🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Khoit Tsenkher Cave (Blue Cave)
Upper Palaeolithic (Middle to Late) · Upper Palaeolithic Altai-Sayan hunter-gatherers (Mal'ta-Afontova tradition)
Mongolia's Palaeolithic blue cave with ostrich-mammoth paintings 38–20 ka.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Khoit Tsenkher South Gallery — Chandmani Base Cave Art
Upper Paleolithic to Mesolithic (19,000–8000 BCE) · Malta-Buret related early Holocene hunter
Sun-facing lower gallery with 15 ka ibex/ostrich ochre and pecked figures 220 m below main cave.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Tarxien Temples
Chalcolithic (Tarxien phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Four interconnected temples with spiral reliefs, animal friezes and 2.7 m mother-goddess statue fragment. Most decorated of Maltese temples, adjacent to Hal Saflieni Hypogeum.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Ġgantija Temples
Neolithic (Ġgantija phase) · Maltese Temple culture
Pair of cloverleaf temples with walls to 6 m high, coralline blocks >50 t, among earliest free-standing stone structures (c.3600 BCE), surrounded by massive outer wall on Gozo plateau.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
Late Neolithic – Chalcolithic · Maltese Temple culture (Żebbuġ to Tarxien)
Three-level underground necropolis/sanctuary carved in limestone, 10.6 m deep, halls including Oracle Room with acoustic resonance. Only prehistoric underground temple in world.
🇲🇹 Malta · Megalith
Ħaġar Qim
Chalcolithic (Temple Period) · Maltese Temple culture (Ġgantija/Tarxien phases)
Hilltop megalithic temple overlooking Filfla islet, globigerina/coralline limestone, monumental façade with 57-tonne largest stone in Maltese temples.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Archaeological wonder
Maxta
Maxta (also, Makhta, Makhta Kultepe) is a village and municipality in the Sharur District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Malyan
Chalcolithic to Iron (c.4000 BCE–600 BCE; peak Proto-Elamite 3200–2800, Middle Elamite 1500–1100) · Proto-Elamite → Old Elamite → Middle Elamite (Anshan) → Persian Anshan
Malyan (Tal-e Malyan) is ancient Anshan — the great Elamite highland capital (130 ha) with Proto-Elamite tablets (3200 BCE, second after Uruk), Banesh phase mon...
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Monte d'Accoddi
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age, Ozieri/Abealzu-Filigosa (~4000–2700 BCE) · Ozieri (Late Neolithic Sardinian)
Mysterious 36-by-29-m truncated step pyramid of limestone fill on the Sardinian plain, accessed via a 42-m ramp to a summit altar where sacrifice deposits and a sandstone menhir were found.
🇮🇹 Italy · Fortress
Castello di Punta Pagana
The Castello di Punta Pagana is a 17th-century fort located on the homonymous Punta Pagana, within the grounds of Villa Pagana in Rapallo, within the Metropolitan City of Genoa in Italy.
🇨🇭 Switzerland · Fortress
Compesières Commandry
The Compesières Commandry is the main Commandry of the Order of Malta in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The Commandry is located in the municipality of Bardonnex.