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4,496 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Classic · Maya/Andean
Pampa de las Llamas — 700 collcas storage city.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Temple complex
Maya Classic–Postclassic 300 BCE–1500 CE · Maya (Puuc–Chenés)
Red hill palaces 44 m portico, hematite, Puuc-Toltec 600–1000 CE.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Temple complex
Classic · Maya/Andean
Tikal Mundo Perdido — Teotihuacan enclave.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Mound
Iron Age to Kanem-Bornu · Chad Basin
Firki classic mound 5 m with cattle-trail causeways visible on SAR; compound enclosures vs kraals detected by magnetometry.
🇨🇱 Chile · Megalith
900–1500 CE · Rapa Nui
Cross-ref quarry within Rapa Nui National Park main entry; tuff quarry with 400 moai in situ including El Gigante (~21 m).
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Maya Late Classic 700–1000 CE · Maya (Puuc)
Labná Arch 3 m, 67-room Palace, Puuc 800–1000 CE.
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Claimed 30000 BCE (Sangam) vs Seychelles 65 Ma · Pseudo Sclater / Tamil nationalist
Sclater 1864 lemur continent south of Kanyakumari — drilling shows Seychelles microcontinent 65 Ma not 30000
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Smallest of three Giza pyramids, Menkaure, with granite lower casing and three subsidiary queens' pyramids.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Chalcolithic · Chalcolithic Anatolia
Duplicate for completeness – see Çatalhöyük main entry; West Mound Chalcolithic extension (6000–5600 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Archaeological wonder
Claimed 5600 BCE flood (gradual 9000–7000) · Neolithic / Oceanography
Ryan–Pitman 5600 BCE catastrophic Black Sea flood claimed Atlantis — cores show gradual 9000–7000
🇲🇹 Malta · Archaeological wonder
Claimed 9600 BCE (Malta temples 3600 BCE, strait 5 Ma) · Pseudo Malta temples / Strait geology
Malta–Sicily bridge claimed Atlantis at 130 m deep — cores show strait always water since 5 Ma
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Claimed 9600 BCE (Nuragic 1800 BCE) · Nuragic / Plato forced
Frau Campidano 3000×2000 stades claimed Atlantis plain — Nuragic villages not concentric city
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Ancient city
Claimed 1539 forest resource not city · Spanish resource / Omagua
Gonzalo Pizarro 1539 cinnamon forest east of Andes — sparse not city, triggers Amazon descent
🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city
Claimed Tartessic Bronze 1000 BCE (rectangle sand ridge Holocene) · Tartessic / Spectral artefact
Huelva shelf Tartessos variant of Doñana rectangle — Hinojos cores show sand ridge not city
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Claimed Bronze Age 2000 BCE vs Doggerland Mesolithic 8000 BCE · Nordic Bronze / Doggerland Mesolithic
Spanuth Helgoland on Dogger Bank — real Doggerland Mesolithic plain 6200 BCE but no palace
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Inca Late Horizon to Colonial legend (1532–1600s) · Inca / Spanish colonial
Inca refuge city east of Andes — Spanish 1600s to modern satellite hunt found no grid
🇺🇸 United States · Pyramid
Claimed Aztalan–Rock Lake 1100 CE (real Aztalan 1100, lake pyramids 0) · Pseudo Aztalan / Natural glacial
Claimed 10 pyramids under 5–11 m Rock Lake — UW sonar shows glacial till not pyramids