🇺🇦 Ukraine · Rock art
Kamennyye Mogily West Gully Petroglyphs
Mesolithic to Bronze Age (8000 BCE – 1500 BCE) · Pontic Steppe hunter-gatherer to Yamna/Catacomb
West gully offshoots of Azov Stone Graves with bull and horse pecked panels.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Maydanets (Maydanetske) Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (3850–3700 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia CI) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia C1)
One of Europe's largest Chalcolithic settlements, ca. 250 ha with ~1,575 houses and 13 mega-structures in concentric rings, occupied c.3850–3700 BCE (Trypillia CI).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Necropolis
Necropolis of Manton
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Necropolis of Manton in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) necropolis attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder
Olduvai Gorge — Cradle of Humankind
Early Pleistocene to Holocene (2.1 Ma–15 ka Beds I–V) · Paranthropus, Homo habilis, Homo erectus → Maasai
Olduvai Gorge is the 50 km Great Rift tributary gorge (48 m deep) exposing 2.1 Ma to 15 ka stratified sequence where Louis & Mary Leakey found Zinjanthropus (Paranthropus boisei 1.75 Ma), Homo…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Pietrele Lower Levels — Gumelniţa–Codlea Tell
Boian to Gumelniţa A2 (5100–4100 BCE; lower 4600 BCE) · Boian → Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen
Danubian Gumelniţa basal 4600 BCE — graphite ware & copper lakeside village.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Plazuelas — Second Sector (Casas Tapadas)
Epiclassic Bajío 600–900 CE · Bajío (Peralta/Plazuelas tradition)
Second sector of Guanajuato ballcourt city with petroglyph boulder field and U-pyramid 12 m.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Rakhigarhi Indus Mega-City
Pre-Harappan to Mature Harappan to Late (~6500–1900 BCE; urban peak 2600–1900 BCE) · Indus Valley Civilization (Harappan, Hakra–Ghaggar)
Spread across seven mounds over 550 ha, Rakhigarhi surpasses Mohenjo-daro as the largest Harappan settlement, straddling the dried Ghaggar (Saraswati) river.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Rising Star Cave — Homo Naledi Chamber
Middle Pleistocene (335–236 ka Homo naledi deposition) · Homo naledi (small brain 460 cc)
Rising Star Cave system (20–30 m dolomite horizon, 3 km passages) yielded 1,550+ Homo naledi fossils (15 individuals) in Dinaledi Chamber (2013) and Lesedi Chamber (2015) by Berger.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Rock-cut
Rock-Cut Tombs of Baraka-High
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Rock-Cut Tombs of Baraka-High in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Seila — Step Pyramid North Ramp (Fayum)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Seila — Step Pyramid North Ramp (Fayum) in Fayum, Seila, Egypt is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) pyramid attributed to Old–New Kingdom Egyptian. S…
🇬🇲 Gambia · Megalith
Stone Circles of Senegambia — Wassu Complex
Late Iron Age to Medieval (750–1000 CE peak) · Serer–Wolof proto-Jola / Senegambian megalithic
Wassu is the Gambian component of UNESCO Senegambian Stone Circles (1226, 2006) — 11 megalithic circles (4.5–6 m Ø) with 1–2 m laterite pillars (cylindrical, dressed with iron wedge) enclosing burial…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Sumatar Harabesi — Cave Sanctuary Niche 3
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Sumatar Harabesi — Cave Sanctuary Niche 3 in Şanlıurfa, Sumatar, Turkey is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tradition…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell es-Sawwan
Neolithic Samarra (c.6300–5700 BCE) · Samarra → Ubaid
Ditch-moat village with 130 intramural graves: 130 adult Samarra graves beneath floors yielding alabaster “Sawwan” women – elongated skulls, bitumen-banded eyes – the largest Samarra figurine corpus.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Tunanmarca
Late Intermediate Wanka (Xauxa) 1000–1460 CE · Wanka (Xauxa)
1,000-house Wanka honeycomb hilltop citadel, 1000–1460 CE.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uchi Maius (Henchir Douamis)
Numidian to Late Antique (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Hill town 20 km from Dougga with Severan arch and aqueduct.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Yayahuala — Tula Grande Residential Zone
Epiclassic–Early Postclassic Tollan 900–1150 CE · Toltec (Tollan)
Tula elite barrio palace 50×40 m with temazcal and maguey ovens linked by causeway to Burned Palace.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Cernavodă Tell — Axioupolis Danube Tell
Hamangia to Iron Age (5000 BCE–100 CE; stratotype Cernavodă I 4000–3200 BCE) · Hamangia → Gumelniţa → Cernavodă I–III → Geto-Dacian Iron
Cernavodă stratotype 4000 BCE — namesake Cernavodă I with hamangia base.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hydraulic works
Hydraulic System at Mine Hermitage
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Hydraulic System at Mine Hermitage in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Hârşova Insula Settlement — Danube Lower Settlement
Neolithic to Chalcolithic–Cernavodă (5500–3200 BCE; insula 5500–4300 BCE) · Hamangia → Boian → Gumelniţa → Cernavodă I–III
Danube insula Fisher village 5500 BCE — Hamangia-Gumelniţa 12 m tell lower.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Knossos — Caravanserai South Pillar Crypt
Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) · Minoan
Knossos — Caravanserai South Pillar Crypt in Crete, Heraklion, Knossos, Greece is a Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Minoan. Syst…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Fortress
Kot Diji — Citadel East Rampart
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Kot Diji — Citadel East Rampart in Sindh, Khairpur, Kot Diji, Pakistan is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age fortifie…
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Kunya-Urgench Ancient Town
Khwarezmshah to Golden Horde 995–1388 · Khwarezmshah / Seljuk / Golden Horde
Lost capital of Khwarezm in Amu Darya delta, flourishing 10th–14th c. with 60 m Kutlug Timur minaret tallest in Central Asia and Turabek Khanum mausoleum (1360s) with world's most complex girikh dome…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Larkin Mound
Middle Woodland Weeden Island 200–600 CE · Weeden Island / Gulf Hopewell
Crystal River satellite burial mound with Hopewell copper and quartz, Gulf Hopewell southernmost evidence.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Nether Largie Standing Stones
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Kilmartin Bronze Age
Four-stone row (to 2.8 m) amid Kilmartin's Bronze Age linear cemetery with cup-marked cairns.