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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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon to Colonial refuge · Hypothetical Inka / Anti
Hypothetical Salvación Ridge terraces in Manú — 2 km terrace claim vs colluvial benches.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Ilkhanid to Qajar (Mongol to Qajar) · Mongol–Persian Ilkhanid hydraulic engineers (maybe Ghiyath al-Din?)
1350 Mongol thin arch 64 m with 1.05 m crest over 5-m gorge, world's tallest for 540 years (1350–1902).
🇵🇸 Palestine · Hydraulic works
Hasmonean to Herodian–Early Roman (100 BCE–70 CE) · Hasmonean / Herodian Judean (Hellenistic–Roman desert court)
20-km Wadi Qelt cliff aqueducts (c.20 BCE) cascading 400 m to irrigate Herod's Jericho oasis palaces and balsam plantations.
🇷🇺 Russia · Tumulus
Early Bronze to Early Saka, Afanasievo to Saka · Afanasievo to Early Saka Altai
Kalbak-Tash multi-period kurgan field (2800-600 BCE) of 22 cromlechs co-located with 500-panel rock-art gorge on Chuya River.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Neolithic to Protohistoric (Bubalus → Bovid pastoral → Libyco-Berber) · Capsian Neolithic pastoralists then Garamantian–Libyco-Berber
Ouled Nail Atlas 1162 ram-engravings 7000–3000 BCE, Bubalus ram 1.2 m with headdress, CapSian cattle pastoral transition.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) · PPNB–Halaf (8500–5500 BCE)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) tell of PPNB–Halaf (8500–5500 BCE) in Şanlıurfa Province, Middle Euphrates (c.8500 BCE).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Late Antique (275 BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman
Northern lagoon harbour of Berenike Troglodytica — 70 m fort mole at –1.5 m and fort wall.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Hydraulic works
Angkor early (Yasovarman) 9th–10th c · Khmer devaraja hydraulicians
Eastern Baray cascade satellite 4 km east of Angkor East Baray: 3 linked laterite reservoirs buffering monsoon overflow.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Middle Kingdom (1991–1783 BCE) · Middle Kingdom Egyptian
Northern Pharaonic anchorage of Wadi Gawasis north — 55 m breakwater at –1.5 m and cedar timbers.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Woodland effigy mound period (700–1200 CE) · Late Woodland effigy-mound builders (ancestral Ho-Chunk)
Contested submerged 'pyramids' in Wisconsin lake beside verified Woodland effigy mounds on shore.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Arsal (also spelled Aarsal, Ersal or 'Irsal; Arabic: عرسال), is a town and municipality situated east of Labweh, 124 kilometres (77 mi) northeast of Beirut, in Baalbek District of Baalbek-Hermel…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Early New Kingdom (18th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian (Theban — founder of New Kingdom)
Last pharaonic pyramid — cenotaph pyramid of Ahmose I (c.1550 BCE) at South Abydos — 52.5 m mudbrick/limestone terraced memorial to Osiris, bridge to Valley of the Kings.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Roman Iron Age (Angles) · Germanic Angles (North Germanic)
Thorsberg moor (Thorsberger Moor, Thorsberg Mose) peat bog (18 m asl, 54°38′14″N 09°46′07″E 54.6373,9.7687) in Anglia where Angles deposited votive offerings for four centuries, with 100 m oak…
🇰🇿 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.
