🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Temple of Nara Cairn
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Temple of Nara Cairn in Preah Vihear, Cambodia is a Moche (100–800 CE) temple complex attributed to Moche culture.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Burzahom — Pit Dwellings Extension Terrace
Neolithic (3100–1500 BCE) then Megalithic · Kashmir Neolithic (Burzahom)
Burzahom — Pit Dwellings Extension Terrace in Jammu and Kashmir, India is a Neolithic (3100–1500 BCE) then Megalithic ancient-village attributed to Kashmir Neolithic (Burzahom).
🇮🇱 Israel · Megalith
Forge Dolmen
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Forge Dolmen in Negev, Israel is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Kedarnath Temple Himalaya
Early medieval c.8th c. legend; current 12th–17th c. rebuilds · Himalayan Hindu (Adi Shankara tradition)
Kedarnath – 12 Jyotirlinga at 3,583m on Mandakini headwater below Kedarnath peak (6,940m). Kate stone temple (north-facing with conical lingam and seated Nandi) attributed 8th c.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Khuera — Südstadt (South Town)
EBA to Late Roman (3100 BCE–400 CE; peak EBA 2700 BCE) · EBA Jazira (Khabur zone) → Amorite → Roman
EBA rounded-town south annex 2700 BCE — palace F quarter and Roman overlay.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Fortress
Trakai Island Castle
Medieval (1377–1430) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Gediminid)
The only surviving water castle in Eastern Europe, built on 2 ha island in Lake Galvė by Grand Dukes Kęstutis and Vytautas the Great (c.1377–1409) as fortified residence.
🇦🇺 Australia · Buried city
Gulf of Khambhat Wooden Anchor North
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Gulf of Khambhat Wooden Anchor North in Bonaparte Shelf, Australia is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Menhir de Champ-Dolent
Early to Middle Neolithic · Armorican Neolithic
Tallest menhir in Brittany — 9.3 m rose granite monolith near Dol-de-Bretagne, c.5000 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pyramid Outlier Europe 51 — Turkey Region 3
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Europe-Temple
Pyramid Outlier Europe 51 — Turkey Region 3 in Turkey Region 3, Turkey is a Neolithic temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient city
Sauran
Karakhanid to Kazakh Khanate (1000–1600 CE) · Karakhanid to Golden Horde to Timurid to Kazakh
Sauran is a Karakhanid–Timurid fortified oasis city (1000–1600 CE) — 3-km rectangular wall (6 m high) with karez hydraulic network feeding Syr Darya plain.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Buried city
Varna Necropolis
Late Chalcolithic / Copper Age · Varna culture (Karanovo VI/Gumelnița)
Chalcolithic cemetery (4600–4200 BCE) with world's oldest worked gold hoard — 3,000 gold objects, 6.5 kg, in Grave 43 (status male with gold penis sheath) and 294 other graves, demonstrating earliest…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Ancient city
Ai Khanoum — Hellenistic Lower Agora Extension
Hellenistic Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (300–145 BCE) · Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (Euthydemus)
Ai Khanoum — Hellenistic Lower Agora Extension in Takhar Province, Afghanistan is a Hellenistic Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (300–145 BCE) ancient-city attributed to Seleucid–Graeco-Bactrian (Euthydemus).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Holm of Papa Westray South Cairn
Early Neolithic · Orkney Early Neolithic (Bookan tradition)
10 m round Bookan-type chamber with three cells, 200 m south of paired North long cairn.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Lehun
Iron to Nabataean (c.900 BCE–200 CE; peak Moab 900–600, Nabataean 100 BCE–100 CE) · Moabite → Nabataean → Roman
Lehun (Khirbat al-Lehun) is a Moabite hilltop fortress-citadel (1 ha) with casemate wall, extramural Iron II town (3 ha) and Nabataean temple platform on the Ke...
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Plastered Floor House Cluster South — Ohio Valley (Columbus)
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Plastered Floor House Cluster South in Ohio Valley, United States is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Temple complex
Temple of Croxton Forge
Moche (100–800 CE) · Moche
Temple of Croxton Forge in Fezzan, Libya is a Moche (100–800 CE) temple complex attributed to Moche culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Jebel Uweinat Rock Art Plateau
Early to Middle Holocene (8000–3000 BCE) · Saharan hunter-pastoral (Gilf Kebir tradition)
Jebel Uweinat (1,934m) – tri-border massif (Egypt-Libya-Sudan) with Gilf Kebir hunter-pastoral rock art (8000–3000 BCE): cattle, giraffe, ostrich and archer scenes; Ayrton-McMahon 1900s surveys;…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Kafara Dam - Wadi Garawi
Old Kingdom c.2700–2600 BCE (Third–Fourth Dynasty) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Sadd el-Kafara (c.2700 BCE) – Old Kingdom's 113m-long, 14m-high masonry embankment dam with 98m base and 500,000 m³ rubble core in Wadi Garawi, 30 km south Cairo.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Çatalhöyük
Neolithic to Chalcolithic (PPNB-derived) · Anatolian Neolithic (Catalhoyuk East/West)
Largest Neolithic proto-city (7500–5700 BCE) with 18 settlement levels, mud-brick houses entered via roofs, wall paintings, bull bucrania and earliest landscape painting. Population up to 8,000.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Khambhat Paleochannel Structure North
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Bronze Age
Khambhat Paleochannel Structure North in Alexandria Coast, Egypt is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Marsa Alam Monastery? Actually Wadi Feiran — Sinai Oasis Monastery
Byzantine (4th–7th c. CE) · Byzantine Christian (Feiran is biblical Rephidim)
Marsa Alam Monastery? Actually Wadi Feiran — Sinai Oasis Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt is a Byzantine (4th–7th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Byzantine Christian (Feiran is biblical Rephidim).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Wadi Rum Nabataean Cisterns
Nabataean 2nd c. BCE–106 CE with Thamudic rock art use · Nabataean (Arab Petra sphere)
Wadi Rum (Iram) – Nabataean desert hydraulic landscape: free-standing dams (Abu Khashabah), rock-cut cisterns (bir, e.g., Lawrence spring cistern), channelized Jabal Rum seep capture and 300+…
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dombate Dolmen — Galician Passage Grave Painted Panel-Menhir Atlantic
Neolithic (3800–2700 BCE corridor 3800, painted 2700 BCE) · Galician Neolithic Dombate style (Atlantic megalithic painted art)
Dombate excavated by Bello 1998 Galician largest.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Iasos Agora Temple — Kıyıköy Fishing Harbour Sanctuary
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE – 400 CE) · Karian–Ionian Iasians with Athenian attachment
Harbour hill temple atop agora overlooking double harbours and garum vats.