🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Kalbak-Tash III Chuyozy Confluence
Bronze Age to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Pazyryk, Ancient Turk
Promontory at sacred Chuya-Katun confluence with ford-inscription and sun-wheel.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Mané-er-Hroëk Tumulus — Locmariaquer
Middle Neolithic (c.4500–3900 BCE) · Carnac–Morbihan Atlantic Neolithic
Mané-er-Hroëk (Neolithic c.4500–3900 BCE) crowns the Mané-er-Hroëk hill 800 m northeast of Locmariaquer village, a 100-m long trapezoidal passage grave under a 25-m high?
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Mogador (Essaouira) – Phoenician Isle
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c BCE–5th c CE; peak 7th–6th c BCE) · Phoenician / Mauretanian / Portuguese
Tiny purple island with earliest Atlantic Phoenician 7th c BCE outpost for murex dye – 'Tyr's Atlantic anchor'.
🇮🇹 Italy · Megalith
Nuraghe Arrubiu Bastion D Annex
Bronze Age (1800-800 BCE) · Nuragic Culture
Nuraghe Arrubiu Bastion D Annex in Sardinia, Nuoro, Italy is a Bronze Age (1800-800 BCE) megalithic attributed to Nuragic Culture.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Qatna Buried Royal Palace East Wing Hydraulic
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Qatna Buried Royal Palace East Wing Hydraulic in Homs, Qatna, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Quebrada Santo Domingo Geoglyphs
Late Formative to Early Intermediate (Salinar–Recuay) · Salinar / Recuay (Pashash)
40+ Salinar–Recuay cleared-pavement geoglyphs (500 BCE–400 CE) on Santa Valley quebrada fans.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Submerged site
Shabwa – Hadramawt Incense Harbour, Yemen
Qatabanian to Himyarite (c. 700 BCE – 400 CE) · Hadrami South Arabian / Himyarite
Incense road river harbour 200 m silted in Wadi Hadramawt – warehouses sealed 4th c. Himyar sack.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient city
Trà Kiệu (Simhapura)
Champa Simhapura 4–10 c. CE → Vietnamese 982 CE conquest · Cham (Austronesian Hindu-Buddhist, Shaiva)
Capital of Champa (Simhapura, Lion City, c.4–10 c. CE) at Trà Kiệu, Quảng Nam — massive 500×350 m (17.5 ha) brick-walled citadel (Chinese qiāng) with 5 gates, citadel-temple complex, and Vũ-điều…
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Lost city
Upano — Kilamope East Plateau Lidar City (Sangay / Upano Valley)
Formative to Regional Development (c.500 BCE – 800 CE) · Kilamope / Upano cultures
Upano Valley eastern plateau lidar city 12 km east of Sangay — twin platforms, 20 mounds and causeway-field grid 500 BCE–800 CE.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Megalith
Aksum Stele Park Gudit Terrace Annex
Classical (100 BCE-800 CE) · Aksumite
Aksum Stele Park Gudit Terrace Annex in Tigray, Aksum, Ethiopia is a Classical (100 BCE-800 CE) megalithic attributed to Aksumite.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Chiza Valley Geoglyphs
Late Intermediate San Miguel-Gentilar · Tarapaca-Arica-Altiplano caravan continuum
70+ Chiza quebrada geoglyphs (800-1300 CE) with 25-m marine fish 90 km inland, encoding coast-mountain ideology.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Tomb 72
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Hierakonpolis Locality HK6 Tomb 72 in Luxor, Hierakonpolis, Egypt is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Jabal Wisad South Chain Desert Kites (Southern Basalt Plateau)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Late Neolithic pastoral-hunting
Wisad south kite chain: 7 desert kites (8500–6200 BCE) on Black Desert basalt, 6 km SSE of pools.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient city
Jinsha Archaeological Site
Shu Late Bronze 1200–500 BCE · Shu–Sichuan Basin (successor to Sanxingdui)
Late Bronze Age ritual centre (1200–500 BCE) on Modi River at Chengdu, successor to Sanxingdui after its abrupt collapse c.1200 BCE, preserving elite sacrificial pits, gold foil sun-bird foil (now…
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Julian Mound — Taxila Pyramidal Stupa
Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) · Buddhist Gandhara (Taxila, Kushan, Indo-Greek heritage)
Julian Mound — Taxila Pyramidal Stupa in Punjab, Taxila Valley, Jaulian (Mohre Maliaran, Taxila), Pakistan is a Early Historic to Classical (200 BCE–500 CE, Indo-Greek, Kushan, Gupta) pyramid/mound…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Leptis Magna Market North Portico
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Leptis Magna Market North Portico in Murqub, Leptis Magna, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Monte Albán Tomb 104 AnteChamber
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Monte Albán Tomb 104 AnteChamber in Oaxaca, Monte Albán, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Nahr Al-Kabir Canal (Orontes Coastal Canal, Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi)
Roman Hadrianic to Byzantine Justinian · Roman–Byzantine coastal Levant
Nahr al-Kabir: 3.2-km Roman 2nd-c. canalized river reach on Syria 35.30N coastal plain, Latakia.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Nuri Pyramid Nu 20 Pylon
Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) · Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic)
Nuri Pyramid Nu 20 Pylon in Northern, Nuri, Sudan is a Kushite Period (900 BCE–350 CE) pyramid attributed to Kushite (Napatan–Meroitic).
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Pyramid
Santa Ana-La Florida / Limón Pyramid Platform (Mayo-Chinchipe)
Archaic to Formative (Valdivia parallel) · Mayo-Chinchipe culture (Andean-Amazon)
Upper Amazon-Andean platform Santa Ana-La Florida (5300–2500 BCE) near Limón: 80×80 m stone spiral pyramid-mound with hearth plaza — earliest cacao (3300 BCE) and turquoise trade site.
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient village
Tongo Maaré Diabal
Iron Age to Medieval (350 BCE–1150 CE) · Soninke / Ghana sphere (Mema)
12-ha isolated 11-m tell 350 BCE–1150 CE in Mema with 2.5-m wall and copper jewellery horizon.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Vidisha (Besnagar) and Heliodorus Pillar
Maurya 3 c. BCE → Sunga 187–78 BCE → Gupta 4–6 c. CE · Maurya → Sunga → Indo-Greek → Gupta (Malwa)
Ancient Vidisha (Besnagar) capital with Heliodorus Garuda column (113 BCE) — first Indo-Greek Krishna inscription 6.5 m monolith.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Wadi Zabid Spate Dam (Tihama Spate Outlets)
Islamic Ziyadid to Rasulid (9th–15th c.) · Tihama Ziyadid–Rasulid
Zabid Tihama: 5 earthen ogma spate spurs forming 35 km² delta at UNESCO Zabid 14.20N.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Ashura — Shushtar Gargar Outflow Regulator (Ashura Weir)
Sasanian to Safavid re-use (260 CE Sasanian–1650 Safavid regulation) · Sasanian
Outflow regulator weir (8 m high, 95 m crest) on Gargar Canal 2.1 km downstream of Band-e Gargar–Darian Canal head (already in DB as band-e-gargar-canal) at 45 m elevation.