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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tasmola transition · Tasmola–Begazy (Sary-Arka early nomads)
Stepped tetrahedral kurgan southeast of Karaganda: 54-m four-terrace pyramid mound (800 BCE).
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Claimed ancient (Fawcett 500 BCE Atlant. survivors) vs real Xinguano 800–1600 CE · Fawcett: imagined Atlantean/Cartaginian survivors; real: ancestral Kuikuro (Arawak) Xinguano polities
Fawcett's Atlantean Z near Xingu 1925 vanished – 30 km away Heckenberger found real 50-ha Kuhikugu road-plaza network.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian) · Uthaib lava-field hunter-ceremonialists
Hybrid of 18 mustatils and 8 kites stratigraphically entangled on Harrat Uthaib lava south of Tabuk.
🇨🇳 China · Rock-cut
Kucha–Tocharian to Tang–Uyghur (5th–11th c.) · Tocharian Kuchan Buddhist (Sarvastivada Dharmaguptaka) later Uyghur Mahayana
Kucha 112 caves 450–1100 with diamond vault Maitreya and pipa musicians on Weigan gorge, Kizil's sister.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Archaeological wonder
Neolithic to Iron Age consecutive · North Tipperary bog-edge farmers
North lobe extension of Derryville megacluster: 3 tracks (2450–220 BCE) plus wattle panel type-specimen.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic · Ancient city
Early Middle Ages (c.600–907 CE, Great Moravian 830–907) · Great Moravia (Veligrad hypothesis; Svatopluk)
Staré Město – Veligrad Great Moravian Centre in Zlín Region, Uherské Hradiště district, Staré Město, Morava valley, Czech Republic is a Early Middle Ages (c.600–907 CE, Great Moravian 830–907) Great…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Iron Age – Byzantine (1200 BCE–600 CE) · Moabite–Ammonite–Roman
Iron Age – Byzantine (1200 BCE–600 CE) tell of Moabite–Ammonite–Roman in Balqa Governorate, Madaba Plains (c.1200 BCE).
🇴🇲 Oman · Earthwork
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age, Qara Neolithic · Dhofar Neolithic pastoral-hunter groups
18 Neolithic limestone desert kites (4600-3800 BCE) on Dhofar's Jebel Qara, southernmost kite province at monsoon escarpment.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (300 BCE – 500 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian
Eastern lake harbour of Karanis at Kom Aushim — 55 m granary pier at –0.5 m on Moeris shore.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Neolithic, Arabian Late Neolithic 5200-5000 BCE · North Arabian Late Neolithic pastoralists
12 Neolithic mustatil ritual enclosures (5000-5200 BCE) on Tayma sabkha margin with causeway gates aligned to Jebel Ghunaym.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Early Intermediate (Alto Ramírez 400 BCE–350 CE) with Archaic midden · Camarones Alto Ramírez valley fishers–farmers (Chinchorro descendant)
18 north bluff figures 200 m above Camarones gorge: round-head giants + llama and 62 m trapezoid to coastal springs.
🇮🇷 Iran · Tell
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) · Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes)
Early Bronze (3500–2200 BCE) tell of Early Transcaucasian (Kura-Araxes) in West Azerbaijan, Urmia Basin (c.3500 BCE).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Ancient village
Iron Age, British Middle–Late (Hod Hill + Glastonbury ware) · Iron Age Somerset wetland Britons (Durotriges–Dumnonii border)
250 BCE–50 BCE Iron Age peat islands—90 wattle houses on Somerset artificial crannogs.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Urartian (735–714 BCE) · Urartian (Rusa I)
Urartian (735–714 BCE) fortress of Urartian (Rusa I) in Van Province, Van Plain (c.735 BCE).
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze – Persian (1400–400 BCE) · Philistine–Assyrian
Late Bronze – Persian (1400–400 BCE) tell of Philistine–Assyrian in Southern District, Besor River (c.1400 BCE).
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Classical to Medieval (422 BCE – 1400 CE) · Heracleian Doric / Byzantine
Western citadel harbour of Tauric Chersonesos in Quarantine Bay — 130 m mole at –2.5 m and ship-sheds.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Iron Age (Urartian Kingdom) · Urartian
Urartian masterpiece (1,720 m, 38°30′37″N 43°21′58″E 38.5103,43.3661; also 38°29′39″N 43°22′48″E Van city) 56 km (35 mi) gravity canal plus aqueducts built by King Menua (r.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman Imperial (High Empire) · Roman Phrygia (Aezanitai polis under Rome)
Hadrianic Ionic pseudodipteral 9×15 with intact vaulted cryptoporticus, Phrygian Roman gem.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Early Bronze – Iron Age (3000–600 BCE) · Biblical Debir
Early Bronze – Iron Age (3000–600 BCE) tell of Biblical Debir in Southern District, Hebron Hills (c.3000 BCE).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (4000–1600 BCE) · Middle Bronze Ammian
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze (4000–1600 BCE) tell of Middle Bronze Ammian in Şanlıurfa Province, Halfeti (c.4000 BCE).
🇵🇱 Poland · Buried city
Viking Age (960–1043 CE) · Norse Jomsviking / Slavic (hypothesized)
Jomsviking fortress harbour c. 960 — saga stone arch over Dziwna channel for 30 ships; 90 m Srebrna Góra earthwork proved natural dune (hypothetical).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Roman (300 BCE – 250 CE) · Ptolemaic Egyptian / Roman
Eastern isthmus harbour of Soknopaiou Nesos at Dime — 50 m causeway quay at –1 m and isthmus basin.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Late Pre-Columbian (500 – 1400 CE) · Casarabe (Llanos de Moxos)
Casarabe Cedro West forest island 12 m high 300 m with causeway 800 m to lagoon 200 m and field ridges 2 km; Llanos de Moxos hydraulic.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Ancient city
Late Pre-Columbian (500 – 1400 CE) · Casarabe (Llanos de Moxos)
Casarabe Cedro West forest island 12 m high 300 m with causeway 800 m to lagoon 200 m and field ridges 2 km; Llanos de Moxos hydraulic.
