🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Mandapeshwar Cave — Borivali
Gupta–Kalachuri (530 CE) · Shaivite Hindu (Brahmanical)
Mandapeshwar Cave — Borivali in Maharashtra, India is a Gupta–Kalachuri (530 CE) rock_cut attributed to Shaivite Hindu (Brahmanical).
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🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Roman (124–400 CE) · Roman (Hadrianic)
Housesteads Roman Fort in Northumberland, Hadrian's Wall, United Kingdom is a Roman (124–400 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman (Hadrianic) culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Gupta–Kalachuri (530 CE) · Shaivite Hindu (Brahmanical)
Mandapeshwar Cave — Borivali in Maharashtra, India is a Gupta–Kalachuri (530 CE) rock_cut attributed to Shaivite Hindu (Brahmanical).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Woodland to Mississippian 800–1200 CE · Late Woodland to Mississippian (Miller to Mississippian transition)
Five platform mounds (6–12 ft high) enclosing rectangular plaza 100×60 m at Owl Creek, Natchez Trace MP 243.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (500–1000 CE) · Wari Empire
Wari Capital Core — Ayacucho Enclosure in Ayacucho Region, Peru is a Middle Horizon (500–1000 CE) ancient-city attributed to Wari Empire.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Uruk (4000–3100 BCE) · Sumerian
Warka Uruk — Anu South Precinct in Muthanna Governorate, Warka (Uruk), Iraq is a Uruk (4000–3100 BCE) temple complex attributed to Sumerian culture.
GR · Submerged site
Early Bronze to Mycenaean (3200–1100 BCE harbour) · Early Helladic / Minoanizing / Mycenaean
Early Bronze Saronic harbour — Kolonna fortified town whose mole now 2 m under Aegina Bay.
🇮🇹 Italy · Temple complex
Archaeic-Classical Greek 6th–5th c. BCE, peak 480–406 BCE · Greek (Doric Greeks from Gela/Rhodes-Crete)
Greek city ridge with best-preserved Doric temple in world: Concordia.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age · Irish Sea Passage Tomb tradition
Anglesey passage tomb with 8.4 m passage aligned to midsummer sunrise and decorated spiral stone.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock art
Later Stone Age / Aksumite · Pre-Aksumite / Aksumite
45 m long granite shelter with paintings of plough oxen, humpless cattle and inscriptions, plus 13 ka LSA through Aksumite stratigraphy.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
PPNA (9500–8700 BCE) · Natufian-PPNA
Jerf el Ahmar — PPNA Village in Aleppo Governorate, Euphrates, Syria is a PPNA (9500–8700 BCE) ancient village attributed to Natufian-PPNA culture.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Hinayana Buddhist, Satavahana period 2nd c. BCE – 2nd c. CE · Buddhist (Theravada) merchants and Satavahana dynasty
India's largest Buddhist chaitya hall (45 m) with original timber ribs, 1st c. BCE–CE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cave
Palaeolithic (500k BP–12000 CE) · Acheulean to Creswellian
Kent's Cavern — Torquay in Devon, South West England, United Kingdom is a Palaeolithic (500k BP–12000 CE) cave attributed to Acheulean to Creswellian culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic (3000 BCE) · Channel Islands Late Neolithic
Le Creux ès Faïes in Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (3000 BCE) megalithic attributed to Channel Islands Late Neolithic culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mature Harappan 2450–1900 BCE · Indus Valley / Harappan
Harappan port town (2450–1900 BCE) on Sabarmati palaeochannel near Gulf of Khambhat, famed for 37×22 m brick basin interpreted as dockyard and tidal lock.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Bronze Age (1000–800 BCE) · Deverel-Rimbury
Must Farm Pile Dwelling in Cambridgeshire, The Fens, United Kingdom is a Late Bronze Age (1000–800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Deverel-Rimbury culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) · EBA
Numeira — Dead Sea Plain in Karak Governorate, Dead Sea plain, Jordan is a Early Bronze III (2700–2300 BCE) ancient city attributed to EBA culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Tumulus
Vendel Period (c.550–600 CE) · Vendel Period Scandinavia
Monumental Vendel Period tumulus at Vendel parish (Tierp) — 37 m diameter, 8 m high, excavated 1914 (Stolpe monument) with cremation of King Ottar Vendelcrowk (Ohthere) noted in Ynglingatal and…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Angkor (11th c. CE) · Khmer (Udayadityavarman II)
Phnom Banan — Battambang Hill Temple in Battambang Province, Cambodia is a Angkor (11th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Khmer (Udayadityavarman II).
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
South Indian Neolithic (2500–1000 BCE) · South Indian Neolithic pastoralist
Piklihal — Lingasugur Ash Mound in Karnataka, India is a South Indian Neolithic (2500–1000 BCE) megalithic attributed to South Indian Neolithic pastoralist.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, early 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
First king of 6th Dynasty's badly ruined 52.5 m high pyramid at Saqqara (78.5 m base) with interior Pyramid Texts and basalt sarcophagus.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) · Neolithic to Roman
Yumuktepe — Mersin Mound in Mersin Province, Cilicia, Turkey is a Neolithic to Byzantine (7000 BCE+) tell attributed to Neolithic to Roman culture.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Hillfort
Celtic Late La Tène (2nd century BCE–1st century BCE) · Celtic (Eastern La Tène)
Eastern Celtic oppidum at Zemplín on a low hill above the Bodrog at the Slovak-Hungarian border, with earth-timber ramparts enclosing 12 ha, excavated by B. Benadik.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Hydraulic works
Iron Age to present ~1000 BCE–present · Omani/Hafit to UAE bedouin oases
Al Ain 3,000-year aflaj-fed palm oasis irrigating 147,000 palms with time-share water law.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Byzantine–Genoese (1200–1350 CE) · Byzantine then Genoese
Callipolis — Gelibolu Fortress Wall Extension in Çanakkale Province, Turkey is a Byzantine–Genoese (1200–1350 CE) fortress attributed to Byzantine then Genoese.
