🇦🇺 Australia · Temple complex
Great Stupa of Universal Compassion
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion is a Buddhist monument near Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia.
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🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (Alto Ramírez–Tarapacá) · Atacameño / Tarapacá caravan tradition
Southernmost caravan geoglyph cluster at Salar del Sur (23°S): 31+ cleared camelid and avenue figures on salt-crust pampa.
🇦🇺 Australia · Temple complex
The Great Stupa of Universal Compassion is a Buddhist monument near Bendigo in central Victoria, Australia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Beşik-Sivritepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Kozareva Mogila — buried prehistoric tell/village at Burgas Province.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Urdoviza — buried prehistoric tell/village at Dobrich Province.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Augusta Bagiennorum was the chief town of the Ligurian tribe of the Bagienni. It was located in what is now the commune of Bene Vagienna, in the province of Cuneo (northern Italy), on the upper…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Tepecik (İnegöl) — buried prehistoric tell/village at Bursa Province.
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
The Kfar Bar'am Synagogue (Hebrew: כְּפַר בַּרְעָם), also known as the Kafar Berem Synagogue, is the archaeological ruins of two former ancient Jewish synagogues, located at the site of Kafr Bir'im,…
Vatican City · Archaeological wonder
The Apostolic Palace is the official residence of the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, located in Vatican City.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Archaeological wonder
The Noin-Ula burial site (Mongolian: Ноён уулын булш, Noyon uulyn bulsh, also Noyon Uul) consist of more than 200 large burial mounds, approximately square in plan, some 2 m in height, covering…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Hadji Muhammed is an archaeological site in Southern Iraq which gives its name to a style of painted pottery and the early phase of what is the Ubaid culture.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex
Kalawan (originally meaning "The caves") is the name of an archaeological site in the area of Taxila in Pakistan, where it is one of the largest Buddhist establishment.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Imperial Tombs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (simplified Chinese: 明清皇家陵寝; traditional Chinese: 明清皇家陵寢; pinyin: Míng Qīng Huángjiā Língqǐn) is the designation under which the UNESCO has included…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Grek Amele — buried prehistoric tell/village at Diyarbakır Province.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Earthwork
Hypothesized Sangay phase (800–1400 CE) if cultural · Hypothesized Sangay Huapula (if verified)
Contested Huapula foothill extension — 14 faint mound-like marks beyond verified Upano limit, on steep colluvium, unverified.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Cave
Amatérská Cave (in Czech Amatérská jeskyně, in English Amateurs Cave, not used) is part of the longest cave system in Moravia, Czech Republic. It is also famous for archaeological discoveries.
🇬🇷 Greece · Tomb
The Catacombs of Milos are an ancient underground Christian cemetery located on the island of Milos in the Cyclades, Greece, dating to the 1st-5th century AD.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (274 BCE – 500 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian / Indian Ocean trade
Central lagoon basin of Myos Hormos — mole and Roman quay at 0.5–2.5 m in Marsa Nakari mangrove lagoon.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Arica–Tarapacá) · Camarones–Azapa valley folk
Ravine-terrace geoglyphs with white-gravel double-square corrals: 22 figures above the Chinchorro coast.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Paraíso (Spanish pronunciation: [el paɾaˈiso], "The Paradise") or Chuquitanta (Quechua chuqui lance or metal, tanta bread) are the moderns names of a Late Preceramic (3500–1800 BC) archaeological…
🇰🇵 North Korea · Archaeological wonder
The Mausoleum of Tangun (Korean: 단군릉; Hanja: 檀君陵) is an ancient burial site in Kangdong near Pyongyang, North Korea.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Vishnukundina–Pallava (5th–7th c.) · Vishnukundina (Andhra) Shaiva–Vaishnava with later Jain (Digambara) overlay
Krishna River 4-tier 70-m Vishnukundina monolith 5th c. with 5-m Ananthasayana Vishnu and Jain overlay, Pallava forerunner.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Ghaznavid to Durrani to British · Pishin Pashtun–Baloch valley tribal hydraulic engineers
Headwaters dam–karez hybrid at Zana Pass: 88-m rockfill dam feeding 3 galleries (1.8-4.2 km) irrigating 420 ha.
🇮🇱 Israel · Rock art
Bronze Age to Iron Age (3000–1000 BCE) · Negev pastoral nomads (Timnian to Midianite); Amalek hypothesis
Paran mesa 626 panels with 4000 ibex and Anati's 12-stone 'Mount Sinai' sanctuary hypothesis 3000–1000 BCE.
