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🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Vajji / Licchavi republic to Gupta 600 BCE–600 CE · Vajji confederacy / Licchavi clan / Mauryan / Gupta
Capital of the Vajji (Vriji) confederacy and world's first republican state (c.600 BCE), where Buddha delivered his last sermon and Licchavis enshrined his relics in the earliest known stupa (c.483…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (200 BCE–600 CE) · Huarpa
Central meseta (3,280 m) bisecting Chaviña Pampa between previously documented north ridge and south sector.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Great Zimbabwe — Valley Enclosure North Wall Terrace in Masvingo, Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attr…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Harran — University North Lecture Hall (Ruha) in Şanlıurfa, Harran, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronze…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Hierapolis — Apollo Temple North Portico (Denizli) in Denizli, Hierapolis, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed …
🇲🇦 Morocco · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (3000–1500 BCE) · Atlantic Megalithic / Bell Beaker
Msoura (Mzora) Cromlech is Morocco's sole Atlantic megalithic ellipse, 55×45 m of 175 menhirs encircling a 6-m tumulus, 25 km southeast of Asilah. Tallest monolith El Uted (The Pointer) 5.5 m.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic Magdalenian ~14–13 ka BP · Magdalenian hunter-gatherer
Magdalenian Salon Noir cave with 14 ka charcoal bison and ibex deep in the Ariège Pyrenees.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Lycian League 168 BCE–43 CE and Hadrianic) · Lycian → Hellenistic → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian federal port with 1st-century parliament hall, buried Nero lighthouse and harbour silted 1 km inland.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Western Brittany Neolithic (Océan Atlantic Megalithic)
Crozon's triple stone rows — 72 menhirs (to 2.1 m) in three 200 m parallel alignments near Camaret.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hebenu (Ancient Egyptian: 𓎛𓃀𓈖𓏌𓍢𓊖, Coptic: ⲧϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, ⲡⲙⲁⲛϩⲁⲃⲓⲛ, romanized: t-Habin, p-Manhabin, Arabic: حفن, romanized: Hafn) or Alabastron (Koine Greek: Ἀλάβαστρων πόλις) was a city in ancient…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Pergamum — Asklepieion North Stoa Ancillary in İzmir, Bergama, Pergamum, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Timgad — Trajan Arch Ancillary Insula North (Thamugadi) in Batna, Timgad, Algeria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to…
🇮🇱 Israel · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (~4500 BCE – 800 BCE; peak New Kingdom Egyptian 14th–12th century BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom, Midianite/Edomite and early Arabah nomadic
Three-sided sandstone valley north of Eilat where 10,000 shafts and 1.5 million tonnes of slag mark one of the world's earliest industrial landscapes.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Epiclassic (Totonac Veracruz) · Totonac (Tajín sphere)
Totonac Tajín-sphere city Yohualichan (600–900 CE): 12 m Pyramid of Niches Ome with 90 niches in Sierra Norte, bridge between El Tajín and highlands.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Baalbek — Jupiter Temple North Colonnade in Beqaa, Baalbek, Lebanon is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Multi-perio…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Hazor — Canaanite Palace North Wing (Tell Hazor) in Northern, Hazor, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bronz…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Mané-Kerioned Passage Dolmens in Brittany, Morbihan, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Qasr Azraq? Actually Azas Hill Reservoir Terrace in Mafraq, Jawa Region, Jordan is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to Hy…
🇱🇾 Libya · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Sabratha — Theatre North Cavea Ancillary in Zawiya, Sabratha, Libya is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Multi-perio…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Talayotic (1300 BCE early naveta S'Hospitalet to 650 BCE enclosing wall 360 m; Post-Talayotic 500 BCE) · Talayotic Mallorca Artà (Ses Païsses talayotic village 9000 m² walled 360 m perimeter 3 m high with horseshoe portal 3.5 m)
Ses Païsses Artà 650 wall 360 m.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock shelter
Middle Stone Age (77–38 ka) · Homo sapiens Still Bay–Howiesons Poort–Sibudan
Sibudu is the 55×18 m sandstone cliff shelter above Tongati River where Lyn Wadley found 77–38 ka MSA succession with earliest bow-and-arrow (64 ka quartz segments), earliest bedding (77 ka sedge…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze Age III–IV (c.2600–2000 BCE) · Southern Syria EB (Ghouta palace culture)
Ghouta EB palace 8 ha (c.2600–2000 BCE, wall paintings, double enceinte) 18 km SE Damascus.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Saka (500–250 BCE) · Saka Tigrakhauda
Eastern outliers 8 km east of Boralday Archaeological Park (790 m) on Ili piedmont steppe toward Ili River branch. Six mounds 28–62 m diam, 3–7 m high with ditch rings (22–48 m) visible on satellite.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Nguyen dynasty 1802–1945 · Vietnamese (Kinh) Nguyen
Nguyen dynasty capital (1802–1945) and last imperial city of Vietnam inside 10 km vauban-style citadel (Kinh Thanh, 1804–1832, 2.5×2.5 km square with 4 m thick bastioned walls copied from French…
