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This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country and territories. For one sorted by continent and time period, see the list of archaeological sites by continent and age.

Contents

Cambodia

  • Siemreap:
  • Angkor City covers a large portion of Siemreap
  • Ak Yum
  • Angkor Thom
  • Baphuon
  • Bayon
  • Khleangs North
  • Khleangs South
  • Phimeanakas
  • Prasat Suor Prat - 12 Towers
  • Preah Palilay
  • Preah Pithu
  • Terrace of the Elephants
  • Terrace of the Leper King
  • Angkor Wat
  • Baksei Chamkrong
  • Banteay Kdei
  • Banteay Samre
  • Banteay Srei
  • Bat Chum
  • Beng Mealea
  • Chau Say Tevoda
  • East Baray
  • East Mebon
  • Kbal Spean - riverbed/underwater carvings
  • Neak Pean
  • Phnom Bakheng
  • Phnom Bok
  • Phnom Kulen
  • Phnom Krom
  • Pre Rup
  • Preah Khan
  • Roluos
  • Bakong
  • Lolei
  • Preah Ko
  • Spean Thma
  • Ta Nei
  • Ta Prohm
  • Ta Som
  • Thommanon
  • West Baray
  • West Mebon
  • Kampong Cham:
  • Banteay Prei Nokor
  • Kampong Thom:
  • Prasat Phum Prasat
  • Sambor Prei Kuk
  • Kandal:
  • Oudong a.k.a. Phnom Preah Reach Top
  • Preah Vihear:
  • Wat Phnom
  • Wat Ounalom
  • Koh Ker
  • Preah Ponlea a.k.a. Palais or Prasat Srot
  • Preah Khan Kompong Svay a.k.a. Preah Bakan
  • Preah Vihear
  • Battambang:
  • Wat Ek Phnom
  • Takeo:
  • Angkor Borei
  • Phnom Chiso
  • Chile

  • Easter Island:
  • Rano Raraku
  • Orongo Village
  • Monte Verde
  • Fell Cave
  • Pali Aike
  • Pucarás:
  • Quitor
  • Camiña
  • Tulor
  • Chan-Chan
  • China

  • An Yang
  • Banpo, a Neolithic site
  • Bashidang
  • Chang'an, an ancient capital
  • Chengtoushan
  • Daming Palace National Heritage Park
  • Gallery road
  • Jiahu
  • Lajia
  • Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian, near Beijing
  • Sanxingdui
  • Terracotta Army, near Xian
  • Tianlongshan Grottoes
  • Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King, Guangzhou
  • Yinxu
  • Colombia

  • San Agustín archeological park
  • National Archeological Park of Tierradentro
  • Ciudad Perdida, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
  • Malagana
  • El Abra, Bogotá. Muisca early animal domestication site
  • Puerto Hormiga archaeological site
  • Villa de Leyva. El Infiernito archaeological site
  • El morro del tulcán
  • Costa Rica

  • Guayabo
  • Croatia

  • Aquae Iasae
  • Burnum
  • Monkodonja
  • Narona
  • Nesactium
  • Pula Arena
  • Starčevo culture
  • Stari Grad Plain
  • Cyprus

  • Antiphonitis
  • Enkomi
  • Idalium
  • Khirokitia
  • Klimonas
  • Kykkos Monastery
  • Notre Dame de Tyre
  • Panagia Apsinthiotissa
  • Paphos
  • Pyla-Kokkinokremnos
  • Salamis
  • Czech Republic

  • Mladec (Mladeč) - Homo 31.000 years ago
  • Dolni Vestonice settlement
  • Denmark

  • Aggersborg
  • Fyrkat
  • Klekkende Høj
  • Lindholm Høje
  • Randlev and Hesselbjerg
  • Skuldelev ships
  • Ecuador

  • Agua Blanca
  • Ingapirca
  • Tumebamba
  • Valdivia
  • Cochas ki
  • Egypt

    Amarna

  • Colossi of Memnon
  • Deir el-Medina
  • Deir el-Bahri
  • Edfu
  • Esna
  • Giza
  • Heliopolis
  • Karnak Temple
  • Kom Ombo Temple
  • Luxor Temple
  • Oxyrhynchus
  • Philae
  • Ramesseum
  • Tanis
  • Valley of the Kings
  • ismailia canal
  • El Salvador

  • Cara Sucia
  • Joya de Cerén
  • Quelepa
  • San Andrés
  • Tazumal
  • Estonia

  • Pulli settlement
  • Rebala
  • Finland

  • Astuvansalmi
  • Ukonkivi
  • Wolf Cave
  • France

  • Grotte du Vallonnet
  • Terra Amata
  • Chauvet Cave
  • Lascaux
  • Glanum
  • Glozel
  • Carnac
  • Georgia

  • Armazi
  • Dmanisi
  • Nokalakevi
  • Vani
  • Germany

  • Bilzingsleben
  • Hirschlanden
  • Königsaue
  • Pfahlbau Museum Unteruhldingen
  • Federsee
  • Honduras

  • Copán
  • El Puente
  • Hong Kong

  • Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb
  • Stone Circles
  • Wong Tei Tung, Late Palaeolithic
  • Hungary

  • Aquincum
  • Üllő5
  • India

  • Ajanta Caves
  • Acheulean site of Chirki-on-Pravara
  • Adichanallur
  • Aihole
  • Arikamedu
  • Badami
  • Barabar Caves Oldest Rock-cut cave of India.
  • Bhimbetka
  • Birhana
  • Burzahom archaeological site
  • Dholavira The Ancient Metropolitan City.
  • Edakkal Caves Possible influence of Indus Valley Civilization in Kerala.
  • Ellora Caves
  • Jaugada Mauryan fort site
  • Jwalapuram
  • Kharligarh Ancient ruined fort
  • Konark Sun Temple
  • Kulpahar site of 10th century remains
  • Lothal
  • Nalanda Largest University of Ancient Time & one of the oldest
  • Mahaballipuram
  • Pattanam (South India)
  • Rewari site of a large hoard of copper artefacts
  • Sisupalgarh Mauryan fort site
  • Vikramshila
  • Indonesia

  • Batujaya Archaeological Site
  • Borobudur
  • Bukit Kerang
  • Pugung Raharjo
  • Sangiran
  • Trowulan
  • Trinil
  • Iran

  • Alamut
  • Apadana
  • Arg-é Bam
  • Bishapur
  • Bisitun
  • Blue Mosque, Tabriz
  • Damghan
  • Darband Cave
  • Choqa Zanbil
  • Ecbatana
  • Firuzabad
  • Ganj Par
  • Ganj Dareh
  • Golestan Palace
  • Gorgan
  • Hajji Firuz Tepe
  • Izadkhvast
  • Silk Road
  • Taq-e Bostan
  • Hasanlu Tepe
  • Jameh Mosque of Isfahan
  • Jiroft civilization
  • Jondi Shapur
  • Ka'ba-i Zartosht
  • Kashafrud
  • Kunji Cave
  • Masuleh
  • Meybod
  • Naqsh-e Rajab
  • Naqsh-e Rustam
  • Pasargadae
  • Persepolis
  • Qaleh Bozi Caves
  • Shahr-e Sukhteh
  • Soltaniyeh
  • Susa
  • Takht-i-Suleiman
  • Tang-e Bolaghi
  • Taq-e Bostan
  • Warwasi
  • Iraq

  • Al-Mada'in (Taq-i Kisra's ruins)
  • Al-Qurnah
  • Babylon
  • Baghdad
  • Hatra
  • Isin
  • Jarmo
  • Nimrud
  • Nineveh
  • Samarra
  • Shanidar
  • Tell al-Fakhar
  • Tell Bazmusian
  • Tell Shemshara
  • Ur
  • Zarzi
  • Republic of Ireland

  • Dowth
  • Grianan of Aileach
  • Hill of Tara
  • Innisfallen Abbey
  • Kilcrea Abbey
  • Knowth
  • Monasterboice
  • Newgrange
  • Trim Castle
  • Carrowmore
  • Miosgán Medhbh
  • Skellig Michael
  • Japan

  • Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins
  • Iwajuku
  • Sannai-Maruyama
  • Yoshinogari
  • Jordan

  • 'Ain Ghazal
  • Jerash
  • Madaba mosaic map
  • Petra
  • Jerash
  • Um qais
  • Alazraq
  • Ajlun castle
  • Pella(Tabqet Fahl)
  • Philadelphia(Amman)=Roman Amphitheatre and castle
  • Barashta
  • Beit ras
  • Irbid (el tal)
  • Um Aljmal-Almafraq
  • Salt
  • Kazakhstan

  • Issyk kurgan
  • Otrar
  • Petrovka settlement
  • Türkistan
  • Kyrgyzstan

  • Balasagun
  • Burana
  • Issyk Kul
  • Qoshoy Qorgon
  • Suyab
  • Tash Rabat
  • Uzgen
  • Lebanon

  • Anjar
  • Baalbek (Heliopolis)
  • Byblos
  • sidon
  • nahr el kaleb
  • tyr
  • Libya

  • Leptis Magna
  • Cyrene
  • Apollonia
  • Sabratha
  • Tripoli Medina
  • Germa
  • Derna Medina
  • Ghadames Medina
  • Benghazi Ottoman Palace
  • Waddan Fortress
  • Tolmeita
  • Knightsbridge War Cemetery
  • Macedonia

  • Ohrid
  • Stobi
  • Heraclea Lyncestis
  • Vardarski Rid
  • Astibo
  • Bargala
  • Scupi
  • Stibera
  • Viničko Kale
  • Veluška Tumba
  • Tumba Madžari
  • Trebeništa
  • Saint Erasmus, Ohrid
  • Kokino
  • Estipeon
  • Bylazora
  • Bara Tumba
  • Antique Theatre
  • Malaysia

  • Niah Caves
  • Kota Tampan
  • Lenggong
  • Bujang Valley
  • Mali

  • Timbuktu
  • Malta

  • Clapham Junction - cart ruts
  • Ġgantija Temples - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Ħaġar Qim Temples - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni - prehistoric subterranean structure listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Mnajdra Temples - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Tarxien Temples - listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
  • Xagħra Stone Circle
  • Micronesia

  • Nan Madol
  • Chuuk
  • Mongolia

  • Khoid Tsenkheriin Agui (Northern Cave of Blue): Paleolithic cave drawings
  • Tsagaan Agui (White Cave):Paleolithic cave drawings
  • Kharakhorum, capital of the Mongolian Empire
  • Morocco

  • Lixus
  • Tamuda
  • Volubilis
  • Thamusida
  • Iulia Valentia Banasa
  • Sala Colonia
  • Anfa
  • Msoura
  • Jebel Irhoud
  • Ahl al Oughlam
  • Thymiaterium
  • Taforalt
  • New Zealand

  • Te Wairoa - Maori village buried by volcanic eruption in the 1880s
  • Albert Park tunnels - World War II civilian air raid shelters sealed in 1946
  • Norway

  • Borg in Lofoten, Viking Age longhouse site
  • Borre mound cemetery, cemetery from the Merovingian period to the Viking age
  • Gokstad ship burial
  • Oseberg ship burial
  • Tune ship burial
  • Pakistan

  • Harappa
  • Mehrgarh
  • Mohenjo-daro
  • Taxila
  • Mankiala
  • Lahore Fort
  • Badshahi Mosque
  • Sialkot Fort
  • Ranikot Fort
  • Takht-i-Bahi
  • Rohtas Fort
  • Kot Diji Fort
  • Palau

  • Aimeliik Site
  • Panama

  • Monagrillo
  • Peru

  • Acaray
  • Buena Vista
  • Cahuachi
  • Caral
  • Chan Chan
  • Chankillo
  • Cerro Sechin
  • Chavín de Huantar
  • Choquequirao
  • Cumbe Mayo
  • Guitarrero Cave
  • Las Haldas
  • Huaca de la Luna
  • Jiskairumoko
  • Kuelap
  • Machu Picchu
  • Mojeque
  • Nazca Lines
  • Ollantaytambo
  • Pachacamac
  • Pikillacta
  • Pikimachay
  • Písac
  • Raqch'i
  • Sacsayhuamán
  • Sayhuite
  • Sechin Alto
  • Sechin Bajo
  • Sillustani
  • Sipán
  • Tambo Colorado
  • Tambomachay
  • Túcume
  • Philippines

  • Angono Petroglyphs
  • Banaue Rice Terraces
  • Butuan Archeological Sites
  • Fort Santiago, Manila
  • Fort Pilar, Zamboanga
  • Fort San Pedro, Cebu
  • Intramuros, the Walled City of Manila
  • Kabayan Mummy Burial Caves, Benguet
  • Maranao Settlement of Tugaya
  • Paleolithic Archaeological Sites in the Cagayan Valley
  • Spanish Colonial Fortifications of the Philippines
  • Sagada, Mountain Province
  • Tabon Caves, Palawan
  • Poland

  • Biskupin Iron Age
  • Giecz Middle Ages
  • Krzemionki Opatowskie Neolith
  • Odry Iron Age
  • Ostrów Lednicki Middle Ages
  • Otalążka near Grójec, possibly cult-related
  • Portugal

  • Abul
  • Cabeço do Vouga
  • Castro do Vieito
  • Cemitério das Âncoras
  • Muge Mesolithic Shell Middens
  • Tróia
  • Vila Nova de São Pedro
  • Lapedo Child
  • Qatar

  • Al Da'asa
  • Wadi Debayan
  • Zubarah
  • Romania

  • Acidava (Enoşeşti) - Dacian, Roman
  • Apulon (Piatra Craivii) - Dacian
  • Apulum (Alba Iulia) - Roman, Dacian
  • Argedava (Popeşti) - Dacian, possibly Burebista's court or capital
  • Argidava (Vărădia) - Dacian, Roman
  • Basarabi (Calafat) - Basarabi culture (8th - 7th centuries BC), related to Hallstatt culture
  • Callatis (Mangalia) - Greek colony
  • Capidava - Dacian, Roman
  • Cernavodă - Cernavodă culture, Dacian
  • Coasta lui Damian (Măerişte)
  • Dacian Fortresses of the Orăştie Mountains
  • Drobeta (ancient city) - Roman
  • Giurtelecu Şimleului
  • Histria - Greek colony
  • Lumea Noua (near Alba Iulia) - middle Neolithic to Chalcolithic
  • Napoca (Cluj-Napoca) - Dacian, Roman
  • Peștera cu Oase - the oldest early modern human remains in Europe
  • Porolissum (near Zalău) - Roman
  • Potaissa (Turda) - Roman
  • Sarmizegetusa Regia - Dacian capital
  • Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana - Roman capital of province of Dacia
  • Trophaeum Traiani/Civitas Tropaensium (Adamclisi) - Roman
  • Tomis (Constanţa) - Greek colony
  • Ziridava/Şanţul Mare (Pecica) - Dacian, Pecica culture, 16 archaeological horizons have been distinguished, starting with the Neolithic and ending with the Feudal Age
  • Russia

  • Arkaim - Proto-Aryans
  • Ignateva Cave - Site of Paleolithic cave painting
  • Ipatovo - Proto-Indo-Europeans
  • Krivoye Lake - Proto-Aryans
  • Ladoga - Vikings/Russians
  • Maykop - Proto-Indo-Europeans
  • Pazyryk - Scythians
  • Sarkel - Khazars
  • Sintashta - Proto-Aryans
  • Tanais - Ancient Greeks
  • Tmutarakan - Greeks/Khazars/Russians
  • Ubsunur Hollow - nomadic tribes such as the Scythians, the Turks and the Huns
  • Veliky Novgorod - Vikings/Russians
  • Serbia

    See also: Archaeological sites in Serbia

  • Čurug
  • Gamzigrad-Felix Romuliana (Zaječar)
  • Horreum Margi (Ćuprija)
  • Justiniana Prima (Serbian: Caričin Grad) (Mala Kopasnica)
  • Kalemegdan (Belgrade)
  • Lepenski Vir (Donji Milanovac)
  • Mediana (Niš)
  • Naissus (Niš)
  • Petrovaradin Fortress
  • Pločnik
  • Remesiana (Bela Palanka)
  • Risovačka Cave (Aranđelovac)
  • Rudna Glava
  • Singidunum (Belgrade)
  • Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica)
  • Starčevo
  • Taliata (Donji Milanovac)
  • Taurunum (Zemun)
  • Tašmajdan Park
  • Trajan's Bridge
  • Timacum Minus (Knjaževac)
  • Viminacium (Kostolac)
  • Ulpiana
  • Saudi Arabia

  • Mada'in Saleh
  • Dumat Al-Jandal
  • Marid Castle
  • Tayma
  • Diriyah
  • Al-Balad, Jeddah
  • Dosariyah
  • Gerrha
  • Pharaonic Tayma inscription
  • Tomb of Eve
  • Slovakia

  • Category:Archaeological sites in Slovakia
  • Somalia

  • Surud mountain
  • Gelweyto
  • Laasgeel
  • Maduna
  • Slovenia

  • Ptuj (Roman city Poetovio)
  • Potočka Zijalka (cave - Neolithic)
  • Ljubljansko Barje (Bronz age findings)
  • Ljubljana (Roman city Emona)
  • Vrhnika (World's oldest wheel)
  • South Africa

  • Blombos Cave
  • Border Cave
  • Cango Caves
  • Coopers Cave
  • Duinefontein
  • Gladysvale Cave
  • Hoedjiespunt
  • Kathu Archaeological Sites
  • Klasies River Caves
  • Kromdraai fossil site
  • Makapansgat
  • Mapungubwe
  • Motsetsi
  • Plovers Lake
  • Sterkfontein
  • Swartkrans
  • Sibudu Cave
  • Taung, North West
  • Wonderwerk Cave
  • Spain

  • Baelo Claudia
  • Cave of Altamira
  • Caves of Valeron
  • Empúries
  • Gavà Prehistoric Mines
  • Olèrdola
  • Painted Cave, Galdar
  • Talayotic sites
  • Tarraco
  • Ullastret
  • Sultanate of Oman

  • al-Akhdar settlement and burial area
  • Amlah/al-Fuwaydah burial ground
  • Bawshar settlement and burial area
  • Ibri/Selme tombs, metal hoard
  • Izki settlement and burial area
  • Khor Rori 1st century CE Hadhramaut site
  • Lizq fortified mountain settlement
  • al-Moyassar graves, settlement, copper production
  • Qaryat al-Saiḥ settlement, graves
  • al-Raki settlement and copper production
  • Ras al-Hadd settlement and burial area
  • Ras al-Jins settlement and burial area
  • Samad al-Shan burial area
  • Shir burial ground
  • al-Wasit settlement and burial area
  • Sweden

  • Adelsö
  • Alby
  • Birka
  • Gamla Uppsala
  • Gene fornby
  • Helgö
  • Sigtuna
  • Uppåkra
  • Valsgärde
  • Vasa (ship)
  • Vendel
  • Switzerland

  • La Tène, Iron Age
  • Taiwan

  • Beinan Cultural Park
  • Dulan Site
  • Huilai Monument Archaeology Park
  • Niumatou Site
  • Thailand

  • Ban Chiang
  • Ban Non Wat
  • Tunisia

  • Carthage
  • Turkmenistan

  • Merv
  • Gonur Tepe
  • Ukraine

  • Berezan Island
  • Bilche Zolote
  • Chersonesos
  • Maydanets
  • Olbia
  • Shypyntsi
  • Talianki
  • Trypillia
  • United States

    See also: Archaeological sites in the United States by State

    Uzbekistan

  • Bukhara
  • Samarkand
  • Yemen

  • Ma'rib Capital of the Sabaean empire
  • Zafar Capital of the Himyarite empire
  • Zimbabwe

  • Great Zimbabwe
  • Ziwa
  • Matopos
  • Other historical lists

  • List of archaeoastronomical sites by country
  • List of colossal sculpture in situ
  • List of Egyptian pyramids
  • List of megalithic sites
  • List of Mesoamerican pyramids
  • List of Roman domes
  • List of statues
  • List of statues by height
  • List of the tallest statues in the United States
  • List of largest domes
  • Lists of wars
  • New7Wonders of the World
  • References

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