🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ouadane (Wadan)
Medieval to Early Modern (12th–19th c) · Berber (Sanhaja) / Arab / Almoravid
Almoravid twin-ksar 12th c on Adrar scarp with 13-m minaret and caravan cisterns 300 m.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Plazuelas
Epiclassic Bajío 600–900 CE · Bajío Tradition (Northern frontier)
Hilltop city with 1,324 rock-carved building models, 600–900 CE.
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Sacsayhuamán — Muyucmarca Tower Base North (Cusco)
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture; Inca
Sacsayhuamán — Muyucmarca Tower Base North (Cusco) in Cusco, Sacsayhuamán, Peru is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
SunWatch Indian Village
Fort Ancient 1000–1750 CE, Mississippian-influenced Late Prehistoric · Fort Ancient (Central Algonquian, Fort Ancient tradition)
Reconstructed Fort Ancient circular village (3 acres) on Great Miami River terrace at Dayton: central plaza 42 m diameter ringed by post-mold houses, stockade with bastions, and reconstructed cedar…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Thotlakonda — Visakhapatnam Monastery
Early Historic (3rd c. BCE–3rd CE) · Satavahana
Thotlakonda — Visakhapatnam Monastery in Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam, India is a Early Historic (3rd c. BCE–3rd CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Alishar Höyük
Chalcolithic to Iron Age to Medieval · Anatolian Halaf-Ubaid → EBA → Hittite → Phrygian
Large stratified tell (Chalcolithic c.4000 BCE to Phrygian/Medieval, peak EBA–Iron) controlling Kanak Su pass between Kültepe and Hattusa.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Ancient City of Tre-Fell
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Ancient City of Tre-Fell in Thessaly, Greece is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Badami — Cave 3 North Veranda Murals
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Badami — Cave 3 North Veranda Murals in Karnataka, Bagalkot, Badami, India is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tradit…
🇾🇪 Yemen · Rock art
Bal Piedmont Petroglyph Field
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Bal Piedmont Petroglyph Field in Hadramawt, Yemen is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) rock art attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Cave of Settlement New
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Cave of Settlement New in Fars Province, Iran is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) cave attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Dobrovody Trypillia Mega-Settlement
Chalcolithic (4100–3400 BCE, Cucuteni-Trypillia B Imid) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia B1-B2)
Massive Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement on the Tyasmyn basin, 250–260 ha, c.3800–3700 BCE (Trypillia BI–BI–II), with ca. 1,800 houses in concentric oval rings mapped by geomagnetic survey.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Fajada Butte
Pueblo II–III Bonito 1000–1150 CE · Ancestral Pueblo (Chacoan)
Chacoan Sun Dagger butte: three slabs create dagger beam on spirals marking solstices and lunar standstill.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus — North Frieze Predicted (Bodrum)
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus — North Frieze Predicted (Bodrum) in Muğla, Bodrum, Mausoleum, Turkey is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Mitla — North Palace Grecas Frieze (Oaxaca)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Mitla — North Palace Grecas Frieze (Oaxaca) in Oaxaca, Mitla, Mexico is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age u…
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Monte d'Accoddi
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age, Ozieri/Abealzu-Filigosa (~4000–2700 BCE) · Ozieri (Late Neolithic Sardinian)
Mysterious 36-by-29-m truncated step pyramid of limestone fill on the Sardinian plain, accessed via a 42-m ramp to a summit altar where sacrifice deposits and a sandstone menhir were found.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Phaistos — Upper Court West Wing Annex (Messara)
Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) · Minoan
Phaistos — Upper Court West Wing Annex (Messara) in Crete, Heraklion, Phaistos, Greece is a Minoan Palatial (2700–1450 BCE) ancient city attributed to Mino…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Qaryat al-Faw
4th century BCE – 4th century CE (Kinda and Qahtan kingdom) · South Arabian–North Arabian (Kinda, Madh'hij)
Capital of the Kinda kingdom straddling the Wadi ad-Dawasir caravan route, where Saudi–German excavations uncovered a limestone temple to Kahl, residential quarters, a dam and thousands of…
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Salamis of Cyprus – Sunken Harbour at Ammochostos (Famagusta Bay)
Bronze Age to Late Roman (1180 BCE Enkomi-Salamis – 648 CE Arab sack) · Teucrid Greek / Cypriot / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Salamis Cypriot kingdom — 10 ha walled city whose 500 m mole at Pediaeus mouth now 1–2 m under Famagusta Bay.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Sheri Khan Tarakai — Bannu
Late Neolithic (4300–3800 BCE) · Sheri Khan Tarakai
Sheri Khan Tarakai — Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bannu basin, Pakistan is a Late Neolithic (4300–3800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Sheri Khan Tarakai culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Syene Granite Quarries
Old Kingdom to Roman (2700 BCE–500 CE; peak 1500–30 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian / Roman
Syene (Aswan) granite quarries are Old–Ptolemaic hardstone source producing 100-m-long unfinished obelisk of Hatshepsut (1,200 t) abandoned in bedrock crack, plus sarcophagi, colossi and pavements…
🇲🇱 Mali · Archaeological wonder
Teghaza
Islamic Saharan (10th–16th c. CE; peak 13th–15th c.) · Sanhaja Berber / Songhai
Teghaza (Taghaza) is a Saharan salt-mining ghost town on Sebkha salt pan 200 km north of Timbuktu, medieval (10th–16th c.) salt slab quarrying centre described by Ibn Battuta 1352 and Leo Africanus…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell al-Rimah (Karana / Qattara)
Old Babylonian–Old Assyrian (c.1900–1700 BCE) to Middle Assyrian · Upper Mesopotamian Old Babylonian kingdom of Karana / Qattara
Upper Jazira fortified court city Karana (Tell al-Rimah) with massive temple Zigg followed by a double palace discovered by David Oates: palace with wall paintings, archive of 600 OB letters (Qattara…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Valley of the Golden Mummies — Bahariya Oasis
Greco-Roman to Coptic (332 BCE–641 CE) · Greco-Roman Egyptian (Bahariya Oasite) / Coptic
Valley of the Golden Mummies is the 10 km Greco-Roman necropolis (332 BCE–641 CE) at Bahariya Oasis 380 km SW Cairo with 250 excavated tombs (10,000 est.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Necropolis
Varna Lake — North Necropolis West Bank Sector
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Varna Lake — North Necropolis West Bank Sector in Varna Province, Varna Lake, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (4500–2000 BCE) necropolis attribu…