CE) Pushkalavati · Gandhara capital of Gandhara before Peshawar shift
Charsadda — Pushkalavati Bala Hisar Extension in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Achaemenid to Hindu Shahi (600 BCE–1000 CE) Pushkalavati ancient-city attributed to Gandhara capital of Gandhara…