🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Adulis Harbour Mole West
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Adulis Harbour Mole West in Semenawi Keyh Bahri, Adulis, Eritrea is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Tumulus
Ladby Ship Burial — Kerteminde, Funen
Viking Age (Late, c.925 CE) · Danish Viking (Jelling dynasty)
The Ladby ship (c.925 CE) is Denmark's only surviving Viking ship burial, a 21.5-m clinker warship set within a mound 230 m south of Kerteminde Fjord on Funen, excavated in 1934–35 by conservator G.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Navdatoli
Malwa Chalcolithic 1700–1400 BCE → Jorwe-related → Early Historic → Malwa Sultanate · Malwa Chalcolithic
Malwa culture type-site on Narmada opposite Maheshwar — Sankalia's 1952–59 round-hut village (1700 BCE).
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Pengtoushan
Pengtoushan culture 7500–6000 BCE → Zaoshi → Tangjiagang → Chengtoushan · Pengtoushan (Middle Yangzi earliest Neolithic)
Type-site for Pengtoushan culture (c.7500–6000 BCE, 9000–8000 BP) on the Li River plain near Li County — earliest permanent village in the Middle Yangzi (Hunan), contemporary with Peiligang and…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Rudna Glava
Early Chalcolithic Vinča culture (c.5400–4500 BCE); Vinča A–D mining camps 5400–4650 BCE · Vinča (early Chalcolithic Danubian–Balkan copper pioneers)
Europe’s earliest copper mine (c.5400–4500 BCE) — 45 shafts with Vinča picks and firesetting on Danube gorge.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works
Wadi Hanifah Dams (Diriyah Dam System)
Najdi Emirate to First Saudi State · Najdi oasis (Diriyah Amirship)
Wadi Hanifah: 6 Najdi 15th-18th c. wadi dams at Diriyah UNESCO site, Riyadh 24.73N 46.57E.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Cholula Great Pyramid Tunnel 4
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent · Old Kingdom
Cholula Great Pyramid Tunnel 4 in Puebla, Cholula, Mexico is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) or regional equivalent pyramid attributed to Old Kingdom.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Tabuk Plateau Mustatil Field
Late Neolithic (Arabian Humid Period) · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
52 Late Neolithic mustatils (5000–4500 BCE) — northernmost Saudi platform ritual field.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Tell el-Farkha
Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) · Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE)
Tell el-Farkha in Dakahlia Governorate, Eastern Delta, Ghazala, Egypt is a Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) settlement attributed to Predynastic → Dynasty 0–1 (3600–2700 BCE) culture.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village
Wittmoor Bog Trackways I & II – Hamburg (Duvenstedter Brook)
Roman Iron Age to Migration Period · Saxon / Elbe-Germanic
Two Iron Age–Migration plank roads (330 CE / 500 CE) — 500 & 600 m bog causeways north of Hamburg.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bayan-Zurkh Mountain Petroglyphs
Bronze Age to Early Modern (Karasuk to Manchu period) · Karasuk, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic and Mongol Buddhist
Sacred mountain ridge northeast of Ulaanbaatar with 600 panels Bronze Age to Buddhist.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock-cut
Lalibela Biete Qeddus Mercoreos Cliff Cell Annex
Medieval (1100-1300 CE) · Zagwe
Lalibela Biete Qeddus Mercoreos Cliff Cell Annex in Amhara, Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Medieval (1100-1300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Zagwe.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Hydraulic works
Zaghouan Aqueduct — Carthage Water Supply
Roman Imperial (Hadrianic, 2nd c. CE) · Roman Africa Proconsularis (Latin-Tunisian)
Hadrianic 132-km aqueduct Zaghouan to Carthage with 17-km arcade, Rome's longest.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd Al-Rahwah Dam (Hadramawt Highland Dam)
Himyarite–Hadrami to Rasulid · Hadrami kingdom to Rasulid dynasty
Hadramawt highland: 45-m crescent dam at Shibam hinterland, Himyarite 500 BCE–Rasulid 12th c.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell
Tepeyahualco (Cantona zone)
Classic to Epiclassic (c.300–900 CE); Classic 300–600 CE, Epiclassic fortified 600–900 CE · Central Veracruz–Puebla highland (Cantona sphere) → Epiclassic Tepeyahualco–Totonac fringe
Cantona-linked lava-field fortress town (c.300–900 CE) with obsidian workshops on Malinche flank (García Cook).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Geoglyph
Boquillas Hill Geoglyphs (Gran Desierto de Altar, Sonora)
Late Archaic to Trincheras (Amargosa–Hohokam interface) · Trincheras / Hohokam desert–Tohono O'odham continuity
17 Gran Desierto hill intaglios (300 BCE–1400 CE) on Pinacate cerro islands — Tohono O'odham salt pilgrimage.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Din Lligwy Hut Circle Settlement
Late Iron Age – Romano-British (c.100 BCE–500 CE) · Romano-British / Late Iron Age Welsh
Polygonal-walled Romano-British hut-circle village (~500 CE) with two roundhouses on limestone ridge above Lligwy Bay.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Xochicalco Observatory Cave Zenith Tube
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Xochicalco Observatory Cave Zenith Tube in Morelos, Xochicalco, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Copán
Classic 426–822 CE (dynastic Copán, peak 695–820) · Maya (southeast Petén sphere, Copán kingdom, non-Maya frontier)
Premier Classic southeastern Maya capital and sculpture capital: Acropolis with 4,500 glyph Hierarchical Stairway (longest Classic Maya text – 72 steps, 2,200 glyphs recording 14 kings), Rosalila…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Nine Ladies Stone Circle
Early Bronze Age (c.2100–1800 BCE) · Bronze Age Peak District (Food Vessel / Beaker)
Peak District embanked Bronze Age circle (10 stones in 10.5 m ring) on Stanton Moor with outlying King Stone.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Jibal al-Khashabiyeh South Kite Field
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic · PPN / Yarmoukian pastoralists
45 PPNB desert kites (8000–5500 BCE) — southern extension of Khashabiyeh mega-cluster.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Saint-Michel Tumulus Secondary Cairn
Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) · Late Neolithic
Saint-Michel Tumulus Secondary Cairn in Brittany, Carnac, France is a Late Neolithic (3500–2600 BCE) megalithic attributed to Late Neolithic.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Lixus Garum Factory Tank 12
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Lixus Garum Factory Tank 12 in Tanger-Tétouan, Lixus, Morocco is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Mari Palace Room 132 Archives
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Mari Palace Room 132 Archives in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.