🇸🇾 Syria · Rock art
Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Hunstanton-Force Rock Shelter in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Hamlet Nagar
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Sanctuary of Hamlet Nagar in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Moche (100–800 CE) temple complex attributed to Moche culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Nippur (E-kur)
Early Dynastic to Parthian (3000 BCE–250 CE; ziggurat Ur III – Kassite layers) · Sumerian → Old Babylonian → Kassite → Assyrian
Religious capital of Sumer: never politically capital but seat of Enlil, father of gods, whose temple E-kur (Mountain House) dominated canal holy city Nippur.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Eastern Deffufa at Kerma — Funerary Chapel
Classic Kerma to New Kingdom, c.1750-1500 BCE · Kerma (Kushite)
Eastern Deffufa 600 m east of Western Deffufa at Kerma: smaller solid mudbrick massif 24×24 m, 11 m high, with chapel and enclosure. Excavated by Reisner and Bonnet.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Sproxton Ditch Ley Buried Settlement
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Sproxton Ditch Ley Buried Settlement in Chiapas, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) buried city attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Takalik Abaj
Preclassic to Classic Olmec–Maya transition 800 BCE–900 CE · Olmec to Maya (K'iche' Pacific)
Olmec-Maya transition site with earliest Long Count stela 126 CE.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Halud Vihara — Naogaon
Early Medieval (8th–9th c. CE) · Pala Empire
Halud Vihara — Naogaon in Naogaon District, Rajshahi, Bangladesh is a Early Medieval (8th–9th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Pala Empire culture.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Ancient village
Kantarodai
Iron Age to Early Historic (1000 BCE–300 CE) · Tamil megalithic to early Buddhist (Jaffna Dravidian)
Kantarodai is an Iron Age cemetery (1000 BCE–300 CE) north of Jaffna, a 2-ha field of 60 votive mini-stupas (1–2 m) over megalithic urn burials plus Tamil-Brahmi settlement (300 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo Grande de Nevada (Lost City)
Ancestral Pueblo Virgin branch Basketmaker III–Pueblo II · Ancestral Pueblo (Virgin Anasazi / Ancestral Pueblo)
100-room Virgin Anasazi pueblo complex partly drowned by Lake Mead, 300 BCE–1150 CE.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Borre Mound Cemetery
Iron Age–Viking Age (600–900 CE) · Yngling / Vestfold Viking
Largest burial mound cemetery in Nordic Europe, seven monumental mounds (6–45 m diameter, up to 6 m high) and 21 smaller ones along Oslofjord near Horten, traditional burial of Yngling sea-kings…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Mahagara — Vindhya Neolithic
Neolithic (4000 BCE) · Vindhya Neolithic
Mahagara — Vindhya Neolithic in Uttar Pradesh, Belan valley, India is a Neolithic (4000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Vindhya Neolithic culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Besshatyr Ili River Terrace North Mounds (Ili Delta North Terrace)
Saka (600–350 BCE) · Semirechye Saka
North terrace row 4.1 km from Ili River right bank delta (605 m) with 6 mounds 18–42 m diam, 2–5 m high linear along terrace scarp (920 m).
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock-cut
Butte-Upper Rock-Cut Complex
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Butte-Upper Rock-Cut Complex in New South Wales, Australia is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Chengzishan
Neolithic Baodun (2700–2000 BCE; walled 2500 BCE) · Baodun culture (Sichuan Chengdu Plain, Sanxingdui precursor)
Chengzishan is a Baodun culture walled town (2700–2000 BCE) — earliest walled site on the Chengdu Plain (pre-Sanxingdui), 10-ha rectangular walled settlement with rammed-earth wall.
🇺🇸 United States · Rock art
Jeffers Petroglyphs
Archaic to Protohistoric (7000 BP–1700 CE) · Paleoindian through Dakota
Midwest's largest petroglyph site: 4000 carvings 7000 BP–1700 CE on quartzite outcrop tracing 7000 years.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Puruchuco Palace
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon Lima Ychsma–Inca 1200–1532 · Ychsma–Inca
Tapia palace with 1,000-burial cemetery, 1200–1532 CE Lima–Inca.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Yaxhá Pyramids
Preclassic 1000 BCE – Late Classic 900 CE; peak 600–900 CE · Maya (Yaxhá kingdom)
Major Late Classic lakeside Maya city 237 structures and 40 stelae on Yaxhá Lake isthmus: Twin North Acropolis, East Acropolis triadic Temple 216 (26 m high, painted red, largest in Yaxhá, second…
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field in Sicily, Syracuse, Cozzo Pantano, Italy is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attrib…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Dufuna Canoe
Early Holocene (6550 BCE) · Early Holocene Saharan fisher–hunters (Lake Mega-Chad)
Dufuna Canoe is an 8.4-m dugout canoe excavated 1987 from 5 m deep Komadugu Gana floodplain, dated 6556/6384 cal BCE (8500±300 BP), oldest boat in Africa and third oldest worldwide, predating…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Priene Bouleuterion Temple — Athena Precinct Council Sanctuary
Hellenistic (350–150 BCE) with Roman annex · Milesian-Ionian Prieneans under Alexander patron
Council sanctuary with 640-seat Bouleuterion and Augustus calendar stoa 40 m from Athena temple.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Reservoir of Source Mesa
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Reservoir of Source Mesa in Andalusia, Spain is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Amarna — South Tombs Ancillary Workmen Village (Akhetaten)
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Amarna — South Tombs Ancillary Workmen Village (Akhetaten) in Minya, Amarna, Egypt is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attribute…
🇦🇺 Australia · Necropolis
Ben Glen Necropolis
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Ben Glen Necropolis in New South Wales, Australia is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) necropolis attributed to Harappan culture.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Birnin Gazargamu
Late Medieval Kanem–Bornu (1460–1808 CE) · Kanuri (Kanem–Bornu)
Birnin Gazargamu (1460–1808) was Kanem–Bornu Empire capital, 6.5 km earthen walls 5 m high enclosing palace mound, great mosque 100×50 m and 200 compound mounds on Yo/ Kamadugu Yobe. 15th-c.