🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Dolmen de Viera
Neolithic – Early Copper Age (c.3850–3000 BCE) · Antequera Chalcolithic / Alcoreños
Antequera World Heritage (70 m from Menga) — 21 m corridor dolmen with 27 orthostats and equinox orientation.
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🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Warring States to Western Han · Luoyue / Zhuang ancestors
North Mingjiang tributary cliffs with 210 frog-men and scaffold postholes.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic – Early Copper Age (c.3850–3000 BCE) · Antequera Chalcolithic / Alcoreños
Antequera World Heritage (70 m from Menga) — 21 m corridor dolmen with 27 orthostats and equinox orientation.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic – Early Bronze Age (c.2500–2000 BCE) · Late Neolithic / Chalcolithic Peak District
2.2 m leaning gritstone monolith on Gardom's Edge — purported Neolithic seasonal sundial on Peak District scarp.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Northern Annex in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late to LN (7000–5500 BCE) · Ithnayn twin-cone pass trappers (Maitland–Kheshabiyeh fringe)
6 pass-straddling kites 740 m: 900 m walls ascend 38° cone slopes to dual opposing pens in 420 m col — only ridge-break kite system.
🇷🇸 Serbia · Ancient village
Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) · Lepenski Vir Culture
Lepenski Vir Terrace Lower Dwelling 12 — Southern Extension in Danube Gorge, Donji Milanovac, Serbia is a Mesolithic-Neolithic (7000-5000 BCE) ancient village attributed to Lepenski Vir Culture.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (575 BCE – 500 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Eastern Strait toll harbour of Patrai on Kerch Strait — 60 m quay at –1.8 m and customs house.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Early Modern on Iron Age antecedent (Achaemenid wad?) · Baloch / Brahui oasis with Afghan karez diffusion
Balochistan karez (fog-qanat) field (1,680 m, 30°12′N 67°03′E 30.20,67.05) in Pishin Lora valley between Khwaja Amran and Takht-i-Sulaiman ranges; twin karez Tara (1.8 km) and Burj (2.3 km) with…
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Early Iron Age (Jastorf / La Tène) · North German Early Iron Age
Dual Iron Age bog trackways (25 m asl) southeast through Wittmoor (Moor 53°42′00″N 10°04′10″E 53.699984N 10.069399E per Wikipedia No II 1904 Wolff discovery) and parallel No I 500 m northeast.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Khwarazmian Late Islamic 1210 CE (Birjand) · Khwarazmian South Khorasan Birjand oasis
South Darreh arch-gravity 42 m × 18.2 m 8 m radius: conjunctive wadi+qanat 28,000 m³ south branch with cistern 8 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Southern Foul Bay lagoon of Berenike behind Ras Benas — gypsum quay at –1.5 m and elephant ramp.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Southern Foul Bay lagoon of Berenike behind Ras Benas — gypsum quay at –1.5 m and elephant ramp.
🇵🇪 Peru · Temple complex
Late Preceramic – Initial Period (c.3500–1200 BCE) Andes · Norte Chico – Chavín-related Late Preceramic
Buena Vista in the middle Chillón Valley is a Late Preceramic fox-temple pyramid famous for its precocious solstice astronomy.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Iron Age to Modern (Hafit to Islamic) · Hajar oasis (Magan to Islamic)
Cross-border aflaj network (320 m, 24°15′N 55°45′E Buraimi) extending the UNESCO Aflaj Irrigation Systems of Oman (1207, 2006) from Nizwa-Sharqiyah to the Hajar-Buraimi piedmont.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Medieval (5000 BCE – 1000 CE) · Egyptian / Greek / Roman / Coptic
Thoth capital 2.5 km enclosure — Bahr Yussef-Nile confluence harbour 400x80 m for ibis mummies and Book of Dead papyri.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (c.1100–1400 CE) Southern Sinagua Classic · Sinagua
Montezuma Castle – neither castle nor Aztec – is North America's best-preserved cliff dwelling, inset 30 m up a vertical limestone cliff above Beaver Creek in Verde Valley, Arizona.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan · Ancient city
Namazga I–VI 4000–1800 BCE (Chalcolithic to Bronze Age) · Anau–Namazga oasis civilization (Pre-BMAC Kopet)
Bronze Age mega-tell and type-site for Namazga chronology (c.4000–1800 BCE) near the Tejen River fan 100 km east of Ashgabat — 50 ha tepe (largest in Turkmenistan) with 30 m stratigraphy (Namazga…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (647 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek / Scythian
Southern Black Sea harbour of Olbia Pontica below acropolis — 140 m curved mole at –1.8 m.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Early Middle Ages (c.650–920 CE, Great Moravian peak 830–900) · Great Moravia (Mojmirid dynasty)
Pohansko Great Moravian Centre (Břeclav) in South Moravia, Břeclav district, Pohansko by Dyje river, Czech Republic is a Early Middle Ages (c.650–920 CE, Great Moravian peak 830–900) Great Moravia…
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (580 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan
Southern spit harbour of Porthmion on Chushka South — 55 m piled quay at –1.8 m and guard mole.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic (Rhodian Peraia) · Rhodian Greeks (Dorian)
Rhodian Peraia harbour sanctuary Doric 6×11 closing Bozukbuk bay opposite Rhodes.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Incipient Jomon (12000) → Early Jomon 8000–6000 BCE (Jomon lakeshore forager) · Jomon (Lake Biwa Incipient–Early Jomon)
Incipient–Early Jomon lakeshore shell midden (c.12000–6000 BCE) on Lake Biwa eastern bank at Awazu, Otsu — 0.8 ha freshwater shell mound (Seta shijimi clam) excavated 1962–86 by Shiga Prefecture,…
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Tang to Southern Song · Late Tang to Song Sichuan Buddhist (Wei Junjing to Zhao Zhifeng line)
UNESCO Beishan's 290-niche scholar's cliff 2 km north of Dazu with Song filial piety reliefs.
🇲🇽 Mexico (Gulf phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1539 charted – 2009 official de-listing) · Spanish cartography / Mexican hydrography / US Navy
Gulf phantom island charted 453 years (1539–2009) whose vanishing cost Mexico's EEZ hydrocarbon claim.
