Verified, unexcavated places

🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works

Kesh Alignment Aqueduct

Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical

Kesh Alignment Aqueduct in Occitanie, France is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) hydraulic attributed to Classical culture.

🇵🇪 Peru · Tell

Dolmen Cairn Höyük

Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic

Dolmen Cairn Höyük in Ancash, Peru is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) tell attributed to Hellenistic culture.

🇮🇷 Iran · Hillfort

Nahal Well Hillfort

Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian

Nahal Well Hillfort in Fars Province, Iran is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) hillfort attributed to Mississippian culture.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Hillfort

Salina Hillfort

Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi

Salina Hillfort in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hillfort attributed to Yayoi culture.

🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works

Jawa West Reservoir — Wadi Rajil Basalt Dam System West Pool

Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I (3500 – 3000 BCE) · Proto-urban pastoralist Jawa (Jordanian black desert)

West pool of world's earliest 3500 BCE basalt dam network 80 m serving 3,000 desert inhabitants.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city

Ancient City of North-Hamlet

Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche

Ancient City of North-Hamlet in Chiapas, Mexico is a Moche (100–800 CE) ancient city attributed to Moche culture.

🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress

Boreum (Al Burdi) – Desert Frontier Tower

Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c BCE – 7th c CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine (Cyrenaica–Marmarica)

Desert–lagoon frontier tower at Marmarica's Cyrenaica edge, Boreum guarded the coastal road's last water before Egyptian desert and lagoon fishery.

🇮🇹 Italy · Cave

Khet-Vale Cave

Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi

Khet-Vale Cave in Sicily, Italy is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) cave attributed to Yayoi culture.

🇧🇴 Bolivia · Tell

Tell el-Kot-Low Kara

Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid

Tell el-Kot-Low Kara in Oruro, Bolivia is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) tell attributed to Ubaid culture.

🇨🇱 Chile · Cave

Great Grotto

Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid

Great Grotto in Coquimbo, Chile is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) cave attributed to Ubaid culture.

🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress

Apurlec — Chimu-Cusco Wall Border Fort Motupillo

Chimú to Inca border (1200–1470 Chimú; 1470 Inca modified La Frontera) · Chimú → Inca Chimu-Inca frontier wall Motupillo (Pativilca analog)

Apurlec surveyed by Kosok, 10 km walls.

🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Shrum Mound

Early Woodland Adena to Early Hopewell transition · Adena

Adena conical mound (20 ft/6 m high, 100 ft/30 m diameter) preserved in Campbell Park, Columbus — one of few surviving mounds in Ohio's capital city.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith

Gowk Hill Stone Circle

Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (2500–1500 BCE) · Recumbent Stone Circle builders

Gowk Hill stone circle on a ridge west of Insch, Aberdeenshire, an upland circle of eight granitic boulders enclosing a slight interior cairn, part of the Aberdeenshire recumbent circle concentration…

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city

Birnin Kebbi (Argungu) – Kebbi River Fort Town

Kebbi Kingdom (1515 Kebbi revolt from Songhai – 1808 Fulani) · Zarma–Hausa–Songhai (Kanta Kotal founder)

Rival capital to Songhai after Kebbi's 1515 revolt, Birnin Kebbi on Sokoto River with 5.8 km walls and citadel where Kanta's cavalry defeated Songhai at Surame aftermath; annual Ar...

🇮🇳 India · Ancient city

Dholavira — North Gate West Flanking Tower (Kutch)

Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban

Dholavira — North Gate West Flanking Tower (Kutch) in Gujarat, Kutch, Dholavira, India is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attribut…

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Necropolis