🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash East Ridge Cirque
Bronze Age to Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic, Karakhanid
East ridge cirque 900 m east of main lake with Turkic falconry medieval phase.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Tuekta Kurgans – Pazyryk Culture Royal Necropolis
Early Iron Age, Scytho-Siberian Pazyryk · Pazyryk (Scytho-Siberian) culture
600–400 BCE Pazyryk royal barrows (early plateau ancestors)—8 horses and earliest Altai felt art.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Balathal
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE → Early Historic 500 BCE–300 CE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic → Northern Black Polished Ware Historic
Key Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic village-town (c.3000–1500 BCE) near Vallabhnagar northeast of Udaipur — under 2 ha mound with 7 seasons excavation 1993–2000 by V.N. Misra et al. (Deccan College).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Bilsk Hillfort – Gelonus
Early Iron Age, Scythian period · Scythian-agrarian (Budini, possibly Geloni Greeks per Herodotus)
4,400-ha 7th-c. BCE Scythian mega-hillfort—largest in Europe, Herodotus's wooden Gelonus candidate.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Đông Sơn (Dong Son)
Dong Son Bronze–Iron 1000 BCE–100 CE (Phùng Nguyên → Dong Dau → Go Mun → Dong Son → Han) · Dong Son (Vietic Austroasiatic, Austro-Tai contact) — ancestors of Kinh Vietnamese
Type-site for Dong Son culture (c.1000 BCE–100 CE) on the Mã River near Thanh Hóa — Bronze–Iron Age village with famous bronze drum foundry, excavated 1924 by Madeleine Colani (first Dong Son…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Khoit Tsenkher Central Gallery
Upper Palaeolithic · Altai Palaeolithic (Mal'ta–Afontova horizon)
Central painted gallery 40 m inside Khoit Tsenkher cave with Palaeolithic polychrome bison.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Phum Snay
Iron Age Moated 600 BCE–500 CE → Chenla · Iron Age Isan–Khmer moated (Mekong–Tonle) → Chenla
Iron Age moated town and cemetery (c.600 BCE–500 CE) at Phum Snay inland from the Tonle Sap northwest — linear earthwork 15 km with moat ditch and 21 burials with agate–carnelian beads, bronze…
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Qujialing
Qujialing 3400–2600 BCE → Shijiahe 2600–2300 → Longshan · Qujialing culture (Middle Yangzi Chalcolithic) → Shijiahe
Type-site for Qujialing culture (c.3400–2600 BCE) on the Qujialing–Shijiahe plateau north of Chang Lake in Jianghan Plain — 263 ha palisaded terrace (eastern plateau 160 m height) excavated 1955–57…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Amir (Amir Dam) & Kor River Cascade (Marvdasht Plain, Fars)
Sassanid to Buyid (4th c CE to 10th c CE) · Sassanid → Buyid Islamic
Kor River cascade (Sassanid 4th c → Buyid 970 CE) bridge–dam 75 m with 13 arches — Persepolis plain lifeline.
🇳🇴 Norway · Burial field
Borre
Migration → Viking Age 600–900 Vestfold Yngling dynasty · Norwegian Viking Age (Vestfold Yngling) — Borre Style eponym
Borre (Borrehaugene, Borre mound cemetery) — Viking Age royal mound park (c.600–900 CE, 7 great mounds 6–9 m high 35–45 m diam, 25 smaller cairns) 5 km east Horten on Oslofjord east shore, Vestfold's…
🇨🇴 Colombia · Ancient city
Ciudad Perdida (Teyuna) (Magdalena – Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta)
Late Intermediate Tairona 700–1600 CE (Tairona peak 1000–1500) · Tairona (Tairona-Buritaca, ancestors of Kogi / Arhuaco / Wiwa indigenous groups)
Tairona capital city (700–1600 CE) of Sierra Nevada: 184 stone-terraced bases (circular 10 m rings), elevated paved staircases (1,200 steps climb), retaining walls, aqueduct and burial terraces…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Brahmagiri
South Indian Neolithic (2500–1000 BCE) → Megalithic Iron (1000–300) → Mauryan (260 BCE) → Satavahana · Southern Neolithic → Megalithic → Mauryan (Ashoka)
Southern Deccan Neolithic–Megalithic–Mauryan hill complex (c.2500 BCE–300 CE) at Brahmagiri granite dome near Molakalmuru, Chitradurga — 1 km outcrop with Neolithic ash-mound, Megalithic cists and…
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Ancient city
Suyab (Ak-Beshim)
Western Turkic → Tang protectorate → Karluks/Qarakhanid 6–12 c. CE · Sogdian → Turkic Khaganate → Karluks (Silk Road Buddhist-Christian-Manichaean)
Sogdian–Turkic Silk Road capital (c.6–12 c. CE) at Ak-Beshim in the Chu Valley — 35 ha walled shahristan (650×560 m) with Buddhist temple complex (two temples 50×30 m with clay Buddhas), Nestorian…
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Ales Stones – Kåseberga Stone Ship
Late Iron Age Vendel–Viking transition · Scandinavian Late Vendel to Viking (pre-Christian)
59-stone 67-m Viking Age stone ship aligned solstitially over the Baltic at Kåseberga.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Anau
Anau IA–II (Namazga I–II) 4500–3000 BCE → Bronze → Iron → Sejuk · Jeitun–Anau → Namazga → Bronze Age BMAC → Iranian
Oasis-town pair (c.4500 BCE–1000 CE) on the Kopet Dag fan near Ashgabat — Anau North (Chalcolithic Anau IA–II, 4500–3000 BCE) and Anau South (Bronze–Iron Age 2000 BCE–Islamic) twin mounds excavated…
🇱🇦 Laos · Ancient temple
Vat Phou (Vat Phou and Associated Settlements)
Chenla (5th–8th CE) → Khmer Angkor Wat (11th–13th) → Lao Buddhist (13th+) · Chenla Khmer (Hindu Shaiva) → Angkor Wat Khmer → Lan Xang Laotian Buddhist
Khmer Hindu–Buddhist temple complex and ancient city (c.5th–13th century CE, Chenla to Angkor Wat period) at Phou Khao foot near Mekong in Champasak, Laos — UNESCO World Heritage 'Vat Phou and…
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Zuojiang Huashan West Chongzuo Rock Art
Bronze Age to Han · Luoyue / Lạc Việt (ancient Zhuang ancestors), Dian periphery
West bank cliff opposite main Hua Mountain with bronze-drum anthropomorph sequence.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Archaeological wonder
An Khê Paleolithic Site
Lower Paleolithic 800–500 ka (Acheulean-like) · Acheulean-like (An Khê culture, Homo erectus)
Early Paleolithic settlement (c.800,000–500,000 BP) at An Khê valley, Gia Lai — oldest Paleolithic site in Vietnam and Southeast Asia outside Java, discovered 2014 by Vietnamese–Russian Nishcheta…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Miculla Geoglyphs & Petroglyph Field (San Francisco de Miculla)
Archaic to Middle Horizon (Tiwanaku–Wari interaction) · Tiwanaku–Huari interface / Tacna coastal–altiplano
>500 boulders and 40+ desert lines (400–1000 CE peak) at Tacna's Caplina desert gateway.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Prohear
Iron Age Funan precursor 500 BCE–200 CE → Funan–Chenla · Mekong Iron Age (Prohear) → Funan (proto-Khmer)
Iron Age mass burial and settlement terrace (c.500 BCE–200 CE) at Prohear in Prey Veng near Mekong, southern Cambodia — circular mound 0.8 ha excavated 2008–11 by Andreas Reinecke (German–Cambodian)…
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd al-Arim Pylon 3 — Southern Spillway South Pylon (Marib Sadd al-Arim Pylon 3)
Sabaean (700 BCE–580 CE) pylons phased · Sabaean
Third limestone pylon (7.2 m high, 4.5 m wide) of Sadd al-Arim south sluice at Marib Dam (1,085 m), 80 m south of Pylon 1 (main dam axis).
🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Carro Quemado Stone-Circle Geoglyphs (Valle de las Pinturas, La Pampa)
Late Holocene (Patagonian hunter–gatherer, Araucanized) · Tehuelche / La Pampa foothill hunter–gatherers
70+ basalt circle and line geoglyphs (800–1600 CE) on La Pampa meseta — Patagonian pampa hunting cosmology.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Carn Menyn Bluestone Outcrop Preseli
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Carn Menyn Bluestone Outcrop Preseli in Pembrokeshire, Preseli Hills, United Kingdom is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Pisco Valley Geoglyphs
Early Intermediate (Topará / Early Nazca) · Paracas-Topará / Early Nazca
30+ trapezoid and anthropomorph lines (200 BCE–300 CE) on inland Pisco River pampas.