🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Isog
Isog (possibly from Quechua isu skin sickness caused by a certain mite (mange), -q a suffix) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Prakash
Savda–Malwa–Jorwe 1900–1000 BCE → Early Historic 300 BCE–300 CE · Savda-Chalcolithic → Malwa–Jorwe → Satavahana
Tapti Chalcolithic–Early Historic sequence (1900 BCE–300 CE) with Indo-Roman amphorae at Dhule ford.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Bellevue Palace, Germany
Bellevue Palace (German: Schloss Bellevue, pronounced [ʃlɔs bɛlˈvyː] ), located in Berlin's Tiergarten district, has been the official residence of the president of Germany since 1994.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kaundinyapura
Maurya 300 BCE → Sunga 187 BCE → Satavahana 50 BCE–230 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Vidarbha Early Historic (Satavahana–Vakataka) with Mahabharata memory
Mahabharata Kundina trading city on Wardha (300 BCE–400 CE) — 1.5 km wall with Satavahana–Roman trade and carbonized rice.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
El Paraíso, Peru
El Paraíso (Spanish pronunciation: [el paɾaˈiso], "The Paradise") or Chuquitanta (Quechua chuqui lance or metal, tanta bread) are the moderns names of a Late Preceramic (3500–1800 BC) archaeological…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient city
Khao Sam Kaeo Chumphon
Iron Age 4th c BCE–2nd c CE early historic port · Kra isthmus Iron Age port — Thai–Indian–Han–Silla crossroads
Khao Sam Kaeo Chumphon — Iron Age trans-Asian port (4th c BCE–2nd c CE) on Khao Sam Kaeo hill at Thai Kra Isthmus 5 km Gulf of Thailand 5 km from Chumphon, excavated 1991–2007 by B. Bellina–P.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Caesarea Maritima Sebastos Harbour Extension — South Reef
Herodian to Byzantine (22 BCE–640 CE) · Herodian Roman
Caesarea Maritima Sebastos Harbour Extension — South Reef in Haifa District, Israel is a Herodian to Byzantine (22 BCE–640 CE) submerged-city attributed to Herodian Roman.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Apollonia–Arsuf – Crusader Harbour Submerged Quays
Persian to Crusader (c. 530 BCE – 1265 CE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader
Clifftop Crusader port whose Roman quay and kurkar mole now lie 1–3 m down along Apollonia cliffs.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Orkhon Valley Petroglyphs — Kharkhorin Fringe
Bronze Age to Mongol (Deer stone–Xiongnu–Turkic–Uyghur–Mongol) · Steppe nomadic: Bronze Deer stone culture, Xiongnu, First Turkic Khaganate, Uyghur, Mongol
Orkhon steppe 300 panels Bronze deer-stags to Turkic tamga 1500 BCE–1200 CE on Kharkhorin fringe, UNESCO buffer 1081.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Temple complex
Great Mosque of Kilwa
The Great Mosque of Kilwa (Swahili: Msikiti Mkuu wa Kilwa) is a former Friday mosque in a partial ruinous state, located on the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, in Kilwa Masoko in Kilwa District in Lindi…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Porsuk Höyük (Zeyve Höyük)
Middle Bronze to Hellenistic (Karum → Neo-Hittite/Tabal, Iron Age, Hellenistic) · Hittite/Luwian → Tabal → Neo-Hittite (Luwian-Phrygian contact)
Neo-Hittite/Iron Age tell (ancient Tynna) on Cilician Gates — Hittite citadel, Luwian inscriptions and Tabal fortifications.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Chilikty Royal Kurgan
Early Iron Age, Early Saka / Arzhan-Chemurchek transition · Early Saka (Sakae) pastoralists
730 BCE Early Saka royal kurgan (100 m) with 500+ gold appliques and 17 horses, earliest monumental Saka tomb in East Kazakhstan.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Koprivec Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Koprivec Tell — buried prehistoric tell/village at Ruse Province.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Xom Ren
Late Bronze Go Mun 1100–500 BCE (bridge Dong Dau → Dong Son) · Go Mun (Red River Late Bronze)
Red River Go Mun foundry-burial hamlet (1100–700 BCE) — 300 moulds at Xóm Rên, Phú Thọ.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Sannati
Mauryan 3rd c BCE → Satavahana 1st c BCE–3rd c CE · Mauryan–Satavahana Deccan Buddhist (Bhima valley)
Sannati — major Early Historic Buddhist stupa complex (3rd c BCE–3rd c CE) on Bhima River at Sannati, Kalaburagi district, excavated 1986–2002 by A. Sundara (ASI Dharwad) and later Karnataka Dept.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Fortress
Berkut-Kala
Kushan (100 BCE–300 CE) → Afrighid Khwarazm (400–800 CE) → abandon desertification · Khwarazmian (Kushan–Afrighid) with Bactrian influence
Kushan–Afrighid desert fortress town (c.100 BCE–800 CE) in the Berkut-Kala oasis on the northern Amu Darya delta near Ellikkala — 8 ha square fortified palace with 2 km wall (Afrighid Khwarazmian)…
🇸🇾 Syria · Fortress
Arab al-Mulk
Arab al-Mulk (Arabic: عرب الملك, also spelled Arab al-Milk, Beldi al-Melek, Balda al-Milk or Beldeh) is a coastal village in northwestern Syria, administratively part of the Jableh District in the…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Kaundinyapura Wardha Settlement
Early Historic 3rd c BCE–4th c CE Early Historic Deccan · Vidarbha Early Historic — Satavahana trading city (Kundina literary)
Kaundinyapura Wardha Settlement — Early Historic trading city (3rd c BCE–4th c CE) on Wardha River at Kaundinyapura, identified with Mahabharata Kundina (Vidarbha capital of Bhishmaka, Rukmini…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Horoztepe Höyük Tokat Burial Mound
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) · Late Chalcolithic North Central Anatolian → EBA extramural elite cemetery
Horoztepe Höyük Tokat Burial Mound is the extramural-cemetery knoll 200 m from Horoztepe settlement on the Kelkit plain 2 km northeast of Erbaa.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Megalith
Besh Barmag Mountain
Besh Barmag (Azerbaijani: Beşbarmaq) literally translated as Five Fingers, is in Siazan District of Azerbaijan, not far from the Caspian Sea, in the territory of Qalaşıxı village.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
Khanileh, Kermanshah
Khanileh (Persian: خانيله, also Romanized as Khānīleh; Kurdish: Xaníle) is a village in Dowlatabad Rural District, in the Central District of Ravansar County, Kermanshah province, Iran.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Zeytinli Bahçe Höyük
Halaf-Ubaid to Early Bronze (5500–3000 BCE; peak LC 3800–3300 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic Euphrates → Uruk fringe
Euphrates Ubaid–Uruk terrace tell with tripartite elite hall and wall painting.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Sirsukh
Kushan 1st–3rd c CE → Gupta → Hepthalite 5th c · Kushan Gandhara (Taxila valley)
Sirsukh — last great city of Taxila (late 1st c CE–mid 5th c CE) 2 km NE Sirkap, Taxila valley, founded under Kushan Kujula Kadphises/Kanishka after 80 CE.
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Tianlongshan East Cave Taiyuan
Sui to Tang · Sui-Tang Buddhist (Taiyuan Jinyang school)
Eastern 8-cave Sui peak of Tianlong Mountain above Taiyuan with Amitabha hall.