🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Uyuk Valley Kurgans
Early Iron Age, Aldy-Bel to Sagly · Aldy-Bel to Sagly Saka, Tuva
15 Saka kurgans (750-500 BCE) in Uyuk Valley elite line with rank-size hierarchy and Chu silk, satellite to Arzhan royals.
Search places, or jump to a section
The catalogue
13,227 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.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Black Desert ridge pastoralists
Ridge chain ESE of Maitland's Mesa: 9 notch-anchored kites along 6.2 km Ghabit basalt ridge.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Aldy-Bel to Sagly · Aldy-Bel to Sagly Saka, Tuva
15 Saka kurgans (750-500 BCE) in Uyuk Valley elite line with rank-size hierarchy and Chu silk, satellite to Arzhan royals.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Late Intermediate (c.1200–1470 CE) – Lima and Ychsma-Chancay · Lima – Wari – Ychsma – Chancay
Mangomarca is a compound adobe pyramid-temple complex terraced on the right-bank terrace of the lower Rímac at San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Hellenistic (309–281 BCE primary; to Roman 100 CE) · Hellenistic Macedonian
Northern distributary harbour of Lysimacheia on Hebros — 80 m quay at –2.2 m and palace causeway.
🇲🇩 Moldova · Earthwork
Iron Age Thraco-Getic (5th–3rd c. BCE) + Moldovan monastery 1776– · Thraco-Getae / Getae-Dacians
Saharna Thraco-Getic Hillforts and Rock Monastery in Rezina District, Saharna village on Nistru (Dniester) right bank, Moldova is a Iron Age Thraco-Getic (5th–3rd c.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early to Middle Saka · Saka of the eastern Aral–Karatau
Seven-hills ridge with 7 giant kurgans 42-72 m plus 14 satellites: Saka necropolis above Sozak oasis.
🇬🇪 Georgia · Archaeological wonder
Kutaisi ( koo-TY-see; Georgian: ქუთაისი pronounced [ˈkʰut̪ʰais̪i] ) is a city in the Imereti region of the Republic of Georgia.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo II–III (Chacoan outlier 1110–1125, Mesa Verde 1150–1275) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chacoan outlier → Mesa Verde)
Aztec West Ruin (Aztec Ruins National Monument — West House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Animas River, Aztec town, North San Juan basin, United States —…
🇸🇴 Somalia · Archaeological wonder
Las Qoray (Somali: Laasqoray, Arabic: لاسقُرَى Lāsqoray) is a historic coastal town in the Sanaag region of Somalia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze I–III (3000–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Western Anatolian
Early Bronze I–III (3000–2300 BCE) tell of Early Bronze Western Anatolian in Afyon Province, Sandıklı Plain (c.3000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sassanian 6th c. to Ilkhanid 1226 CE to present · Sassanian then Islamic Yazd hydraulic community
12th century high-discharge qanat (14 km, 320 shafts, 190 L/s) feeding Ghasemabad bagh and Yazd mills.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Medieval (1235 – 1362 CE) · Anglo-Norman / Hanse
13th-century Humber port that briefly outranked Hull — parliamentary borough lost 1362 to storms and sand-spit destruction, now under Humber silt.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Middle Horizon (Alto Ramírez–Tiwanaku 400–1000 CE) · Azapa Tiwanaku–Cabuza–San Miguel valley oasis
26 mid-A with plumed giants + feline on Cerro Moreno 420 m, above Azapa fertile oasis 18 km from Pacific.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Sicán / Lambayeque) · Sicán / Lambayeque
Seasonal desert pampa (85 m) in lower La Leche basin (6°00′-6°40′S 79°10′-80°00′W) between the Sican capital Batan Grande and Túcume adobe pyramids, georeferenced by UNESCO tentative 6419 (Ceremonial…
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman (700 BCE–400 CE Panhellenic games) · Corinthian–Sicyonian–Argive contested; Poseidon Isthmios
690 BCE pioneering stone temple (among earliest roofs tiles) with 196.5 m Isthmian Games stadium, Melicertes hero cut.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Epipaleolithic to Predynastic (Naqada I–II, Dynasty 0) · Naqada culture (Upper Egyptian elite) with Eastern Desert Nubian pastoral contact
Wadi el-Hosh 550 Naqada 4000–3000 BCE boats–falcon serekh to smiting, predecessor to Narmer, Huyge 1998.
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Buried city
Medieval (1200–1632 CE) · Dutch / Flemish / Zeelandic
Zeeland third city 1374 — 84 m church and brick quays at −3 m in Oosterschelde, drowned 1530–1632 after St Felix flood.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Iron Age Urartian (880–780 BCE) · Urartian Early Kingdom
Iron Age Urartian (880–780 BCE) ancient-city of Urartian Early Kingdom in Muș Province, Malazgirt (c.880 BCE).
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Sixteen Kingdoms to Ming · Western Qin, Northern Wei, Western Xia, Tibetan, Ming
Liujia Gorge 27-m Tang Maitreya and 420 CE Western Qin mandala caves above Yellow River reservoir, 183 caves.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze III – Urartian (2700–600 BCE) · Van–Urmia EB–Urartian
Early Bronze III – Urartian (2700–600 BCE) tell of Van–Urmia EB–Urartian in Van Province, Edremit Plain (c.2700 BCE).
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
The Battle at the Harzhorn took place in the early 3rd century between Germanic and Roman troops near the Harzhorn hill between the towns of Kalefeld and Bad Gandersheim, in the state of Lower…
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Classical to Late Antique (500 BCE – 600 CE) · Spartan / Roman
Sparta's naval harbour — Roman quays and 70 m concrete mole now at −4 m off Gytheio and Marathonisi, mapped by Flemming 1968–71.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Fortified city
Iron Age II (1000–600 BCE) · Moabite Iron Age
Iron Age II (1000–600 BCE) fortified-city of Moabite Iron Age in Karak Governorate, Mujib–Karak Plateau (c.1000 BCE).
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock-cut
Hellenistic–Parthian (Seleucid to Mithridates I) · Seleucid Greek–Iranian magus syncretism (Heracles–Verethragna)
Zagros cave 4 triple chambers with koine 'Heracles rests here' inscription 3rd–1st BCE and spring cistern.
