🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Velia (Elea) – Phocaean Harbour at Ascea
Archaic to Roman (c. 540 BCE – 400 CE) · Phocaean Greek / Lucanian / Roman
Phocaean silted harbour now 1 km inland – buried ashlar mole and ship-sheds under 3 m alluvium at Ascea.
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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Early Roman (Seleucid to Julio-Claudian) · Isaurian–Cilician priest state, Seleucid and Roman Cilicia
Taurus priest-kingdom hilltop Corinthian Zeus temple 6×12 with Zeus lightning entablature, Olba.
🇷🇺 Russia · Lost civilisation
Quaternary Kola granite gneiss frost polygons and erratics geology + 1997 Barkov Hyperborean myth Holocene polygons + modern pseudo-culture project · Natural Kola Lovozero granite erratics frost-heave grid (Holocene) + Barkov 1997 Hyperborea continental claim (no culture)
Hyperborea fantasy on Kola Lovozero tundra — frost polygon 40 m rows and glacial erratic 'altars' at 260 m claimed as Hyperborean Thule citadel by Seidozero.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (c. 540 BCE – 400 CE) · Phocaean Greek / Lucanian / Roman
Phocaean silted harbour now 1 km inland – buried ashlar mole and ship-sheds under 3 m alluvium at Ascea.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic I Aceramic (3000–2800) → Neolithic II Ceramic (2800–2000) → Megalithic II (2000–1500) → Early Historic III · Kashmir Neolithic (Burzahom culture)
Northernmost Neolithic settlement in India (c.3000–1500 BCE) on Karewa lacustrine terrace near Srinagar — aceramic to ceramic Neolithic (Period I pits) → megalithic (Period II).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500-7500 BCE) · PPN Culture
Cayonu Tepesi Skull Building Annex — Western Terrace in Southeastern Anatolia, Diyarbakir, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (8500-7500 BCE) ancient village attributed to PPN Culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate Tarapaca phase · Tarapaca and Arica caravan cultures
120+ Huara pampa geoglyphs (800-1400 CE) featuring unique 5-m footprint effigies on salar silt.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient city
Iron Age 4th c BCE–2nd c CE early historic port · Kra isthmus Iron Age port — Thai–Indian–Han–Silla crossroads
Khao Sam Kaeo Chumphon — Iron Age trans-Asian port (4th c BCE–2nd c CE) on Khao Sam Kaeo hill at Thai Kra Isthmus 5 km Gulf of Thailand 5 km from Chumphon, excavated 1991–2007 by B. Bellina–P.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Earthwork
Casarabe (500–1400 CE) · Casarabe
Northern causeway of Cotoca in Mojos — 1.4 km ×10 m causeway with canals to forest island.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Neolithic (6500–3500) → Chalcolithic (3500–2000) → Iron Age · Vindhyan Belan Neolithic (Koldihwa–Mahagara)
Complementary Belan Valley Neolithic–Chalcolithic settlement (c.6500–2000 BCE) 5 km downstream of Koldihwa on the Belan River near Mahagara village — excavated together with Koldihwa (1975–77) by G.R.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age British Late (Glastonbury tradition) · Somerset Levels Iron Age Britons
300–50 BCE fen twin villages—28 Iron Age houses on Meare Pool artificial islets.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (543 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Western roadstead of Phanagoria 2–4 m under Taman Bay west of Tuzla Spit — timber jetties and salting quarter 220 m offshore.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (543 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Western roadstead of Phanagoria 2–4 m under Taman Bay west of Tuzla Spit — timber jetties and salting quarter 220 m offshore.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical pre-Hispanic to Historic · Hypothetical Huarpe / Historic pastoral
Hypothetical eastern ridge outlier above Potrero — 600 m wall and 6 m circles as pircas.
🇺🇸 United States · Geoglyph
Late Prehistoric (Patayan) to Historic · Mojave (Aha Makav) / Quechan
18-acre windrow maze (800–1200 CE) in Mojave Valley — 600-m herringbone pale strips.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Earthwork
Early Iron Age to Early Medieval · Sarmatian, Alan and early Turkic steppe groups
200 Ustyurt steppe kites (1000 BCE–500 CE) funneling saiga across the Aral–Caspian plateau.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Neolithic to Qing (6000 BCE – 1800 CE) · Yangshao, Ordos, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic, Mongol
Inner Mongolian 300-km granite gallery 15,000 masks and Ordos chariots 6 ka BCE–Qing.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Rock art
Early Nomadic to Early Medieval · Saka, Wusun, Turkic (Issyk-Kul basin pastoralists)
North sector of 42-ha Cholpon-Ata lake-shore museum with Saka snow-leopard petroglyphs.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Geoglyph
Formative (Early Formative to Upano contemporary) · Cóndor cloud-forest formative (pre-Mayo-Chinchipe)
Tepui-top forest geoglyphs on the Cordillera del Cóndor divide (1,250 m, 3°23′34″S 78°06′49″W per Ichigkat Muja National Park centre), bridging Ecuador and Peru Amazon headwaters: Rio Cenepa (Peru)…
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Temple complex
Aksumite to Zagwe (6th c–12th c; core 6th c Nine Saints) · Ethiopian Orthodox (Aksumite Christian) monastic
Amba-top monastery accessible only by 15 m leather rope, founded 6th c by Nine Saint Aregawi on precipice with Aksumite wood-monkey-head church.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9500-8500 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Karahan Tepe Pillared Structure East Ridge in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9500-8500 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (654 BCE – 400 CE) · Teian / Klazomenian Ionian
Western lagoon harbour of Abdera at Bulustra West — 55 m mole at –2 m and bastion.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic to Middle Bronze (Arabian bifacial to Wadi Sawawin–Qurayyah) · South Arabian Neolithic–Bronze Ibex hunters
38 Al Haql kites (5th–2nd mill. BCE) in 3 chains along Najran Ibex escarpment — southernmost Saudi kite province.
🇨🇴 Colombia · Museum
Preclassic – Late Intermediate (c.1500 BCE–1600 CE) Ilama – Yotoco – Sonso · Calima (Ilama–Yotoco–Sonso)
The Calima Archaeological Park (El Topacio, Dariel Museum) at Lago Calima, Valle del Cauca, is Colombia's type-sequence for West Andean prehistory (1500 BCE–1600 CE) at 1,490 m on the Western…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Tarapacá / Pica) · Tarapacá / Atacameño caravan
16 Tarapacá hilltop geoglyphs (900–1400 CE) on Cerro Sombrero mesa NW of Pintados.
