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1,600 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Period Classical · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Fortress Citadel Misc 77 — Egypt Region 5 in Egypt Region 5, Egypt is a Neolithic hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Pyramid
Period Medieval · Regional culture Pyramid-Variant
Geoglyph Panel Pyramid 29 — China Region 5 in China Region 5, China is a Bronze Age pyramid with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Hillfort Rampart Asia 85 — China Region 1 in China Region 1, China is a Iron Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Ghana Empire (c. 700–1240 CE; South Ridge 10th–12th c) · Soninke (Wagadou Ghana Empire) / Berber Almoravid
Southern craft suburb of fabled Ghana capital, with iron bloomery row and bead workshops 35 km south of central mounds, showing Ghana's industrial hinterland; separate from UNESCO...
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Quarry Gallery Mideast 57 — Turkey Region 9 in Turkey Region 9, Turkey is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Medieval · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Dolmen Avenue Asia 45 — China Region 9 in China Region 9, China is a Bronze Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Period Classical · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Quarry Gallery Africa 48 — Egypt Region 12 in Egypt Region 12, Egypt is a Iron Age tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Stone Circle Ridge Mideast 67 — Syria Region 7 in Syria Region 7, Syria is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Medieval · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Dolmen Avenue Mideast 56 — Israel Region 8 in Israel Region 8, Israel is a Neolithic tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Pyramid-Variant
Dolmen Avenue Pyramid 101 — Egypt Region 5 in Egypt Region 5, Egypt is a Iron Age pyramid with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Geoglyph Panel Asia 17 — China Region 5 in China Region 5, China is a Iron Age megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Period Classical · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Quarry Gallery Mideast 81 — Israel Region 9 in Israel Region 9, Israel is a Iron Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tumulus
Period Classical · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Temple Terrace Africa 3 — Egypt Region 3 in Egypt Region 3, Egypt is a Bronze Age tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇨🇳 China · Megalith
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Asia-Megalith
Mural Hall Asia 22 — China Region 10 in China Region 10, China is a Neolithic megalithic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Tumulus Cemetery Misc 7 — Peru Region 7 in Peru Region 7, Peru is a Bronze Age hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Mideast-Tell
Fortress Citadel Mideast 98 — Iraq Region 2 in Iraq Region 2, Iraq is a Bronze Age tell with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hydraulic works
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Kurgan Field Misc 105 — Peru Region 9 in Peru Region 9, Peru is a Bronze Age hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Misc-Hydraulic
Mural Hall Misc 53 — Egypt Region 5 in Egypt Region 5, Egypt is a Neolithic hydraulic with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient port
Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty (2620–2500 BCE, Sneferu–Khufu) · Old Kingdom Egyptian
Southern annex of the world's oldest harbour (Khufu) with 8 rock-cut galleries storing mortised cedar boats and 150 anchors, plus Merer papyrus dump. South mole stub now -1 m.
🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
Medieval (c.1140 CE) · Norman Benedictine
Small tidal granite islet 3.5 km N of Mont Saint-Michel, Neolithic chipping floors under 12th-c priory ruins, now gull colony with restricted access.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Garamantian / Roman · Libyan / Roman
Date-forest island famed since Herodotus for Ammonite pilgrim routes Siwa→Augila→Garama. Garamantian–Greco–Roman caravanserai with foggara traces and late-antique church; mudbrick town overlies souq.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Roman · Roman / Egyptian / Greek
Instant Græco-Roman show-city founded by Hadrian Oct 130 CE for drowned Antinous. Hippodamian grid, tetrastyle gates, 3 km colonnaded cardo, circus and temple to Osiris-Antinous. Greek boule papyri.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Period Classical · Regional culture Buried-Variant
Earthwork Enclosure Buried 84 — Turkey Region 12 in Turkey Region 12, Turkey is a Bronze Age buried-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso · Ancient village
Iron Age · Bwa / Mouhoun
Tell cluster of 13 mounds (100 BCE–1600 CE) showing egalitarian agrarian villages resisting hierarchy. Iron smelting, shea, cattle, beaded ceramics; ancestor compound mound model vs state-formation.
