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🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Roman 180 to Artuqid 1150 CE (Hasankeyf Upper Tigris) · Roman mesopotamia then Artuqid Hasankeyf (Tigris gorge town)
Artuqid 1150/Roman 180 side canal 1.4 km rock-cut 1.2×1.8 m vaulted 700 m with 6 intakes and 5 shaft aqueducts — orchard 12 ha.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Neolithic through Late Chalcolithic (5500–4200 BCE) · Hamangia → Varna → KGK VI (Kodžadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI)
Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Varna Province, Provadia District, Provadiyska River valley, Bulgaria — Oldest…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Late Saka to Kangju · Lower Syr Darya delta culture
Lowest Central Asian kurgan (55 m) on Syr Darya delta: 42-m brick-vault mound with 4-horse sacrifice.
🇷🇺 Russia · Pyramid
Pseudoarchaeology claim (2000 Uvarov Ural Hyperborea) · Herodotus 4.32 Hyperborea beyond Boreas → 2000 Uvarov Polar Urals
Pseudo Hyperborea at 72°N polar Urals – claim Herodotus' six-month night = polar Urals not Issedones steppe.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic to Late Norse (2700 BCE–14th c CE) · Neolithic → Bronze Age → Iron Age Pictish → Norse (Scalloway Jarlshof horizon)
4,000-yr Shetland settlement (2700 BCE–14th c) — 10-m broch with 4 wheelhouses overlain by Norse longhouses at Sumburgh.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Harappan (Early to Late Harappan 3000–1800 BCE) · Harappan (Indus Valley Civilization Kotada Timba)
Harappan desert city 16 rock-cut reservoirs and dam-fed canals 3000–1800 BCE on Kutch island.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sasanian (Shapur I–II) – UNESCO 1315 ensemble · Sasanian with Roman engineer captives
Sasanian Gargar diversion dam (210 m, 9 slots) feeding 47-km handmade canal watering Mianab plain.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Postclassic (c.1200–1519 CE) Totonac – Late Classic foundations · Totonac
Cempoala (Nahuatl Cēmpoalātl, place of twenty waters) is the lowland Totonac metropolis on the coastal plain at Úrsulo Galván, Veracruz, at 10 m asl.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tasmola 800-300 BCE · Tasmola Saka (western Saka)
Tasmola culture earthen kurgans (800-300 BCE) with 12-m dromoi catacombs, western Saka type-site at Karaganda.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient port
Pseudoarchaeology claim (1882 Donnelly Azores → 2019 YouTube spur) · Donnelly / Brasseur / Bimini–Azores YouTube composite
Pseudo Azores spur causeway – claim that Azores Plateau spur at –1800 m is Bimini's second basalt highway bank.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Warring States to Han (contested) · Yue–Wu contested; possibly Chu or Han
Mystery siltstone quarry silos 30×40 m 10–35 m deep with cavetto walls, 1992 flooded rediscovery.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Persian (Achaemenid) to Roman Imperial · Phoenician Sidonian; Achaemenid Persian patronage; Hellenized then Romanized
Phoenician Asclepieion 529 BCE–300 CE on Awali/Bostrenos: Throne of Astarte and baby votive healing pool.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Pseudoarchaeology claim (1970s–present conflation) · Pseudo Atlantis literature / Celtic myth conflation
Pseudo-Atlantis on Celtic Shelf – claim that Brittany–Cornwall shelf at –100 m is Plato's drowned island via Lyonesse conflation.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (Flavian to Late Roman, 1st–3rd c CE) · Roman Gallo–German (Colonia Agrippina)
95-km Flavian Roman concrete aqueduct (c.80 CE) delivering 20,000 m³/day from Eifel springs to Cologne.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Medieval · Palaeolithic Altai, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Turkic
North bank of Tsagaan Salaa-Baga Oigor UNESCO valley, 7000 petroglyphs including 12000 BCE mammoth-hunt.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze through Ottoman (EB, MBA, LBA-Hittite, Phrygian, Hellenistic, Roman) · Central Anatolian → Hittite → Phrygian (Mushki) → Achaemenid
Kaman-Kalehöyük (Çağırkan Central Mound) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Kırşehir Province, Kaman District, Central Anatolia, Turkey — Multi-period town mound controlling Kızılırmak basin…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman (Mithridatic to Hadrianic) · Carian-Lydian Greek under Pergamene and Roman rule
Gorge-spanning double-city Dionysus temple 6×11 with vaulted bridge and library, Strabo's school.
🇱🇦 Laos · Archaeological wonder
Bronze Age copper 2000 BCE–500 CE (Sepon culture) → Iron Age · Sepon Copper culture (Vilabouly Bronze, Truong ceramic? → Iron Age Laotian)
Ancient copper production complex and mine–foundry network (c.2000 BCE–700 CE) in the Vilabouly–Sepon valley of Savannakhet, Laos — 30 km copper smelting corridor excavated 2006–14 by Franco-Lao…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Early Neolithic (3700–3500 BCE) · Hebridean Early Neolithic (Eilean Dòmhnuill Ware, 3700 BCE)
Early Neolithic 18 x 12 m crannog annexe (c.3500 BCE) with 3 conjoined Hebridean houses — earliest Hebrides village plan.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Pre-Pottery Neolithic to Late Neolithic, Nafud Neolithic · Northern Arabian Neolithic hunters
22 sand-edge desert kites (5500-4200 BCE) at Nafud-Hail fringe with pit-traps cut into calcrete, oryx drive along dune corridors.
🇦🇺 Australia · Rock art
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene (12 ka BCE – 7 ka BCE) · Pleistocene Kimberley Aboriginal groups (Wunambal, Balanggarra ancestors)
Kimberley 100,000 shelters tasselled Gwion warriors 12 ka–7 ka oldest Australian figures.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka (Scythian) Iron Age · Saka Tigrakhauda (pointed-hat Sakas)
Saka steppe royal cemetery 28 km from Almaty: 81 kurgans 45-105 m with tigrine gold plaques.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (575 BCE – 500 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan
Eastern harbour arm of Akra at Naberezhne — 45 m breakwater spur at –3.5 m.
🇷🇴 Romania · Tell
Late Neolithic through Eneolithic (Boian → Gumelnița → Cernavodă) · Boian → Gumelnița (Kodžadermen-Karanovo VI) → Cernavodă
Radovanu Tell (Radovanu-Gorgana / Călărași Terrace) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Călărași County, Radovanu Commune, Argeș terrace, Danube plain, Romania — Argeș–Danube Gumelnița terrace…
