🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Pevensey Roman Fort
Roman (290–400 CE) · Roman (Saxon Shore)
Pevensey Roman Fort in East Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Roman (290–400 CE) fortress attributed to Roman (Saxon Shore) culture.
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🇩🇪 Germany · Fortress
Horneck Castle is also known as Burg Horneck, Deutschordenschloss Horneck and Schloss Horneck.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Roman (290–400 CE) · Roman (Saxon Shore)
Pevensey Roman Fort in East Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Roman (290–400 CE) fortress attributed to Roman (Saxon Shore) culture.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient port
Roman Mauretania Tingitana (1st–5th c. CE) Mauretanian Juba earlier · Mauretanian → Roman
Thamusida excavated by Rebuffat 1965–, Venus mosaic and Fils of Tingitana.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Medieval (c.5000 BCE–1400 CE; fortified from Early Bronze) · Chalcolithic → Early Bronze (Transcaucasian) → Hittite → Urartian → Roman-Byzantine
Keban rescue fort (7 ka) on Murat River — Transcaucasian EB and Byzantine fort now under reservoir.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Yorkshire
Central of three Neolithic henges at Thornborough (c. 3500–2500 BCE), 240 m diameter earthwork with outer bank and inner ditch aligned with northern and southern henges on River Ure terrace.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic (c.3200 BCE) · Boyne Neolithic
Dowth excavated by Coffey 1847 and recent Gallagher, with sunset alignment late November, large kerbstone art.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Mogollon Tularosa 1275–1300 CE · Mogollon
46 rooms in five caves 1275–1300 CE, Mogollon.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Arbal also known as Domaine d'Arbal, is a village in Oran Province, Algeria, North Africa. Arbal is 167 m above sea level and 26 km south of Oran, on the southern side of the Sebkha d'Oran lakes.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Dun Carloway (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Chàrlabhaigh) is a broch situated in the district of Carloway, on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis, Scotland (grid reference NB18994122).
GR · Submerged site
Mycenaean to Late Roman (LH – 3rd c. CE; Theban peak 5th–4th BCE) · Mycenaean / Boeotian / Theban
Boeotian shipyard port — twin 400 m moles at 3–4 m depth on Euboean Gulf, Theban naval base.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Fortress
Grogarnsberget or Grogarnsberg (lit. "The Grogarn Mountain" more appropriate "Grogarn Hill") is a plateau hill on the Östergarn coast, on the Swedish island of Gotland.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Rock art
Mauryan (260 BCE) · Mauryan (Ashoka)
Mansehra — Ashokan Rock Edict South Inscription in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Mauryan (260 BCE) rock_art attributed to Mauryan (Ashoka).
🇰🇷 South Korea · Rock art
Neolithic (7000–1000 BCE) · Korean Neolithic whalers
Korea's NE whaling cliff discovered 1971, UNESCO tentative 2002, world's densest whale hunt rock art.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The Houston Ship Channel, in Houston, Texas, is part of the Port of Houston, one of the busiest seaports in the world.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) · Jarmo-related
Magzalia — Jarmo Outlier Neolithic Village in Nineveh Governorate, Iraq is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (7000 BCE) ancient-village attributed to Jarmo-related.
Trinidad and Tobago · Hydraulic works
The Caroni–Arena Dam is the largest dam in Trinidad and Tobago. It is located in the Arena Forest Reserve, south of Arima, in the eastern Caroni Plains.
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
The Catacombs of San Sebastiano are a hypogeum cemetery in Rome, Italy, rising along Via Appia Antica, in the Ardeatino Quarter.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Assyrian Empire
Kar-Tukulti-Ninurta (modern Tulul ul Aqar (Telul al-Aqr) in Salah al-Din Governorate, Iraq) was a new cult center for Ashur and perhaps a new capital city founded by the Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
4th century
Khirbet Yajouz (or Khirbet Mudraj) is an archaeological site in Shafa Badran area, located 11 km northeast of Amman, Jordan. An ancient Roman city was built on the site around the 4th century CE.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Magharet el Kantara or Shaw's Cave (Arabic: مغارة القنطرة, arched cave) is a rock art shelter of the Gilf Kebir National Park in the New Valley Governorate, Egypt.
🇭🇺 Hungary · Archaeological wonder
The Aquincum Military Amphitheatre is the greater of two amphitheatres in Budapest, Hungary, the other being the Aquincum Civil Amphitheatre.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Chalcolithic to Islamic (c.5000 BCE–1500 CE; Bronze citadel LBA) · Chalcolithic → Bronze (Shahrizor) → Iron → Achaemenid → Islamic
Shahrizor 40 ha citadel (5000 BCE–1500 CE) with Bronze tablets of Idu dynasty near Halabja.
