🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Visingsö Stone Ship and Graves
Late Iron Age – Viking Age · Late Iron Age / Vendel-Viking Småland
Visingsö island ship settings to 35 m in Lake Vättern — Late Iron Age ships plus mounds in oak woodland grave fields.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Akjoujt (Agueijit)
Chalcolithic to Early Iron Age (1800–500 BCE) · Pre-Mauritanian / early Berber / unknown Saharan smiths
West Africa's earliest copper-mining landscape Akjoujt — 1,000 tons slag from 1500 BCE.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Outer Chaco Canyon Settlement B — Chaco Canyon (55-41)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Outer Chaco Canyon Settlement B — Chaco Canyon (55-41) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Bronze Age (regional) ancient city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Futatsumori Shell Midden
Early to Middle Jomon 4500–2500 BCE (Jomon 2–4) · Early–Middle Jomon (Tōhoku coastal)
Early–Middle Jomon coastal shell midden and settlement (c.4500–2500 BCE) at Shichinohe on the Lake Ogawara plain — massive shell mound 120×80 m (Late Jomon layers 3 m thick) with 40+ pit dwellings,…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Submerged site
Caesarea Iol — Harbour North Breakwater (Cherchell)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Caesarea Iol — Harbour North Breakwater (Cherchell) in Tipaza, Cherchell, Caesarea Iol, Algeria is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged ci…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder
Laetoli — Hominin Footprint Site
Pliocene (3.66 Ma Laetolil Beds Upper Unit) · Australopithecus afarensis (natural trace)
Laetoli is the 3.66 Ma Pliocene footprint horizon (Site G) 45 km S of Olduvai, where Mary Leakey 1978 found 70 m trail of bipedal hominin footprints (Australopithecus afarensis, 3 individuals) plus…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Old Alexandria Settlement I — Alexandria, Pharos (58-23)
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Old Alexandria Settlement I — Alexandria, Pharos (58-23) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Iron Age (regional) submerged city of the Iron Age tradition, built c.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Naqa — Temple of Apedemak and Meroitic Platform Complex
Meroitic (early to late Meroitic) · Kushite (Meroitic)
Meroitic royal city and temple town 50 km east of Nile, famed for co-built Temple of Apedemak (Natakamani & Amanitore, 1st century CE) with twin pylons covered in lion-god reliefs, Roman kiosk and…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Jebel Aruda
Late Uruk (LC5) · Uruk colony cult centre
Uruk hill-citadel (c.3500–3300 BCE) perched 160 m above Euphrates on limestone jebel opposite Habuba — sacred twin controlling Uruk colony from above.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Meir (Mir)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1750 BCE peak Twelfth Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
14th nome ridge tombs with Senbi-Ukh-hotep 1970 BCE earliest daily-life genre scenes and pilgrimage frieze.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Monte Albán
Formative to Classic 500 BCE–850 CE (Monte Albán I–V; apogee IIIa 250–500 CE, IIIb–IV 500–850) · Zapotec (Beni Zaa); later Mixtec reuse
Zapotec capital on artificially levelled 400 m hilltop (6 km²) commanding Oaxaca Valley confluence: Main Plaza (300×150 m), South and North Platforms, Pyramid of the Dancers (Temple I) with Danzantes…
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
Sacred Chaco Canyon Mound Inner — Chaco Canyon (55-50)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Sacred Chaco Canyon Mound Inner — Chaco Canyon (55-50) at Chaco Canyon, United States is a Neolithic (regional) temple complex of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Temple complex
Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
Timurid 1389–1405 over Yasawi 12th c. · Timurid / Sufi Sunni
Colossal Timurid shrine (1389–1405) over 12th-c. Sufi poet Khoja Ahmed Yasawi's grave, commissioned by Timur to draw Islam to steppe, largest brick dome in Central Asia (44 m high, 22 m span) and…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Ixtonton Maya City
Late Classic Maya (550–900 CE) · Maya (Dolores valley – Petén southeastern)
Late Classic Maya kingdom capital (600–900 CE) in southeastern Petén mountains: 120 structures organized in 2 plazas, main Acropolis pyramid 18 m high, Group 2 palace, Structure 104 vaulted causeway…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Tikal
Preclassic–Classic Maya · Maya (Mutal dynasty)
Classic Maya superpower (600 BCE–900 CE) — UNESCO 1979 Mirador-Tikal jantung dengan Mundo Perdido 30-m E-Group observatory (600 BCE–), North Acropolis dynastic necropolis 1000 year...
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Saqqara — Teti Pyramid North Chapel Complex (Memphis)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Saqqara — Teti Pyramid North Chapel Complex (Memphis) in Giza, Saqqara, Teti Pyramid, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed t…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Tell al-Rimah (Qattara)
Old Babylonian to Mitanni · Amorite / Old Assyrian
Old Babylonian planned city ziggurat at Tell al-Rimah (Qattara/Karana) c.1800 BCE: 45×45 m Adad ziggurat on 130 m terrace, Sinjar plain encircled city.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sesebi Fortified Temple — Akhenaten Town
New Kingdom, Amarna Period, c.1350 BCE (Akhenaten / Amenhotep IV) · Ancient Egyptian (Akhenaten)
Sesebi walled town on west bank between 2nd-3rd Cataracts: rectangular fortified settlement 270×200 m with Aten temple (Akhenaten) later converted to Amun temple by Seti I.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Irie Site
Late to Final Jomon 2000–500 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (Lake Toya)
Late–Final Jomon permanent settlement (c.2000–500 BCE) at Lake Toya, counterpart to Takasago cemetery — 1.2 ha Irie terrace with 50+ pit dwellings, large shell middens, and lakeside fishing weirs…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tomb
Outer Saqqara Necropolis I — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-22)
Classical (regional) · Classical
Outer Saqqara Necropolis I — Saqqara, Serapeum (59-22) at Saqqara, Serapeum, Egypt is a Classical (regional) tomb of the Classical tradition, built c.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
West Kennet Long Barrow — Ancillary Ditch Segment
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
West Kennet Long Barrow — Ancillary Ditch Segment in England, Wiltshire, Avebury, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) me…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Qasr el-Sagha — Ancillary Temple Basin North (Fayum, Egypt)
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Qasr el-Sagha — Ancillary Temple Basin North (Fayum, Egypt) in Fayum, Qasr el-Sagha, Egypt is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attri…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Sai Island Pyramid Field — Northern Town
New Kingdom, 1550-1070 BCE (Thutmose III–Ramesses II) · Ancient Egyptian
Sai Island northern town (Upper Nubia) on island mid-Nile between 2nd and 3rd Cataracts: Egyptian walled town 238×120 m with Amun temple (Thutmose III–Amenhotep II), governor's residence and…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hasankeyf
Assyrian to Ottoman (12th c. BCE–1920); peak Artukid–Ayyubid 12th–13th century · Assyrian → Roman → Byzantine → Artukid Kurdish → Ayyubid → Ottoman
Cliff-cut Tigris citadel with 10,000 caves, Artukid bridge and salvage-relocated Timurid tomb now under reservoir.