🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat Baladeh – Ferdows (Ton) Qanat System
Sasanian to Early Islamic · Sasanian / Early Islamic Khorasan
35-km double-branch Sasanian qanat (500–800 CE) — 70-m mother well, 45 L/s to Ferdows oasis.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallur Chola Tank (Kallur Eri) – Thanjavur Outlier
Chola Middle (Rajaraja I) · Tamil Chola (Muvendar)
95-ha Chola eri tank (c.1010 CE) at Kallur — Brihadeeswarar temple hydraulic outlier.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Musti (Mustis)
Punic to Late Antiquity (4th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Punic-Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
15-ha Punic–Numidian to Roman colonia on Carthage–Theveste road with three arches and Byzantine fortress.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Sanganakallu
Southern Neolithic 3000–1000 BCE (Periods I–III) → Megalithic · Southern Neolithic (Bellary) — earliest Deccan farming
Southern Neolithic type-complex (c.3000–1000 BCE) on the granite hillocks east of Bellary — Sanganakallu–Kupgal cluster (206 ha survey) excavated 1946 by B.
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Hafit Desert Kites (Al Ain piedmont, UAE–Oman border)
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (Hafit, 3200–2600 BCE) · Hafit (early eastern Arabian pastoral)
14 Hafit piedmont kites (3200–2600 BCE) interlocked with beehive tombs — Al Ain UNESCO landscape.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Đồng Đậu
Đồng Đậu culture 1500–1200 BCE (Phùng Nguyên → Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun → Dong Son) · Phùng Nguyên succession (Vietic Red River) → Dong Son ancestor
Red River Phùng Nguyên succession site (c.1800–1200 BCE, Đồng Đậu culture 1500–1200) northwest of Hanoi — type-site for Đồng Đậu culture (Bùi Vinh's Phùng Nguyên → Đồng Đậu → Gò Mun sequence)…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Camarones Agua Salada Geoglyphs (Mid-Camarones Spring Terrace)
Formative to Late Intermediate · Camarones Formative–Gentilar spring cult
Agua Salada spring terrace: 12 halite-edge geoglyphs at only perennial water in Camarones ravine.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Lluta Valley Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate Cabuza-San Miguel · Arica (Cabuza, Maytas-Chiribaya)
45+ Lluta Valley terrace geoglyphs (700-1300 CE) facing valley floor, bridging Azapa and Tarapaca traditions.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Phu Tho Phung Nguyen Hill
Early Bronze Age Phung Nguyen 2000–1500 BCE · Phung Nguyen culture — Red River early bronze (type-site)
Phu Tho Phung Nguyen Hill — type-site of Phung Nguyen culture (2000–1500 BCE, Vietnam's earliest Bronze Age) on Hong River hill 10 km Viet Tri, 60 km NW Hanoi, excavated 1961 by Hoang Van Khoan (then…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Ughtasar North Plateau Caravanserai
Late Bronze to Medieval Silk Road · Urartian, Medieval Armenian (Zakarid), Seljuk
North plateau caravanserai rock-shelter with medieval caravan petroglyphs at 2820 m.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Adam
Vidarbha Iron Age 800–300 BCE → Maurya 300–187 → Satavahana 187 BCE–220 CE → Vakataka 250–300 CE · Vidarbha megalithic–Iron (Black-and-red) → Satavahana
Vidarbha Iron Age iron-smelting town (800 BCE–300 CE) near Nagpur — earliest tuyere smelting and Indo-Roman rouletted ware with 22 coin hoards.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Sennacherib's Canal System & Jerwan Aqueduct
Iron Age Neo-Assyrian Empire (705–681 BCE Sennacherib) · Neo-Assyrian imperial engineers under Sennacherib
690 BCE Assyrian 300-m stone arch aqueduct—world's oldest bridge-aqueduct carrying Nineveh's 80-km canal.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Shijiahe
Qujialing → Shijiahe 2600–2300 BCE (Jianghan Late Neolithic) → Meishan · Shijiahe culture (Middle Yangzi walled city)
Jianghan Plain walled mega-town (c.3000–2300 BCE, Shijiahe culture 2600–2300 BCE climax) northwest of Tianmen — 120 ha walled enclosure (1.2 km wall of rammed earth, moat) with inner palace 7 ha,…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Salkhityn Am Deer Stone Complex – Khovsgol
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Mongolian Late Bronze) · Deer Stone–Khirigsuur Culture
14 Classic deer stones (1400–700 BCE) — 4.2-m flight-deer stelae in Khovsgol valley.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Banteay Chhmar Temple
Angkorian Bayon period 1181–1218 CE (Mahayana Buddhist imperial) · Khmer (Angkorian Mahayana Buddhist)
Vast Jayavarman VII Buddhist–Hindu temple city (c.1181–1218 CE) in Banteay Meanchey — 9 km² walled complex (outer laterite wall 1.9×1.7 km) enclosing 4.6 ha central temple with enigmatic Bayon-style…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Dangwada
Chalcolithic Kayatha 2400–1700 → Malwa 1700–1500 BCE → Historic · Kayatha–Ahar–Malwa–Jorwe Chalcolithic sequence
Malwa Chalcolithic mega-village (2100–1500 BCE) south of Kayatha — 8 ha type assemblage of painted Malwa ware with 200 houses per phase.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Khoit Tsenkher South Overhang
Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev
South overhang 180 m south of cave with Afanasievo exterior petroglyphs on talus.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Lascaux Axial Gallery Pannel IV
Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) · Multi-period
Lascaux Axial Gallery Pannel IV in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Montignac, France is a Multi-period (4000 BCE–1000 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Multi-period.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Archaeological wonder
Non Pa Wai
Bronze Age 1500–700 BCE → Iron Age transition · Khao Wong Prachan Copper culture (Central Thai Bronze, Ban Chiang network)
Central Thailand copper production village (c.1500–700 BCE, Bronze Age Khao Wong Prachan valley) 15 km east of Lopburi — 5 ha mound and smelting scatter excavated 1986–2020 by Vincent Pigott, Thomas…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas III Upper Terrace Ili Petroglyphs
Early Nomadic · Saka, Wusun, Kangju
Upper second terrace 500 m inland with Saka animal style settlement context.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Archaeological wonder
Uushgii Ovoor (Uushigiin Övör) Deer Stone Complex
Bronze Age Khereksur/Deer Stone–Khirigsuur Complex · Mongolian Late Bronze Age pastoralists (pre-Xiongnu)
30 Bronze Age deer stones (1400–700 BCE)—densest flying-deer stelae gallery at Mörön.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Wadi Sirhan Mustatil Corridor (Al-Jawf Depression)
Late Neolithic (Northern Arabian pastoral) · Wadi Sirhan Neolithic
Broad lowland mustatil corridor (560 m, 29°48′11″N 39°52′56″E Dumat al-Jandal TM Geo 29.803206,39.882216 Wadi Sirhan runs 140 km from Azraq to Jawf) along the central topographic depression of Wadi…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Hadrumetum (Sousse)
Phoenician to Ottoman (1100 BCE–16th c; peak 2nd–4th c) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Early Christian / Islamic
Phoenician-tradition colonia under Sousse medina with 5.5 km catacombs, Virgil mosaic and Byzantine kasbah.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Lahuradewa
Ceramic Neolithic IA (9000–7000) → Mesolithic-Neolithic IB–II (7000–3000) → Chalcolithic III (3000–1500 BCE) · Gangetic Ceramic Neolithic (Lahuradewa culture) → Sarayupar Chalcolithic
Earliest rice-cultivation site in South Asia (c.9000–2000 BCE) in the Sarayupar plain at Sant Kabir Nagar — 2.5 ha lakeside mound with 3.5 m deposit excavated 2001–06 by Rakesh Tewari (UP State…