🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Tarawasi
Late Horizon Inca Imperial 1440–1536 CE · Inca
Qhapaq Ñan tambo with 28-niche polygonal usnu platform of perfectly fitted octagonal andesite.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Chengzishan
Neolithic Baodun (2700–2000 BCE; walled 2500 BCE) · Baodun culture (Sichuan Chengdu Plain, Sanxingdui precursor)
Chengzishan is a Baodun culture walled town (2700–2000 BCE) — earliest walled site on the Chengdu Plain (pre-Sanxingdui), 10-ha rectangular walled settlement with rammed-earth wall.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Gamla Uppsala Church and Royal Mounds
Vendel Period to Early Middle Ages (c.500–1150 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia / Early Swedish Kingdom
Magnate complex with three monumental Vendel Period royal burial mounds (Östhögen, Mellanhögen, Västhögen, 50–75 m diameter, 8–11 m high, c.550–600 CE), Thing mound and a 12th-century church on the…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid
Yaxhá Pyramids
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
Bala Seaton Hill Fort
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.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Leptis Magna
Phoenician to Byzantine (7th c BCE–643 CE; Severan peak 193–235 CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Best-preserved Roman city in Africa, Leptis Magna Phoenician foundation (7th c BCE) expanded under Emperor Septimius Severus (193–211 CE native son): Arch of Septimius Severus, Basilica…
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Reservoir of Source Mesa
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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Stonehenge Cursus
Early Neolithic 3800–3600 BCE · Early Neolithic Britons
2.7-km Neolithic processional enclosure predating Stonehenge by 500 years.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Tepe Qabrestan
Chalcolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.5000–2900 BCE) · Qazvin plain Chalcolithic (Zagheh–Qabrestan)
Qazvin tell 12 m high (c.5000–2900 BCE, Zagheh→Qabrestan, cemetery) south of Qazvin.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Grave Creek Mound
Early Woodland, Adena culture 1000 BCE–1 CE (peak 250–150 BCE) · Adena
Largest conical burial mound in North America (62 ft/19 m high, 240 ft/73 m diameter, 60,000 tons earth moved by basket) built by Adena peoples at Moundsville, WV.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Nagarjunakonda
Satavahana to Ikshvaku Late Andhra 200 BCE–400 CE · Ikshvaku / Mahayana Buddhist
Vast Ikshvaku dynasty capital and Buddhist university city (c.200–400 CE) on Krishna River, 30+ Buddhist monasteries with 9 mahastupas, Brahminical temples and Europe's largest collection of early…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Buried city
Nahal Down Buried Settlement
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.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Pyramid
Pyramid of Hermitage
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Pyramid of Hermitage in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) pyramid attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Earthwork
Town Henthorn Mound Complex
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Town Henthorn Mound Complex in Piauí, Brazil is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) earthwork attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tomb
Xanthos — Nereid Column Terrace North
Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) · Old–New Kingdom Egyptian
Xanthos — Nereid Column Terrace North in Antalya, Kaş, Xanthos, Turkey is a Old to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE) tomb attributed to Old–New Kingdom Egypti…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Tumulus
Baraka Burial Mound
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Baraka Burial Mound in Alentejo, Portugal is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Rock art
Côa Valley 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Homolovi II Pueblo
Ancestral Puebloan (c.600-1300 CE) · Anasazi/Puebloan (Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Homolovi II Pueblo — buried ancestral tell/village at Arizona.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Pediment 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.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Taksay — Kurgan 6 Gold Ornament Cache (West Kazakhstan)
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 …
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Maijishan Eastern Cliff — Tianshui Stacked Grottoes East Face
Later Qin to Song (384 – 1279 CE) · Buddhist Hexi to Central Plains transition at Wei River gap
East face stacked 90 caves 142 m hill with 16 m Buddha and plankway tiers.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Submerged site
Sunken City off Spur Bal
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Sunken City off Spur Bal in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) submerged city attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Wall-Cairn Standing Stones
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Wall-Cairn Standing Stones in Northern Tigray, Ethiopia is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) megalithic attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Walpi Pueblo
Ancestral Hopi (Hisatsinom) to Historic Hopi 900 CE–present · Hopi (Hisatsinom, Hopi-Tewa)
Continuously inhabited 900 CE Hopi terraced pueblo atop 300-m mesa.