🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Sehel Island
Predynastic to Roman (3200 BCE–364 CE; peak New Kingdom and Ptolemaic) · Ancient Egyptian
Granite islet with ~600 cataract boulder inscriptions including Famine Stela 32 columns and predynastic boats.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Ust-Koksa Kurgan Field (Katun Headwaters, Altai)
Early Iron Age (Pazyryk culture) · Pazyryk (Altai Scythian)
Katun River headwaters kurgan field (973 m, 50°16′11″N 85°36′39″E 50.2697,85.6108) on moraine terrace above Katun (Ust-Koksa village 973 m, Dfc climate, UTC+7), bridging Pazyryk culture (5th-3rd c…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Chellah (Sala Colonia)
Roman to Merinid (1st c CE to 14th c) · Roman / Mauretanian / Merinid Islamic
Roman port Sala Colonia beneath Merinid walled necropolis with stork-colonised minaret and Roman spolia throughout Islamic masonry.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Junnar
Maurya → Satavahana 230 BCE–220 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Satavahana Early Buddhist (Hinayana) → Brahmanical
200+ Satavahana rock-cut caves on Nanaghat pass (300 BCE–400 CE) — Naganika Brahmi inscription of Vedic rites.
🇬🇳 Guinea · Archaeological wonder
Kissi Stone Figures (Pomdo / Pompdo)
Late Iron to Protohistoric (600–1500 CE) · Proto-Kissi / Sapi
Soapstone 10–40 cm janiform ancestral figures 600–1500 CE in forest-zone rice shrines (200+ recorded).
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kitora Tumulus Nara
Kofun Late 7th–early 8th c CE (Asuka) · Asuka late Kofun court — shijin astronomical Daoist
Kitora Tumulus Nara — 7th–8th c CE late Kofun painted tomb (zenpo-koen remnant 13.8×9.8 m) on Abuyama hill at Asuka, Nara basin, National Treasure since 1983.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Zama Regia
Numidian to Late Antique (4th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd c BCE-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman
Royal city Zama Regia.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Matara (Metara)
Pre-Aksumite Ethio-Sabaean to Late Aksumite (800 BCE–800 CE) · Ethio-Sabaean D'MT / pre-Aksumite → Aksumite
10 ha highland caravans town with Hawulti 5.5 m Sabaean obelisk, Aksumite stelai, palace of Kaskase and dam reservoir.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Salar del Sur North Pampa Geoglyphs (Pampa Salar Sur Norte)
Late Intermediate (Atacama Tarapacá) · Atacameño (Likan Antai) caravan
Salar del Sur north pampa: 24 geometric avenues on Antofagasta deflation plain toward Tulán.
🇳🇪 Niger · Ancient city
Azelik (Takadda)
Medieval (10th–16th c) · Tuareg / Songhai / Hausa copper miners
15-km 600-furnace copper metropolis visited by Ibn Battuta 1353 with Kufic mosque 20 m.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Tumulus
Boroo Gol Kurgan Terrace – Selenge River Valley
Late Bronze to Xiongnu Early Iron · Slab Grave / Xiongnu
30 Slab Grave to Xiongnu re-used kurgans (1300 BCE–150 CE) — Selenge River terrace with Han lacquer.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chandoli
Deccan Jorwe Chalcolithic 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic 700 BCE–100 CE · Jorwe (Deccan Early Farming) → Megalithic–Vidarbha
Largest Jorwe urn cemetery (1400–1000 BCE) in Sangli — 42 burials with amputated legs and copper bangles under houses.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Karanis (Kom Aushim)
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (3rd c BCE–5th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Ptolemaic–Roman grain city Karanis with 85 ha mudbrick and papyri archive.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Temple complex
Hwangnyongsa Temple Site
Three Kingdoms Silla 553–668 → Unified Silla 668–935 → Goryeo 935–1238 · Silla state Buddhism (Hwangnyongsa doctrinal)
Hwangnyongsa — largest Silla temple (553–1238 CE) 800 m north Wolseong, Gyeongju plain, excavated 1976–83 CHA (Gyeongju Institute).
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Jibal Thumamah Kite Cluster – Qassim Desert
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Najd Late Neolithic
24 easternmost kites (6000–3500 BCE) on Qassim limestone scarp — sand-sea margin.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient village
Pirak
Late Harappan → Pirak I–III 1800–800 BCE → Iron Age · Pirak culture (post-Harappan / early Iron Age, Indo-Iranian?)
Post-Harappan / Iron Age settlement (c.1800–800 BCE) south of Sibi at the Bolan Pass mouth, Balochistan — type-site for Pirak culture documenting the Harappan → Iron Age transition.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Tuna el-Gebel
Late Period to Ptolemaic–Roman (600 BCE–200 CE) · Ancient Egyptian / Greco-Egyptian
Hermopolis ibis catacombs 1 km galleries, Petosiris tomb 300 BCE and Isadora shrine marking Amarna boundary.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Ayaz-Kala
Chorasmian (Khorezm) 4 c. BCE–8 c. CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) with Kangju–Kushan phases
Khorezmian hilltop fortress complex (c.4 c. BCE–7 c. CE) on the Kyzylkum edge near Ayazkol lake — three forts: Ayaz Kala 1 (4 c. BCE–2 c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Bagawat Necropolis (Kharga Oasis)
Late Period to Early Islamic (510 BCE–700 CE; peak Christian 4th–7th c) · Persian-Egyptian / Early Christian Coptic
263-mudbrick vaulted domed chapels 4th–7th c with Exodus frescoes above Hibis Persian temple 40 m.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Omo Kibish Formation (Omo I & II)
Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene (200–100 ka; Homo sapiens earliest 195 ka) · Homo sapiens (early anatomically modern)
Formation yielding earliest Homo sapiens Omo I skull re-dated 195 ka (now 230 ka debate?) and fauna in Kibish Member I tuff.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Palpa Lines and Geoglyphs
Paracas (800–200 BCE) to Topará (200 BCE–200 CE) to early Nazca · Paracas and Topará–Nazca
1,000 hill-crest geoglyphs (1000 BCE–800 CE) — the Paracas predecessor to Nazca on Palpa terraces.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Tulum
Late Postclassic 1200–1550 CE (settlement from ~564 CE but walls/frescos 1200–1500) · Maya (Eastern coast, Postclassic International style, Chetumal polity, Mayapán confederacy)
Late Postclassic (1200–1550 CE) clifftop walled port with Caribbean panorama: 6 m limestone wall and pyramid Temple of the Frescoes with mural interiors, El Castillo (12 m pyramid with columns as…
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Turpan Shengjinkou Karez Gorge Head (Shengjinkou Gorge Karez System)
Han to Qing continuum (200 BCE–1900 CE) karez re-use · Gaochang / Uyghur oasis
Gorge-head karez at Shengjinkou Yardang Gorge mouth northwest Turpan Depression (−45 m, below sea level, unique globally).
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Hadda
Indo-Greek 2 c. BCE → Kushan 1–4 c. → Hepthalite 5–6 c. → Turk Shahis 7–8 c. · Gandharan Greco-Buddhist (Hadda stucco school)
Greco-Buddhist plain city (2 c. BCE–8 c. CE) at Hadda south of Jalalabad — 20 stupas with bearded stucco Buddhas and Bimaran gold casket.