🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Tambo Colorado
Late Horizon Inca coastal 1470–1532 CE · Inca (coastal Pisco Chinchaysuyu)
Best-preserved polychrome Inca adobe palace enclosure on Pisco coast, 1470–1532 CE.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic to Aceramic Neolithic · Central Anatolian Epipalaeolithic (Kebaran-like) → PPNA
Epipalaeolithic to Early Neolithic rockshelter and open-air spring-site (c.14,000–7000 BCE) on limestone spur at Pınarbaşı, type-site for Central Anatolian hunter-gatherer sedentism before…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Ses Roques — Son Bauló Sector 2 Dolmen in Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Santa Margalida, Spain is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megali…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Southern Giza Mound Inner — Giza (56-01) at Giza, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) pyramid of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c. 800 CE for mound and associated settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Late Horizon Inca coastal 1470–1532 CE · Inca (coastal Pisco Chinchaysuyu)
Best-preserved polychrome Inca adobe palace enclosure on Pisco coast, 1470–1532 CE.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Late Pre-Roman Iron Age to Viking Age (c.100 BCE–1000 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age
Continuously occupied central place in Scania from c.100 BCE to 1000 CE, with a heathen temple building (200–950 CE, four-post staved cult house with beaker and gold foil figures), hall sequence and…
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Bassae — Apollo Temple North Colonnade (Arcadia) in Peloponnese, Arcadia, Bassae, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attr…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Bryn Celli Ddu — North Outlier Standing Stone Row in Wales, Anglesey, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic att…
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Chogha Zanbil — Middle Court Ancillary (Elamite Ziggurat) in Khuzestan, Shush, Chogha Zanbil, Iran is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple co…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Clayton Priory Archaeological Complex in River Nile State, Sudan is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic–Iron Age (c.5500–600 BCE) · Amuq → Syro-Cilician → Neo-Hittite
Amik fringe tell (Neolithic–Iron Age, 10 m high, basalt-footed EB enclosure) in Kırıkhan plain.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Buried city
Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mapela — Buried Terrace North (Shashe, Zimbabwe) in Matabeleland South, Mapela, Zimbabwe is a Neolithic to Bronze Age (6000–1200 BCE) buried city attribute…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) · Late Neolithic Atlantic
Menga Tholos — Annex Sub-Tumulus Sector in Andalusia, Málaga, Antequera, Spain is a Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1800 BCE) megalithic attribute…
🇸🇩 Sudan · Megalith
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
New Meroe Citadel B — Meroe (56-34) at Meroe, Sudan is a Bronze Age (regional) megalithic of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) · Andean Formative
Sajama — Geoglyph Lines North (Bolivia, Altiplano) in Oruro, Sajama, Bolivia is a Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) geoglyph attributed to A…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
PPNB to Late Islamic (8500 BCE–1400 CE) · Upper Tigris PPN → Halaf/Ubaid → Uruk → Mitanni → Assyrian → Islamic
Ilısu rescue mound with PPNB–Mitanni–Assyrian sequence before Tigris inundation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Cumbria (Langdale axe trade area)
55-stone porphyritic circle (28.6 m) above Duddon estuary — best preserved in North-West England.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age Ej II–IVa (Jezirah Early Dynastic to Akkadian) · North Mesopotamian Kish tradition, Semitic (Nabada Akkadian)
Circular walled 3rd-millennium city Nabada (c.2900–2200 BCE, Early Jezirah III), 28 ha upper town + lower town 20 ha, centre of western Jezirah after Tell Brak.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Neolithic Hassuna-Samarra (c.6000–5600 BCE) · Hassuna
Type site 1939–44 excavation by Seton Lloyd that defined the Hassuna painted pottery tradition of northern Iraq.
🇧🇪 Belgium · Archaeological wonder
Walraversijde is an abandoned medieval fishing village on the Belgian coast, near Ostend. It was rediscovered in 1992 in a dune area, near a medieval dyke.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age · Cornish Iron Age
Carn Euny Village and Fogou at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient village of the Cornish Iron Age tradition, built c. 300 BCE for courtyard houses and 20 m fogou.
🇵🇪 Peru · Earthwork
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Lima Village Outer — Lima (56-47) at Lima, Peru is a Medieval (regional) earthwork of the Medieval tradition, built c. 800 BCE for village and associated settlement.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Sounion — Poseidon Temple North Peristasis in Attica, Cape Sounion, Poseidon Temple, Greece is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex a…
🇬🇷 Greece · Cave
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) · Mousterian / Upper Palaeolithic
Theopetra Cave — Middle Avra Gate (Thessaly) in Thessaly, Trikala, Theopetra, Greece is a Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (100000–12000 BP) cave attributed to…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Wadi Thwaite Harbor Aqueduct in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
