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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (550 BCE – 400 CE) · Cimmerian / Bosporan / Scythian
Northern lagoon marina of hillfort Kimmerikon below Opuk North — 45 m quay at –1.2 m and fish-pond.
🇫🇮 Finland · Archaeological wonder
Bronze Age
Kuninkaanhauta (The King's Grave) is a Bronze Age tumulus in the village of Panelia in Eura, Finland, dating back to c. 1500–1300 BC.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Sixteen Kingdoms to Yuan · Northern Liang, Tibetan, Uyghur, Western Xia Tangut, Mongol
Sunan east conglomerate cliffs 12 caves with 33 Heavens 7-storey pagoda and pillar hall, 420 CE–Yuan.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Late Preclassic – Postclassic (c.300 BCE–1519 CE) continuous; Early Classic–Late Classic peak · Maya (East Coast / Southern Lowland)
Muyil (Chunyaxché, Chan Muuch) is the long-lived lowland Maya city on the karst ridge at the Muyil lagoon inside the Sian Ka'an Biosphere, Quintana Roo (10 m).
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
The Cantalloc Aqueducts are a series of aqueducts located 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) east of the city of Nazca, Peru, built by the Nazca culture.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Cave
Paleo-Indian to Shuar (10,000 BCE – present, pseudoarchaeology 1970s) · Shuar / Pseudohistory (von Däniken)
Cueva de los Tayos in Morona-Santiago, Ecuador is a Paleo-Indian to Shuar (10,000 BCE – present, pseudoarchaeology 1970s) cave attributed to Shuar / Pseudohistory (von Däniken) culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Aceramic Neolithic through Early Bronze (7000–2700 BCE) · Cappadocian Aceramic → Early Chalcolithic → Late Chalcolithic (Melendiz)
Tepecik Höyük (Çiftlik / Melendiz Plain) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Niğde Province, Çiftlik District, Melendiz plain, Cappadocia, Turkey — Cappadocian Neolithic obsidian-processing…
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Claimed 14,000–10,000 BCE gods' arrival; literary 1976 invention · Claimed Ugha Mongulala with 'Gods' (von Däniken flavored)
Tatunca's 13-gated underground Purus valley city for Ugha Mongulala — traced to German-born Günther Hauck, murdered journalist source.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Rock art
Iron Age to Early Modern · Saka (Scythian), Dzungar Oirat Mongol, Kazakh
Ili River south bank continuation of 17th-century Tamgaly-Tas Buddhist carvings with Saka animal style underneath.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Neolithic to medieval (1500 BCE–17th c; historic 11th c) · Tichitt culture → Soninke Wagadu → Beidane Moors
Neolithic to oasis caravan terminus: Tichitt-culture compounds plus red-white geometric plaster houses of 11th-c Ghana twin capital Biru.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 500 CE) · Greco-Roman Fayum
Western granary quarter of Karanis 1–3 m buried west of main tell — vaulted horrea 30×15 m and canal sluice at –2 m.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Archaic to Formative (Late Archaic–Alto Ramírez–Tarapacá) · Tarapacá caravan / Alto Ramírez
30+ altiplano caravan geoglyphs (1000 BCE–600 CE) at 3,800 m around Salar de Huasco, Tarapacá.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Greek geographic phantom (500 BCE – 300 CE) · Greek geographer / Phoenician trade secrecy
Herodotus ten Tin Islands phantom – Cornish tin coast inflated to archipelago at 50°N 5°W.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9500-8500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Karahan Tepe Pillared Structure East Ridge — Northern Annex in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9500-8500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (300 BCE – 600 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman (Diocletian)
Western feeder harbour of fort Dionysias at Qasr Qarun — 50 m quay at –2 m and 90 m canal.
🇷🇺 Russia · Archaeological wonder
Peremyshl (Russian: Перемышль) was a town in the Grand Duchy of Moscow located on the right bank of the Mocha River, within the Troitsky Administrative Okrug of Moscow, to the west of the Dmitrovo…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman Imperial (Hadrianic) · Roman Mysia (Kyzikos neocorate)
Hadrian's isthmus temple 50×92 m colossus on Kapıdağ isthmus, largest Marmara temple.
🇮🇳 Indonesia · Archaeological wonder
Pseudoarchaeology claim (2020 Sunda spur YouTube conflation) · Tamil Sangam Kumari 49 nadu 1930s → 2020 Sunda Ridge spur
Pseudo Kumari on equatorial Sunda fore-arc ridge – claim at 2.5°N is Tamil Sangam capital Madurai drowned via Sunda spur.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (5th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
Queen's pyramid of Khentkaus II (wife of Neferirkare, mother of Neferefre and Nyuserre), completed under Nyuserre with its own papyri archive.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Horizon (Inca Imperial) · Inca (Quechua)
High-altitude (3,400 m) radial sacred geography of the Inca capital: 41 ceque lines radiating from Coricancha/Qorikancha to huaca shrines bounding Sacsayhuamán pampa and Chinchaysuyo suyu.
🇪🇸 Spain · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Roman (575 BCE – 500 CE) · Phocaean Greek / Indiketan / Roman
Phocaean double harbour – Greek quay at –0.5 m off Neapolis and silted Riells basin, L'Escala.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic through Early Bronze (6400–2700 BCE) · Burdur–Antalya Late Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic shrine phase → Lakes EBA
Höyücek (Höyücek Höyük / Burdur Sanctuary) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Burdur Province, Bucak District, Burdur–Antalya foothills, Turkey — Neolithic–Chalcolithic sanctuary village with…
🇦🇷 Argentina · Earthwork
Contested Holocene ambiguous — historic to pre-Hispanic hypothesis · Contested Comechingón / Huarpe (?) or natural cuesta (unvalidated)
Northern rim avenue 900 m causeway 1.2 m with bastions 6 m along Potrero norte — contested Huarpe causeway vs cuesta bedding.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Early Bronze Age land surface to Late Antiquity · Bosporan Hellenistic
Southern rubble mole of Pantikapaion — 90 m breakwater at 3.5–5 m defining royal basin in Kerch Bay.