🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uzappa
Roman (1st–7th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Colonia with circus and amphitheatre on imperial saltus.
🇵🇪 Peru · Tumulus
Kistvaen Heacham Burial Mound
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Kistvaen Heacham Burial Mound in Ancash, Peru is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) tumulus attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Hăbășești Cucuteni Settlement
Chalcolithic Cucuteni A (c.4500–4000 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Cucuteni A)
Type site for Cucuteni A excavated by Vl. Dumitrescu 1937–38, a 2 ha fortified village on a promontory with ditch and palisade enclosing ca.30–40 burned houses.
🇺🇸 United States · Hillfort
Ard-Wall Camp
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Ard-Wall Camp in Ohio, United States is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) hillfort attributed to Nazca culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
El Ingenio Petroglyphs
Paracas to Early Nazca ~800 BCE–400 CE · Paracas–Nazca
Nazca-basin boulder petroglyphs bridging Paracas trophy-head art to Nazca geoglyphs.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Ruginoasa–Dealul Drăghici Cucuteni Palace
Cucuteni A–B (c.4200–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
Famous 'palace' at Ruginoasa–Dealul Drăghici, a 32×16 m Cucuteni A3 burned building with timber lacing, painted floors and 2-storey interpretation, excavated by H. Dumitrescu.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Nonnebakken Viking Ringfort (Odense)
Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age
Viking ringfort beneath Odense's former castle at Nonnebakken (Nuns' Hill), 120 m diameter with 13 m wide turf rampart, discovered by C14 and magnetometry under Odinstårnet lot.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Buried Street Grid Mideast 28 — Iraq Region 4
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Buried Street Grid Mideast 28 — Iraq Region 4 in Iraq Region 4, Iraq is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇩 Moldova · Ancient village
Stolniceni Cucuteni–Trypillia Settlement
Cucuteni B1/Trypillia BII (c.4050–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
8 ha Cucuteni B1 fortified promontory at Stolniceni–Cetate (Stolniceni I) on the Cubolta meander, with ditch-palisade and 50+ burned houses in oval. Excavations by V.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Aggersborg Viking Ringfort
Viking Age (c.980 CE) · Danish Viking Age
Largest Viking ring fortress (240 m outer diameter, 287 m with moat) on the Limfjord at Aggersborg, enclosing 48 longhouses (32 inside, 16 bailey) — garrison for ~1100 men.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Achil Complex
Late Intermediate 1100–1470 CE Chachapoya · Chachapoyas
Remote fortified town on Achil ridge between Utcubamba and Huabayacu tributaries of Marañón: 60 circular houses, watchtower 8 m diameter on ridge apex, and 150 m defensive wall with parapet.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Jersika Hillfort
Iron Age to 1239 CE (Latgalian principality) · Latgalian / Orthodox Rus'
Latgalian hillfort capital of the Orthodox principality of Jersika (Gercike) at Daugava's Tsargrad bend, a 75×100 m plateau 32 m above river with 12 m rampart, church foundations and 13th-c…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Lojsta Hall (Lojsta Slott)
Iron Age–Medieval (900–1361 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age / Medieval
Reconstructed water fortress hall at Lojsta Slott on a small lake islet (Lojsta) in central Gotland, with causeway, timber hall 40 m and later stone tower.
🇺🇸 United States · Megalith
Bighorn Medicine Wheel
Late Prehistoric 1200–1700 CE · Plains Indians
24 m medicine wheel 28 spokes, solstice alignments.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Montezuma Castle — Beaver Creek Original 5-Storey Cliff Palace
Sinagua (1100–1350 CE) · Sinagua (Southern Sinagua)
Montezuma excavated by Mearns 1890, no Aztec link, 45 rooms 5 tiers.
🇨🇳 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.
🇺🇦 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…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Beaghmore-Ockan Bog Trackways (Tyrone, Sperrins)
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age · Sperrin Bronze Age (Beaghmore)
Blanket bog causey cluster (85 m asl, 54°22′48″N 06°57′00″W 54.38,-6.95) access routes to Beaghmore stone circles (Bronze Age 2000 BCE alignment seven) across Ockan Bog (sometimes transcribed…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Upper Xingu Kayabi Geoglyph Complex (Pará)
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Xingu polyglot / Kayabi) · Upper Xingu archaeological tradition / Kayabi
Southern Amazon forest geoglyph province distinct from Acre-Urubamba: 14 circular and rectangular enclosures (120-320 m) on Xingu headwater interfluvia (260 m, 9°45′S 52°21′W), documented by Mendeley…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Arpa River Petroglyphs — Vayots Dzor
Early Bronze to Medieval (Kura-Araxes to Orbelian) · Kura-Araxes to medieval Armenian–Seljuk caravaneer
Vayots Dzor Arpa gorge 400 leopard–goat and caravan cup-marks 3000 BCE–1332 CE linking Ughtasar high to Silk Road Selim.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Temple of Artemis at Kyzicos? Actually Temple of Hadrian (Hadrian Temple) at Kyzikos, Erdek
Roman Imperial (Hadrianic) · Roman Mysia (Kyzikos neocorate)
Hadrian's isthmus temple 50×92 m colossus on Kapıdağ isthmus, largest Marmara temple.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Mahagara
Neolithic (6500–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000) → Iron Age · Vindhyan Belan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara)
Complementary Belan Valley Neolithic–Chalcolithic settlement (c.6500–2000 BCE) 5 km downstream of Koldihwa on the Belan River near Mahagara village — excavated together with Koldihwa (1975–77) by G.R.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Dahekou Rock Paintings
Bronze Age to Tibetan Empire (Shang-Zhou to Tubo) · Qiang, Proto-Tibetan, Tibetan Bon
Garzê red cliff 300 figures yak-sun Qiang-Tibetan 1500 BCE–8th c. CE.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Prohear
Iron Age Funan precursor 500 BCE–200 CE → Funan–Chenla · Mekong Iron Age (Prohear) → Funan (proto-Khmer)
Iron Age mass burial and settlement terrace (c.500 BCE–200 CE) at Prohear in Prey Veng near Mekong, southern Cambodia — circular mound 0.8 ha excavated 2008–11 by Andreas Reinecke (German–Cambodian)…