🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Unstan Chambered Cairn
Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Cahokia Woodhenge
Mississippian Emergent–Early 900–1150 CE · Mississippian (Cahokia)
Mississippian timber Stonehenge: 410 m 48-post solar calendar aligned to Monks Mound solstice.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Chauvet Cave
Aurignacian, Upper Paleolithic (~37,000–33,000 BCE) · Aurignacian hunter-gatherer
Sealed Aurignacian cave above the Ardèche gorge containing the earliest known figurative art, with over 430 animal representations including woolly rhinoceros, cave lions, panthers and megaloceros…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Earthwork
Earthworks of Avenue-Tel Kistvaen
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Earthworks of Avenue-Tel Kistvaen in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) earthwork attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Kulpak — Kolanupaka Temple
Early Medieval (11th c.) · Chalukya
Kulpak — Kolanupaka Temple in Telangana, Yadadri-Bhuvanagiri, India is a Early Medieval (11th c.) temple complex attributed to Chalukya culture.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Maijishan Eastern Cliff — Tianshui Stacked Grottoes East Face
Later Qin to Song (384 – 1279 CE) · Buddhist Hexi to Central Plains transition at Wei River gap
East face stacked 90 caves 142 m hill with 16 m Buddha and plankway tiers.
🇨🇱 Chile · Cave
Sanctuary-Wall Grotto
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Sanctuary-Wall Grotto in Coquimbo, Chile is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) cave attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Earthwork
Sanganakallu — Bellary Ash Mound
Neolithic (3000–2000 BCE) · Southern Neolithic
Sanganakallu — Bellary Ash Mound in Karnataka, Bellary, India is a Neolithic (3000–2000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Southern Neolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Submerged site
Sunken City off Spur Bal
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Sunken City off Spur Bal in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) submerged city attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇨🇦 Canada · Submerged site
Sunken City off Varna-Ring
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Sunken City off Varna-Ring in British Columbia, Canada is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Roman culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Early Bronze I–III (with Late Chalcolithic) · Early Bronze Levantine (coastal Canaanite)
EB I–III (3200–2500 BCE) coastal village with Egyptian imports — Lebanon's finest EB chronology.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Trelleborg Viking Ringfort (Slagelse)
Viking Age (c.980–1000 CE, Harald Bluetooth) · Danish Viking Age
Archetypal Viking ring fortress west of Slagelse on Zealand, 136.5 m diameter circular earthwork with four cardinal gates, internal quadrants with 16 longhouses and outer bailey, built c.980 under…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Village of Gateway
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Village of Gateway in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Wall-Cairn Standing Stones
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Wall-Cairn Standing Stones in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) megalithic attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Walpi Pueblo
Ancestral Hopi (Hisatsinom) to Historic Hopi 900 CE–present · Hopi (Hisatsinom, Hopi-Tewa)
Continuously inhabited 900 CE Hopi terraced pueblo atop 300-m mesa.
🇪🇸 Spain · Temple complex
Wick Temple Complex
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Wick Temple Complex in Andalusia, Spain is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) temple complex attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Wupatki National Monument
Pueblo II–III 1120–1250 CE (post-Sunset Crater) · Sinagua / Ancestral Puebloan (Hisatsinom) with Mogollon/Hohokam influences
100-room red-Moenkopi sandstone pueblo with tower-kiva and Hopi-style ballcourt, outlier of Sinagua-Hisatsinom frontier after Sunset Crater eruption (1085 CE) improved farming.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu (Aqar Quf)
Kassite (Middle Babylonian) c. 1375–1155 BCE · Kassite Babylonian
Kassite capital Dur-Kurigalzu built by Kurigalzu I (c. 1375 BCE): enormous ziggurat to Enlil, still 57 m high (originally ~69 m) with rope reinforcement layers (reed mats) visible, highest surviving…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Abad Down Brancaster Pyramid
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Abad Down Brancaster Pyramid in Balochistan, Pakistan is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) pyramid attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Alignment-Brancaster Ancient City
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Alignment-Brancaster Ancient City in Ancash, Peru is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Arslantepe (Malatya)
Late Chalcolithic to Neo-Hittite (5000 BCE–700 BCE; palace phase 3400–3000 BCE; Neo-Hittite 1200–712 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic / Kura-Araxes / Hittite / Neo-Hittite
Tell city type site for emergence of state and palace economy (3400–3000 BCE): Late Chalcolithic palace (Room A 900) with wall paintings, storerooms with mass-produced bowls, sword hoard (earliest…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Creswell Crags
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Creswell Crags in Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire, Creswell, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Hamoukar South Town — Jazira Urban Anomaly
Late Chalcolithic to EJ III (4500–2100 BCE; peak LC sprawl 3800 BCE) · LC northern Mesopotamian → Uruk → Ninevite 5
LC sprawl 4000 BCE battle town 3500 BCE — sling-bullet warfare horizon (Gibson).
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Hydraulic works
Hydraulic System at Earthwork Keld Stone
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Hydraulic System at Earthwork Keld Stone in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) hydraulic attributed to Yayoi culture.