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Unexcavated mines

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Verified25 Widely accepted2 Contested1 Hypothetical0 Unverified0 Pseudoarchaeology0

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Mines28 Quarries26 Ancient villages1 Buried cities1 Caves1 Mounds1

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🇸🇩Sudan2 🇰🇭Cambodia2 🇲🇲Myanmar2 🇪🇹Ethiopia2 🇪🇬Egypt1

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Excavated13 Partially excavated9 Excavation ongoing4 Unexcavated2

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quarry25 harappan4 ancestral pueblo3 chalcolithic3 yayoi3 early bronze age2 hellenistic2

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Mines

🇬🇹 Guatemala · Quarry

Quarry of Sanctuary-Oued

Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative

Quarry of Sanctuary-Oued in Petén, Guatemala is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) quarry attributed to Andean Formative culture.

🇪🇸 Spain · Mine

Els Closos Mine — Balearic Copper Galleries Pre-Talayotic

Bronze Age (1600–1100 BCE navetas via copper mine) · Bronze Age Balearic copper mining 1600 BCE galleries

Closos mine copper 1600 BCE.