🇵🇪 Peru · Tomb
Cerro Trinidad
Late Intermediate (c.1200–1470 CE) Chancay · Chancay
Cerro Trinidad is the classic Chancay funerary ridge cemetery in the lower Chancay Valley near Chancay port, Lima.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion)
Archaic to Roman Imperial (638-year build) · Athenian tyranny, Hellenistic Seleucid, Roman Imperial
638-year colossal: Pisistratid → Antiochus–Cossutius → Hadrian, 8×20 Corinthian 17 m columns, largest mainland.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Earthwork
Armenian Desert Kites – Mount Aragats & Syunik
Bronze Age to Early Iron Age · Kura-Araxes to Trialeti pastoralists
20 high-altitude kites on Mount Aragats (3000–800 BCE)—Caucasus extension 1,200 km from Levant.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Boralday Saka Kurgans (Boralday Steppe Necropolis)
Early Saka (Scythian) Iron Age · Saka Tigrakhauda (pointed-hat Sakas)
Saka steppe royal cemetery 28 km from Almaty: 81 kurgans 45-105 m with tigrine gold plaques.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Lindholme Neolithic Trackway & Platform (Hatfield Moors, South Yorkshire)
Late Neolithic (2900–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Humberhead fen communities)
45-m Late Neolithic corduroy trackway (2900–2500 BCE) over Hatfield pool to platform — earliest in Britain.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Bagor
Mesolithic (7000–2800) → Chalcolithic (2800 BCE–500 BCE) · Mesolithic Mewar microlithic → Ahar-Chalcolithic (Mewar)
Type-site for Mewar Mesolithic (c.7000–500 BCE) on the Mahasati dune above the Kothari River west of Bhilwara — India's largest excavated Mesolithic habitation (1967–70 by V.N. Misra and L.S.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Hydraulic works
West Baray — Angkor Hydraulic Reservoir
Angkor (Baphuon style middle Angkor) · Khmer Hindu (Suryavarman I court)
Khmer 7.8×2.1 km reservoir 1050 CE 53 million m³ with West Mebon island temple, hydraulic empire core.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Helan Mountains South Gorge — Helankou South Rock Art Park II
Bronze Age to Medieval · Xiongnu, Xianbei, Dangxiang Tangut, Mongol
Helankou south branch with 312 panels, Western Xia sun masks and tiger-bharal frieze, 1000 BCE–1200 CE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Ialysos Athena Polias Temple — Filerimos Hill
Geometric to Medieval · Mycenaean, Dorian Rhodian, Byzantine, Knights
Rhodes 267-m Filerimos Doric Athena Polias 3rd BCE atop Minoan–Knights stratigraphy with sacred road and fountain.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Koldihwa
Vindhyan Neolithic (7000–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000 BCE) · Vindhyan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara) → Chalcolithic
Belan Valley Neolithic type-site (c.7000–2000 BCE) on the Belan River 80 km southeast of Prayagraj (Allahabad) — Koldihwa (with Mahagara adjacent) excavated 1973–76 by G.R. Sharma and J.M.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Novozavedennoye Kurgan Field – Stavropol Steppe
Maikop to Sarmatian (3600 BCE–300 CE) · Maikop / Yamnaya / Catacomb / Sarmatian
Stratified Maikop–Catacomb–Sarmatian kurgan cemetery (3600 BCE–300 CE) — Caucasus-steppe anchor.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Kurgan
Solokha Scythian Royal Kurgan (Great Zaporizhzhia Mound)
Early Iron Age (Scythian Classic Royal) · Royal Scythian (Pontic Scythia)
Iconic Royal Scythian kurhan (45 m asl, 47°19′34″N 34°20′21″E 47.3269,34.3392 12 km southeast of Bol'shaia Znamenka, Vasil'evka Raion) excavated by Veselovski 1912-13 under 18 m high mound (4th-mill.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Syntas Kurgan Field (Aktobe Sarmatian Ridge)
Early Sarmatian (Sauromatian) · Sarmatian (eastern Ural–Aral)
Sarmatian ridge cemetery 38 km from Aktobe: 17 mounds with Greek kylix sherd and eagle gold.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Yungang Grottoes — Western Caves Extension (Caves 26–40)
Northern Dynasties (Northern Wei late) · Tuoba Wei (Xianbei) Buddhist with Han artisan school
UNESCO Yungang western 15-cave zone 494–525 with central-pillar and collapsed colossus.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Derryoghil & Tin Tab Bog Trackways (Derryoghil–Derragh Bog, Co. Longford)
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age (2750–2280 BCE) · Irish Neolithic–Early Bronze (Beaker transition, 2500 BCE)
700-m stacked bog road (2750 BCE brush under 2280 BCE oak plank) — only Neolithic→Bronze stacked reuse in Ireland.
🇦🇶 Antarctica · Archaeological wonder
Atlantis in Antarctica – Piri Reis / Hapgood Hypothesis
Claimed 12k BCE temperate Antarctica Atlantis; literature 1958–1995 · Claimed global Atlantean cartographers; literary Hapgood–Einstein crustal displacement
Hapgood's 1958 crust-shift Atlantis under Antarctic ice — Piri Reis 1513 map misread as ice-free coast.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient city
Khao Sam Kaeo
Early Maritime Silk Road 500 BCE–300 CE (Iron Age to early Funan precursor) · Peninsular Thai–Indianized Austroasiatic → Tamil–Han contact (Mala–Yon)
Early Maritime Silk Road port-city and high-tin bronze–iron workshop (c.500 BCE–300 CE) at the Isthmus of Kra near Chumphon, Peninsular Thailand — 55 ha hillock city with four enclosures, excavated…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Boralday North Crest Mound 22 (Boralday Northern Apex Kurgan)
Late Saka (280 BCE) — Boralday late group · Saka Tigrakhauda late (pre-Wusun transition)
82 m northern apex mound 22 at 820 m: 13 m high with panther foil and Han belt hook — Silk Road import in Boralday crest.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Ancient village
Keenagh (Corlea 2) Bog Trackway (County Roscommon–Longford border)
Iron Age (Late Iron Age, La Tène D, 148 BCE) · Irish Iron Age (La Tène, Uisnech kingship)
Iron Age 1-km oak causeway (148 BCE) — Keenagh's in situ twin to Corlea 1, part of 5-trackway Shannon bog field.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Aflaj al-Ain Nizwa Branch — Daudi Falaj Highland Channel
Sasanian to Islamic · Omani, Sasanian Persian, Ibadi
Nizwa Daudi mother well 30 m with 8-km tunnel and shari'a sharing basin, UNESCO aflaj highland branch.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Enez Krno Bog Causeway (Île aux Moines–Medreac Moor, Brittany)
Hallstatt C (Iron Age I Armorican) · Armorican Hallstatt (Brittany enclos community)
Armorican bog causeway to islet settlement in Enez Krno mire: 52-m Iron Age plank–hurdlehybrid (620 BCE).
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Arim Secondary Dam — Marib North Spillway
South Arabian (Sabaean to Himyaritic) · Sabaean Saba and Himyarite
Marib north secondary 750-m earthen with Almaqah sluice temple 50 musnad inscriptions, Sabaean 750 BCE spillway.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Xinglongwa
Xinglongwa culture 6200–5400 BCE → Zhaobaogou → Hongshan · Xinglongwa (Liao River Neolithic, Proto-Mongolic?)
Type-site for Xinglongwa culture (c.6200–5400 BCE, 8200–7400 BP) on the Aohan hills near Chifeng, Inner Mongolia — earliest Neolithic on the Mongolian plateau, 120 pit-house village with central…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly-Tas II — Ili River South Bank Petroglyphs
Iron Age to Early Modern · Saka (Scythian), Dzungar Oirat Mongol, Kazakh
Ili River south bank continuation of 17th-century Tamgaly-Tas Buddhist carvings with Saka animal style underneath.