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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.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Temple complex
The Great Mosque of Sana'a (Arabic: الجامع الكبير بصنعاء, al-Jāmiʿ al-Kabīr bi-Ṣanʿāʾ) is an ancient mosque in Sana'a, Yemen, and one of the oldest mosques in the world.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Tomb
Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Vast multi-phase mastaba of Ptahshepses, vizier and son-in-law of Nyuserre — the largest non-royal tomb of the Old Kingdom, famed for its pillared court and painted reliefs.
🇴🇲 Oman · Buried city
Iron Age to Late Antique (1000 BCE – 500 CE) · Arabian frankincense / South Arabian / Parthian
Qur'anic Iram dhat al-'Imad — 1992 SAR identified Shisr 8-tower limestone fortress collapsed into sinkhole c. 500 CE (contested as Ubar).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 902 BCE · Late Bronze Age Somerset Levels herders
Late Bronze Age hurdle trackway (902 BCE, 450 m) at Withy Bed Copse, Shapwick Heath — Late Bronze revival of Levels tradition.
🇮🇷 Iran · Rock art
Achaemenid Empire (Darius I) to Sassanian · Achaemenid Persian; Parthian Arsacid; Sassanian
522 BCE Darius trilingual on cliff 66 m high — cuneiform Rosetta for decipherment, Parthian–Sassanian roadside fringe.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Mauryan–Sunga–Satavahana–Gupta 600 BCE–500 CE · Magadhan → Sunga → Satavahana → Gupta
Ancient Vesanagara city mound at Betwa-Bes confluence — Sunga–Satavahana twin capital of Vidisha (600 BCE–500 CE).
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Hydraulic works
Late Bronze to Indo-Greek (Gandhara) 1400 BCE - 200 CE · Gandhara Grave Culture to Indo-Greek
Late Bronze rock-cut canal (3 km, 4 m wide, 1390 BCE) diverting Swat River to Bir-Kot Ghundai Indo-Greek city.
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Early Bronze Age Únětice (1600–1550 BCE deposition) · Únětice (Unetice) Bronze Age chiefdom
1600 BCE hoard findspot of the Nebra Sky Disk—Bronze Age astronomic gold-leaf cosmogram.
🇨🇳 China · Ancient village
Hemudu culture 6500–5000 BCE (Early → Middle → Late Hemudu) · Hemudu (Lower Yangzi Neolithic, Austroasiatic? → later Wu-Yue)
Hemudu culture waterlogged village (c.6500–5000 BCE, 7000–5800 cal BP) in Yuyao, Zhejiang — 3 ha Neolithic settlement between two hills 7 km northeast of Hemudu, excavated 2004–07 by Zhejiang…
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Mongol (Deer stone–Xiongnu–Turkic–Uyghur–Mongol) · Steppe nomadic: Bronze Deer stone culture, Xiongnu, First Turkic Khaganate, Uyghur, Mongol
Orkhon steppe 300 panels Bronze deer-stags to Turkic tamga 1500 BCE–1200 CE on Kharkhorin fringe, UNESCO buffer 1081.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient city
Archaic Greek to Early Medieval (657 BCE – 7th c. CE) · Milesian Greeks → Getae → Romans → Byzantines
Histria (Istrus) Greek Colony on the Black Sea in Dobruja, Constanța County, Istria commune, Sinoe Lake shore near Danube delta, Romania is a Archaic Greek to Early Medieval (657 BCE – 7th c.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age, Early Saka / Arzhan-Chemurchek transition · Early Saka (Sakae) pastoralists
730 BCE Early Saka royal kurgan (100 m) with 500+ gold appliques and 17 horses, earliest monumental Saka tomb in East Kazakhstan.
🇰🇮 Kiribati · Submerged site
Pseudo 200k–14k BCE (real Pacific formation 140 Ma) · Pseudo Muvians / claimed Motherland / Naacals
Churchward 1926 Pacific continent 5,000 miles Hawaii-Fiji sunk 14,000 BCE by gas-belt — Naacal tablets never produced, −4000 m abyssal 140 Ma crust, not sial.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Early to Mature Harappan to Late Harappan · Harappan (Sindhu–Sarasvati)
16 Harappan rock-cut reservoirs (2600–1900 BCE) — 250,000 m³ desert catchment, Dholavira.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Iron Age · Kitoi, Serovo, Glazkovo, Kurumchin
Baikal white marble 20-m cliff with 70 anthropomorphs 6000–800 BCE and surviving red ochre, Okladnikov corpus.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Tumulus
Scythian Late Classical (4th c BCE) · Pontic Scythian (Scythian–Bosporan elite, 4th c BCE)
350 BCE composite kurgan with 1,150-g solid gold Scythian pectoral — queen's unrobbed catacomb at Pokrov-Nikopol.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Neolithic humid phase (Holocene) · Jubbah lake-shore hunters
Jubbah paleolake-marginal kites: 16 funnels at Umm Sanman piedmont below UNESCO rock-art cliffs.
🇱🇻 Latvia · Ancient city
Migration → Vendel → Viking Age 650–850 (Curonian–Scandinavian) · Curonian Baltic + Gotlandic–Swedish Vendel–Viking (Seeburg)
Grobiņa (Grobin/Seeburg, Cur. *Gruobins*) — Curonian–Gotlandic–Swedish emporium (c.650–850, Great Migration → Viking Age) on Ālande River 8 km east Liepāja, South Courland, largest Scandinavian…
🇮🇳 India · Archaeological wonder
Late Sunga (Indo-Greek–Sunga contact) c.125–75 BCE · Indo-Greek (Taxila) → Sunga (Vidisha)
Indo-Greek Garuda pillar 113 BCE — Heliodorus dedication to Vasudeva (earliest Greek Hindu inscription).
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (Tarapacá 400 BCE–1400 CE) · Tarapacá caravan (Alto Ramírez–Pica)
East-ridge geoglyphs 1.8 km east of Salar de Huasco: 22 ignimbrite figures including caravan llamas and solstice avenue at 3,835 m.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Geoglyph
Late pre-Hispanic Agrelo-Viluco · Huarpe-Pehuenche
30 austral basalt geoglyphs (900-1500 CE) on Sierra Pintada, southernmost Andean desert lines at 37S.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) natural Meso steps + pre-Columbian field field 900 CE · Hypothetical Inca pyramid city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field field culture
Paratoari pyramidal mesas 150 m promoted as Paititi north — mesas natural mesas with 2 km field levee 0.5 m, Inka sherds at base but no summit stone.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Middle Horizon (c.600–800 CE) · Wari (Huari)
Viracochapampa (Quechua Wiraqucha god + pampa plain) is a vast unfinished Wari grid-city 3.5 km north of Huamachuco in the La Libertad highlands at 3,070 m.
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Neolithic to Turkic · Afanasievo, Andronovo, Scythian-Pazyryk, Turkic
Yaloman Chuya bluff 8 km north of Kalbak-Tash with 3000 petroglyphs, Afanasievo Deer Mother and tamga alley.
