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🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Early Holocene (~9500–7000 BCE) · Andean high-desert hunter-gatherer (Toquepala tradition)
Shallow Andean quebrada cave where Roger Ravines documented polychrome paintings of camelids, deer and corpulent hunters brandishing bows, one of the earliest figurative traditions on the Pacific…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Ottoman (c.2750 BCE–present; Phoenician peak 1100–332 BCE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Phoenician island-city and legendary birthplace of Europa and Dido, Tyre dominated Mediterranean purple-dye trade.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Rock art
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Wadi Khirbet Rock Shelter in Oruro, Bolivia is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) rock art attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Modern (reuse) · Alentejo Megalithic → Baroque Christian
17th-century chapel built inside a Neolithic anta with seven granite uprights whitewashed as walls, near Évora.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
New Kingdom to British (1470 BCE – 1902 CE) · Egyptian New Kingdom with British Aswan regulation
Quarry slipway and basin 150 m to float 42 m Unfinished Obelisk and blocks to Nile.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Late Period to Greek (525–332 BCE, Alexander 332 BCE extension) · Egyptian Late–Greek Alexander
Bawiti — Bahariya Temple of Alexander in Giza Governorate (Bahariya), Egypt is a Late Period to Greek (525–332 BCE, Alexander 332 BCE extension) temple-complex attributed to Egyptian Late–Greek…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (300 BCE–500 CE) · Huarpa–Topará
Ravine rim (3,350 m) above Quebrada Loma with 10-m drop; figures perched on rim crest with foresight over Nasca–Ayacucho corridor.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Fortress
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Citadel of Narrow-Moat in Piauí, Brazil is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) fortress attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Fortress
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Fortress of Pictograph Kala in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) fortress attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Palaeolithic–Mesolithic (50000–6000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Gough's Cave in Somerset, Cheddar Gorge, United Kingdom is a major Palaeolithic to Holocene cave and fissure system renowned for stratified deposits spanning over 40,000 years.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Hillfort
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Howe Hillfort in Buriram Province, Thailand is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) hillfort attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇦🇺 Australia · Hillfort
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Kesh Alignment Camp in New South Wales, Australia is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) hillfort attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Maya Late Classic 450–850 CE · Maya (Mopán / southeastern Petén)
100-m palace Acropolis with throne rooms, 450–850 CE.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Megalith
Germanic Iron Age to Viking Age · Late Iron Age Jutland / Viking Danes
Viking-age burial field at Aalborg with 682 graves and stone-ship settings preserved under sand since 1000 CE.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Chalcolithic to Iron (c.4000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Proto-Elamite 3200–2800, Middle Elamite 1500–1100) · Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite → Middle Elamite (Anshan) → Persian Anshan
Malyan (Tal-e Malyan) is ancient Anshan — the great Elamite highland capital (130 ha) with Proto-Elamite tablets (3200 BCE, second after Uruk), Banesh phase mon...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Midden Dolmen Ancient City in River Nile State, Sudan is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) ancient city attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Necropolis
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Mound Canal Necropolis in Catamarca, Argentina is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) necropolis attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Mycenaean to Roman ~1400 BCE–391 CE · Epirote Greek (Molossoi then Aetolian)
Oak-and-bronze oracle of Zeus — oldest in Greece — with vast theater and lot-tablet archive.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Port Bank Petroglyph Field in Sicily, Italy is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) rock art attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Pyramid
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Pyramid of Abbey in Coquimbo, Chile is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) pyramid attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Rock-cut
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Rock-Cut Tombs of Moss Kala in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) rock_cut attributed to Nazca culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock-cut
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Sproxton-Broad Rock-Cut Complex in Andalusia, Spain is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) rock_cut attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Submerged site
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Sunken City off Jabal Kesh in Coquimbo, Chile is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Classical culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
