🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Lower Germanic Limes
The Lower Germanic Limes (Latin: limes ad Germaniam inferiorem, Dutch: Neder-Germaanse Limes, German: Niedergermanischer Limes) is the former frontier between the Roman province of Germania Inferior…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Tsagaan Salaa — White Pass Rock Paintings
Neolithic to Mongol Empire (6000 BCE – 1300 CE) · Neolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Karasuk, Pazyryk, Xiongnu, Turkic, Mongol
Mongolian Altai UNESCO high valley 10,000 images 6 ka BCE–Mongol at 2850 m.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Barnhouse Stone Age Village
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2500 BCE) · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Late Neolithic village on Loch of Harray with 15 houses and ceremonial hall Structure 8 facing the Stones of Stenness.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Ancient city
Fasil Ghebbi — Royal Enclosure of Gondar
Gondarine (1632–1864 CE) · Ethiopian Solomonic / Gondarine
Fasil Ghebbi is the 70,000 m² Royal Enclosure of Gondar, Ethiopia's 17th–18th c imperial capital (1632–1864).
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Thimlich Ohinga
Late Iron Age (15th–19th c CE) · Luo (Bantu-Luo Nilotic) / Gusii
UNESCO Luo walled town Thimlich Ohinga — 4-m dry-stone walls enclosing hill settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Mazghuna South Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, late 12th Dynasty, ~1795 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Southern Mazghuna pyramid, 400 m south of north (c.1795 BCE), 52.5 m base, Amenemhat IV candidate.
🇿🇦 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),…
🇱🇾 Libya · Archaeological wonder
Archaeological Site of Sabratha
The archaeological site of Sabratha is an excavated Numidian and later Roman city situed near present-day Sabratha, Libya.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Poverty Point (Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point)
Late Archaic 1700–1100 BCE (peak 1500–1200 BCE) · Poverty Point culture
Late Archaic earthwork complex (1700–1100 BCE) with six concentric C-shaped ridges (1.2 km outer diameter) and six mounds, including 22 m-high Mound A – one of largest Archaic earthworks in North…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Windmill Hill Causewayed Camp Wiltshire
Neolithic (3650–3000 BCE) · Early Neolithic / Peterborough
Avebury's northern causewayed camp excavated by Keiller 1925–29, 3650 BCE basal layer with Ebbsfleet ceramics.
🇷🇺 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.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Parthenon
Ancient Greek culture
former temple of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece
🇴🇲 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.