🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Izapa
Late Formative 1500 BCE–100 CE (Izapa style) · Mixe-Zoque? / early Maya (Izapan)
90 stelae with Popol Vuh genesis narrative, 1500 BCE–100 CE.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Mustatils of Northwest Arabia
Late Neolithic (~5500–3500 BCE) · Neolithic Arabian pastoralist
More than 1,600 elongated rectangular courtyard monuments – Arabic mustatil – stitched across 200,000 km² of Saudi desert between the Nefud and Red Sea, rendered visible only by satellite.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Pedra Furada Rock Art
Pleistocene to Early Holocene · Nordeste Tradition (early Amerind)
Capivara arch shelter heart of 1,150-painting Nordeste tradition with pre-Clovis debate hearths.
🇬🇷 Greece · Archaeological wonder
Theopetra Cave
Palaeolithic–Neolithic (130,000–3000 BCE) · Palaeolithic to Neolithic — Thessalian cave sequence
Limestone cave near Meteora, Thessaly, with the longest continuous stratigraphic sequence in Greece, spanning 130,000 years from Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Ubirr Rock Art
Late Pleistocene to present (~4000 BCE – contemporary) · Bininj/Mungguy (Aboriginal Australian)
Five main sandstone galleries on the Nadab floodplain edge of the Arnhem escarpment display the classic X-ray style: translucent kangaroo, emu, long-necked turtles and thylacine (Tasmanian tiger)…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Zilis (Asilah)
Mauretanian to Late Roman (4th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Mauri / Phoenician / Roman
Augustan Atlantic colonia Zilis (Asilah) with purple-dye garum ceti.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Gordion – Phrygian Capital
Early Phrygian Iron Age (~1200–700 BCE; Midas tumulus ~740 BCE) · Phrygian (Balkan–Anatolian)
Phrygian capital at the Sangarius bend where Rodney Young's Penn excavations revealed a burnt 800 BCE citadel with polished pebble mosaics – the oldest known – and the great Tumulus MM: 53-m high and…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mactaris (Makthar) – Numidian-Roman City
Numidian / Roman (Hellenistic to Late Antique) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian–Roman hill city with neo-Punic mausoleum, dolmens and Trajan's arch.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Oakbank Crannog, Loch Tay
Iron Age (~800 BCE – 100 CE; Oakbank 460 BCE – 200 BCE) · Atlantic Scottish Iron Age (Caledonian)
One of 18 Iron Age timber islets in Loch Tay, Oakbank comprises a 30-m oak pile ring with horizontal alder floors still preserved 2 m deep in cold waterlogged peat.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thubursicum Bure
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Thubursicum Bure (modern Téboursouk) controls the Khalled–Siliana pass, a Berbero-Roman municipium with Massylian roots.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Zawiyet el-Maiyitin Pyramid
Old Kingdom Early Dynastic to 3rd–4th Dynasty (2686–2600 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Zawiyet el-Maiyitin (Pyramid of Zawiyat el-Maiytin) is a small 3rd–4th Dynasty provincial step pyramid 15 m square base, 17 m high originally, 3 steps, on eastern desert slope opposite Minya, built…
🇫🇷 France · Rock art
Pech Merle Cave
Gravettian to Solutrean ~29–20 ka BP · Gravettian hunter-gatherer
Quercy cave with Spotted Horses and 307 hand stencils, 25 ka Gravettian masterpiece.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Kitakogane Site
Early to Late Jomon 6000–1000 BCE · Early–Late Jomon (Date, Uchiura Bay)
Early to Late Jomon marine midden and ritual site (c.6000–1000 BCE) at Date, Hokkaido — 14.4 ha plateau site with massive shell mound (oyster, Scallop 3 m thick, 2500 m³), 70+ pit dwellings, lacquer…
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Longyou Caves
Warring States to Han (~300 BCE – 100 CE; debated) · Yue / early Han Chinese
Twenty-four enormous man-made siltstone caverns rediscovered in 1992 after 2,000 years of siltation, each a single chamber 10–30 m high hewn with chisels that left uniform parallel tooling covering…
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Mawangdui Han Tombs
Western Han Early 202–141 BCE · Han dynasty (Changsha Kingdom)
Family cemetery of Marquess of Dai (Li Cang, Prime Minister of Changsha Kingdom, Western Han, 202 BCE–9 CE) with three rectangular shaft tombs (168–145 BCE).
🇿🇦 South Africa · Rock art
Wildebeest Kuil Rock Art
Later Stone Age to Colonial ~8000 BP–19th c. · San ( ancestral Bushman) and Khoe
Kimberley andesite engravings with 1,500 eland-rhino figures and living San custodianship.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Ancient city
Byblos
Neolithic to Medieval (8800 BCE–present; urban from c.5000 BCE) · Neolithic / Canaanite / Phoenician / Egyptian / Roman / Crusader
Continuously inhabited since Neolithic, Byblos is one of the oldest cities in the world. Phoenician port that gave the Bible its name (byblos = papyrus), with layers from Neolithic, Chalcolithic,…
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Kiln-Anchorage Gateway Archaeological Complex
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Kiln-Anchorage Gateway Archaeological Complex in Ohio, United States is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Kondoa Rock Art Sites
Late Stone Age to recent (~3000 BCE – 19th century CE; most 1500 BCE onward) · Sandawe hunter-gatherer to Bantu pastoralist, later Warangi
Over 150 shelters scattered across the Kondoa escarpment display stratified painting traditions: early naturalistic eland and human figures with elongated heads (hunter-gatherer), later white…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient port
Wadi al-Jarf
Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty (c. 2620–2500 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Wadi al-Jarf on the Gulf of Suez is the world's oldest harbour, 4th Dynasty c. 2600 BCE, Khufu's Red Sea port for Sinai copper and turquoise expeditions.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chankillo — Second Thirteen Towers Sector
Early Horizon–Early Intermediate Casma Sechín 250–200 BCE · Casma/Sechín (Punkurí tradition)
Second Thirteen Towers line 400 m east of famous solar observatory, with observing building and bastions.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Pataliputra — Kumhrar Mauryan Site
Magadhan to Mauryan to Gupta 490 BCE–550 CE · Magadhan / Mauryan / Shunga / Gupta
Capital of Magadha, Maurya and Gupta empires (c.490 BCE–550 CE) sprawling 14 km along Ganga at present Patna; Kumhrar quarter preserves famed 80-pillared Mauryan audience hall (3rd c.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Perperikon Thracian Rock City
Chalcolithic to Late Antiquity (5000 BCE – 400 CE; rock city peak 1500–500 BCE) · Thracian (Bessi tribe) to Roman and Byzantine
Rocky massif on the Perperek gold–bearing ridge where Thracians carved a palace-temple complex into the living rock: hall of prophecies claimed as the sanctuary of Dionysus visited by Alexander…
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Hoa Lu Ancient Capital
Early Dai Viet Dinh–Le 968–1009 · Dai Co Viet (Kinh)
First capital of centralized Đại Cồ Việt after independence (968–1010 CE) — fortress between limestone karst towers (Tam Coc–Trang An) and river at Hoa Lu, Dinh (968) and Early Le (980) citadels —…