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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.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Submerged site
Medieval to Modern (c. 8th – 1922 CE) · Beja / Hadhrami Arab / Ottoman Egyptian
Former African Red Sea capital built entirely of coral rag — 19th-century houses collapsing into lagoon fringing reef.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late–PN (7100–6000 BCE) · Maitland Mesa chapel-associated trappers (SE Badia Late Neolithic)
8 Maitland triangular-pen kites 750 m with chapel 40 m from pen QEM-03 — quern butchery slab and infant burial chapel.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Intihuatana (possibly from in the Quechua spelling Inti Watana or Intiwatana), at the archaeological site of Machu Picchu, is a notable ritual stone associated with the astronomic clock or calendar…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7200–5000 BCE) · Qattafi basin pastoral trappers (Wadi al-Qattafi group)
10 south mesa kites 695 m: 320–780 m walls using 40% natural escarpment as barrier, mesa-lee pens with burial cairn cutting wall.
🇫🇲 Micronesia · Buried city
Medieval Pacific (1180–1628 CE Saudeleur; 1628–1835 Nahnmwarki) · Pohnpeian / Saudeleur / Nahnmwarki
92 basalt-log islets 1180 CE on Pohnpei reef — 750,000 tonnes columnar basalt Venice of Pacific, pseudo-grafted to Mu/Lemuria 14k BCE (typhoon slump at −6 m, not Atlantis).
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Byzantine (312 BCE – 1191 CE) · Cypriot-Greek / Ptolemaic / Roman
312–294 BCE outer harbour of Amathus city-kingdom preserved as three rubble moles at −4 m — Cyprus's first underwater archaeological park off Agios Tychonas.
🇷🇺 Russia · Hydraulic works
The Eurasia Canal (Russian: Канал "Евразия", Kanal "Evraziya") is a proposed 700-kilometre-long (430 mi) canal connecting the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea along the Kuma-Manych Depression.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Earthwork
Iron Age, Late La Tene 148 BCE · Late Iron Age La Tene Ireland
147 BCE Iron Age oak plank highway (3.2 m wide, 1.6 km) across Corlea Bog, largest European timber road built in one year.
🇮🇳 India · Rock-cut
Badami Chalukya (543–753 CE) · Badami Chalukya Shaiva (Nataraja) and Jain; Pulakeshin II
Chalukya lab 540–745: Ravanaphadi 6th c. earliest Nataraja cave and 125 structural trials with 634 CE Ravikirti Meguti stone.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (543 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Central harbour insulae of Phanagoria in Taman Bay centre — orthogonal streets and 90 m embankment at –2 to –3 m.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Jebel Irhoud (Arabic: جبل إيغود, Moroccan Arabic: žbəl iġud) or Adrar n Ighoud (Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⵖⵓⴷ, romanized: Adrar n Iɣud), is an archaeological site in Morocco located just…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Atacameño 900–1400 CE) · Atacameño Likan Antai Sur-crossing caravans
14 halite-island figures on Sur central playa 2280 m: camelids + bisected arrow on gypsum isle amid brine sheet.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Earthwork
Contested Holocene ambiguous — Holocene to Late Pre-Hispanic hypothesis or natural jointing · Contested Huarpe / Comechingón (?) or natural geofact (unvalidated)
Southern Potrero enigmatic walls — 600 m rectilinear stone line 0.6 m and circular huts 4 m under Chaco vine forest; contested Huarpe vs natural jointing.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Flaoui or Fleywe or Flaoueh (Arabic: فلاوي) is a small village located 17 kilometres (11 mi) northwest of Baalbek, Lebanon in Baalbek District, Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon.
Bhutan · Temple complex
Chorten Kora is an important stupa next to the Khorlo-Chu(Kholongchu) River in Trashi Yangtse, in East Bhutan.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Late Antique (274 BCE – 250 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman
Central basin of Myos Hormos at Quseir al-Qadim — 90 m coral quay at –1.2 m and 120 m silted lagoon.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Hydraulic works
Early Islamic to present (1,300-yr continuity) · Sijilmassa Hezran + Filali oasis communities
Tafilalet foggara line: 45 khettaras (0.8-6 km, 120-410 shafts) feeding Sijilmassa palm oasis since 8th c.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Middle Horizon to Late Intermediate (Cabuza–Maitas 650–1200 CE) · Lluta Cabuza–Maitas–San Miguel valley traders
31 eastern pampa figures on Gallinazo plain 2.2 km east of Alto Ramírez: rhomb anthropomorphs plus 140 m solstice corridor.
🇰🇵 North Korea · Archaeological wonder
Goguryeo
The Kangso Three Tombs (Korean: 강서세무덤) are mausoleums located in Kangso-guyok, North Korea. They are part of the Complex of Koguryo Tombs, a UNESCO World Heritage site, a National Treasure of North…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Casarabe northern frontier · Hypothetical Casarabe Pando frontier
Hypothetical northern raised-field grid at Kunduriri Pando — 400 beds claim vs scroll bars.
🇵🇱 Poland · Ancient city
Early Middle Ages (8th–12th c., Viking Age peak 900–1100) · Pomeranian Slavs (Wolinian) + Viking Jomsvikings
Wolin (Jomsburg–Vineta) Slavic–Viking Emporium in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Kamień County, Wolin Island, Dziwna river mouth, Poland is a Early Middle Ages (8th–12th c., Viking Age peak 900–1100)…
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works
Abbasid Early Islamic 801–842 CE (Makkah Hajj hydraulic) · Abbasid Makkah Hajj oasis (Zubaydah patron)
Zubaydah west branch 4.2 km ashlar 0.9×0.7 m vaulted 12 m with 14 siphons: Abbasid 801/842 west distributary 0.6‰ to Wadi Fatima.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Earthwork
Early Middle Ages (8th–10th c. Great Moravian periphery; Avar preceding) · Great Moravian frontier / Slavic elite, later Magyar
Bojná-Valy Stronghold and Ritual Centre in Nitra Region, Topoľčany District, Bojná village, Považský Inovec mountains, Slovakia is a Early Middle Ages (8th–10th c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Early Arab (300 BCE – 800 CE) · Ptolemaic / Byzantine
Southern vineyard of Marea — 4 presses and saqiya canal 4.5 m linking to harbour, now 1.8 m silted south chora.
