🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Phanagoria — Kuban Delta Western Harbour Mole
Classical to Medieval (500 BCE – 1000 CE) · Bosporan Greek
Western Kuban mole of Phanagoria — timber-piled harbour at former river mouth, now silted 1–2.5 m in delta.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Paquimé (Casas Grandes) Desert Lines & Adobe Geoglyphs
Medio period (Casas Grandes, 1060–1340 CE) · Mogollon–Paquimé (Casas Grandes)
60+ adobe and rubble geoglyphs (1060–1340 CE) surrounding the Mogollon city of Paquimé — acolyte owl and avenues.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Lianyungang Jiangjunya Rock Art — Mount Kongwang
Longshan Late Neolithic to Eastern Han (2500 BCE–200 CE) · Haidai Longshan (Dongyi) to Han Chinese Buddhist
Lianyungang 15-m General Cliff with 70 Longshan faces and earliest Han Buddha 68 CE overlay on Yellow Sea granite.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Hüetberg (Hüttemoor) Plankway & Linear Track (Schleswig Bog Causeway)
Hallstatt Late to Early La Tène · Northern German urnfield community
Hallstatt plank causeway in Huetberg moor 8 km east of Eckernförde: 68 m split-oak on birch sleepers (612 BCE).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Azapa Alto Cabuza Geoglyphs (Upper Azapa Cabuza Terrace)
Formative to Early Intermediate (Alto Ramírez–Cabuza 400–800 CE) · Upper Azapa Cabuza Alto Ramírez farmers
21 upper Cabuza terrace figures 1800 m: square-torso anthropomorphs + zigzag flood-line on mesa above incised Azapa gorge.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Kyzyl-Bulak South Kurgan (Aktobe Kyzyl-Bulak Red Spring Mound)
Early Sarmatian Iron Age (450–350 BCE) with Hun reuse 410 CE · Sarmatian Aktobe–Uil (eastern Sarmatian) with Hun secondary
Kyzyl-Bulak Sarmatian mound 68 m diam 8.2 m with torc 340 g and ditch 22 m on Uil divide 142 km south of Aktobe.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Karanis — Southern Lake Harbour Pier at Kom Aushim
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (3rd c. BCE – 350 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman
Southern lake pier of Karanis — 32 m limestone pier and basin 380 m south of town, now 2.5–4 m under fields.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Harrat Uwayrid Mustatil Field
Late Neolithic, Arabian Mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
19 high-altitude mustatil enclosures (5300-5000 BCE) on Harrat Uwayrid basalt at 1320 m, northernmost field.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Ughtasar High Plateau — Pilgrim Mountain Petroglyph Field
Chalcolithic to Iron Age · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Lchashen-Metsamor
Syunik 3300-m crater-lake plateau with >4000 black basalt petroglyphs, chariot and solar calendar boulders.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Rock art
Phu Phra Bat Historical Park — Sima Stone Tradition
Prehistoric to Dvaravati (7th–13th c.) to Lan Xang · Khorat Bronze to Dvaravati Mon–Khmer Buddhist; Khmer Angkor influence
Udon Thani mushroom boulders with 3000 BCE cattle paintings and 68 Dvaravati Sīma stones 7th–9th c., UNESCO 1507.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Zhetytobe Kurgan Necropolis (Turkestan Ridge – Ancient Asativ)
Early to Middle Saka · Saka of the eastern Aral–Karatau
Seven-hills ridge with 7 giant kurgans 42-72 m plus 14 satellites: Saka necropolis above Sozak oasis.
🇩🇪 Germany · Earthwork
Cape Arkona (Jaromarsburg) Slavic Temple Fortress
Early Middle Ages (9th–1168 CE, temple peak 1100–1168) · Slavic Rani Principality (Svantevit cult)
Cape Arkona (Jaromarsburg) Slavic Temple Fortress in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Rügen Island, Putgarten, Wittow peninsula, Cape Arkona cliffs, Germany is a Early Middle Ages (9th–1168 CE, temple peak…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Kumsay Ridge Kurgans (Aktobe Kumsay Steppe Crests)
Early to Middle Sarmatian (550–350 BCE) · Sauromatian to Sarmatian Kobda ridge (Uil–Khobda interfluve)
7 Sarmatian ridge kurgans 22–48 m linear 12 km crest: mirror bronze and gold child burial — winter pasture beacon.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Cerro Unita South Geoglyph Extension (Gigante S Sur)
Late Intermediate (Tarapacá) · Tarapacá interior oasis people
South spur of Atacama Giant hill: 19 figures including lizard and raptor framing Giant viewshed.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar de Llamara Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate Pica-Charcollo · Pica-Charcollo and Atacameno traders
80+ horizontal salt-flat geoglyphs (1000-1350 CE) on Salar de Llamara halite crust, caravan staging road.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Patrai — Central Submerged Emporium in Kerch Strait
Archaic to Late Antiquity (6th c. BCE – 500 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Roman
Central strait emporium of Patrai — transshipment mole at 2–4 m in Kerch Strait handling grain toll.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Gytheio – Submerged Roman Harbour of Laconia
Classical to Late Antique (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Spartan / Roman
Sparta's naval harbour — Roman quays and 70 m concrete mole now at −4 m off Gytheio and Marathonisi, mapped by Flemming 1968–71.
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock-cut
Karaftu Caves — Heraclean Greek Inscription
Hellenistic–Parthian (Seleucid to Mithridates I) · Seleucid Greek–Iranian magus syncretism (Heracles–Verethragna)
Zagros cave 4 triple chambers with koine 'Heracles rests here' inscription 3rd–1st BCE and spring cistern.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Hermonassa — Northern Lagoon Harbour in Taman Bay
Archaic to Medieval Rus (550 BCE – 1400 CE) · Mytilenean Greek / Bosporan / Byzantine / Kievan Rus
Northern lagoon harbour of Hermonassa — rubble mole and timber causeway at 1.5–3 m in Taman lagoon.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Berenike — Wadi Harit Road Outlet Harbour Hinterland
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian / Eastern Desert Arabs
Inland wadi harbour outlet of Berenike — silted canal and caravanserai linking lagoon to Coptos road.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Dahekou II — Yellow River East Bank Baiyin Petroglyphs
Neolithic to Bronze Age · Majiayao, Qijia, Xindian
Baiyin east bank Yellow River 3000–4000 yr deer and ibex paintings/petroglyphs, 2025-discovered.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Carn Ingli Hillfort
Iron Age (c.500 BCE–100 CE) with Bronze Age cairn · Iron Age Welsh (Demetae) / Early Medieval
Rocky tor-top hillfort (343 m) above Newport — stone-rampart contour fort with hut circles on Mynydd Carningli.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient village
Kolomiytsev Yar Trypillia Tract Settlement Cluster
Chalcolithic (c.4300–4000 BCE, Trypillia BII) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia BII, western)
Kolomiytsev Yar Trypillia Tract Settlement Cluster in Kyiv Oblast, Obukhiv Raion, Kolomiytsev Yar valley near Kopachiv, Ukraine is a Chalcolithic (c.4300–4000 BCE, Trypillia BII) Cucuteni-Trypillia…
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Bata — Tsemes Bay Harbour at Novorossiysk
Archaic to Late Antiquity (550 BCE – 370 CE) · Sindian / Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Submerged harbour of Bata — Classical mole at 3–8 m under Novorossiysk commercial port in Tsemes Bay.