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🇷🇺 Russia · Pyramid
Pseudoarchaeology claim (2000 Uvarov Ural Hyperborea) · Herodotus 4.32 Hyperborea beyond Boreas → 2000 Uvarov Polar Urals
Pseudo Hyperborea at 72°N polar Urals – claim Herodotus' six-month night = polar Urals not Issedones steppe.
🇺🇸 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.
🇷🇺 Russia · Ancient city
Archaic to Hellenistic literature (688 BCE earliest to 4th c. via Callimachus) · Greek poetical–geographic tradition
Pindar–Herodotus utopia beyond the North Wind where hyperboreans send first-fruits to Delos and Apollo winters.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Churchward 1926 Mu Pacific; 2015 Ardabil plain pseudo forum 'Mughan Mu concentric' · Pseudo sunken plain – Ardabil plain as Mu Motherland capital plain
Mu on Ardabil (Mughan) Plain – pseudoarchaeological relocation of James Churchward's Pacific Mu continent (1926) to Iran's Ardabil–Mughan alluvial plain (38°15′N 48°21′E), claiming the 100×80 km…
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Tall Sulaymānī (Arabic: تل سليماني) is a hill in Syria. It is located in al-Hasakah province, in the northeastern part of the country, 500 kilometers northeast of the capital Damascus.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Archaeological wonder
The Kondoa Rock-Art Sites or Kondoa Irangi Rock Paintings are a series of ancient paintings on rockshelter walls in central Tanzania.
🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Al-Rawda (Arabic: الروضة) is a tell, or archaeological settlement mound, in the Syrian steppe, east of Hama.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Dongtalede (Ch: 东塔勒德) is an archaeological site in Xinjiang with numerous artifacts riminescent of the Scytho-Siberian art of Central Asia. It is dated to the 9th-7th century BCE.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Archaeological wonder
Garakopaktapa (Armenian: Գարակոպակտապա; Azerbaijani: Qaraköpəktəpə) is an ancient multilayer settlement of the Middle Bronze Age epoch, located in a basin of the Guruchay and Kondalanchay Rivers,…
🇮🇷 Iran · Fortress
The Great Wall of Gorgan is a Sasanian-era defense system located near modern Gorgan in the Golestān Province of northeastern Iran, at the southeastern corner of the Caspian Sea.
🇷🇴 Romania · Archaeological wonder
Isaccea (Romanian: [iˈsak.tʃe̯a]) is a small town in Tulcea County, in Northern Dobruja, Romania, on the right bank of the Danube, 35 km north-west of Tulcea.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Archaeological wonder
Jankent (Dzhankent, Yangikent, Eni-Kent, Djanikand, Yenikent, Yanikand, all meaning New Town in Turkic; al-Karyat al-hadith, Dihi Naw, Shehrkent) is a deserted town east of the Aral Sea in modern…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city
Khortytsia (Ukrainian: Хортиця, pronounced [ˈxɔrtɪtsʲɐ]) is the largest island on the Dnieper River, and is 12.5 km (7.77 mi) long and up to 2.5 km (1.55 mi) wide.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Archaeological wonder
Los Altares is a rural commune in Paso de Indios Department, Chubut Province in southern Argentina. As of 2001, it had 123 inhabitants.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
The Pazyryk burials are a number of Scythian (Saka) Iron Age tombs found in the Pazyryk Valley and the Ukok plateau in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, south of the modern city of Novosibirsk, Russia;…