This is a list of notable archaeological sites sorted by country. For one sorted by continent and time period, see the list of archaeological sites sorted by continent and age.
Afghanistan
- Buddhas of Bamyan
- Haji Piyada mosque in Balkh
Albania
National Archeological Parks of Albania:
Other archeological sites:
- Berat (ancient city of Antipatrea)
- Ancient city of Dimal
- Durrës (ancient city of Epidamnos,Dyrrachium)
Armenia
Australia
- Lake Mungo
- Cuddie Springs
- Murujuga or Burrup Peninsula
- Ngarrabullgan
Austria
- Burgstallkogel (Sulm valley)
- Sandberg Celtic city
- Großmugl
- Carnuntum
- Vindobona
- Iuvavum
- Flavia Solva
- Virunum
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Belize
- Altun Ha
- Baking Pot
- Cahal Pech
- Caracol
- Cerros
- Colha
- Lamanai
- Lubaantun
- Northern River Lagoon
- Nim Li Punit
- Uxbenka
- Xunantunich
Bolivia
- Chanapata
- Chiripa
- Tiahuanaco
Botswana
Bulgaria
Cambodia
Canada
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
- Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
- Whiteshell Provincial Park
- Xá:ytem
Czech Republic
- Mladec (Mladeč) - Homo 31.000 years ago
- Dolni Vestonice settlement
Chile
- Easter Island: Rano Raraku, Orongo Village, etc.
- Monte Verde
- Fell Cave, Pali Aike and other sites in Patagonia
- Pukaras: Turi, Quitor, Camiña, Nama, etc.
- Villages: Caserones, Tulor, etc.
- Cementeries: Faldas del Morro, Camarones 14, Cuchipuy, Chacayes, El Mercurio, Bypass Temuco, etc.
China
- An Yang
- Banpo, a Neolithic site
- Bashidang
- Caoxieshan
- Chang'an, an ancient capital
- Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian, near Beijing
- Terracotta Army, near Xian
Colombia
- San Agustín archeological park
- National Archeological Park of Tierradentro
- Ciudad Perdida, in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
- Malagana
- Bogotá early animal domestication site, and Muisca
- La Pitia
- Monsu
- Puerto Hormiga
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Denmark
Ecuador
- Agua Blanco
- Cerro Narrio
- El Encanto
- Machallla
- Real Alto
- Valdivia
Egypt
- Abu Simbel
- Abydos
- Alexandria
- Amarna
- Colossi of Memnon
- Deir al-Madinah
- Deir el-Bahri
- Edfu
- Esna
- Giza
- Heliopolis
- Karnak Temple
- Kom Ombo Temple
- Luxor Temple
- Oxyrhynchus
- Philae
- Ramesseum
- Tanis
- Valley of the Kings
Estonia
- Rebala
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
- Aegina
- Argos
- Athens
- Bassae
- Chios
- Corfu
- Corinth
- Crete
- Delphi
- Delos
- Dodona
- Elis
- Epidaurus theater
- Gournia
- Gythium theater
- Hellenikon, Greek Pyramid
- Heraion of Samos
- Kechries
- Knossos
- Kos
- Lindos
- Milos
- Mount Athos
- Mycenae
- Mystras
- Naxos
- Nemea
- Nicopolis
- Olympia
- Orchomenos
- Perachora
- Phaistos
- Philippi
- Pydna
- Pylos
- Pythagoreion of Samos
- Salonica
- Samothrace temple complex
- Sounion
- Sparta
- Sicyon
- Thebes
- Tiryns
- Vergina
- Walled City of Rhodes
Guatemala
Honduras
Hong Kong
- Wong Tei Tung (Sam Chung), Late Palaeolithic
Hungary
India
- Acheulean site of Chirki-on-Pravara
- Adichanallur[1]
- Arikamedu
- Birhana
- Dholavira The Ancient Metropolitan City.
- Jaugada Mauryan fort site
- Kharligarh Ancient ruined fort
- Kulpahar site of 10th century remains
- Lothal
- Rewari site of a large hoard of copper artefacts
- Sisupalgarh Mauryan fort site
Indonesia
Iran
- Apadana
- Choqa Zanbil
- Ecbatana
- Ganj Par
- Gorgan
- Jondi Shapur
- Ka'ba-i Zartosht
- Kashafrud
- Naqsh-e Rustam
- Pasargadae
- Persepolis
- Soltaniyeh
- Susa
- Takht-i-Suleiman
- Tang-e Bolaghi
- Taq-e Bostan
Iraq
Israel
- Ashkelon, an ancient Canaanite and Philistine city.
- Bethsaida
- Beth Shean
- Caesarea Maritima
- Capernaum
- Et-Tell
- Gezer
- Gibeon
- Hippos
- Jericho
- Jerusalem, particularly the Temple Mount
- Lachish
- Megiddo
- Neve David
- Ramat Rahel
- Tel Arad
- Tel Dan
Italy
- Agrigento
- Agrigentum
- Asti
- Calabria
- Campania
- Caulonia
- Croton
- Erice
- Forum Romanum
- Forlì - Monte Poggiolo
- Giardini Naxos
- Herculaneum
- Isernia La Pineta
- Lazio
- Locri
- Morgantina
- Mozia
- Ostia Antica
- Piemonte
- Pompeii
- Rome
- Rhegion
- Sardinia
- Segesta
- Selinunte
- Sibari
- Sicily
- Siracusa
- Suasa
- Taormina
- Turin
- Tusculum
- Trapani
- Villa Romana del Casale
- Veleia, Piacenza
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Malaysia
- Niah Caves
- Sungai Tingkayu
- Kota Tampan
- Lenggong
- Bujang Valley
Mali
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
- Xagħra Stone Circle
Mexico
- Bonampak
- Cacaxtla
- Calakmul
- Chichen Itza
- Coba
- Cuello early agricultural site.
- Ek' Balam
- Guila Naquitz early agricultural site.
- Mitla
- Monte Albán
- Palenque
- El Tajín
- Tamaulipas early agricultural site.
- Teotihuacan
- Tlapacoya
- Tlatelolco
- Tulum
- Uxmal
- Xochicalco
Micronesia
Morocco
New Zealand
- Te Wairoa - Maori village buried by volcanic eruption in the 1880s
Norway
- Borg in Lofoten a Viking Age longhouse site
- Borre mound cemetery, a Merovingian cemetery
- Gokstad ship burial
- Oseberg ship burial
- Tune ship burial
Pakistan
Palau
- Aemiliik Site
Panama
- Cerro Mangote
- Monagrillo
Peru
- Acaray
- Ancon agricultural domestication.
- Ayacucho agricultural and animal domestication.
- Buena Vista
- Chanuachi Nazca
- Caral
- Chan Chan
- Chavin de Huantar
- Chilca agricultural domestication.
- Choquequirao
- Cumbe Mayo
- Cuzco
- Huari
- Guitarrero Cave agricultural domestication.
- Jiskairumoko
- Junin animal domesication.
- Kuelap
- Lauricocha animal domesication.
- Machu Picchu
- Moche
- Nazca
- Ocucaje Nazca
- Ollantaytambo
- Pacheco Nazca
- Pachacamac
- Palpa Nazca
- Paracas Nazca
- Pikillaqta Huari.
- Pikimachay
- Písac
- Sacsayhuamán
- Sillustani
- Sipán
- Tambo Colorado
- Teojate Nazca
- Tiwanaku
- Túcume
- Wari ruins
- Yauca Nazca.
Poland
- Biskupin Iron Age
- Giecz Middle Ages
- Krzemionki Opatowskie Neolith
- Odry Iron Age
- Ostrów Lednicki Middle Ages
Portugal
- Conimbriga
- Fonte do Milho
- São João de Valinhas
Republic of Ireland
Republic of Macedonia
- Ohrid
- Stobi
- Heraclea Lyncestis
- Vardarski Rid
- Astibo
- Bargala
- Scupi
- Viničko Kale
- Veluška Tumba
- Tumba (Skopje)
- Trebeništa
- St. Erazmo
- Kokino
- Estipeon
- Bylazora
- Bara Tumba
- Antique Theatre
Romania
Russian archaeology
- Arkaim - Proto-Aryans
- Ipatovo - Proto-Indo-Europeans
- Kriove Ozero - Proto-Aryans
- Ladoga - Vikings/Russians
- Maykop - Proto-Indo-Europeans
- Novgorod - Vikings/Russians
- Pazyryk - Scythians
- Sarkel - Khazars
- Sintashta - Proto-Aryans
- Tanais - Ancient Greeks
- Tmutarakan - Greeks/Khazars/Russians
Serbia
Spain
- Altamira Cave
- Talayotic sites
Sultanate of Oman
- Amlah burial ground
- Lizq fortified mountain settlement
- Ras al-Jins settlement and burial area
- Samad al-Shan burial area
- Shir burial ground
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Thailand
Tunisia
Turkey
- Aphrodisias
- Aspendos
- Aigai
- Akdamar Island
- Akhisar
- Alabanda
- Alaca Höyük
- Alalakh
- Alexandria Troas
- Alinda (Caria)
- Alişar
- Allianoi
- Amuk, Antakya
- Anastasian Wall
- Ani
- Antigonia (Syria)
- Antioch
- Antioch on the Maeander
- Antioch, Pisidia
- Antiochia Lamotis
- Antiochia ad Cragum
- Antiochia ad Pyramum
- Antiochia, Lydia
- Apamea (Phrygia)
- Apamea Myrlea
- Aphrodisias
- Apros
- Ariassos
- Arycanda
- Attalia
- Çatalhöyük
- Çayönü
- Cebrene
- Ceramus
- Corycus
- Cremna, Pisidia
- Çatalhöyük ceramic Neolithic
- Digda
- Dorylaeum
- Edessa, Mesopotamia
- Ephesus
- Elaiussa Sebaste
- Emirdağ
- Epiphania, Cilicia
- Euromus
- Göbekli Tepe PPN A
- Gordium
- Hasankeyf
- Hacilar
- Harran
- House of the Virgin Mary
- Hoşap Castle
- Iopolis
- Ivriz
- Hattusa
- Smyrna
- Kerkenes
- Knidos
- Kadirli
- Kaman-Kalehoyuk
- Karaman
- Karatepe
- Kestel
- Kültepe
- Kuşaklı
- Kuştul Monastery
- Magnesia on the Maeander
- Miletus
- Nevali Cori PPN A
- Olympos
- Patara
- Perga
- Pergamon
- Panionium
- Pednelissus, Pisidia
- Pepuza
- Phaselis
- Pinarbaşi Gölü
- Pompeiopolis
- Sagalassos
- Sardis
- Samosata
- Sapinuwa
- Seleucia (Pamphylia)
- Seleucia Pieria
- Seleucia Sidera
- Selge, Pisidia
- Skepsis
- Stratonicea (Lydia)
- Sümela Monastery
- Tell Tayinat
- The classical city of Metropolis
- Tille
- Toprakkale
- Tripolis (Phrygia)
- Trocmades
- Tushhan
- Tyana
- Termessos
- Troy Neolithic to Byzantine
- Xanthos
- Yazılıkaya
- Yeşilova Höyük
- Zeugma
- Zincirli
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
United Kingdom
- Avebury
- Aviation Archaeolgy
- Bignor
- Caerleon
- Callanish
- Calleva Atrebatum
- Castell Henllys
- Chedworth Roman Villa
- Chew Stoke
- Chysauster
- Cladh Hallan
- Dan Y Coed
- Danebury
- Duggleby Howe
- Eildon Hill North
- Emain Macha
- Fishbourne
- Flag Fen
- Gough's Cave
- Grimes Graves
- Hadrian's wall
- Hen Domen
- Ironbridge
- JORVIK Viking Centre
- Kirkstall Abbey
- Little Woodbury
- Lullingstone
- Maeshowe
- Mine Howe
- Mother Grundy's Parlour
- Nempnett Thrubwell
- Normanton Down
- Paviland Cave
- Pixie's Hole
- Quanterness
- Ring of Brogar
- Seahenge
- Silbury Hill
- Skara Brae
- Stanton Drew
- Star Carr
- Stonehenge
- Sutton Hoo
- Trelech
- Trimontium
- Ulva Cave
- Verulamium
- Vindolanda
- Windmill Hill
- Woodhenge
- Wroxeter
- Yeavering
- York
United States
- Cahokia
- Calico Early Man Site
- Casa Grande
- Castle Hill in Sitka, Alaska
- Center for American Archeology, Koster Site
- Chaco Canyon
- Crystal River in Crystal River, Florida
- Gungywamp in Groton, Connecticut
- Jamestown
- La Brea Tar Pits
- Lubbock Lake Landmark
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter
- Mesa Verde
- Serpent Mound
- Snaketown
- St. Mary's City, Maryland
- Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center, in Ponce, Puerto Rico
- Topper Site in Allendale, South Carolina
- Williamsburg
- Whydah Gally, site of extensive underwater archaeology
Uzbekistan
Yemen
Zimbabwe
References
The Times 2001, Archaeology of the World, Edited by Chris Scarre, Harper Collins Publishers, London. ISBN 0 7230 1032 3
