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13,227 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.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Byzantine (6th c. BCE – 600 CE) · Toretae / Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern harbour of Toricos — rubble mole and galley slipway at 2–4 m off Gelendzhik Tonkiy Cape.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Korgantas transition (420–340 BCE) Saka to Hun · Korgantas (post-Tasmola) Karkaraly south ridge
4 Korgantas satellites 16–28 m south ridge 890 m with antenna 18 m and side-niche catacomb — Nura watershed sentinels.
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Qin (Warring States unification) · Qin Central, Bashu, Baiyue
Xing'an Xiang north 70% vs Lingqu south 30% divide with Huazui spillway and 36 pound locks, 219 BCE Shi Lu Qin.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Late Antique (3200 BCE – 600 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum canal capital — Bahr Yussef harbour 300x100 m now desert sebkha 3 km from shrunken Lake Moeris (40,000 papyri).
🇧🇷 Brazil · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate to Late Horizon (Xingu polyglot / Kayabi) · Upper Xingu archaeological tradition / Kayabi
Southern Amazon forest geoglyph province distinct from Acre-Urubamba: 14 circular and rectangular enclosures (120-320 m) on Xingu headwater interfluvia (260 m, 9°45′S 52°21′W), documented by Mendeley…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Roman (oracle peak 100–200 CE) · Ionian Greek, Colophon's oracle
Claros secondary Doric prophecy hall with adyton crevice and 1.2-km sacred road to Notion, 1st CE domitianic.
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Temple complex
Deeghawapi (Pali: Dīghavāpī, "long reservoir") is a Buddhist sacred shrine and an archaeological site in the Ampara District of Sri Lanka, historical records dating back to the 3rd century BCE.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient city
Middle Preclassic – Terminal Classic (c.800 BCE–1000 CE) Lowland Maya · Maya (Lowland)
El Pilar straddles the Belize-Guatemala international boundary on a 340m-high escarpment 12 km north of San Ignacio, Belize.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Byzantine to Ayyubid–Ottoman palimpsest (Roman origins 4th c BCE–14th c CE continuity) · Byzantine / Ayyubid (Norias mainly Ayyubid 12th–14th c)
Seventeen surviving norias (river-driven water wheels) on Orontes River through Hama (285 m), largest Al-Muhammadiya 21 m diameter (largest noria in world, 1207 Ayyubid), lifting Orontes water 15–21…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Archaeological wonder
Lori Fortress (Armenian: Լոռի բերդ)(Georgian: ლორეს ციხე) is an 11th-century Armenian fortress located near the Lori Berd village in Lori Province, Armenia.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Alazia (Ancient Greek: Ἀλαζία) was a city of ancient Mysia near the River Odrysses, which flows out of Lake Dascylitis from the west through the plain of Mygdonia and empties into the Rhyndacus.
🇱🇹 Lithuania · Earthwork
Middle Ages (14th–17th c. with Iron Age hillfort predecessor) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Vytautas, Radvila family)
Asveja Lake Hillfort and Dubingiai Castle Complex in Vilnius County, Molėtai–Dubingiai, Asveja lake bridge area, Lithuania is a Middle Ages (14th–17th c.
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Pueblo II–III (Chacoan 900–1150 CE, McElmo phase) · Ancestral Puebloan (Chaco Canyon Chacoan)
Pueblo del Arroyo (Chaco Great House Arroyo Sector) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in New Mexico, San Juan County, Chaco Canyon, Chaco Culture National Historical Park, United States —…
🇳🇵 Nepal · Ancient village
Ayodhyapuri (Nepali: अयोध्यापुरी) is a former village development committee and now a part of Madi Municipality in Chitwan District, Bagmati Province of southern Nepal.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic (Copper Age Gumelniţa/Kodzhadermen–Gumelnitsa–Karanovo VI) · Varna culture (Late Copper Age Balkan)
4600 BCE cemetery with 6.5 kg gold—world's earliest large stratified gold treasure (Grave 43 penis sheath).
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Apollonia (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλωνία) was the ancient chief town of Chalcidice in Macedonia, situated north of Olynthus, and a little south of the Chalcidian mountains.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Early Bronze to Medieval (Kura-Araxes to Orbelian) · Kura-Araxes to medieval Armenian–Seljuk caravaneer
Vayots Dzor Arpa gorge 400 leopard–goat and caravan cup-marks 3000 BCE–1332 CE linking Ughtasar high to Silk Road Selim.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Chorazin (Greek: Χοραζίν; also Chorazain) or Korazim (Hebrew: כורזים) was an ancient village in the Roman and Byzantine periods, best known from the Christian Gospels.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Classical Sangam to Colonial · Early Chola, British colonial (Cotton)
Chola Karikalan 2nd CE north Kollidam regulators with 12 vents and 1804 Cotton arches, oldest working dam distributary.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Dahshur (in English often called Dashur; Arabic: دهشور Dahšūr pronounced [dɑhˈʃuːɾ]) is an ancient Egyptian pyramid complex and necropolis and shares the name of the nearby village of Manshiyyat…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Classical to Byzantine (400 BCE – 800 CE) · Lycian / Greek / Roman / Jewish / Christian
Myra's sea-gate where St Paul changed ships — Hadrian Plakoma granary beside 350 m basin now 2.5 km inland from delta silt.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Anthylla (Ancient Greek: Ἄνθυλλα) or Andylla (Ancient Greek: Ἀντυλλα) is an ancient city of Lower Egypt, on the Canopus branch of the Nile River.
🇵🇱 Poland · Archaeological wonder
Ancient Celts
Krakus' Mound (in Polish. Kopiec Krakusa), also called Krak's Mound, is a tumulus located in the Podgórze district of Kraków, Poland, and is thought the resting place of Kraków's mythical founder,…
🇬🇪 Georgia · Temple complex
David Gareji (Georgian: დავითგარეჯის სამონასტრო კომპლექსი) is a rock-hewn Georgian Orthodox monastery complex located in the Kakheti region of Eastern Georgia, on the half-desert slopes of Mount…
