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🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Royal Khajuraho Temple Central — Khajuraho (60-36) at Khajuraho, India is a Chalcolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Khajuraho Enclosure Central — Khajuraho (60-04) at Khajuraho, India is a Neolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Middle Stone Age to Pastoral Neolithic (46,000–3000 BP) · MSA → LSA → Savanna Pastoral Neolithic
Mau Escarpment Twilight Cave Enkapune Ya Muto — 40,000-year-old ostrich eggshell beads at 2,400 m.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Temple complex
Timurid 1389–1405 over Yasawi 12th c. · Timurid / Sufi Sunni
Colossal Timurid shrine (1389–1405) over 12th-c. Sufi poet Khoja Ahmed Yasawi's grave, commissioned by Timur to draw Islam to steppe, largest brick dome in Central Asia (44 m high, 22 m span) and…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Sorath Harappan 2500–1700 BCE (Rojdi A→B→C) · Sorath Harappan (Possehl) — interior Saurashtra variant
Rojdi — Sorath Harappan farming village (2500–1700 BCE) 15 km SE Gondal, interior Saurashtra, excavated 1982–86 by G.L. Possehl and B. Raval (Penn–Gujarat State Dept).
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Kushan 2nd–7th c CE (Kapisa Buddhist) · Kushan Gandhara Kapisa Buddhist
Shotorak — Kushan Buddhist monastery (2nd c CE–7th c CE) 1.5 km SE Begram (Kapisa) at Panjshir mouth, excavated 1936–39 Hackin and 2020s DAA.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Archaeological wonder
Timurid 1420–1449 · Timurid / Islamic Golden Age science
Timurid astronomical observatory (1420–1429) built by Muhammad Taragay Ulugbek, grandson of Timur, housing 40 m radius sextant embedded in 30 m hill-rock and 11 m underground to measure solar…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Old Kingdom to Islamic (2600 BCE–8th c CE; peak Middle and New Kingdom) · Ancient Egyptian / Greek
Thoth metropolis 15 ha with twin pylon-city and baboon colossi of Thutmose III in quartzite.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Narhan I (2000–1400) → Narhan II (1400–800) → NBPW III (800–600 BCE) · Narhan / Sarayupar Chalcolithic → NBPW Iron Age
Type-site for Narhan culture (c.2000–600 BCE) on the Ghaghara alluvium in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh — white-painted black-and-red ware (BPB) and later black-slipped ware mound excavated 1984–89 by…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Saka (550–400 BCE) · Saka Tigrakhauda / Semirechye Saka
Outlier mound 1.2 km south of Besshatyr core at Shylbyr Gorge mouth (670 m), south sentinel of Besshatyr necropolis.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Central Delphi Fortress Outer — Delphi (60-27) at Delphi, Greece is a Chalcolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Classical to Hellenistic (426 BCE – 88 BCE Sulla/Mithridates sack) · Athenian / Cycladic Delian League
Sacred processional causeway 250 m linking Apollo's Delos to Rheneia necropolis — basalt slabs now –1 to –3 m on channel reef.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Ancient city
Mesolithic to Medieval (c.7000 BCE–1390 CE) · Baltic (Lithuanian)
UNESCO World Heritage ensemble in the Neris valley 35 km NW of Vilnius, with five hillforts (Aukuro, Mindaugo, Lizdeikos, Pilies and Kriveikiškis), unfortified settlements, burial fields and medieval…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Late to Final Jomon 2000–500 BCE · Late–Final Jomon (Lake Toya)
Late–Final Jomon permanent settlement (c.2000–500 BCE) at Lake Toya, counterpart to Takasago cemetery — 1.2 ha Irie terrace with 50+ pit dwellings, large shell middens, and lakeside fishing weirs…
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Incipient Jomon (15000–10000 BCE) → Initial Jomon (10000–6000 BCE) · Incipient–Initial Jomon (Tsugaru)
Initial Jomon (Incipient) settlement (c.15000–13000 BCE) at Sotogahama, Tsugaru Peninsula — 0.7 ha terrace with earliest pottery in Japan (Odai Yamamoto I pottery, 16500 cal BP via AMS), ground…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Savda–Malwa–Jorwe 1900–1000 BCE → Early Historic 300 BCE–300 CE · Savda-Chalcolithic → Malwa–Jorwe → Satavahana
Tapti Chalcolithic–Early Historic sequence (1900 BCE–300 CE) with Indo-Roman amphorae at Dhule ford.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Little Angkor Fortress I — Angkor (60-03) at Angkor, Cambodia is a Chalcolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Southern Khajuraho Citadel II — Khajuraho (60-34) at Khajuraho, India is a Neolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Late Antique (4th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd-4th c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Medjerda municipium with Saturn temples.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Achaemenid 4th c BCE → Sogdian 4th–8th c → Samanid 9th–11th c · Sogdian Bukhara (City of Merchants) → Samanid Islamic
Paykend — Sogdian–Islamic Silk Road city of merchants (4th c BCE–11th c CE) 50 km west Bukhara, excavated 1910s–2000s Semenov and Naymark.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Inner Delphi Settlement Central — Delphi (60-46) at Delphi, Greece is a Iron Age (regional) archaeological wonder of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 400 BCE for settlement and associated settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Khajuraho Citadel II — Khajuraho (60-08) at Khajuraho, India is a Classical (regional) archaeological wonder of the Classical tradition, built c. 800 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Little Hattusa Hilltop South — Hattusa (60-12) at Hattusa, Turkey is a Neolithic (regional) archaeological wonder of the Neolithic tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for hilltop and associated settlement.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Old Kingdom to Islamic (2300 BCE–19th c; peak Roman) · Ancient Egyptian / Roman-Egyptian / Islamic oasis
Western Desert 100-km oasis with Muzawaka painted zodiac tombs and Ain Asil Old Kingdom governor palace.
