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🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Sangam Period, Early Historic to Colonial · Tamil Chola (Sangam)
2nd century Chola granite anicut (329 m, 150 CE) on Kaveri River, oldest functional dam in world irrigating one million acres.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Bardak Siah Palace (Persian: کاخ بردکسیاه) is the name of the site of an ancient Achaemenid Persian palace situated in the ancient city of Temukan near the township of Borazjan in the northern part…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Old Kingdom early 4th Dynasty · Old Kingdom Egyptian (Memphite)
South bank companion wing (62 m) to Sadd el-Kafara Old Kingdom unfinished dam (2703 BCE): spillway side with mason marks.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic Arabian mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian pastoralists
14 mustatil enclosures (5180-5050 BCE) at AlUla-Sharaan, densest sandstone cluster with betyl solstice alignment.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
The Kokel Culture (1st-5th centuries CE) is a post-Xiongnu culture, from Southern Siberia, in what is now the modern-day Tuva Republic.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Late Bronze Age, Saryarka khirigsuur 1400-800 BCE · Andronovo to Deer Stone-Khirigsuur transitional
35 Bronze Age khirigsuurs (1400-800 BCE) on Saryarka steppe, westernmost Deer Stone-Khirigsuur province 1500 km west of Mongolia.
🇨🇦 Canada · Geoglyph
Battalion Park is a geoglyph site in southwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It is on Signal Hill, overlooking the Tsuu T'ina Nation (formerly Sarcee Nation), as well as lands formerly known as Camp…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 1500-1000 BCE · Late Bronze Age Thames estuary farmers/fishers
1500 BCE Late Bronze Age intertidal brushwood causeway (120 m) at Beckton, Thames estuary tidal trackway.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hermopolis (Greek: Ἑρμοῦ πόλις), also known as Hermopolis Mikra (City of Hermes/Thoth Small; Latin: Hermopolis Parva), was the Greek name for two cities in ancient Egypt, both in the Nile Delta, and…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Gårdlösa is the site of an Iron Age settlement in the parish of Smedstorp in Skåne, Sweden. It was inhabited briefly during the late Nordic Bronze Age, and from the 1st century BC–11th century AD.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Old Kingdom (3200–2686 BCE) · Egyptian Naqada III / Early Dynastic / Thinite
Menes thinite capital c. 3100 BCE — Manetho homeland of Dyn 1–2, no mound found under 8 m Nile silt at Girga (5 km hypothetical).
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qajar to Pahlavi (1910–1930) · Qajar Persian garden culture (Birjand Alam dynasty)
1910 Qajar 12-m arch 35 m on Darreh valley feeding Birjand Akbariye Persian garden and Arg via 2 km qanat.
🇮🇳 India · Rock shelter
Gudiyam Caves are rock shelters in South India and known for prehistoric stone tools and culture. They were first identified by British geologist Robert Bruce Foote.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic (Holocene humid A, B) · Gilf Kebir Holocene hunter-herders (pre-pastoral)
7,000 BCE Gilf Kebir painted shelters—8,000 hand stencils, 'swimmers' and therianthropic beasts in hyper-arid heart of Sahara.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Dibba Al-Fujairah (Arabic: دبا الفجيرة) is a city in the Emirate of Fujairah, located on the northeast part of the United Arab Emirates. It is geographically part of the Dibba region.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Baghaberd (Armenian: Բաղաբերդ;) a fortress in the Dzork province of the historical Syunik province of Greater Armenia.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Canosa di Puglia, generally known simply as Canosa (Canosino: Canaus), is a town and comune in the province of Barletta-Andria-Trani, Apulia, southern Italy.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Cave
Batadombalena is an archaeological site with evidence of habitation from 8,000 years BCE, Balangoda Man, located 85 km (52.8 mi) from Colombo in Sri Lanka, a two-hour drive from Colombo.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sabaean Kingdom 750 BCE - 570 CE · Sabaean (Saba) kingdom
750 BCE Sabaean secondary saddle dam (420 m) and north sluice extension of Marib, doubling irrigated area via 2.1 km north canal.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age 1200 BCE - 300 BCE · Late Bronze to Iron Age Hebridean
1200 BCE - 300 BCE nucleated roundhouse village (12 houses) at Cladh Hallan, South Uist with composite peat-preserved mummies (1500 BCE).
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Groß Raden Archaeological Open Air Museum (German: Archäologische Freilichtmuseum Groß Raden) lies a few kilometres north of the small town of Sternberg and about a kilometre northeast of the…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNA–PPNB Early to Late (8400–6500 BCE) · Jibal al-Khashabiyeh SE Jordan PPNA Ghassanian trappers
10 long-arm ridge kites 920 m: walls 520–1450 m to 12–16 m single-pit bag pens with pillar stone 1:10 scale kite engraving.
🇨🇦 Canada · Hydraulic works
The Bytown Museum (French: Musée Bytown) is a museum in Ottawa located in the Colonel By Valley at the Ottawa Locks of the Rideau Canal on the Ottawa River, just below Parliament Hill.
🇵🇱 Poland · Earthwork
Early Middle Ages (8th c. tribal; Piast 960–1039) · Piast Poland (Mieszko I, Bolesław I)
Ostrów Lednicki – Piast Stronghold on Lake Lednica in Greater Poland Voivodeship, Gniezno County, Lednica lake island near Lednogóra, Poland is a Early Middle Ages (8th c.
