🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
Great Dolmen of Dwasieden
The Great dolmen of Dwasieden (German: Großdolmen von Dwasieden), is a great dolmen in the borough of Sassnitz, on the Jasmund peninsula of Germany's largest island, Rügen.
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🇦🇺 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…
🇭🇳 Honduras · Buried city
Postclassic (c.1000 – 1500 CE) · Mosquitia culture (Ulua-influenced)
Mosquitia T3 east valley 3 km² — twin plazas 19 mounds and were-jaguar cache 1000–1400 CE, second city beyond T1 western cache.
🇮🇳 India · Lost civilisation
Pleistocene aeolian limestone barrier-beach (5300 BCE barrier) + Tamil Sangam flood memory (~300 BCE) projected as lost continent pseudo 30ka pseudo at 9.09N 79.52E · Natural aeolian limestone barrier-island chain (Adam's Bridge 5300 BCE) + Tamil nationalist continental legend (Devaneya 1940)
Tamil Lemuria Kumari Kandam fantasy on Palk Strait Adam's Bridge — aeolian limestone bridge 50 km at –4 to –7 m claimed as submerged Kumari capital causeway.
🇩🇪 Germany · Megalith
The Great dolmen of Dwasieden (German: Großdolmen von Dwasieden), is a great dolmen in the borough of Sassnitz, on the Jasmund peninsula of Germany's largest island, Rügen.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Byzantine · Hattian/Hittite → Phrygian → Galatian Celtic → Roman
Galatian Trocmi capital at Büyüknefes with Hellenistic walls, Roman avenue and Bryaxis Zeus emporion.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Xinglongwa culture 6200–5400 BCE → Zhaobaogou → Hongshan · Xinglongwa (Liao River Neolithic, Proto-Mongolic?)
Type-site for Xinglongwa culture (c.6200–5400 BCE, 8200–7400 BP) on the Aohan hills near Chifeng, Inner Mongolia — earliest Neolithic on the Mongolian plateau, 120 pit-house village with central…
🇪🇬 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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Mid-Holocene forest to Late Antiquity · Milesian Greek / Roman
Northern channel breakwater of Olbia — 70 m mole at 4–6 m off Berezan approach with Holocene forest below.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antiquity (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Western Achilles-shrine anchorage of Patrai — jetty and votive platform at 5–8 m off Achilleion Cape.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Late Middle Kingdom / Second Intermediate Period (13th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
13th-Dynasty unfinished mudbrick pyramid at South Saqqara (Lepsius XXIX) — 52.5 m base 'Headless Pyramid' with robbed casing and unfinished quartzite burial chamber, c.1720–1640 BCE.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Buried city
Marajoara Phase (800–1400 CE) Amazonian Polychrome · Marajoara / Aruã / Ananatuba
Amazon mouth tesos 12 m high with 3 km causeways at +1 m (800–1400 CE) — continental city 40,000 vs chiefdom 10,000 debated.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to Iberian (8000 BCE – 500 CE) · Epipalaeolithic hunters, Neolithic, Chalcolithic Schematic, Iberian
Aragon pine forest 22 shelters Levantine white archers and schematic bull 6 ka BCE–Iberian, UNESCO 874.
🇵🇪 Peru · Fortress
Early Intermediate – Middle Horizon (c.200 BCE–800 CE) Recuay – Wari · Recuay (Pashash) – Wari
Pashash crowns a defensible mesa above Cabana in the northern Callejón, Ancash, at 3,225 m. As the,type-capital of the Recuay-Pashash culture (200 BCE–800 CE), its stone palace-fortress encloses…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Late Neolithic · Late Neolithic Humberhead communities (Grooved Ware)
821-m Neolithic pine corduroy trackway (2435 BCE) on Hatfield Moor — longest British Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Eastern Outlier in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Punic to Medieval (396 BCE – 1200 CE) · Carthaginian / Greek / Roman
Punic naval harbour with ashlar mole at –1 m off Marsala's Capo Boeo – Carthage's western bastion.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Crusader (c. 3000 BCE – 1291 CE) · Canaanite-Phoenician / Egyptian / Persian / Roman / Crusader
Phoenician Sidon's drowned quay beneath Crusader Sea Castle – ashlar mole and bollards at –1.5 to –4 m.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (575 BCE – 500 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Eastern Strait toll harbour of Patrai on Kerch Strait — 60 m quay at –1.8 m and customs house.
🇯🇵 Japan · Archaeological wonder
Incipient Jomon (12000) → Early Jomon 8000–6000 BCE (Jomon lakeshore forager) · Jomon (Lake Biwa Incipient–Early Jomon)
Incipient–Early Jomon lakeshore shell midden (c.12000–6000 BCE) on Lake Biwa eastern bank at Awazu, Otsu — 0.8 ha freshwater shell mound (Seta shijimi clam) excavated 1962–86 by Shiga Prefecture,…
🇳🇱 Netherlands · Archaeological wonder
Mesolithic (Maglemosian/Boreal) · Northern European Early Mesolithic forest foragers (Maglemose)
8040 BCE Scots pine dugout—world's oldest preserved boat, fire-hollowed Mesolithic canoe.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Helladic to Classical (2500 – 373 BCE) · Early Helladic / Achaean Greek
Early Helladic town 3–5 m buried under Boura plain beneath Classical Helike tsunami horizon — EH apsidal houses at –4 m.
