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🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Preclassic 1000 BCE – Late Classic 900 CE; peak 600–900 CE · Maya (Yaxhá kingdom)
Major Late Classic lakeside Maya city 237 structures and 40 stelae on Yaxhá Lake isthmus: Twin North Acropolis, East Acropolis triadic Temple 216 (26 m high, painted red, largest in Yaxhá, second…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hillfort
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Bala Seaton Hill Fort in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) hillfort attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Cozzo del Pantano — Early Iron Debris Field in Sicily, Syracuse, Cozzo Pantano, Italy is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attrib…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Early Holocene (6550 BCE) · Early Holocene Saharan fisher–hunters (Lake Mega-Chad)
Dufuna Canoe is an 8.4-m dugout canoe excavated 1987 from 5 m deep Komadugu Gana floodplain, dated 6556/6384 cal BCE (8500±300 BP), oldest boat in Africa and third oldest worldwide, predating…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (350–150 BCE) with Roman annex · Milesian-Ionian Prieneans under Alexander patron
Council sanctuary with 640-seat Bouleuterion and Augustus calendar stoa 40 m from Athena temple.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Reservoir of Source Mesa in Andalusia, Spain is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Ruins of Jala in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Carthaginian to Byzantine (4th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Punic / Roman
Sister city to Thuburbo Majus with olive press park (15 presses).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient village
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Amarna — South Tombs Ancillary Workmen Village (Akhetaten) in Minya, Amarna, Egypt is a Neolithic to Chalcolithic (6000–3000 BCE) ancient village attribute…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Late Medieval Kanem–Bornu (1460–1808 CE) · Kanuri (Kanem–Bornu)
Birnin Gazargamu (1460–1808) was Kanem–Bornu Empire capital, 6.5 km earthen walls 5 m high enclosing palace mound, great mosque 100×50 m and 200 compound mounds on Yo/ Kamadugu Yobe. 15th-c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient port
Ptolemaic to WWII El Alamein (330 BCE Paraetonium to 1942 WWII Montgomery Rommel bastion) · Ptolemaic Paraetonium port → WWII British (Mersa Matruh fortress 1940–42)
Marsa Matruh Paraetonium and WWII bastion Rommel-Montgomery 1942 battle field.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Penwith Bronze Age
19-stone graded granite circle (23.8 m) near Lamorna with two Pipers outlying stones.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Buried city
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Nahal Down Buried Settlement in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) buried city attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Pala (8th c.) · Pala
Paharpur Satellite Vihara — Dhirkuta in Naogaon District, Paharpur plain, Bangladesh is a Pala (8th c.) temple complex attributed to Pala culture.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Geoglyph
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Church Geoglyph in Quang Nam, Vietnam is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) geoglyph attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art
Upper Paleolithic to Iron Age (~25,000 BCE – 1000 BCE; main 20,000–10,000 BCE) · Solutrean/Magdalenian to Atlantic Iron Age
Largest open-air Paleolithic art complex known, spread over 17 km of the Côa tributary with over 1,000 engraved schist panels bearing thousands of zoomorphs.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Historic (200 BCE–300 CE) · Satavahana
Kesanapalli — Guntur Stupa in Andhra Pradesh, Guntur, India is a Early Historic (200 BCE–300 CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Pediment Temple Complex in Thessaly, Greece is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attributed to Classical culture.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Hydraulic works
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Reservoir of Kuma-Hinton in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) hydraulic attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) · Scythian / Saka
Taksay — Kurgan 6 Gold Ornament Cache (West Kazakhstan) in West Kazakhstan, Taksay, Kazakhstan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2500–300 BCE) kurgan attributed to …
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Late Chalcolithic (4000–3500 BCE, Bakun) · Bakun A Chalcolithic
Late Chalcolithic (4000–3500 BCE, Bakun) Bakun A Chalcolithic tell at Fars Province, Persepolis plain – proto-urban chalcolithic painted-pottery centre (dims Mound 2 ha, Bakun A workshops).
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Hellenistic (1st c. CE c.77 CE Tiridates I, rebuilt 1969–75) · Armenian Hellenistic (Tiridates I Greek cult, Mithras?)
Garni rebuilt by Torosyan 1969 academic reconstruction from anastylosis, inscription 77 CE, 1679 earthquake flattened.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Unstan Ware Neolithic
Eponymous stalled cairn at Stenness — 8.4 m five-compartment chamber where Unstan Ware was first identified.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Ancient City of Syke Geoglyph in Sicily, Italy is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Jōmon culture.
