🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Mari Palace Western Annex Drain
Early Bronze Age (2900-1750 BCE) · Mari Culture
Mari Palace Western Annex Drain in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Syria is a Early Bronze Age (2900-1750 BCE) ancient city attributed to Mari Culture.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Western Terrace
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Western Terrace in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Cluster K — Northern Annex
Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) · Irish Neolithic
Carrowkeel Passage Tomb Cluster K — Northern Annex in County Sligo, Ireland is a Early Neolithic (4000-3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Irish Neolithic.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Gebel Barkal Pyramid 8 Chapel Foundation
Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic)
Gebel Barkal Pyramid 8 Chapel Foundation in Northern, Gebel Barkal, Sudan is a Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic).
🇫🇷 France · Tumulus
Tumulus Saint-Michel Annex Cist South
Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus Saint-Michel Annex Cist South in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Middle Neolithic (4500-3500 BCE) tumulus attributed to Atlantic Neolithic.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Monte d'Accoddi Platform North Rite Annex
Late Neolithic (4000-3200 BCE) · Ozieri Culture
Monte d'Accoddi Platform North Rite Annex in Sardinia, Sassari, Italy is a Late Neolithic (4000-3200 BCE) temple complex attributed to Ozieri Culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Headless Pyramid — Saqqara North (Lepsius XXIX)
Old Kingdom, late Fifth Dynasty (or First Intermediate Period 10th Dynasty, if Merikare) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom — 5th Dynasty / Herakleopolitan 10th Dynasty)
The 'Headless Pyramid' (Lepsius XXIX / Steinkepyramide XXIX) lies 120 m east of the Pyramid of Teti at Saqqara, catalogued by Lepsius 1843 as headless because no casing survives.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Khami Ruins
Zimbabwe Culture Period IV (Late Iron Age; Khami Phase 1450–1683) · Kalanga (Torwa/Karanga) / Rozvi
Post-Great Zimbabwe Torwa capital 1450–1683 with 6 m checkerboard terrace walls on hilltop and Ming porcelain imports.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Pan de Azúcar Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Tarapacá–Inca) · Tarapacá / Inca
12 Inca-period cleared geoglyphs (1400–1500 CE) along Pica–Tamarugal prehispanic trail.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge
Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) · Sicel Culture
Pantalica Anaktoron South Necropolis Ridge in Sicily, Syracuse, Italy is a Late Bronze Age (1300-800 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Sicel Culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Topper Site
Pre-Clovis (Topper) to Clovis · Pre-Clovis (Topper)/Clovis
Pre-Clovis chert quarry (15,000 BCE) with debated lower horizon below Clovis on Savannah River, South Carolina.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Kebar Dam South Spillway Extension (Kebar Secondary Spill)
Mongol Ikhanid–early Timurid (1300–1400 CE) original; Safavid extension 1680 · Ilkhanid–Safavid
South-bank secondary spillway extension 0.4 km south of main Kebar arch dam (26 m high, 55 m crest, oldest surviving arch dam c.1300, already in DB as kebar-dam-qom-iran) at 1,520 m.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Ancient city
Najran Al-Ukhdood Northern Enclosure
Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) · South Arabian
Najran Al-Ukhdood Northern Enclosure in Najran, Najran, Saudi Arabia is a Classical (500 BCE-500 CE) ancient city attributed to South Arabian.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Firuzabad (Ardashir Dam) — Firuzabad Plain reservoir dam, Fars
Early Sassanid (Ardashir I–Shapur I, 224–260 CE) · Sassanid Persian (early Sasanian court)
210-m Sassanid reservoir dam (224 CE) retaining Firuzabad circular capital plain — Ardashir's desert hydraulic foundation.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient village
Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang
Neolithic 2300–1500 → Bronze 1500 BCE Samrong Sen type-site · Tonle Sap Neolithic — Samrong Sen circular moat tradition (Mekong)
Samrong Sen Kampong Chhnang — Neolithic circular mound settlement (2300–1200 BCE, 1500 BP early metal) on sand terrace at Tonle Sap southern rim 30 km NW Kampong Chhnang, excavated 1923–26 by H.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Rock art
Magura Cave Paintings
Neolithic to Iron Age (5000–1200 BCE) · Late Neolithic Karanovo, Eneolithic Gumelnița-Krivodol, Bronze Age Verbicioara
Bulgarian 2.5-km cave 700 guano paintings Neolithic to Iron Age with 366-day calendar.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Thornborough Henges — North Yorkshire
Late Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Thornborough Henges (Neolithic c.3500–2500 BCE) are Britain's finest henge alignment: three huge circular earthworks 240 m diameter each, bank 2 m high with outer ditch and twin entrances aligned…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Bir Aliqua Qanat – Ma'an Plateau (Wadi Araba fringe)
Nabataean to Late Roman · Nabataean / Roman Arabia
3.2-km Nabataean–Roman rock-cut qanat (100 BCE–400 CE) with 28 shafts — Ma'an plateau.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas II South Bend Ili Petroglyphs
Late Bronze to Tibetan Buddhism · Andronovo, Turkic Kipchak, Oirat-Mongol Buddhist
South bend of Ili River 400 m south of main Tamgaly-Tas Buddha triad with vertical palimpsest.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Byblos Royal Tomb VIII Shaft
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Byblos Royal Tomb VIII Shaft in Mount Lebanon, Byblos, Lebanon is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Torsburgen
Migration Period → Viking Age 400–1100 Gotland fornborg · Gotlandic Iron Age Gutar → Viking Age
Torsburgen (Thors Burg) — largest Gotland hillfort (fornborg) Migration–Viking Age (c.400–1100) on Tors limestone plateau 71 m a.s.l., Kräklingbo, eastern Gotland.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Kamennyye Mogily South Ridge — Petryn Gully
Eneolithic to Early Bronze Age · Sredny Stog, Yamnaya, Catacomb
Southernmost sandstone outlier of Kamyana Mohyla island-hill, a low dome 200 m south of the main conglomerate mass exposing 12 shallow grottoes along Petryn Gully.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Lingqu North Pound Extension Canal (Qin Lingqu Northern Stepped Pound)
Qin 214 BCE to Tang 825 CE (Lingqu North pound) · Qin imperial (Shi Huang–Shi Lu) Lingqu Yue conquest hydraulic
North pound extension 1.2 km ×8×1.5 m with 3 Qin granite pound-locks 8×4 m ×1.0 m lift — earliest locks globally 214 BCE.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Rock art
Sarmishsay Upper Terrace Petroglyphs
Early Bronze to Early Islamic · Andronovo, Bactrian, Sogdian, Turkic, Samanid
Upper bench 80 m above gorge floor with caravan and Kufic mosque petroglyphs.