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🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient village
Roman Iron Age to Migration Period · Saxon / Elbe-Germanic
Two Iron Age–Migration plank roads (330 CE / 500 CE) — 500 & 600 m bog causeways north of Hamburg.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Hypothetical site
Modern forgery projected onto Holocene varzea (no archaeological horizon) · Modern German-Brazilian hoax (Barbara/Günter Hauck as Tatunca Nara 1970s) onto Tikuna land
Akakor Bavarian fantasy pillars at Javari–Solimões confluence — alleged Doric-notch stone pillars marking Akakor entrance, varzea flooded.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Modern (Karasuk to Manchu period) · Karasuk, Xiongnu, Xianbei, Turkic and Mongol Buddhist
Sacred mountain ridge northeast of Ulaanbaatar with 600 panels Bronze Age to Buddhist.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Tumulus
Medieval (800-1500 CE) · Harla
Harla Necropolis Cairn Field East Sector — Northern Annex in Harari, Harar, Ethiopia is a Medieval (800-1500 CE) tumulus attributed to Harla.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder
Middle Pleistocene (260–154 ka; idaltu bearing 160 ka) · Homo sapiens idaltu (early sapiens subspecies)
Formation yielding 160 ka Homo sapiens idaltu crania BOU-VP-16 with deliberate defleshing cutmarks and Acheulean→MSA transition.
🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Rock-cut
Medieval (1100-1300 CE) · Zagwe
Lalibela Biete Qeddus Mercoreos Cliff Cell Annex in Amhara, Lalibela, Ethiopia is a Medieval (1100-1300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Zagwe.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Rock art
Late Pleistocene (43.9 ka) · Early modern humans of Wallacea (pre-Austronesian)
Sulawesi 43.9 ka therianthrope pig hunt — oldest figurative art globally.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Middle Kingdom, 12th–13th Dynasty, ~1800 BCE · Ancient Egyptian
Northern Mazghuna mudbrick pyramid, Dahshur south (c.1800 BCE), 52.5 m base, unfinished Sobekneferu candidate.
🇫🇰 United Kingdom (Falkland phantom) · Phantom island
Phantom cartographic (1684–1770s) · Buccaneer privateer / British Admiralty / French cartography
North Falkland phantom 'commodious harbour' invented 1684 – magnetic-variation error doubling Falklands.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient village
Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) · Neolithic
Phaistos West Court Phaistos in Crete, Phaistos, Greece is a Neolithic to Iron Age (6000 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Neolithic.
🇩🇰 Denmark · Ancient city
Viking Age (Early, c.710–850 CE core; medieval to 1700) · Danish Viking (Merovingian–Carolingian contact)
Ribe, founded c.710 CE on a terp above the Ribe Å wadden marsh, is Denmark's oldest town, a 13-hectare planned market grid of north–south plots along the river where artisans produced glass beads,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Seila Small Step Pyramid Eastern Face in Fayoum, Seila, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Neolithic (c.3500–2500 BCE) · British Late Neolithic (Grooved Ware)
Thornborough Henges (Neolithic c.3500–2500 BCE) are Britain's finest henge alignment: three huge circular earthworks 240 m diameter each, bank 2 m high with outer ditch and twin entrances aligned…
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Late Intermediate (Arica / Tarapacá) · Tarapacá / Arica caravan tradition
Westernmost Tarapacá geoglyph cluster on the southern flank of Quebrada Tiliviche (1,070 m), 2 km west of the Pan-American bridge. Camiña commune.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Iron Age Sa Huỳnh 1000 BCE–200 CE → Oc Eo 200–600 CE → Cham 200–1400 CE · Sa Huỳnh (South Central Vietnam Iron Age, Kalanay related)
Sa Huỳnh jar-burial coastal culture (1000 BCE–200 CE) at Sa Huỳnh dune plain — 80 cm burial jars with lingling-o earrings and glass bead sea trade.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Megalith
Chalcolithic (4600-4200 BCE) · Varna Culture
Varna Chalcolithic Necropolis Sector 3 in Varna Oblast, Bulgaria is a Chalcolithic (4600-4200 BCE) megalithic attributed to Varna Culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (Hadrianic, 2nd c. CE) · Roman Africa Proconsularis (Latin-Tunisian)
Hadrianic 132-km aqueduct Zaghouan to Carthage with 17-km arcade, Rome's longest.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Nabataean to Late Roman · Nabataean / Roman Arabia
3.2-km Nabataean–Roman rock-cut qanat (100 BCE–400 CE) with 28 shafts — Ma'an plateau.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Dura-Europos Synagogue Bench Inscription in Deir ez-Zor, Dura, Syria is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇦🇫 Afghanistan · Temple complex
Hephthalite–Turk Shahi 7th–8th c CE late Buddhist · Hephthalite Buddhist — Central Asian late Gandhara (Fondukistan style)
Fondukistan Conical Hill Monastery — 8th c CE (c.700 CE Hackin terminus post quem 689 CE via coins) Buddhist monastery on conical hilltop at Ghorband Valley pass 50 km NW Kabul, excavated 1933–40 by…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Giza Queen's Pyramid G Ia East Face in Giza, East Field, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Hawara Pyramid Labyrinth South Wing in Fayoum, Hawara, Egypt is a Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BCE) pyramid attributed to Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom).
🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art
Late Archaic to Early Ceramic (5000 – 2000 BCE disputed) · Pre-ceramic Nordeste
Inga Stone South in Paraíba, Brazil is a Late Archaic to Early Ceramic (5000 – 2000 BCE disputed) rock art attributed to Pre-ceramic Nordeste culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age IA · Ghassulian–Early Bronze IA (Proto-Jawa)
Eastern 72-m basalt dam and canal feeding Jawa proto-city — earliest desert irrigation.
