🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Gonja Maore Swahili Ruins — Tanga
Swahili (13th–16th c. CE) · Swahili (Shirazi)
Gonja Maore Swahili Ruins — Tanga in Tanga Region, Tanzania is a Swahili (13th–16th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili (Shirazi).
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Katsina City and Kusugu Well
Hausa Late Iron Age to Sultanate (c.1100 CE–present) · Hausa (Katsinawa)
Hausa walled city (14 km walls, 7 gates) with Gobarau Minaret and Kusugu well legend.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Temple complex
Chanh Lo Tower — Quang Ngai
Champa (11th c. CE) · Cham
Chanh Lo Tower — Quang Ngai in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam is a Champa (11th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Cham. Single brick kalan with sandstone door frame and kala mask, restored.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Sidari Neolithic Site on Corfu
Early to Middle Neolithic · Impressed Ware / Corfu Neolithic
Coastal Neolithic settlement at Sidari, northern Corfu, with Early to Middle Neolithic layers (c. 5800–5000 BCE) including impressed wares, obsidian and early farming evidence.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn Mainland Orkney
Neolithic (c.3500 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic
Hilltop cairn excavated 1849 and later by G. Petrie, with three concentric wall faces and intact chamber below moorland peat.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient city
Shaka — Formosa Bay Swahili Ruins
Swahili (14th–17th c. CE) · Swahili (Witu)
Shaka — Formosa Bay Swahili Ruins in Kilifi County, Kenya is a Swahili (14th–17th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili (Witu).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Bonda Tepe — Lycia Highland Sanctuary
Lycian (600–200 BCE) · Lycian
Bonda Tepe — Lycia Highland Sanctuary in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian (600–200 BCE) temple-complex attributed to Lycian.
🇷🇺 Russia · Temple complex
Ferapontov Monastery
The Ferapontov Monastery is a monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ferapontovo, Kirillovsky District, Vologda Oblast, Russia. The monastery was founded by Saint Ferapont in 1398.
🇿🇲 Zambia · Archaeological wonder
Kalambo Falls – 500-ka Wooden Structure & Acheulean Gorge
Acheulean / Sangoan · Homo heidelbergensis (?) woodworking
235 m single-drop waterfall with gorge stratigraphy preserving 500–300 ka Acheulean woodwork: 476-ka interlocking logs (world's oldest wooden structure, Barham Nature 2023) and 500 ka mortised timber.
🇨🇩 Democratic Republic of the Congo · Archaeological wonder
Ishango (Lake Edward) – Harpoon & Ishango Bone
Later Stone Age Ishango · Ishango LSA fisher-foragers
Lakeshore fishing village (25–20 ka LSA) famed for 25,000 barbed bone harpoons and Ishango Bone – baboon fibula with tally marks (perhaps 20 ka lunar calendar or arithmetic, oldest maths artefact,…
🇮🇳 India · Megalith
Sangrampur — Buldhana Stone Circles
Chalcolithic–Iron Age (1200–500 BCE) · Vidarbha
Sangrampur — Buldhana Stone Circles in Maharashtra, India is a Chalcolithic–Iron Age (1200–500 BCE) megalithic attributed to Vidarbha. Stone circles with microliths and copper on Purna tributary.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Theveste (Tébessa) – Legionary Colonia
Berber / Roman / Byzantine · Roman / Berber
Veteran colony of Legio III Augusta controlling Hauts Plateaux–Aurès corridor. Tetrapylon Arch of Caracalla (214 CE), amphitheatre, basilica of St Crispina (76 m) with catacombs, Byzantine walls with…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Zabalam
ED to Ur III (c.3000–2004 BCE; peak Shara temple) · Sumerian (Zabalam, Shara cult) → Akkadian → Ur III
Zabalam (Tell Ibzeikh) is the cult city of goddess Inanna of Zabalam (later Shara). Excavated by Iraqi team revealing Shara temple platform (EB), ED houses and...
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Essouk-Tadmekka – Saharan Caravan City
Trans-Saharan caravan (c. 700–1400 CE; Almoravid market) · Berber–Tuareg (Tadmekka Sanhaja) / Arab caravan
Mysterious stone city in Saharan piedmont, Essouk is Tadmekka the 9th c Arab-described 'Tadmakkat' gold city with 450×250 m stone houses, mosque and 11th c Arabic stelae, on Niger–...
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Geoglyph Panel Asia 68 — South Korea Region 8
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Geoglyph Panel Asia 68 — South Korea Region 8 in South Korea Region 8, South Korea is a Iron Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Parthenon
Ancient Greek culture
former temple of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient village
Gobero
Early to Middle Holocene (7700–2500 BCE) · Kiffian/AA foragers → Tenerian pastoralists
Gobero lakeside cemeteries tracking 5,000 years of Sahara greening and desertification.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman
Iron Age (1000 BCE) to present · Omani, Iron Age to Islamic
Approximately 3,000 still-active aflaj (singular falaj) thread Oman, of which five exemplars — Daris, Al-Khatmeen, Al-Malki, Al-Jeela and Al-Muyassar — are inscribed.