🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 501
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 501 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 532
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 532 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 733
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 733 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 921
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 921 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Kwiambana Hillfort (Zamfara) – Stone-Walled Escarpment Town
Late Iron Age / Historic Hausa · Hausa / Katsinawa refugees
Huge dry-stone perimeter walls (3 km) enclosing plateau hilltown on brink of Kayra escarpment, refuge for Katsina peoples during 18th–19th c Fulani jihads.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 77
Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Knowe of Yarso Chambered Cairn Sector 77 in Orkney, Scotland, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3200-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Ancient city
Begho (Brong-Ahafo) – Akan Gold Entrepôt
Late Iron Age / Akan · Akan (Brong) / Wangara / Kramo
Iron-curtain city of 10,000+ (11th–18th c) at Akan–Niger gold, kola, cloth and Saharan salt crossroads.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Ancient city
Mahasthangarh (Ancient Pundranagara)
Mauryan 4th c BCE → Pala 12th c · Mauryan → Sunga → Gupta → Pala
Ancient Pundranagara — Mauryan–Pala fortified city (4th c BCE–13th c CE) on Karatoya at Mahasthangarh, 12 km north Bogra. 1.5 km rampart, citadel mound, 1928–29 P.C.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Temple complex
Togolok 21 — BMAC Fire Temple
BMAC (2200–1800 BCE) · Oxus civilization
Togolok 21 — BMAC Fire Temple in Mary Province, Turkmenistan is a BMAC (2200–1800 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Oxus civilization.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Gonja Maore Swahili Ruins — Tanga
Swahili (13th–16th c. CE) · Swahili (Shirazi)
Gonja Maore Swahili Ruins — Tanga in Tanga Region, Tanzania is a Swahili (13th–16th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili (Shirazi).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Katsina City and Kusugu Well
Hausa Late Iron Age to Sultanate (c.1100 CE–present) · Hausa (Katsinawa)
Hausa walled city (14 km walls, 7 gates) with Gobarau Minaret and Kusugu well legend.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Temple complex
Chanh Lo Tower — Quang Ngai
Champa (11th c. CE) · Cham
Chanh Lo Tower — Quang Ngai in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam is a Champa (11th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Cham. Single brick kalan with sandstone door frame and kala mask, restored.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Sidari Neolithic Site on Corfu
Early to Middle Neolithic · Impressed Ware / Corfu Neolithic
Coastal Neolithic settlement at Sidari, northern Corfu, with Early to Middle Neolithic layers (c. 5800–5000 BCE) including impressed wares, obsidian and early farming evidence.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient city
Shaka — Formosa Bay Swahili Ruins
Swahili (14th–17th c. CE) · Swahili (Witu)
Shaka — Formosa Bay Swahili Ruins in Kilifi County, Kenya is a Swahili (14th–17th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili (Witu).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bonda Tepe — Lycia Highland Sanctuary
Lycian (600–200 BCE) · Lycian
Bonda Tepe — Lycia Highland Sanctuary in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian (600–200 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Lycian.
🇿🇲 Zambia · Archaeological wonder
Kalambo Falls – 500-ka Wooden Structure & Acheulean Gorge
Acheulean / Sangoan · Homo heidelbergensis (?) woodworking
235 m single-drop waterfall with gorge stratigraphy preserving 500–300 ka Acheulean woodwork: 476-ka interlocking logs (world's oldest wooden structure, Barham Nature 2023) and 500 ka mortised timber.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus of Bougon F0 Sector 119
Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus of Bougon F0 Sector 119 in Deux-Sèvres, France is a Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) megalithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus of Bougon F0 Sector 933
Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus of Bougon F0 Sector 933 in Deux-Sèvres, France is a Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) megalithic.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Tumulus of Bougon F0 Sector 957
Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) · Atlantic Neolithic
Tumulus of Bougon F0 Sector 957 in Deux-Sèvres, France is a Neolithic (4700-3500 BCE) megalithic.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 525
Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) · Casma-Sechin
Cerro Sechin Temple Sector 525 in Ancash, Peru is a Initial Period (1800-800 BCE) temple-complex.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Menga Annex Sector 426
Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Dolmen de Menga Annex Sector 426 in Andalusia, Spain is a Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Archaeological wonder
Ishango (Lake Edward) – Harpoon & Ishango Bone
Later Stone Age Ishango · Ishango LSA fisher-foragers
Lakeshore fishing village (25–20 ka LSA) famed for 25,000 barbed bone harpoons and Ishango Bone – baboon fibula with tally marks (perhaps 20 ka lunar calendar or arithmetic, oldest maths artefact,…
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Sangrampur — Buldhana Stone Circles
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (1200–500 BCE) · Vidarbha
Sangrampur — Buldhana Stone Circles in Maharashtra, India is a Chalcolithic–Iron Age (1200–500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Vidarbha. Stone circles with microliths and copper on Purna tributary.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Tullaghoge Fort Sector 936
Iron Age (800 BCE–400 CE) · Irish Iron Age
Tullaghoge Fort Sector 936 in County Tyrone, Ireland is a Iron Age (800 BCE–400 CE) megalithic.