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🇱🇹 Lithuania · Fortress
Medieval (13th century–1394) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Hillfort-origin Upper Castle on 48 m Gediminas Hill at Neris–Vilnia confluence, founded where Grand Duke Gediminas' dream of an iron wolf howling led to capital 1323.
🇨🇳 China · Tumulus
Western Han (202 BCE–9 CE; Tomb 1 168 BCE Lady Dai) · Han Chinese (Changsha Kingdom)
Changsha Mawangdui excavated 1972–74, Lady Dai mummy 2100 yrs, 3000 objects and Mawangdui Silk Texts (Tao Te Ching).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate 900–1450 CE · Atacameño / Pica-Tarapacá culture influenced by Tiwanaku
World's largest anthropomorphic geoglyph: 119-m hill figure marking caravan trails.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Maya Late Classic Puuc 600–900 CE · Maya (Puuc Chenes)
Puuc mosaic palace with stacked Chaac masks, 600–900 CE.
🇨🇳 China · Pyramid
Period Medieval · Regional culture Pyramid-Variant
Geoglyph Panel Pyramid 29 — China Region 5 in China Region 5, China is a Bronze Age pyramid with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Etched Mesa Petroglyph North in Oaxaca, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Punta Galeta Reef Temple South in Yucatán Cenote, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Buried city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Iron Age
Nabta Playa Calendar Extension in Limpopo, South Africa is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Islamic (6th c. BCE–11th c. CE) · Punic / Roman (Tripolitana)
Oasis harbour at Wadi Gabes mouth with palm-grove cothon.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Middle Bronze Age to Roman (2000 BCE–200 CE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Sea Peoples (Sikils)
Tel Dor — Phoenician Port in Carmel Coast, Israel is a Middle Bronze Age to Roman (2000 BCE–200 CE) ancient-city attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Sea Peoples (Sikils).
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Vesuvius 79 CE (Herculaneum destroyed 01:30 Aug 25 79 CE) · Roman Herculaneum beach harbour fisher folk last victims
Herculaneum beach 1980 Magi 340 skeletons beach boathouses.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Preceramic Kotosh-Mito 3000–1700 BCE (Galgalda north mound 3000 BCE south 2200) · Kotosh-Mito tradição La Galgada (Grieder group) with 3050 BCE mound
La Galgada Grieder 1978 Mitodouble 3050–1700.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient city
Nara Period (710–784 CE; UNESCO 1998) · Yamato (Empress Genmei to Kōnin)
Heijo-kyo is Japan's Nara-period capital (710–784 CE, UNESCO) — 4.3×4.8 km Tang Chang'an-grid city with Heijo Palace and Suzakumon gate at 70 m Nara basin.
🇷🇴 Romania · Buried city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Buried Dune Field Village South in Danube Plain, Romania is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Yayoi legend 4 BCE; historically Asuka period c.692 CE, rebuilt every 20 years · Yamato / Shinto (Japanese imperial)
Shinto's holiest shrine complex (founding legend 4 BCE, attested 692 CE) in primeval cryptomeria forest, dedicated to Amaterasu Ōmikami (Naikū) and Toyouke (Gekū).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient port
Numidian to Late Antique (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian (Masaesyli) / Roman (Mauretania)
Syphax's harbour with 200 m submerged rubble mole and purple middens.
🇮🇷 Iran · Pyramid
Proto-Elamite / Early Bronze Age, c.3000–2600 BCE (Sialk III-IV) · Proto-Elamite
High platform (proto-ziggurat) on South Tappeh at Tepe Sialk (c.3000–2600 BCE, Proto-Elamite / Early Bronze Age).
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Roman 2nd c. CE (Hadrianic c.118–122 CE) · Roman (Gallia Narbonensis)
Barbegal – 2nd c. Roman 16-mill industrial factory on Alpilles scarp, fed by two parallel aqueducts from Eygalières (8 km and 11 km).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
5th Dyna Unas? Lepsius XXIX; now identified as Menkauhor local 2390 BCE? · Old Kingdom 5th Dynasty possibly Menkauhor Kaiu
Headless Pyramid excavated by Hawass 2008, Menkauhor identification, substructure with portcullis.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 300 CE) · Aeolian to Ionian Notians
Necropolis-agora with painted tombs and Apollo sacred way 600 m from temple.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty early · Ancient Egyptian
First pyramid at Abusir (Sahure, 2nd king of the 5th Dynasty): famed for exquisite mortuary-temple reliefs, palm columns and a valley temple joined by causeway.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle Neolithic · Morbihan megalithic
Decorated passage grave at Locmariaquer with art linked to Gavrinis, beside the fallen 20.6 m Grand Menhir.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic to Iron Age (4000–600 BCE) · Early Bronze fortified Kikkar
Tall el-Hammam — Kikkar Debate in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Chalcolithic to Iron Age (4000–600 BCE) tell attributed to Early Bronze fortified Kikkar.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Charnel House Cemetery East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
