🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Kaole Ruins — Swahili Settlement
Early Swahili (13th–16th c) · Swahili-Shirazi
Kaole is a 13th–16th c Swahili settlement 3 km S of Bagamoyo, Tanzania's earliest Swahili site (Shiraz origin legend 13th c).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Midhowe Broch
Iron Age (c.200 BCE–200 CE) · Atlantic Iron Age (Orcadian)
Finely preserved Rousay broch on Eynhallow Sound with intramural galleries and adjacent chambered cairn.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Newark Octagon — North Avenue Causeway (Licking County)
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland; Hopewell
Newark Octagon — North Avenue Causeway (Licking County) in Ohio, Licking County, Newark, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) e…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Patara — Lighthouse Ancillary Wharf North (Lycian)
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Patara — Lighthouse Ancillary Wharf North (Lycian) in Antalya, Kaş, Patara, Turkey is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to…
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Poverty Point — Ridge 3 Terrace West (Jackson Parish)
Neolithic to Mississippian (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Neolithic / Woodland
Poverty Point — Ridge 3 Terrace West (Jackson Parish) in Louisiana, West Carroll Parish, Poverty Point, United States is a Neolithic to Mississippian (3000…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Puma Punku — Ancillary H-Block Terrace (Tiwanaku)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Puma Punku — Ancillary H-Block Terrace (Tiwanaku) in La Paz, Tiwanaku, Puma Punku, Bolivia is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attr…
🇬🇧 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.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Saint-Just Megalithic Complex
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Saint-Just Megalithic Complex in Brittany, Ille-et-Vilaine, France is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Tell Agrab
Late Uruk to Akkadian (c.3400–2200 BCE; temple peak ED II–III 2750–2350 BCE) · Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic Sumerian (Diyala) → Akkadian
Oval Shara Temple with ED votive hoard and earliest saw-tooth niche architecture.
🇩🇿 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.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Trethevy Quoit Cornwall
Neolithic · Cornish Neolithic
Trethevy Quoit Cornwall at Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Neolithic megalithic of the Cornish Neolithic tradition, built c. 3700 BCE for 10.5 tonne capstone with hole.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Yampil
Late Chalcolithic Trypillia C1–C2 (3600–3300 BCE) Podolia Dniester · Cucuteni-Trypillia C1–C2 Podolia (Yampil variant, Usatovo contact)
Yampil (Yampol) — Trypillia C1–C2 settlement cluster (c.3600–3300 BCE, 15 ha, ~200 houses) on Dniester left bank at Yampil bend, Vinnytsia–Moldova border.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Alacahöyük
Chalcolithic to Phrygian (c.4500–700 BCE; peak EB III and Hittite Empire) · Hattian → Hittite (Nesite) → Phrygian
Hattian–Hittite fortified city with Sphinx Gate and Early Bronze royal tombs rich in solar-disk bronzes.
🇨🇱 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…
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Cucuteni Neolithic Settlement (Type Site)
Chalcolithic (4800–3500 BCE, Cucuteni A–B) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Cucuteni A–B)
Hilltop tell Cetățuia at Cucuteni, Iași, eponym of Cucuteni culture (western Cucuteni-Trypillia), excavated 1884 by Teodor Burada and 1909–10 by Hubert Schmidt.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Cuween Hill Chambered Cairn — Firth, Orkney
Late Neolithic (c.3200–2900 BCE) · Orcadian Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Cuween Hill cairn (c.3200–2900 BCE) is a Maeshowe-type chambered cairn 21 m diameter crowning Cuween Hill above Kirkwall, with a 8-m low entrance passage leading to a 6-m central chamber with four…
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Großsteingrab Soderstorf
Neolithic (4000–2000 BCE) · European Neolithic
Großsteingrab Soderstorf in Lower Saxony, Lüneburg Heath, Germany is a Neolithic megalithic monument dating to c. 3500–2500 BCE, built of local stone and associated with Atlantic farming communities.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Incallajta — North Kallanka Hall (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban; Inca
Incallajta — North Kallanka Hall (Cochabamba, Bolivia) in Cochabamba, Incallajta, Bolivia is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attri…
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Kallanai Kollidam North Sluice Extension
Early Historic to Chola Medieval · Chola (Early and Medieval)
95-m north Kollidam offtake with 12 dovetail sluice bays saving delta from avulsion.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Mari — Palace East Wing Archive Room
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Mari — Palace East Wing Archive Room in Deir ez-Zor, Tell Hariri, Mari, Syria is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Bro…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Djedkare Isesi
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Southernmost major pyramid at Saqqara: 5th Dynasty Djedkare Isesi (c.2414–2375 BCE), 52.5 m high originally, now 24 m ruin with early Pyramid Texts tradition.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Pyramid of Neith — Queen of Pepi II
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Largest and northernmost of the three queens pyramids surrounding Pepi II at South Saqqara, built for Queen Neith, eldest daughter of Ankhenespepi I and Pepi I, and principal wife of Pepi II.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Tell Uqair
Ubaid to Early Dynastic I (c.5000–2900 BCE; mural is Late Uruk–Jemdet Nasr c.3200 BCE) · Ubaid → Uruk → Jemdet Nasr → Early Dynastic
Painted Temple mound with 3200 BCE leopard mural — first mural art in Mesopotamia.