🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Horvat Qitmit
Iron IIB–C (c.700–600 BCE) · Edomite (with Judean/ Arabian influence)
Iron II Edomite open-air shrine (c.700–600 BCE) on a hilltop in the Negev, excavated by Itzhaq Beit-Arieh. Single-phase...
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Meroë South Cemetery — Pyramid Beg. S.10
Late Napatan to Early Meroitic, c.350–300 BCE · Kushite
South Cemetery pyramid Beg. S.10 (c.350–300 BCE) for Queen (?) Amanislo fragment? 12 m base, heavily eroded sandstone pyramid with mudbrick chapel forecourt.
🇮🇱 Israel · Cave
Nahal Mishmar — Treasure Cave
Chalcolithic (3500 BCE) · Ghassulian
Nahal Mishmar — Treasure Cave in Judean Desert, Dead Sea cliffs, Israel is a Chalcolithic (3500 BCE) cave attributed to Ghassulian culture.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Poverty Point (Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point)
Late Archaic 1700–1100 BCE (peak 1500–1200 BCE) · Poverty Point culture
Late Archaic earthwork complex (1700–1100 BCE) with six concentric C-shaped ridges (1.2 km outer diameter) and six mounds, including 22 m-high Mound A – one of largest Archaic earthworks in North…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Rudston Monolith
Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) · Grooved Ware
Rudston Monolith in East Yorkshire, Wolds, United Kingdom is a Late Neolithic (1600 BCE? — stone older) megalithic attributed to Grooved Ware culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Mevorakh — Coastal Plain
Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian
Tel Mevorakh — Coastal Plain in Sharon Plain, Israel is a Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Khasham — Khabur Frontier Fort
Mittani to Assyrian (1500–600 BCE) · Mittani then Assyrian provincial
Tell Khasham — Khabur Frontier Fort in Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria is a Mittani to Assyrian (1500–600 BCE) tell attributed to Mittani then Assyrian provincial.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Ancient city
Ungwana — Ozi / Tana Delta Ruins
Swahili (12th–17th c. CE) · Swahili (Ozi)
Ungwana — Ozi / Tana Delta Ruins in Tana River County, Kenya is a Swahili (12th–17th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili (Ozi).
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Bagh Caves — Mahishmati Buddhist Vihara
Gupta to Vakataka (380–600 CE) · Buddhist Mahayana
Bagh Caves — Mahishmati Buddhist Vihara in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Gupta to Vakataka (380–600 CE) rock_cut attributed to Buddhist Mahayana. 9 Buddhist rock-cut viharas with 4th c.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Great Wall of China (Ancient Segments)
Warring States to Han Dynasty 7th c BCE – 220 CE (early segments); Ming 1368–1644 (classic brick) · Han Chinese (Qin, Han dynasties)
World's longest wall system (21,196 km including branches) with earliest rammed-earth frontier walls from Warring States and Han (7th c BCE–2nd c CE) preserved in Gansu corridor (Han Dunhuang walls),…
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Jebel Khaled
Hellenistic to Byzantine (c.300 BCE–600 CE; Seleucid foundation 301 BCE) · Seleucid → Roman → Byzantine Euphrates
Seleucid gridded city (301 BCE) on Euphrates east bank — fossil Hellenistic plan at Jebel Khaled.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
La Petaca
Late Intermediate 1000–1470 CE Chachapoya rock art and chullpa-mast tombs · Chachapoyas
High cloud-forest complex at 2950 m southeast of Leimebamba: overhang shelter 30 m long retains 200+ red ochre paintings (anthropomorphs, camelids, geometric) and adjacent rectangular chullpa…
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Temple complex
Sambor Prei Kuk South Group S2 — Yeai Poen
Chenla late (7th c. CE) · Chenla (Bhavavarman II)
Sambor Prei Kuk South Group S2 — Yeai Poen in Kampong Thom Province, Cambodia is a Chenla late (7th c. CE) temple-complex attributed to Chenla (Bhavavarman II).
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Sipán Royal Tombs — Huaca Rajada
Moche Middle (250–400 CE) · Moche (Sipán)
Sipán Royal Tombs — Huaca Rajada in Lambayeque Region, Peru is a Moche Middle (250–400 CE) ancient-city attributed to Moche (Sipán).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Tamgaly Kungei Ridge Sanctuary — Aiyrtau Sun Shrine
Bronze Age to Turkic (1400 BCE – 800 CE) · Andronovo to Saka to Turkic
Ridgetop with shaman drum and deer-headdress plus Saka kurgans.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell el-Ghassil
Middle Bronze to Iron Age (c.1800–600 BCE; 11 levels) · MB IIB → Late Bronze → Iron I–II (Bekaa Canaanite-Phoenician)
Bekaa agrarian tell with 11 levels (1800–600 BCE) and womb-burial inside AREC farm near Baalbek.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Thorikos Theatre and Laurion Mines
Late Neolithic to Roman · Athenian
Thorikos Theatre and Laurion Mines in Attica, Greece is a Late Neolithic to Roman ancient-city attributed to Athenian. Earliest rectilinear theatre (525 BCE) above silver mines that financed Athens.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburbo Minus (Tebourba) – Amphitheatre & Capitol
Roman (1st c BCE – 7th c CE; colony under Hadrian) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis) / Early Christian
Road town on the fertile Medjerda floodplain, Thuburbo Minus became Hadrianic colonia with Capitol, baths, amphitheatre (56×46 m oval) destroyed 1680 for bridge stone, and olive pr...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient village
Tlajinga Workshops — Teotihuacan South
Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) · Teotihuacan
Tlajinga Workshops — Teotihuacan South in Mexico State, Mexico is a Classic to Epiclassic (300–650 CE) ancient-village attributed to Teotihuacan.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Trethevy Quoit — Tremar
Neolithic (3500–3200 BCE) · Penwith chambered
Trethevy Quoit — Tremar in Cornwall, East Cornwall, United Kingdom is a Neolithic (3500–3200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Penwith chambered culture.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Whitehawk Camp
Early Neolithic (3650–3350 BCE) · Neolithic causewayed
Whitehawk Camp in East Sussex, South Coast, United Kingdom is a Early Neolithic (3650–3350 BCE) earthwork attributed to Neolithic causewayed culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Rock shelter
Asprochaliko Rock Shelter
Middle to Upper Palaeolithic · Mousterian / Gravettian
Large limestone rock shelter in the Louros River valley, Epirus, excavated by Higgs (1964) revealing Mousterian to Upper Palaeolithic layers spanning 100,000–26,000 years BP.
🇮🇳 India · Tell
Balathal — Banas Valley Settlement
Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) · Ahar-Banas
Balathal — Banas Valley Settlement in Rajasthan, India is a Chalcolithic to Early Historic (3000 BCE–500 BCE) tell attributed to Ahar-Banas.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Coba Hoyuk
Neolithic–Early Bronze Age (c.6000–2200 BCE) · Amuq → Syro-Cilician
North Amik tell 11 m high (Amuq A–G, Halaf–EB continuity) between Alalakh and Zincirli.