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🇧🇼 Botswana · Rock art
Later Stone Age to recent (~8000 BCE – historical) · San (Basarwa) hunter-gatherer and Bantu pastoralist
Four quartzite inselbergs rising abruptly from the Kalahari sandveldt preserve over 4,500 paintings across 500 sites, dominated by the 1,400-m Male Hill.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Migration to Viking Age (c.200–1050 CE) · South Scandinavian Iron Age / Vendel–Viking
Small island (48 ha) in Lake Mälaren's Helgö, 5 km long, excavated 1954–74 (Holmqvist, Lundström) revealing 800 years of craft (bronze, iron, jewel, glass) and long-distance imports: Coptic bronze…
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Megalith
Iron Age to Early Modern (200–1800 CE) · Ekoi / Ejagham (Legbok)
Ikom Monoliths are >300 basalt volcanic monoliths 1–1.8 m tall arranged in 30 circles (each 6 m Ø with 12 phallic pillars) around Ikom and Alok, dated 1st–18th c CE, uniquely carved with facial…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Late Classic shaft-tomb tradition to Postclassic (400 BCE–400 CE shafts; pyramid 700–900 CE Aztatlán) · Western Mexico Shaft Tomb → Aztatlán (Teuchitlán borrowing)
Ixtlán excavated by Corona Núñez 1940s, circular shaft tomb pyramid link to Teuchitlán guachimontones.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
St Johns IIc–Mississippian 1050–1562 CE (midden 3000 BCE onward) · St Johns (Timucua ancestors)
St Johns platform mound 6.7 m with 300 m causeway and 6000-year midden, contacted 1562 by French.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Necropolis
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Narrow Midfield Necropolis in Alentejo, Portugal is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) necropolis attributed to Harappan culture.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Ruins of Dun Great in Fars Province, Iran is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Maurya to Gupta (3rd c. BCE–5th c. CE; Great Stupa core 260 BCE, gateway 1st c. BCE) · Mauryan, Sunga, Satavahana, Gupta Buddhist
Great Stupa No.1 at Sanchi – Ashoka's 3rd c. BCE relic mound enlarged to 36m hemispheric brick-and-stone anda, 16m high stone torana gateways (Satavahana 1st c.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Tumulus
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Tumulus of Canal Enclosure in North Central Province, Sri Lanka is a Moche (100–800 CE) tumulus attributed to Moche culture.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Late Iron Age to Early Historic (c.400 BCE–200 CE) · Early Indian-influenced (Indian contact)」「West? actually Ban Don Ta Phet 400–0 BCE Indian contact
Iron Age cemetery with first South Asian beads across South China Sea (400 BCE–200 CE) — Indian bronze bowls at Kanchanaburi.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Buried city
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Buried City of Brown in Dhi Qar, Iraq is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) buried city attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Tomb
The Jajce Catacombs, also known as the Jajce underground church, or simply Jajce crypt in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the historic burial site of Hrvoje Vukčić, a Bosnian nobleman who founded…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan Atlantic
Passage grave near Locmariaquer, Morbihan, part of Locmariaquer-Carnac megalithic concentration, c.4000 BCE.
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic (c.80,000–15,000 BP) · Zagros Mousterian → Baradostian → Zarzian
Dasht-e Boof Palaeolithic shelter 2 m (80–15 ka, Neanderthal parietal, Zarzian microliths) at 1350 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) · Middle Bronze Age
Hillfort Dolmen in Aswan Governorate, Egypt is a Middle Bronze Age (2100–1550 BCE) megalithic attributed to Middle Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Pyramid of Ridge-Scar in Ancash, Peru is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Cave
Mississippian (800–1600 CE) · Mississippian
Rig Ach Grotto in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Mississippian (800–1600 CE) cave attributed to Mississippian culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Fortress
Hasbaya or Hasbeiya (Arabic: حاصبيا, romanized: Ḥāṣbayā) is a municipality in Lebanon, situated at the foot of Mount Hermon, overlooking a deep amphitheatre from which a brook flows to the Hasbani…
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Funnel Beaker Culture West Group (TRB)
Netherlands' largest hunebed — 22.6 m passage grave with 9 capstones of Scandinavian erratics, c.3400 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
EBA (c.3000-2000 BCE) · Western Anatolian EBA (Troy I-II, Yortan sphere)
Kumtepe — buried eba tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Precucuteni to Horodiștea, peak Cucuteni A–B (4800–3800 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia
One of Moldova's largest Cucuteni tells — Țuguieta mound 9 m stratigraphy (Precucuteni III to Cucuteni B1, Horodiștea) at Trușești, excavated by M. Petrescu-Dîmbovița 1951–61.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tumulus
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Tumulus of Moor Bal in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) tumulus attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Formative 1400 BCE–300 CE (Escalera phase) · Mixe-Zoque (Chiapa de Corzo tradition) / Olmec–Maya bridge
Zoque Olmec–Maya capital with Mound 5 22 m and Stela 2 Long Count 36 BCE, earliest date in Mesoamerica.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Late Classic Maya 600–850 CE · Maya (Talol kingdom)
146-m Acropolis with jaguar stucco frieze, 600–850 CE Maya city.
