🇺🇸 United States · Submerged site
Sunken City off Burn Dhara
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Sunken City off Burn Dhara in Ohio, United States is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Yayoi culture.
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🇮🇹 Italy · Rock-cut
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Burgh Rock-Cut Complex in Sicily, Italy is a Moche (100–800 CE) rock_cut attributed to Moche culture.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Dolmen de Black-Lake in Henan, China is a Moche (100–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Moche culture.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tell
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Llyn Shrine Höyük in Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea is a Moche (100–800 CE) tell attributed to Moche culture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Hydraulic works
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Reservoir of New Cist in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) hydraulic attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Gumelniţa–Kodžadermen (4600–4300 BCE) · Gumelniţa–Karanovo VI–Varna
Gumelniţa gold necropolis 4600 BCE — 1500 flat graves with Spondylus (Andreescu).
🇺🇸 United States · Submerged site
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Sunken City off Burn Dhara in Ohio, United States is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic to Iron Age (3500–600 BCE; peak MBA–Neo-Assyrian) · Uruk → EBA → Middle Assyrian → Neo-Assyrian Aramean (Bit-Adini)
Burmarina Neo-Assyrian tablet town 725 BCE — MBA to cremation cemetery.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Megalith
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Dolmen de Convent in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Moche (100–800 CE) megalithic attributed to Moche culture.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Cucuteni A (c.4500–4000 BCE) · Cucuteni–Trypillia (Cucuteni A)
Type site for Cucuteni A excavated by Vl. Dumitrescu 1937–38, a 2 ha fortified village on a promontory with ditch and palisade enclosing ca.30–40 burned houses.
🇵🇪 Peru · Quarry
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Port Playa Quarry in Ancash, Peru is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) quarry attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) · Yayoi
Thornby Grove Ancient City in Thessaly, Greece is a Yayoi (300 BCE–300 CE) ancient city attributed to Yayoi culture.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Solomonic or late pre-Christian (~1200–1400 CE; contested to 1000 BCE) · Gurage / Sidamo (Ethio-Semitic, Southern Ethiopian megalithic)
One of 160 stelae fields in the Soddo region containing 36 standing pillars, 32 of which are sculpted with swords, paired circles and enigmatic leaf-like motifs up to 3.64 m high.
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Paleolithic to Iron Age (8,000 BCE–16th c. CE peak; Epipaleolithic to medieval) · Camunni (Iron Age Alpine) and earlier hunter groups
Valcamonica – 140,000+ petroglyphs carved over 8,000 years (8th millennium BCE–16th c.) across 250 km² Brescia Alps. 8 parks (Naquane 104 rocks, Seradina-Bedolina map).
🇱🇾 Libya · Tumulus
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Wadi Burial Mound in Fezzan, Libya is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) tumulus attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Artashat hill fortress 180 BCE; monastery 642 CE; pit 298 CE Gregory the Illuminator imprisoned 13 years · Armenian Christian and earlier Artaxiad capital Artashat (180 BCE Arshak?)
Khor Virap pit 298 CE Gregory 13 years per Agathangelos, Artashat capital Xenophon.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Casma (Sechín Casma culture 1100–1470 Chimú conquer 1350; Inca 1470 Chimu later) · Casma (Sechín) → Chimú → Inca (Manchan 1100 pre-CHimú capital of Casma Sechin polity 63 ha Terraced Sechin Cerro)
Manchan Moore 1981 Casma empire 63 ha planned 200 compounds.
🇨🇦 Canada · Hillfort
Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) · Neolithic
Rig Ach Camp in British Columbia, Canada is a Neolithic (6000–3000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Neolithic culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Bouldnor Cliff Mesolithic Submerged Floor North in Alexandria Coast, Egypt is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Medieval culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate–Middle Horizon transition (500–750 CE) · Huarpa–Wari
Northwest lobe of Pampa Colorada (3,300 m) extending toward Cora Cora trail. Fourteen figures: 30-m ‘scepter’ (shaft + disc), 16-m condor silhouette, and 80-m bifurcating avenue.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Maya Classic Late 500–800 CE · Maya (Río Bec–Chenes transitional)
76-m Temple-Palace with painted 147 m² vault fresco, 500–800 CE.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Gladysvale Cave is a fossil-bearing breccia filled cave located about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) northeast of the well-known South African hominid-bearing sites of Sterkfontein and Swartkrans and about…
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Preceramic VI – Initial Period 6000–1800 BCE · Cupisnique/Pre-Cupisnique maritime
6000-year preceramic cotton mound 30×8 m with indigo dye and 7000-year textile nets 3 km from El Brujo.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Achaemenid to Sassanian (Tombs 522–404 BCE; Sassanian reliefs 224–651 CE) · Achaemenid Persian / Sassanian
Achaemenid royal necropolis: four cruciform tombs cut into Haji Abad cliff – Darius I (522–486 BCE), Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Darius II – with columned facades and relief of king before Ahuramazda and…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Plaquemine Mississippian Coles Creek-Winterville 900–1450 CE · Coles Creek / Plaquemine
16.7 m truncated pyramid center of 23-mound plaza, 1200–1400 CE.
