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9,978 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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1500 BCE → Early Historic 6th c BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic (Mewar) — Black-and-Red Ware
Balathal Chalcolithic Mound — type-site of Ahar-Banas complex ( Chalcolithic 3000–1500 BCE with Early Historic overlay) excavated 1994–2000 by V.N.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (c.540 BCE – 200 CE) · Greek / Sindian
Sindian Toretae harbour at Tsemes mouth — lower quay 1–3 m submerged in Novorossiysk Bay, Bosporan Sindic emporium.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Mississippian Middle Cumberland (1100–1350 CE) · Mississippian (Castalian Springs phase)
Premier Middle Cumberland Mississippian town (1100–1350 CE) centered on mineral spring: two major platform mounds (Mound 1 6 m high 55×45 m, Mound 2 burial 3 m) plus smaller mound, large plaza and…
🇨🇱 Chile · Submerged site
Buccaneer phantom (1687–1770) · English buccaneer / French hydrography
Chile Davis phantom 1687 – sandy isle at 27°20′S 105°W, abyssal Nazca plain, precursor to Easter Island.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Late Postclassic (1470 – 1524 CE) · Kaqchikel Maya
Iximche Alt in Chimaltenango, Guatemala is a Late Postclassic (1470 – 1524 CE) ancient city attributed to Kaqchikel Maya culture.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Napatan period (750–300 BCE, peak 700–500 BCE) temples from New Kingdom 1500 BCE · Kushite (Napatan, Amun priests of Barkal)
Pyramid field at sacred mountain Jebel Barkal (Napata capital, 750–300 BCE): ~30 pyramids 10–15 m base clustered at north, west, south groups around 98 m mesa with pinnacle.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Deccan Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–700 BCE (Early → Late) · Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) — Maharashtra Chalcolithic climax
Jorwe — type-site of Jorwe culture (1400–700 BCE late Chalcolithic) on Pravara River, excavated 1950–51 by H.D. Sankalia and B. Deo.
🇮🇳 India · Pyramid
Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3500–1750 BCE) · Harappan (Kalibangan I–II, Ghaggar-Hakra)
Kalibangan Mound — Ghaggar Thar in Rajasthan, Hanumangarh District, Ghaggar (ancient Saraswati) bank, India is a Early Harappan to Mature Harappan (3500–1750 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to…
🇮🇹 Italy · Rock art
Nuragic Iron Age (Early Iron, c.950–730 BCE) · Nuragic Iron Age (Sinis, Orientalizing influence)
Monte Prama (Nuragic Iron Age c.950–730 BCE) on the Sinis Peninsula near Cabras is a sacred heroon cemetery where 5,178 fragments of 2–2.5-m limestone boxers, archers and warriors with horned helmets…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
New Kingdom 19th–20th Dyn (1279–1070 BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom imperial
Ramesses II's 10 km² vanished capital – 460 chariot stables and glass factories buried under Delta fields.
🇦🇺 Australia · Submerged site
Pleistocene exposure maximally 18k BCE – flooded 12k–8k BCE · Aboriginal Australian / Papuan first peoples 65k BCE settlement
Australia–NG 2M km² Sahul continent with 600 km paleo-Lake Carpentaria — now Torres Strait 12 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Predynastic to Roman (3200 BCE–364 CE; peak New Kingdom and Ptolemaic) · Ancient Egyptian
Granite islet with ~600 cataract boulder inscriptions including Famine Stela 32 columns and predynastic boats.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan · Tell
Neolithic (late 7th–6th millennium BCE); Shomu–Shulaveri–Aratashen horizon · Shomu–Aratashen (Caucasian Early Neolithic; Shulaveri parallel)
South Caucasian Neolithic type-site (c.6300–5000 BCE) — 7 horizons of round mudbrick houses founding Shomu–Aratashen.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Kurgan
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Andronovo / Saka) + Turkic · Andronovo / Saka / Turkic
Ili River terrace kurgan field (650 m, 43°56′N 75°32′E 43.93,75.53) downstream from Tamgaly UNESCO rock-art gorge (1145), on second terrace above Ili.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age (5000–1500 BCE) · North Mesopotamian (Halaf-Ubaid, Uruk, Akkadian)
Tepe Gawra Mound — Erbil Plain in Nineveh Governorate / Kurdistan, Erbil plain, 25 km NE Mosul, Iraq is a Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age (5000–1500 BCE) pyramid/mound site attributed to North…
🇨🇳 China · Temple complex
Sui to Tang · Sui-Tang Buddhist (Taiyuan Jinyang school)
Eastern 8-cave Sui peak of Tianlong Mountain above Taiyuan with Amitabha hall.
🇷🇺 Russia · Kurgan
Early Iron Age (Pazyryk culture) · Pazyryk (Altai Scythian)
Katun River headwaters kurgan field (973 m, 50°16′11″N 85°36′39″E 50.2697,85.6108) on moraine terrace above Katun (Ust-Koksa village 973 m, Dfc climate, UTC+7), bridging Pazyryk culture (5th-3rd c…
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Ancient city
Sogdian 5th c → Western Turk 581–659 → Tang 659–1141 · Sogdian–Western Turk → Tang Chinese — Chuy Valley Silk Road
Ak-Beshim Chu Valley City — ancient Suyab/Suye (5th–12th c CE) Western Turk capital on Chu River at Ak-Beshim, 8 km SW Tokmok, excavated 1938–58 by Bernshtam and 2010s Kyrgyz-German.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pyramid
Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) · Amri culture (pre-Harappan Sindh)
Amri Mound — Indus Sehwan in Sindh, Dadu District, west bank Indus near Sehwan (Amri type-site), Pakistan is a Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age (3600–2600 BCE, Amri-Nal) pyramid/mound site attributed…
🇱🇻 Latvia · Hillfort
Late Iron Age Baltic 10th–13th c Livonian Crusade horizon · Latgallian–Semigallian Baltic (Daugava chain, Henry 1208)
Asote — Latgallian–Semigallian hillfort (Late Iron Age 10th–13th c, Livonian Crusade destruction 1208/1215) on Daugava left bank near Gostiņi 10 km west Jēkabpils, Central Latvia.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Roman to Merinid (1st c CE to 14th c) · Roman / Mauretanian / Merinid Islamic
Roman port Sala Colonia beneath Merinid walled necropolis with stork-colonised minaret and Roman spolia throughout Islamic masonry.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Rock art
Classic (c.250–800 CE) Maya Petén – Río Bec fringe · Maya (Petén – Río Bec transitional)
El Resbalón ('the slide') is a hilltop Maya city and open-air epigraphic cliff 35 km SW of Xpujil in the Calakmul Biosphere south at 250 m.
🇨🇺 Cuba · Pyramid
Pseudoarchaeology 2001 claim (no chronology: proposed 50,000 BP via Cayce) · Cuban-Canadian media claim
2001 sonar headline 'city off Cuba at 650 m' — follows fractal slump scarps, not pyramids; USGS null.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Maurya → Satavahana 230 BCE–220 CE → Vakataka 250–400 CE · Satavahana Early Buddhist (Hinayana) → Brahmanical
200+ Satavahana rock-cut caves on Nanaghat pass (300 BCE–400 CE) — Naganika Brahmi inscription of Vedic rites.
