🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Zuojiang Huashan Ningming — Luoyue Serpent Cliff
Warring States to Eastern Han (403 BCE – 220 CE) · Luoyue (proto-Zhuang) Boyue culture
Serpent-bend cliff with dragon and drum motifs 8 km upstream from main panel.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Aphek
EB to Ottoman (c.3500 BCE–1917 CE; peak Canaanite–Philistine–Herod 3000 BCE–74 CE) · Canaanite → Philistine → Israelite → Philistine → Hellenistic → Herodian (Antipatris)
Tel Aphek (Herodian Antipatris) guards the Yarkon springs — Via Maris bottleneck, famous as Philistine camp before Saul's defeat (1 Sam 4) and Herod's Antipatri...
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
El Zotz
Maya Late Classic 350–900 CE · Maya (Pa'Chan dynasty, Tikal–Teotihuacan linked)
Hilltop city with Diablos Pyramid sun-god masks, 300 BCE–900 CE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Girnavaz
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (c.3000–600 BCE) · Hurrian → Mittanian → Neo-Assyrian
Nusaybin palatial tell 13 m high (Mitanni–Assyrian palace, Nuzi ware, tablets) on Tigris watershed.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tumulus
Highfield-Narrow Wadi Burial Mound
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Highfield-Narrow Wadi Burial Mound in Sicily, Italy is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) tumulus attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Huaca del Sol — Moche Grand Pyramid
Moche (Early Intermediate), c.100–750 CE · Moche (Mochica)
Huaca del Sol — largest adobe pyramid in the Americas, Moche capital platform (c.100–750 CE, Early Intermediate).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Jarmo — Zagros Early Farming Village
Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic (7090–4950 BCE) early agriculture · Zagros early farming (Jarmo culture)
Jarmo — Zagros Early Farming Village in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery to Pottery Neolithic (7090–4950 BCE) early agriculture ancient-village attributed to Zagros early farming…
🇴🇲 Oman · Hillfort
Ras Kara Hillfort
Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) · Hellenistic
Ras Kara Hillfort in Dhofar, Oman is a Hellenistic (323–31 BCE) hillfort attributed to Hellenistic culture.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Earthwork
Stone Pur Mound Complex
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Stone Pur Mound Complex in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) earthwork attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tall-i Bakun
Chalcolithic (c.4200–3500 BCE; Bakun B–A 4200–3700) · Bakun (Fars Chalcolithic, Ubaid-related)
Tall-i Bakun (Mound A, Fars) is the type-site of Bakun Chalcolithic (c.4200–3700 BCE) — elaborate black-on-buff painted ware with ibex and geometric motifs, sea...
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Yavne
MB to Crusader (c.2000 BCE–1260 CE; peak Philistine–Judah–Sanhedrin 1200 BCE–70 CE) · Canaanite → Philistine → Judahite → Hellenistic → Roman (Sanhedrin 70–135 CE) → Crusader
Tel Yavne (biblical Jabneel, Philistine Jamnia) is famed as the seat of the Sanhedrin after 70 CE — Yochanan ben Zakkai's Yavne academy that reconstituted Judai...
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Tumulus
Tumulus of Rig
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Tumulus of Rig in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Túcume — Huaca Las Balsas
Lambayeque (Túcume I 1000–1350) to Chimú/Inca (1350–1532) · Lambayeque / Chimú / Inca
Huaca Las Balsas at Túcume — Lambayeque/Chimú to Inca pyramid field (c.1000–1532 CE). Among 26 adobe pyramids over 220 ha centred on La Raya mountain; Las Balsas (45 × 35 m base, 18 m high) excavated…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Yinshan Wulashan Table Mountain — Southern Scarp Petroglyphs
Neolithic to Xiongnu–Han (3000 BCE – 200 BCE) · Hetao farming to steppe nomad Xiongnu transition
South scarp with 800+ vehicle and mask panels above Hetao bend at 1850 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Anazarbus East Annex — Cilician Plain Citadel Extension
Roman to Armenian (100 BCE–1375 CE) · Roman Cilician then Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (Levon)
Anazarbus East Annex — Cilician Plain Citadel Extension in Adana Province, Turkey is a Roman to Armenian (100 BCE–1375 CE) fortress attributed to Roman Cilician then Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Ancient City of North-Hamlet
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Ancient City of North-Hamlet in Chiapas, Mexico is a Moche (100–800 CE) ancient city attributed to Moche culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Quarry
Bal Esker Quarry
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Bal Esker Quarry in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) quarry attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Callanish IV (Ceann Hulabhaig)
Late Neolithic · Hebridean Late Neolithic
Six-stone flattened circle (13.3×9.5 m) with central robbed cairn, 2.2 km south of Callanish I.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Fortress
Citadel of Eilean
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Citadel of Eilean in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) fortress attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
El Mirador — South Group Second Site
Late Preclassic Mirador 300 BCE–150 CE · Maya (Preclassic Mirador Basin)
Southern satellite of Preclassic supersite: 18 m triadic pyramid and 1.8 m Ajaw stucco mask cache with causeway.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Hillfort Spring Shahr Temple Complex
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Hillfort Spring Shahr Temple Complex in Thessaly, Greece is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) temple complex attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Khafajah
Late Uruk to Old Babylonian (c.3400–1700 BCE; peak Early Dynastic) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic (Akkadian/Sumerian Diyala) → Akkadian → Old Babylonian/Eshnunna
Diyala Sequence key town with 10-phase Sin Temple and Samsuiluna earthquake horizon.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Lambityeco
Classic Xoo 600–850 CE · Zapotec (Xoo phase, Late Classic)
Xoo-phase Zapotec salt palace with Cocijo friezes and tell de sal 140 m salt workshop for Monte Albán tribute.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Liberty Earthworks
Middle Woodland Hopewell 100–350 CE · Hopewell tradition
Hopewell square 320 m with corner circles and Liberty Mound, Chillicothe cluster component.