🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Sanahin Monastery — Lori Bridge Sister
Bagratid (966 Surb Astvatsatsin 928–944 Blessing; 1063 library; 1181 gavit Kariannik) · Armenian Bagratid (Kurikyan Lori kingdom)
Sanahin UNESCO 1996 sister to Haghpat.
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🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Iron (2000 BCE – 500 BCE) · Karasuk to Pazyryk
River-level terrace with sun disks and yak riders opposite main cliffs.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Bagratid (966 Surb Astvatsatsin 928–944 Blessing; 1063 library; 1181 gavit Kariannik) · Armenian Bagratid (Kurikyan Lori kingdom)
Sanahin UNESCO 1996 sister to Haghpat.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Xinguano 800–1600 CE · Xinguano / Arawak
Cluster of 20+ pre-Columbian settlements in Xingu with causeways 50 m wide, plazas, reservoirs, showing dense urbanism (population 50k) in Amazon before 1492, built 800–1400 CE, described by Michael…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Central Anatolia.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Dolmen de Menga Annex Sector 111 in Andalusia, Spain is a Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇪🇸 Spain · Megalith
Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) · Iberian Neolithic
Dolmen de Menga Annex Sector 377 in Andalusia, Spain is a Neolithic (3800-2500 BCE) megalithic.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tell
Old Kingdom to Late Period (2680–332 BCE) · Egyptian (Delta)
Wadjet shrine centre with Amasis monoliths and Cartonnage cemetery.
🇰🇷 South Korea · Megalith
Bronze Age (800–600 BCE) · Mumun dolmen
Hwasun Hyosan-ri excavated 1990s, quarry wedge holes match capstone, UNESCO 2000.
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate Period, Paracas to Nazca culture · Paracas / Nazca
Over 300 geometric and figurative geoglyphs etched by removing dark desert pavement to reveal light subsoil across 450 km² of arid Pampas, including 1.8 km hummingbird, monkey, spider, and trapezoids…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age · Dumnonii
Porthgwarra Fogou — St Levan in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom is a Iron Age ancient-village attributed to Dumnonii. Small coastal fogou with corbelled chamber near Logan Rock headland.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock art
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon rock-art at Central Anatolia.
🇧🇸 Bahamas · Submerged site
Natural beachrock formation Pleistocene–Holocene; blocks in situ · Natural; Atlantis claim pseudo
Submerged linear arrangement of limestone blocks off Paradise Point, claimed 1968 as Atlantis road by validating Edgar Cayce prophecy; USGS and Eugene Shinn showed beachrock natural fractured along…
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Neolithic (3800 BCE) Monte da Toca regional variant · Alentejo Neolithic Toca group
Monte da Toca excavated.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (Vinča A3) · Vinča (Turdaș)
Vinča pit settlement at Tărtăria (c. 5300 BCE) on Mureș River, famous for three clay tablets with Vinča signs found in pit with burnt human bones, 26 figurines and shells, sparking proto-writing…
🇲🇾 Malaysia · Temple complex
Early Kedah to Bujang Valley (200 BCE–1400 CE; peak 500–1100 CE) · Kedah Tua (Qarun) to Srivijaya–Langkasuka
Lembah Bujang is Malaysia's earliest Hindu–Buddhist entrepôt (200 BCE–1400 CE) — 224 candi and iron-smelting furnaces (200 BCE, 30 furnaces) along the Muda River–Merbok estuary, iron export to…
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Archaeological wonder
Ghazni, historically known as Ghaznayn or Ghazna, also transliterated as Ghuznee, and anciently known as Alexandria in Opiana, is a city in southeastern Afghanistan, serving as the capital of Ghazni…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Kashkar, also known as Kaskar, (Classical Syriac: ܟܫܟܪ), was a city in southern Mesopotamia. Its name appears to originate from Syriac ܟܪܟܐ karḵa meaning "citadel" or "town".
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
The dolmen (German: Großsteingrab) on a low elevation between the villages of Dohnsen and Siddernhausen near the town of Bergen in North Germany, was originally 500 m further north.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Prehistoric · Regional Chalcolithic-EBA
Maydos Kilisetepe — buried prehistoric tell/village at Çanakkale Province.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (270 BCE – 350 CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Sobek priesthood
Island temple harbour of Soknopaiou Nesos — 28 m quay at Dromos end, now 2.8 m silted basin on Dime plateau.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Archaeological wonder
Claimed Classical vs real Xinguano 800–1600 CE on same ridge · Claimed Atlantean/Carthaginian (Fawcett); real ridge ephemeral Xinguano and later Kalapalo
Phantom Z Ridge — Fawcett's imagined white stone city 25 km from real Kuhikugu; no verification, natural sandstone misread.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Ghassulian) · Black Desert nomadics
Three-arm wadi with 38 kites on basalt mesas above the Qa al-Qattafi playa: densest Black Desert kite field.
