🇨🇴 Colombia · Rock art
El Abra
El Abra is the name given to an extensive archeological site, located in the valley of the same name.
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🇨🇴 Colombia · Rock art
El Abra is the name given to an extensive archeological site, located in the valley of the same name.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
El Baúl is a Pre-Columbian archaeological site in present-day Escuintla Department, Guatemala.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and in Quechua: Qhapaq Ñan meaning "royal road") was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Bilbao is a Mesoamerican archaeological site about 1 mile (1.6 km) from the modern town of Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa in the Escuintla department of Guatemala.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Bejucal is a Maya archaeological site in the Petén Department of Guatemala. It is located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northeast of El Zotz and was subservient to that city.
🇺🇸 United States · Hydraulic works
The American Canal is an irrigation canal in the Upper Rio Grande Valley near El Paso, Texas.
🇻🇪 Venezuela · Rock art
Caicara del Orinoco is a town in, and the administrative seat of, Cedeño Municipality, Bolívar State, Venezuela. Currently the Venezuelan government is building a bridge across the Orinoco at Caicara.
🇺🇸 United States · Archaeological wonder
The Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory in Milton, Massachusetts is the foremost structure associated with the history of weather observations in the United States.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
The Center for American Archeology, or CAA, is an independent non-profit 501(c)(3) research and education institution located in Kampsville, Illinois, USA, near the Illinois River.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Balberta is a major Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Pacific coastal plain of southern Guatemala, belonging to the Maya civilization.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Carachupa (Quechua for opossum) is an archaeological site with rock art in Peru. It is located near the village of Carachupa, in Lonya Grande District, region of Amazonas.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Cave
Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Painted Rock Cave), is an archaeological site in northern Brazil with evidence of human presence dating ca. 11,200 years ago.
🇨🇱 Chile · Archaeological wonder
Chan-Chan is an archaeological site and beach on the coast of the commune of Mehuín in southern Chile.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Chawaytiri (Hispanicized Chahuaytire, Chahuaytiri) is an archaeological site with rock paintings in Peru.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
The Cotzumalhuapa archaeological culture is from the piedmont area of the Escuintla Department, Guatemala.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (also known as Camino Inca or Camino Inka) is a hiking trail in Peru that terminates at Machu Picchu.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Intipanawin or Intipa Ñawin (Quechua inti sun, ñawi eye, -pa, -n suffixes, "eye of the sun", also spelled Intipanawin) is an archaeological site and the name of a mountain with rock paintings in Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Rock art
Jinkiori or Jingkiori is an archaeological site consisting of petroglyphs engraved in a big rock called the “Monolith of Jinkiori". It is located in Paucartambo Province, region of Cusco, Peru.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Huaricanga is the earliest city of the Norte Chico civilization, called Caral or Caral-Supe in Peru and Spanish language sources.
🇺🇸 United States · Mound
archaeological site in Saline County, United States of America
🇲🇽 Mexico · Archaeological wonder
Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park.
🇦🇶 Antarctica · Archaeological wonder
Claimed 12k BCE temperate Antarctica Atlantis; literature 1958–1995 · Claimed global Atlantean cartographers; literary Hapgood–Einstein crustal displacement
Hapgood's 1958 crust-shift Atlantis under Antarctic ice — Piri Reis 1513 map misread as ice-free coast.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Actun Tunichil Muknal (the Cave of the Crystal Sepulchre), also known locally as ATM, is a cave in Belize, near San Ignacio, Cayo District, notable as a Maya archaeological site that includes…
🇺🇸 United States · Submerged site
Pleistocene (exposed 36k–11k; fully closed 21k–14k cal BP brown/green zones) · Paleolithic Siberian / Paleo-American / Dyuktai / Clovis ancestors
36k–11k BCE steppe isthmus Alaska–Siberia now 53 m under strait — 2023 cores re-imagined as tundra, not grass.