🇸🇾 Syria · Buried city
Ridge Grotto Buried Settlement
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Ridge Grotto Buried Settlement in Homs Governorate, Syria is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Megalith
Saywite Monolith
Inca Late Horizon ca.1470 CE · Inca
2.28-m granite boulder with 203 miniature carvings, ca.1470 Inca hydraulic model.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Buried city
Sproxton Ditch Ley Buried Settlement
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Sproxton Ditch Ley Buried Settlement in Chiapas, Mexico is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) buried city attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Archaeological wonder
Takalik Abaj
Preclassic to Classic Olmec–Maya transition 800 BCE–900 CE · Olmec to Maya (K'iche' Pacific)
Olmec-Maya transition site with earliest Long Count stela 126 CE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Bazi
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) · Euphrates EB – Mitanni
Early–Middle Bronze (2600–1600 BCE) Euphrates EB – Mitanni tell at Raqqa Governorate, Tabqa Dam zone – twin northern town with tell banat across euphrates branch (dims 15 ha northern citadel with Mittani temple).
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Ziggurat of Borsippa (Biris Nimrud)
Old Babylonian to Neo-Babylonian (Hammurabi to Nebuchadnezzar II peak 605–562 BCE) · Babylonian (Borsippa)
Mighty 7-stage ziggurat dedicated to Nabu (god of writing, son of Marduk), rival to Babylon's Etemenanki as 'Temple that Exalts Nabu' E-zida.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Babylon
Old Babylonian to Neo-Babylonian and Hellenistic (1894 BCE–141 BCE; monumental peak Nebuchadnezzar II 604–562 BCE) · Babylonian / Assyrian / Persian / Hellenistic
Capital of Babylonian empire (1894 BCE–539 BCE) on Euphrates, Babylon at its greatest under Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar II (604–562 BCE): Processional Way, Ishtar Gate (glazed brick dragons and…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Dhulikatta — Buddhist Stupa Fort
Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) · Satavahana
Dhulikatta — Buddhist Stupa Fort in Telangana, Karimnagar, India is a Early Historic (300 BCE–200 CE) temple complex attributed to Satavahana culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Hacılar Höyük
Neolithic–Chalcolithic (7040–5400 BCE) · Hacılar culture (Lake District)
Neolithic–Chalcolithic (7040–5400 BCE) Hacılar culture (Lake District) tell at Burdur Province, Lake District – painted pottery type-site with burnt houses (dims Mound 150×120 m, 9 m Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic).
🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Temple complex
Halud Vihara — Naogaon
Early Medieval (8th–9th c. CE) · Pala Empire
Halud Vihara — Naogaon in Naogaon District, Rajshahi, Bangladesh is a Early Medieval (8th–9th c. CE) temple complex attributed to Pala Empire culture.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Megalith
Khirigsuur Burial Complexes
Late Bronze Age (~1400–700 BCE) · Khirigsuur culture (Mongolian pastoralist)
Mounded circular stone platforms 2–20 m diameter surrounded by rectangular or polygonal enclosures with four cardinal knolls, often associated with deer stones and slab burials.
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Messak Settafet Rock Art
Neolithic Pastoral ~8000–2000 BP · Pastoral Neolithic Saharan
Fezzan escarpment's elephant and giraffe engravings marking Holocene Sahara greening.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Ancient city
Nineveh
Neolithic to Abbasid (6000 BCE–present; Assyrian capital 705–612 BCE) · Assyrian / Babylonian / Persian / Hellenistic / Parthian
Great Assyrian capital under Sennacherib (705–681 BCE) extended by Ashurbanipal (668–630 BCE), Nineveh at fall (612 BCE) was world's largest city (~15 km walls, 100,000 inhabitants).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Ancient city
Otrar Ancient Settlement
Kangju to Karakhanid to Mongol to Timurid · Sogdian / Turkic / Karakhanid / Mongol
Silk Road ghost city in Otrar Oasis at Syr Darya–Arys confluence, occupied 1st c. CE–18th c., apex 10th–12th c. as caravan metropolis of 10 ha citadel + 40 ha shakhristan.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Geoglyph
Plain Geoglyph
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Plain Geoglyph in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) geoglyph attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
Pueblo Grande de Nevada (Lost City)
Ancestral Pueblo Virgin branch Basketmaker III–Pueblo II · Ancestral Pueblo (Virgin Anasazi / Ancestral Pueblo)
100-room Virgin Anasazi pueblo complex partly drowned by Lake Mead, 300 BCE–1150 CE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient village
Tell Ramad — Mount Hermon Piedmont Neolithic Village
PPNB to Late Neolithic (8200–5300 BCE) · PPNB → Pottery Neolithic Yaumoukian /Halaf
PN white-ware hill village 7000 BCE — Veisselle Blanche & deformed skulls (Contenson).
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Megalith
Tre Wall Dolmen
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Tre Wall Dolmen in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Classical culture.
🇨🇦 Canada · Tumulus
Tumulus of Hill Aber
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Tumulus of Hill Aber in British Columbia, Canada is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) tumulus attributed to Roman culture.
🇳🇴 Norway · Megalith
Borre Mound Cemetery
Iron Age–Viking Age (600–900 CE) · Yngling / Vestfold Viking
Largest burial mound cemetery in Nordic Europe, seven monumental mounds (6–45 m diameter, up to 6 m high) and 21 smaller ones along Oslofjord near Horten, traditional burial of Yngling sea-kings…
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Fortress
Bukhara — Ark Citadel East Gate
Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) · Iron Age fortified culture
Bukhara — Ark Citadel East Gate in Bukhara, Ark, Uzbekistan is a Iron Age to Classical (700 BCE–300 CE) fortress attributed to Iron Age fortified culture. …
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Archaeological wonder
Dala Hill
Iron Age to Modern (c. 400–1900 CE; ritual ongoing) · Iron Age (Early Kano) / Hausa / Fulani
Dala Hill (Goron Dutse pair) is Kano's 534-m granite inselberg nucleus where Kano city was founded by Dala Iron Age smiths (c. 400 CE) before Hausa walling, with 999-step stair.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Fortress
Fortress of Kurgan Ton
Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) · Late Bronze Age
Fortress of Kurgan Ton in Catamarca, Argentina is a Late Bronze Age (1550–1050 BCE) fortress attributed to Late Bronze Age culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Furnace Ancient Village
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) · Harappan
Furnace Ancient Village in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Harappan (2600–1900 BCE) ancient village attributed to Harappan culture.