🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Ballymeanoch Stone Row and Henge
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Neolithic/Bronze Age
Four-stone chlorite row (to 2.8 m) with 70 cup marks, adjacent cairns and ploughed henge in Kilmartin Glen.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Dolmen de Mané-Bras
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Passage grave near Locmariaquer, Morbihan, part of Locmariaquer-Carnac megalithic concentration, c.4000 BCE.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Pyramid
Koh Ker – Prasat Thom 7-Tier Pyramid
Angkorian Koh Ker period 928–944 CE (Jayavarman IV brief capital) · Khmer (Angkorian Koh Ker)
Brief Angkor capital under Jayavarman IV (928–944): Prasat Thom 36 m high 7-tier sandstone-faced pyramid 55 × 55 m base, steep stair east with giant garuda and yama free-standing sculptures, summit…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Chiapa de Corzo Archaeological Zone
Formative 1400 BCE–300 CE (Escalera phase) · Mixe-Zoque (Chiapa de Corzo tradition) / Olmec–Maya bridge
Zoque Olmec–Maya capital with Mound 5 22 m and Stela 2 Long Count 36 BCE, earliest date in Mesoamerica.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Peñasco Blanco — Chaco Canyon Outer Great House West
Pueblo II–III (1050–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Cliff-point Great House 1050 CE — oval arc & solstice pictograph.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Bderi
Late Bronze to Neo-Assyrian (c.1600–600 BCE) · Mitanni Hurrian → Middle Assyrian
Stratified 7-m Khabur village documenting Mitanni–Assyrian agrarian collapse and recovery; Pfälzner exposed Mitanni granary with barley, then Middle Assyrian canal-side settlement with large storage…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Garagay — Central Pyramid (Early Formative)
Initial Period to Early Horizon, c.1400–850 BCE (peak 1200–900 BCE) · Manchay / Chavín (Early Formative)
Central pyramid at Garagay (c.1400–850 BCE, Initial/Formative Manchay/Chavín), 250 × 200 m base area (3 pyramids: Central 28 m high, north and south arms), U-shaped with atrium.
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Laas Geel
Neolithic Pastoral (c.5000–3000 BCE; dated by stratum ceramics) · Early Cushitic Pastoral Neolithic / Horn of Africa pastoralists
Exceptionally preserved Neolithic rock art shelters discovered 2002 by French team (Xavier Gutherz): 10 granite alcoves with polychrome paintings 5000–3000 BCE – long-horned cattle with udders,…
🇷🇺 Russia · Megalith
Great Salbyk Kurgan
Tagar culture, Scythian (~800–200 BCE; Salbyk 500 BCE) · Tagar (Scythian-Siberian, Khakass steppe)
So-called Siberian Stonehenge: a 71-m square enclosure of standing Devonian sandstone slabs weighing up to 50 tonnes enclosing a truncated pyramid kurgan 12 m high.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Zennor Quoit
Early Neolithic · Penwith Early Neolithic
Ruinous 12.8 m mound dolmen on Zennor Hill with slipped 4.8 m capstone over 3.5 m chamber.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Abada (Hamrin)
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5500 BCE) · Hassuna–Samarra
Hassuna–Samarra (6000–5500 BCE) Hassuna–Samarra tell at Diyala Governorate, Hamrin – three-level incised-hassuna village (dims 2.8 ha, 3 m Hassuna–Samarra).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Tell Judaidah (Tell al-Judaidah)
Neolithic to Iron; Amuq A-B emphasis · Amuq A/B Neolithic → Ubaid → EBA → Iron Syro-Hittite
Amuq A Neolithic type mound (18 ha) — earliest Amuq painted village (c.6000 BCE) through Iron, defining northern Levantine Neolithic base.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Yeha Great Temple — Pre-Aksumite
Pre-Aksumite Sabaean (800–400 BCE) · Damot–Sabaean (Sabean immigrants)
Yeha Great Temple — Pre-Aksumite in Tigray Region, Ethiopia is a Pre-Aksumite Sabaean (800–400 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Damot–Sabaean (Sabean immigrants).
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient village
Village of Dyke Tula
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Village of Dyke Tula in Catamarca, Argentina is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) ancient village attributed to Nazca culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Kin Bineola — Chaco Outlier Great House South
Pueblo II–III Chacoan (1080–1140 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
South Road Great House 1080 CE — 120 rooms, kiva & 9 m Chaco road.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Necropolis
Koumbi Saleh West Necropolis
Medieval Ghana Empire (9th–13th c. CE) · Soninke (Ghana Empire) / Sanhaja / Berber
Dune necropolis 800 m west of Koumbi Saleh with 300 tumuli and Kufic qubba.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Pueblo de los Muertos
Late Intermediate 1100–1470 CE Chachapoya cliff-house · Chachapoyas
Most dramatic Chachapoyas cliff village: 30 structures (houses and mausoleums) fused to vertical sandstone wall via timber beams slotted into cliff, accessed via rope ladders 200 m above cloud forest…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Stratonikeia Hekate Temple — Lagina Sanctuary of Hekate
Hellenistic to Roman (200 BCE – 250 CE) · Seleucid foundation to Rhodian to Roman Karian
Largest Hekate temple 8×11 with Gigantomachy frieze linked via 9 km Sacred Way to city.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Bhaja Caves
Shunga–Satavahana Early Buddhism · Hinayana (Theravada) Buddhist
One of India's earliest rock-cut Buddhist complexes (220 BCE–300 CE) on Sahyadri scarp above Indrayani River, with 22 caves.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Buseirah
Iron to Nabataean (c.800 BCE–200 CE; peak Edom kingdom 800–600, then Nabataean) · Edomite (Bozrah) → Nabataean → Roman Arabah
Buseirah (biblical Bozrah) is the capital of Edom — Isaiah 34 'Bozrah of Edom' — with Iron Age palace-fort, casemate and Edomite pottery (Busayra ware). Bennett...
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Hungo Pavi (Chaco Canyon)
Pueblo II-III; Chacoan · Chacoan Ancestral Pueblo → McElmo
Chaco south-side great house (72 rooms, 1100 CE) with tower kiva, enclosed plaza and South Road segment — Bonito to McElmo transition across canyon.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Yavne
MB to Crusader (c.2000 BCE–1260 CE; peak Philistine–Judah–Sanhedrin 1200 BCE–70 CE) · Canaanite → Philistine → Judahite → Hellenistic → Roman (Sanhedrin 70–135 CE) → Crusader
Tel Yavne (biblical Jabneel, Philistine Jamnia) is famed as the seat of the Sanhedrin after 70 CE — Yochanan ben Zakkai's Yavne academy that reconstituted Judai...
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Túcume — Huaca Las Balsas
Lambayeque (Túcume I 1000–1350) to Chimú/Inca (1350–1532) · Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca
Huaca Las Balsas at Túcume — Lambayeque/Chimú to Inca pyramid field (c.1000–1532 CE). Among 26 adobe pyramids over 220 ha centred on La Raya mountain; Las Balsas (45 × 35 m base, 18 m high) excavated…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Yinshan Wulashan Table Mountain — Southern Scarp Petroglyphs
Neolithic to Xiongnu–Han (3000 BCE – 200 BCE) · Hetao farming to steppe nomad Xiongnu transition
South scarp with 800+ vehicle and mask panels above Hetao bend at 1850 m.