🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Tambo Colorado
Late Horizon Inca coastal 1470–1532 CE · Inca (coastal Pisco Chinchaysuyu)
Best-preserved polychrome Inca adobe palace enclosure on Pisco coast, 1470–1532 CE.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Archaeological wonder
Clayton Priory Archaeological Complex
Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) · Ancestral Pueblo
Clayton Priory Archaeological Complex in River Nile State, Sudan is a Ancestral Pueblo (900–1350 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Ancestral Pueblo culture.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient village
Gogo Falls Rock Shelter and Dam
Late Stone Age to Iron Age (8000 BCE–1500 CE) · Kansyore fishers → Elmenteitan herders → Urewe Iron Age Bantu
Stratified river terrace Gogo Falls — Kansyore fisher sequence at Kuja rapids.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Wilcahuain (Huilcahuaín)
Middle Horizon Wari 700–800 CE · Wari (Huaraz highland)
3-storey Wari gallery-mausoleum with interior ventilated labyrinth, 700–800 CE.
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Cosquer Cave
Gravettian–Solutrean ~27–19 ka BP · Gravettian–Solutrean coastal
Submerged 27 ka painted cave 37 m under Mediterranean with great-auk and hand stencils.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock-cut
El-Hawawish
Old Kingdom to Middle Kingdom (2700–1800 BCE; peak 2300–2100 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian
El-Hawawish is the Old–Middle Kingdom cliff necropolis of Akhmim (Panopolis, 9th nome) on eastern desert edge, 800+ rock-cut tombs 3000–1800 BCE on 1.5 km wadi terrace.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Mons Claudianus
Roman Imperial (1st–4th c. CE; peak Trajan–Hadrian 98–138 CE) · Roman (Imperial quarrying)
Mons Claudianus is a remote Eastern Desert granodiorite (quartz-diorite) imperial quarry, 700 m altitude between Nile and Red Sea, source of grey column shafts for Pantheon, Trajan's Forum and Villa…
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Saimaluu-Tash West Ashu Pass Petroglyphs
Saka to Turkic Medieval · Saka, Wusun, Turkic
Western cirque shelf of Saimaluu-Tash at Ashu Pass, a glacial hanging valley 2 km west of Saimaluu-Tash I main valley floor at 3420 m.
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape
Early to Middle Iron Age (K2 culture 1000–1220; Mapungubwe phase 1220–1290 CE) · Gokomere-Zhizo / Kalanga-Shona precursor / Mapungubwe culture
Iron Age kingdom (900–1290 CE) on Shashe–Limpopo confluence, Mapungubwe was southern Africa's earliest class-stratified state: elite on Mapungubwe Hill, commoners at foot, gold working – famous gold…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Thibilis (Announa)
Numidian to Byzantine (4th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Christian
Hercules city Thibilis.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Incallajta Fortress
Inca Late Horizon to Resistance 1463–1572 CE · Inca (Chinchaysuyu eastern frontier)
78-m kallanka—largest roofed Inca hall—within 2 km walled fortress, 1463–1572 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Padri
Early Harappan Padri 3300–2600 → Sorath Mature 2600–1900 → Late Harappan 1900–1800 BCE · Sorath Harappan (Possehl) coastal variant — Early to Late Harappan
Padri — Sorath Harappan village (3300–1800 BCE) on Gulf of Khambhat at Talaja, Saurashtra, excavated 1990–93 by V.S. Shinde (Deccan College).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Star Carr Mesolithic Settlement
Early Mesolithic (~9000–8500 BCE) · Early Mesolithic British (Maglemosian)
Peat-preserved lake-shore settlement at Lake Flixton where Grahame Clark in 1949–51 uncovered a 12-m timber platform of split birch, 21 red deer antler frontlets drilled for wearing as headdresses,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Qau el-Kebir
Old Kingdom to Late Antique (2600 BCE–700 CE; temple Ptolemaic, tombs Middle Kingdom) · Ancient Egyptian / Greco-Roman
Qau el-Kebir (Antaeopolis, Antaioupolis) is Middle Egypt's great nomarch and late antique metropolis on east bank, capital 10th nome of Antaeus.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Feynan and Wadi Arabah Copper Belt
Chalcolithic to Byzantine (c.4100 BCE–600 CE; peak Iron Age II) · Egyptian New Kingdom (eastern Timna sphere) → Edomite/Neo-Assyrian desert polity → Nabataean → Roman chrome convict mines
Jordanian Arabah slag-mountain copper belt — Iron Age Edomite desert industry outweighing Timna.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Ruins of Karez Terramare Monastery
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Ruins of Karez Terramare Monastery in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Tin Merzouga (Tassili n'Ajjer fringe)
Early Holocene to Camel Period · Pastoral / Kel Essuf / Tuareg
Arch sanctuary Tin Merzouga bridging Acacus pastoral art to Tassili chariots.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Alto Ramírez Cerro Tatara Geoglyphs (Tatara Hillside Panels)
Formative (400 BCE–650 CE) · Alto Ramírez
Steep 18° north-facing hillside on Cerro Tatara promontory at km 55, commanding 6 km Lluta floodplain view.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
Basketmaker II–Pueblo III 1500 BCE–1300 CE (peak 1000–1300) · Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi, Basketmaker to Pueblo III)
Largest archaeological landscape in US implying 30,000 people: 176,000-acre (71,200 ha) monument with 6,355 recorded sites – villages, cliff dwellings, kivas, towers and shrines from Basketmaker to…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Siga (Takembrit)
Numidian to Byzantine (6th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 3rd c BCE–2nd c CE) · Massaesylian Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian royal capital Siga (Takembrit) of Syphax at the Tafna mouth.
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
Archaic to Protohistoric 3600 BCE–1850 CE (use from 5700 years BP) · Plains Indigenous (Blackfoot / Niitsitapi – Peigan, Kainai, Siksika; earlier Besant, Avonlea)
UNESCO World Heritage buffalo jump (1981) used continuously 5,700 years: 300 m cliff with 10 m drop onto bone bed 11 m deep of bison skeletons, drive lanes marked by 240 cairns stretching 20 km to…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Sittanavasal Jain Caves
Pallava–Pandya Early Medieval · Digambara Jain
Pallava–Pandya Jain cave complex (7th–9th c. CE) on Sittanavasal hillock, famed for Arivar Koil — earliest Tamil rock-cut Jain shrine with natural-cavern-pillared mandapa and Brahmi-Tamil inscription.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Flag Fen Bronze Age Causeway
Bronze Age to Iron Age (~1500–300 BCE; causeway 1350–1150 BCE) · British Bronze Age (Deverel-Rimbury to Post-Deverel-Rimbury)
A 1-km line of 60,000 oak posts forming a causeway and platform across Flag Fen where Francis Pryor excavated systematic votive deposits: over 300 metalwork items deliberately broken (swords bent,…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Thubursicum Numidicum (Khamissa)
Numidian to Byzantine (5th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Twin theatre city Khamissa.