🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Jaketown Site
Late Archaic–Poverty Point ca. 1700–1500 BCE · Poverty Point culture (Jaketown phase)
8-mound Poverty Point–related center, 1700–1500 BCE.
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🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient village
Medieval Hausa (Bakwai period, 9th–15th c. CE) · Hausa (Daura, Hausa Bakwai)
Sacred pondfield where Bayajida slew snake Sarki (Daura origin).
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Archaic–Poverty Point ca. 1700–1500 BCE · Poverty Point culture (Jaketown phase)
8-mound Poverty Point–related center, 1700–1500 BCE.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Mendut is a ninth-century Buddhist temple, located in Mendut village, Mungkid sub-district, Magelang Regency, Central Java, Indonesia.
🇨🇱 Chile · Tumulus
Byzantine (330–1453 CE) · Byzantine
Tumulus of Lowfield Kurgan in Coquimbo, Chile is a Byzantine (330–1453 CE) tumulus attributed to Byzantine culture.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age to Classical (800 BCE – 100 CE) · Dedanite / Lihyanite (North Arabian)
Twin tells of Umm Daraj and Al-Khuraiba flanking the AlUla oasis, whose cliffs hide the rock-cut Lion Tombs – two unfinished effigies of couchant lions only 4 m long, unique in Arabia.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Rock art
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Dun Petroglyph Field in County Kerry, Ireland is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) rock art attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Tumulus
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Ditch Stone Tumulus in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Earthwork
Early Iron Age to Viking Age (c.300 BCE–1100 CE) · Gotlandic Iron Age / Viking Age
Largest hillfort in Scandinavia at 1.2 km² plateau fortified by 2 km limestone wall across the narrow neck of a 67 m high limestone plateau.
🇫🇷 France · Ancient city
Alesia was the capital of the Mandubii, one of the Gallic tribes allied with the Aedui. The Celtic oppidum was conquered by Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars and afterwards became a Gallo-Roman…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Dynge Castle (Swedish: Dynge borgruin), also formerly known as Dyngehus, is a castle ruin in central Bohuslän, Sweden.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Hualpayunca (possibly from Quechua wallpa hen, yunka warm area on the slopes of the Andes) is an archaeological site located in Peru, specifically in the Obas District, region of Huánuco, above the…
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Mawk'allaqta, also Mawk'a Llaqta (Quechua mawk'a ancient, llaqta place (village, town, city, country, nation), "ancient place", Hispanicized spelling Maucallacta) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
West Aber Burial Mound in Henan, China is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) tumulus attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇪🇸 Spain · Archaeological wonder
The Condes de Argillo Palace (Spanish: Palacio de los Condes de Argillo) is a historical building in Morata de Jalón, Aragon, Spain. It was built in 1672-1676 under the direction of Juan de la Marca.
🇳🇪 Niger · Rock art
Neolithic to Medieval (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Saharan pastoralists / Libyco-Berber / Kanem
Djado Plateau is an isolated sandstone cuesta 1,000 m² in Ténéré with rock art 6000 BCE–1000 CE, engraved cattle, giraffe and Libyco-Berber inscriptions in shelters, plus ruined ksar Djado fortress…
🇨🇦 Canada · Necropolis
Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) · Ubaid
Necropolis of Kala in British Columbia, Canada is a Ubaid (6500–3800 BCE) necropolis attributed to Ubaid culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Harappan to Medieval (c.3300 BCE–16th century CE) · Harappan → PGW → NBPW → Kushan → Gupta
First post-Independence Harappan excavation (1953) — 5000-year sequence from Harappan to medieval Punjab.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Busaira (Arabic: بُصَيْرا, romanized: buṣayrā; also Busayra, Busairah or Buseirah) is a town in Tafilah Governorate, Jordan, located between the towns of Tafilah (Tophel) and Shoubak and closer to…
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Crusader to Mamluk (11th c Kurdish fort; Hospitaller 1142–1271; Mamluk after 1271) · Kurdish / Frankish (Hospitaller) / Mamluk
Paradigmatic concentric Crusader castle, Krak des Chevaliers was built by Kurdish emir and expanded by Knights Hospitaller 1142–1271.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Trypillia C1 (Cucuteni B2) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Trypillia mega-site phenomenon)
Cucuteni-Trypillia mega-settlement (c.3850–3700 BCE, 450 ha, perhaps 15,000 inhabitants) — largest city in Europe at that time, larger than Uruk contemporary — with concentric burnt houses (2,700…
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Pueblo III; late McElmo revival · Mesa Verde McElmo → Chaco East Wash
Late McElmo eastern great house (30 rooms, 1105–1115 CE) at Chaco Wash narrows — single-wing McElmo revival after main canyon collapse, with check dams.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Temple complex
Kushan to Hindu Shahi (150 BCE–1000 CE) Gandhara · Gandhara Buddhist (Kushan)
Akhan Kot? Actually Akhnoor? Let's use Akhnur? Replace: Bhamala Stupa Extension — Taxila West in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Kushan to Hindu Shahi (150 BCE–1000 CE) Gandhara temple-complex…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Late Harappan (c.3300–1300 BCE, easternmost Harappan) · Harappan–Bara
Easternmost Indus Valley site (Parasaram-ka-Khera) — Harappan frontier on Hindon/Ganga Doab.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Bronze Age · Bronze Age Food Vessel
Gravel-terrace cemetery cairn NW of Kilmartin village with seven Bronze Age cists.
