🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Lauriya Nandangarh
Mauryan to Pala (242 BCE–1200 CE) · Mauryan (Ashokan) to Pala Buddhist
Ashokan lion pillar (242 BCE, 32 ft) with 51-ft Nandangarh Stupa 400 m away, continuous Mauryan–Pala mound.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Murray Springs Clovis Site
Clovis Paleo-Indian (11,000 – 10,800 BCE) · Clovis
Murray Springs Clovis Site in Arizona, United States is a Clovis Paleo-Indian (11,000 – 10,800 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Clovis culture.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Hydraulic works
Anapji Pond (Wolji)
Unified Silla 668–935 CE (Munmu–Gyeongdeok) · Unified Silla palace (Gyeongju Wolseong garden)
Anapji (Wolji) — Silla palace garden pond (674 CE) 500 m SE Wolseong palace, Gyeongju, excavated 1974–76 CHA (Gyeongju Institute).
🇧🇭 Bahrain · Tumulus
Dilmah Burial Mounds Field A375
Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dilmah Burial Mounds Field A375 in Northern, Aali, Bahrain is a Bronze Age (2200–800 BCE) tumulus attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Nuzi Palace Archive Room 5 in Kirkuk, Yorghan Tepe, Iraq is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Asharna
EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) · Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip
Tell Asharna in Hama Governorate, Orontes Valley, Asharna plain, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA → Iron (3000–700 BCE) settlement attributed to Amorite → Mitanni/Hittite → Neo-Hittite Tunip culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Tell Atij (Tell ʿAtiq, Atij)
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze II (3400–2600 BCE; Ninevite 5) · North Mesopotamian Ninevite 5 (Khabur) → EJ 2
Khabur granary acropolis with 200+ beehive silos — Early Bronze dry-farming surplus hub.
🇯🇵 Japan · Ancient village
Yoshinogari Saga Moated Settlement
Yayoi 300 BCE–300 CE (Middle Yayoi zenith) · Yayoi Saga — Northern Kyushu rice chiefdom (Himiko candidate)
Yoshinogari Saga Moated Settlement — Japan's largest Yayoi moated village and Himiko Yamatai candidate (300 BCE–300 CE, 40 ha inner enclosure) on Yoshinogari hills at Chikugo River north Kyushu,…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Taradih Bihar Neolithic Settlement
Neolithic 2100–1600 → Chalcolithic 1600–1000 BCE · South Bihar Neolithic — Taradih facies (Magadha Neolithic)
Taradih Bihar Neolithic Settlement — Neolithic settlement (2100–1000 BCE) 3 km south Bodh Gaya on Falgu River, excavated 1991–94 by A.K. Prasad (Magadha University, Bodh Gaya Circle).
🇸🇪 Sweden · Burial field
Vendel
Migration → Vendel Period 550–790 → Viking Age to 10th c · Vendel Period Svear (Tiundaland) — type eponym Vendeltid
Vendel (Vendel parish Tierp) — boat-grave field (Vendel Period 550–790 + Viking 14 graves total 1881–83 H.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Altendorf Gallery Grave — Naumburg
Late Neolithic (Wartberg culture, 3400–2800 BCE) · Wartberg (Funnel Beaker–Wartberg late group)
The Altendorf grave (Wartberg culture, late Neolithic c.3400–3000 BCE), on the Altenburg ridge near Naumburg 24 km southwest of Kassel, was a 17-m gallery grave chamber 17.5 m long inside a 17 × 5 m…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Ancient city
Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway Step 33
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Copan Hieroglyphic Stairway Step 33 in Copán, Honduras is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Dholavira Citadel North Gate
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dholavira Citadel North Gate in Gujarat, Kutch, India is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Talagunda
Kadamba (345–540 CE) with Shatavahana precursor · Kadamba (Karnataka early historic)
455 CE Sanskrit pillar—longest early Karnataka (16 lines, Mayurasharma vita)—with 2-ha Kadamba hillock settlement.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Castillo de Huarmey — Wari Burial Pyramid and Mausoleum
Middle Horizon, Wari Empire (600–900 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Dramatic ridge mound 4 km from sea, long known as Castillo, surprising 2013 discovery by Milosz Giersz and Roberto Pimentel of intact Wari royal burial complex sealed beneath 5 tons of rubble — first…
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient village
Non Nok Tha
Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age 2500 BCE–200 CE · Non Nok Tha culture (Isan Bronze Age, Ban Chiang contemporary)
Neolithic–Bronze Age mortuary mound (c.2500–200 BCE) at Non Nok Tha, Khon Kaen — 1 ha stratified mound with 250+ burials in four phases, excavated 1966–68 by Donn Bayard (U Otago) and Sood…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Qatna Royal Tomb AnteChamber
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Qatna Royal Tomb AnteChamber in Homs, Mishrifeh, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Takamatsuzuka Tumulus
Asuka Late 645–710 CE · Yamato–Asuka with Tang Kaiyuan import
Asuka Tang-style painted round tomb (700 CE) at Takamatsuzuka — 23 m with Asuka bijin court ladies in Tang dress National Treasure.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Kannas (Tell Kannâs)
Late Uruk to Early Dynastic I–II (3500–2500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian Uruk → Early Bronze (EJ 1–2)
Euphrates levee town with Uruk planned lower town and EB fortification beside Habuba.
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village
Campen Plank Road – Emsland Bog Trackway (Landegge)
Early Iron Age (Hallstatt C) · Ems-Hunte Iron Age (Pre-Roman)
1.2-km split-oak corduroy (668 BCE) across Campen Moor — earliest Emsland Bohlenweg.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Caracol Caana Summit Palace
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Caracol Caana Summit Palace in Cayo, Caracol, Belize is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Cucuteni
Eneolithic Precucuteni → Cucuteni A–B (5200–3500 BCE) · Precucuteni–Cucuteni (Western Cucuteni-Trypillia)
Cucuteni (Cucuteni-Cetățuia) — eponymous promontory type site of Cucuteni-Trypillia culture discovered 1884 by N. Beldiceanu on Dealul Gosan above Cucuteni village, 30 km west Iași.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Lauriya Areraj
Mauryan (Ashokan, 244 BCE) with Gupta–Pala overlay · Mauryan Ashokan
Companion Ashokan lion pillar (244 BCE, 36.5 ft) to Lauriya Nandangarh, with moated stupa mound 200 m south.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Teleilat Ghassul
Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) · Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE)
Teleilat Ghassul in Balqa Governorate, Jordan Valley, Dead Sea N, Jordan is a Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) settlement attributed to Ghassulian Chalcolithic (4700–3800 BCE) culture.