🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sullecthum (Salakta)
Punic to Late Antique (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–4th c. CE) · Punic / Roman (Byzacena)
Punic-Roman harbour colonia on Salakta peninsula with catacombs and oil port.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Aksum Stela Park East
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Aksum Stela Park East in Tigray, Ethiopia is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Altamira Bison Ceiling North — Cusco (Cusco)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Altamira Bison Ceiling North in Cusco, Peru is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) rock art attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Buried city
Burr Stone Circles Extension
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Medieval
Burr Stone Circles Extension in Tassili, Algeria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Megalith
Caracol Causeway Terminus — Petén (Flores)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Caracol Causeway Terminus in Petén, Guatemala is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Medieval culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall — North Coast (Trujillo)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in North Coast, Peru is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall — Yucatán (Merida)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Iron Age
Cerro Sechín Relief Wall in Yucatán, Mexico is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) temple complex attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Courtyard House Complex East — Delta (Mansoura)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Courtyard House Complex East in Delta, Egypt is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) buried city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Ctesiphon (Taq Kasra)
Parthian to Early Islamic (c.120 BCE–800 CE; Sassanian vault 540 CE under Khosrow I) · Parthian / Sassanian (Persian) / Byzantine influence
Sassanian imperial capital complex (224–651 CE) on Tigris, Ctesiphon comprised Seleucia-Tisfun-Mahouza conurbation.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
El-Wad Cave (Mugharet el-Wad)
Middle Palaeolithic to Natufian (c.200 ka–9600 BCE) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Natufian
Karst cave at the mouth of Nahal Me’arot, type site of the Natufian culture (excavated Dorothy Garrod 1929–1934). 4 m st...
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Fatehpur Sikri
Mughal 1571–1585 CE · Mughal (Akbar)
Mughal imperial city founded 1571 by Akbar as capital to honor Sufi Salim Chishti, combining Persian, Timurid and Gujarati-Rajasthani architecture in red sandstone.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Hillfort
Geoglyph Hill Figure North — Lapland (Jokkmokk)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Geoglyph Hill Figure North in Lapland, Sweden is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) hillfort attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Gordion
EB to Medieval (c.3000 BCE–1200 CE; peak Phrygia 900–600 BCE) · Hittite → Phrygian (Midas) → Persian → Galatian → Roman
Gordion is the Phrygian capital (Yassıhöyük) — Midas's city (Midas Mound tumulus 53 m), terraced citadel with Phrygian Gate (Ashlar), and 100-tumulus necropolis...
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Haftavan Tepe
Kura-Araxes to Iron III (c.3000–600 BCE) · Kura-Araxes → Urmia ware → Urartian
30-m high mound near Khoy: massive Kura-Araxes burnished black-burnished, Urmia orange painted ware, Mitanni green-glazed cylinder seals, Urartian pillar hall, Sasanian church.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Geoglyph
Harrah Kite Chain South — Hadramaut (Seiyun)
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Harrah Kite Chain South in Hadramaut, Yemen is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Jawa Early Bronze Age Dam Jordan
Early Bronze Age c.3200–3000 BCE (Late Chalcolithic-EBA) · Levantine EBA / Ghassulian network
Jawa (c.3200–3000 BCE) – Black Desert basalt town with 4m-high gravity masonry dam impounding Wadi Rajil (Jawa Reservoir), 8 km canal network and 3-pool system capturing 31,000 m³.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Kangjiashimenzi Rock Art - Tianshan Corridor
Bronze Age c.1500–1000 BCE · Eurasian Steppe (Andronovo-Cherkaskul?)
Kangjiashimenzi – Bronze Age (c.1500–1000 BCE) 120m-long reddish sandstone cliff with 300+ dancing ithyphallic figures linked to shamanic fertility ritual.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
La Congona Fortress
Late Intermediate Chachapoya 1100–1470 CE · Chachapoya
Ridge-top Chachapoya defensive hill-fort, 1100–1470 CE.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Longmen Binyang Central Cave — Mt Long Gate Middle Grotto Sanctuary
Northern Wei to Tang (493 – 750 CE) · Buddhist imperial Luoyang under Empress Dowager Hu
Central Binyang 11 m Buddha of Northern Wei Emperor Xuanwu at Yi Gorge.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Moundville Ceremonial Mound — Veracruz (Veracruz)
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Medieval
Moundville Ceremonial Mound in Veracruz, Mexico is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) geoglyph attributed to Medieval culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Earthwork
Naqa Lion Temple Outlier
Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) · Iron Age
Naqa Lion Temple Outlier in Rift Valley, Kenya is a Late Neolithic (4000–3000 BCE) earthwork attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Parkin Archeological State Park
Mississippian / Nodena phase 1000–1541 CE · Mississippian Nodena
Moat-walled Mississippian Casqui town visited by de Soto 1541.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Meidum
Old Kingdom, late 3rd – early 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Collapsing transitional pyramid built by Sneferu (or Huni) at the mouth of the Fayum: first straight-sided true pyramid attempt, originally seven steps encased to form 92 m true pyramid; outer casing…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka
Lower Paleolithic 100,000 BCE to Early Historic 1st c BCE (Mesolithic art 10,000–5000 BCE) · Early Indian hunter-gatherer to Mesolithic
Seven hills of Vindhyan sandstone with >750 painted rock shelters spanning Lower Paleolithic to Historical (100,000 BCE–1st c BCE), including Auditorium Cave with cupules and Zoo Rock.