🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Labyrinth of Hawara
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty c.1860–1814 BCE · Ancient Egyptian (Amenemhat III)
Herodotus's 3000-room labyrinth beside Faiyum now rubble field.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
Longyou Caves
Warring States to Han (~300 BCE – 100 CE; debated) · Yue / early Han Chinese
Twenty-four enormous man-made siltstone caverns rediscovered in 1992 after 2,000 years of siltation, each a single chamber 10–30 m high hewn with chisels that left uniform parallel tooling covering…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Earthwork
Azraq Wheels and Desert Complexes
Late Neolithic to Bronze Age (~5500–2500 BCE; Wheels c.8500 BCE claimed recently) · Levantine Neolithic pastoralist
Scattered across the Azraq lava fields and limestone hammada, geometric Wheels 25–70 m in diameter consist of outer ring, radial spokes and central cairn, often attached to kite tails or isolated on…
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Longyou Grottoes
Warring States to Han (contested) · Yue–Wu contested; possibly Chu or Han
Mystery siltstone quarry silos 30×40 m 10–35 m deep with cavetto walls, 1992 flooded rediscovery.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Marcahuasi Plateau
Late Intermediate to Inca 900–1470 CE for human chullpas; natural rocks Tertiary · Wari-Associates?/Yauyo to Inca; natural geology Tertiary volcanics
4000-m 'stone forest' of giant natural pareidolic rocks and chullpa tombs.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Long Man of Wilmington
Early Modern likely 16th–17th c.; Bronze Age claim unproven · Early Modern British; alternate prehistoric hypothesized
69-m hill figure with staffs on South Downs, enigmatic later date.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Atlantis on Helgoland – Spanuth Heligoland Atlantis
Claimed Bronze Age 2000 BCE vs Doggerland Mesolithic 8000 BCE · Nordic Bronze / Doggerland Mesolithic
Spanuth Helgoland on Dogger Bank — real Doggerland Mesolithic plain 6200 BCE but no palace Recorded context — Period: Claimed Bronze Age 2000 BCE vs Doggerland Mesolithic 8000 BCE; Culture: Nordic…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Sierra de las Quijadas — Potrero Eastern Ridge Outlier Chapels (Potrero East Ridge)
Hypothetical pre-Hispanic to Historic · Hypothetical Huarpe / Historic pastoral
Hypothetical eastern ridge outlier above Potrero — 600 m wall and 6 m circles as pircas.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Pedra do Ingá – Ingá Stone Enigma
Itacoatiara tradition disputed 2000 BCE – 200 CE (no direct date, varve patina) · Indigenous Brazilian Itacoatiara / Agreste rock-art tradition
24 m gneiss wall with 400 spirals claimed Orion map and Phoenician writing — rock art with fringe lost-tech overlay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Megalith
Nabta Playa Astronomical Site
Early Holocene Neolithic (~7500–3500 BCE) · Nubian Neolithic pastoralist (El Nabta culture)
Beside a fossil playa that filled during the African Humid Period, nomads erected a 5-m mini-Stonehenge of quartzite slabs and radial lines pointing to summer solstice sunrise and to Sirius/Arcturus.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Pedra Furada Rock Art
Pleistocene to Early Holocene · Nordeste Tradition (early Amerind)
Capivara arch shelter heart of 1,150-painting Nordeste tradition with pre-Clovis debate hearths.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Serra da Capivara Rock Art
Upper Paleolithic to early Holocene (~25,000 BCE – 2000 BCE disputed; art ~9000 BCE onward) · Paleoindian / early Nordeste tradition; Pedra Furada phase
Semiarid caatinga plateau with over 400 painted shelters bearing perhaps 30,000 figures, among the densest and most narrative rock-art landscapes in the Americas.
🇯🇵 Japan · Megalith
Yonaguni Monument
Geological: Early Miocene sandstone (20 Ma) formation; if artificial, claimed Jomon or earlier (10,000–2000 BCE) · Disputed – natural geology vs hypothetical Jomon / lost Pacific civilization
Submerged sandstone formation off Yonaguni Island discovered 1986 featuring stepped terraces up to 27 m high, flat surfaces and apparent right angles at 25–30 m depth, extending ~150×40 m.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Megalith
Gunung Padang
Late prehistory to early classical; accepted 2000 BCE–1500 CE oral claims; controversial Pleistocene claim 25,000 BCE · Austronesian / Sundanese prehistoric; possibly pre-Hindu Javanese
Stepped hilltop punden berundak (terraced pyramid) with five basalt column terraces, retaining walls and standing stones covering 150×45 m at 885 m elevation; upper structures dated 45 BCE–22 CE,…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Black Sea Deluge Atlantis – Ryan–Pitman Noah–Atlantis Flood Hypothesis
Claimed 5600 BCE flood (gradual 9000–7000) · Neolithic / Oceanography
Ryan–Pitman 5600 BCE catastrophic Black Sea flood claimed Atlantis — cores show gradual 9000–7000 Recorded context — Period: Claimed 5600 BCE flood (gradual 9000–7000); Culture: Neolithic /…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Megalith
Zorats Karer (Carahunge)
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (~2000 BCE – 600 BCE; astronomical claims to 5500 BCE disputed) · Kura-Araxes / Trialeti to Urartian (southern Armenian Bronze Age)
221 basalt menhirs 0.5–2.8 m high form a central 45-m ellipse with 32-m straight avenue and northeast arm, plus an outlying circular tomb and dolmen-like cists.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Ruins of Jala
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Ruins of Jala in Iwate Prefecture, Japan is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) archaeological wonder attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Sierra de las Quijadas — Potrero Central Aguada Causeway (Potrero de la Aguada Centre)
Hypothetical pre-Hispanic to Historic · Hypothetical Huarpe / Historic Hualtaran pastoral
Hypothetical central causeway on Potrero de la Aguada floor — 800 m pavement amid historic corrals.