🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
The Sanctuary (Overton Hill)
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age · Windmill Hill / Wessex Neolithic
Timber-then-stone double circles (40 m outer) at SE end of West Kennet Avenue — Avebury's mortuary terminus.
🇺🇸 United States · Tumulus
Kolomoki — Mound A North Ramp (Georgia)
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Kolomoki — Mound A North Ramp (Georgia) in Georgia, Early County, Kolomoki, United States is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attribut…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Acre — Geoglyph Ancillary Square Ramal 4 (Brazil)
Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) · Andean Formative
Acre — Geoglyph Ancillary Square Ramal 4 (Brazil) in Acre, Rio Branco, Acre Geoglyph Ramal4, Brazil is a Formative to Late Intermediate (800 BCE–1400 CE) g…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Klasies River Caves — Middle Stone Age Shelter
Middle Stone Age (120–55 ka) · Early Homo sapiens (MSA I–Howiesons Poort)
Klasies River Main site (KRM) is 5 caves/shelters on Tsitsikamma coast (34°06′29″S 24°23′24″E) with 120–55 ka MSA deposits containing anatomically modern human fossils (KRM 13400 mandible 115 ka),…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Stone Town of Zanzibar
Swahili to Omani and British (Swahili settlement 16th c; Omani capital 1832–1964) · Swahili / Omani Arab / Persian / Indian (Bohra) / British colonial
Swahili stone town capital of Omani Zanzibar sultanate (1832–1964), Stone Town preserves coral-stone labyrinth: House of Wonders (Beit al-Ajaib 1883 Persian-slave-built), Old Fort (Portuguese 1710),…
🇬🇲 Gambia · Megalith
Kerbatch Stone Circles — Senegambian Megaliths
Medieval Senegambian (750–1100 CE) · Senegambian Iron Age (Serer)
Kerbatch (Kerr Batch) is the second Gambian UNESCO stone-circle nucleus (1226) with 9 circles (3–5 m Ø) and V-shaped laterite pillars up to 1.7 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital
Divriği Great Mosque and Hospital (Turkish: Divriği Ulu Cami ve Darüşşifası) was built in 1228–1229 by the local dynasty of the Mengujekids in the small Anatolian town of Divriği, now in Sivas…
🇲🇱 Mali · Tell
Djenne-Djeno West Mound (Inland Niger Delta)
Djenné-Djeno phase (250 BCE – 1400 CE; West Mound 300–900 CE) · Djenné-Djeno (Inland Niger Delta urbanism)
Western extension of Djenné-Djeno city cluster (2 km from central tell) with 450×400 m mound, floodplain ditch, iron workshops and terracotta of Inland Niger urbanism 800 years pre...
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chankillo — Second Thirteen Towers Sector
Early Horizon–Early Intermediate Casma Sechín 250–200 BCE · Casma/Sechín (Punkurí tradition)
Second Thirteen Towers line 400 m east of famous solar observatory, with observing building and bastions.
🇫🇮 Finland · Megalith
Sammallahdenmäki Bronze Age Cairn Field
Bronze Age (1500–500 BCE) · Scandinavian Bronze Age — Finnish coastal
Bronze Age burial site on a forested ridge uplifted from the sea near Rauma, inscribed UNESCO 1999.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Cave
Rising Star Cave — Homo Naledi Chamber
Middle Pleistocene (335–236 ka Homo naledi deposition) · Homo naledi (small brain 460 cc)
Rising Star Cave system (20–30 m dolomite horizon, 3 km passages) yielded 1,550+ Homo naledi fossils (15 individuals) in Dinaledi Chamber (2013) and Lesedi Chamber (2015) by Berger.
🇮🇳 India · Rock art
Bhimbetka Rock Shelters
Upper Paleolithic to Medieval (100,000 BCE – 2nd century BCE – 1500 CE) · South Asian hunter-gatherer to early historic
Cluster of about 750 sandstone shelters on the Vindhyan fringe with a layered sequence of paintings spanning Mesolithic hunting scenes to historic horsemen and battle processions.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient village
Village of Southfield Grove
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Village of Southfield Grove in Paphos District, Cyprus is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) ancient village attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇭 Ghana · Fortress
Christiansborg Castle — Osu Castle
Atlantic slave trade (1659–1850 Danish) · Danish / Norwegian / Ga / British
Christiansborg Castle (1659 Danish, 1661–1850 Danish–Norwegian slave fort) is on Osu rocky promontory Accra, now Presidential seat (until 2013) and museum.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Kilwa Kisiwani
Swahili Coast Medieval (9th–19th c; Sultanate peak 1100–1500) · Swahili (Bantu-Arab-Persian) / Shirazi dynasty / Portuguese interlude
Swahili stone-town entrepôt (9th–19th c) controlling Indian Ocean gold trade from Sofala and Great Zimbabwe: Gereza fortress (Portuguese 1505), Great Mosque (oldest sub-Saharan mosque 1131–1770…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Coire Ancient Village
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Coire Ancient Village in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Classical culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Peñasco Blanco (Penasco Blanco)
Pueblo I-II-III; Chuskum-Chacoan · Chacoan × Chuskan frontier (Chuska timber route)
Mesa-top wedge great house on West Mesa promontory (900–1125 CE) controlling west gap and Chuska roads — crescent plan with great kiva and hinterland pictograph.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Ancient city
Visby City Walls and Medieval Defences
High Middle Ages (c.1150–1400 CE) · Gotlandic Hanseatic / Medieval Scandinavian
3.4 km medieval ring wall encircling Hanseatic Visby, best preserved in Scandinavia, built 13th–14th c. limestone with 27 towers, gate towers and caponier.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Chauvet Cave
Aurignacian, Upper Paleolithic (~37,000–33,000 BCE) · Aurignacian hunter-gatherer
Sealed Aurignacian cave above the Ardèche gorge containing the earliest known figurative art, with over 430 animal representations including woolly rhinoceros, cave lions, panthers and megaloceros…
🇩🇰 Denmark · Hillfort
Trelleborg Viking Ringfort (Slagelse)
Viking Age (c.980–1000 CE, Harald Bluetooth) · Danish Viking Age
Archetypal Viking ring fortress west of Slagelse on Zealand, 136.5 m diameter circular earthwork with four cardinal gates, internal quadrants with 16 longhouses and outer bailey, built c.980 under…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Hoysaleswara Temple Halebidu
Hoysala Empire 1121–1160 CE · Hoysala Hindu (Karnataka)
Hoysaleswara (1121–1160) – Hoysala double shrine (Shiva Hoysaleswara/Shantaleswara) on jagati platform with Dvikuta plan: stellate (star-shaped) 16-point vimanas, lathe-turned chloritic schist…
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Pasargadae
Achaemenid (559–530 BCE construction; occupied to Seleucid era) · Achaemenid Persian
Earliest Achaemenid capital built by Cyrus the Great (559–530 BCE) on victory site over Medes.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Yazılıkaya Hittite Sanctuary
Late Bronze Age, Hittite Empire (~1300–1180 BCE; refurbished under Tudhaliya IV) · Hittite (Hatti–Hurrian)
Two natural limestone chambers behind Hattusa where 90 reliefs carved into living rock depict the Hurrian–Hittite pantheon procession: Chamber A shows 12 underworld gods, sword-god Nergal and the…
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Madara Rider
The Madara Rider or Madara Horseman (Bulgarian: Мадарски конник, Madarski konnik) is a large early medieval rock relief carved on the Madara Plateau east of Shumen in northeastern Bulgaria, near the…