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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.
🇮🇳 India · Ancient village
Chalcolithic Ahar-Banas 3000–1700 BCE · Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic — Mewar Plain Banas Basin
Gilund Modiya Magara Mound — largest Ahar-Banas Chalcolithic settlement (3000–1700 BCE) in Banas Basin, locally Modiya Magari (bald mound), 25×18 ha dual mound excavated 1959–60 by B.B.
🇪🇸 Spain · Phantom island
Voyage c.530 (hagiography 8th c.); mapped 9th c.–1850 · Irish monastic immram + medieval mappa mundi
Brendan's 6th c. currach Promised Land at 28N 23W – Severin 1976 proved voyage feasible but not island.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Rock art
Late Preclassic (400 BCE – 200 CE) · Maya (Preclassic)
San Bartolo in Petén, Guatemala is a Late Preclassic (400 BCE – 200 CE) rock art attributed to Maya (Preclassic) culture.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Phoenician to Islamic (6th c BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Mauri / Roman
River limes fort Thamusida with Praetorium frescoes and cohors II Syrorum camp.
🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork
Late Archaic to late pre-contact St. Johns II (c.800 BCE–1565 CE, major 600–1400 CE) · St. Johns (Ais/Surruque ancestors)
Largest shell mound in mainland United States—St. Johns II / late prehistoric (600–1400 CE) oyster-shell midden-mound 30 ft high (≈15 m) extending 600 ft long × 180 ft wide (≈183×55 m), volume…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Middle to Late Neolithic (c.4800–3500 BCE) · Armorican Neolithic (Carnac tradition)
Largest Carnac alignment — 982 menhirs in 10 rows (1,120 m) between Ménec and Kerlescan with Kermario dolmen inside.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
Late Neolithic (c.4000–3500 BCE) · Alentejo Megalithic (Évora tradition)
U-shaped Alentejo cromlech (34 menhirs, 10 x 12 m) near Almendres — open eastern entrance intermediate to squared Xerez.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Early Dynastic to Late Period (2950–650 BCE; decorated peak Middle Kingdom) · Ancient Egyptian / Coptic
Hare nome necropolis with Djehutihotep colossus sledge 172 men and earliest Book of Two Ways coffins.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Fortress
Kushan–Afrighid 300–800 CE → Islamic 800–1300 CE · Khwarazmian (Kangju–Afrighid) → Islamic Khwarazm
Afrighid–Early Islamic desert fortress (c.300 BCE–1200 CE) on the Sultan Uvays piedmont near Ellikkala — compact square fort (90×80 m) with unique corrugated mudbrick façade (vertical ribs) and…
🇰🇷 South Korea · Tumulus
Three Kingdoms Silla 5th–6th c CE · Silla Three Kingdoms (Gyeongju Tumuli)
Cheonmachong (Tomb No.155) — Silla royal tomb (c.5th–6th c CE, Silla middle) 100 m west Hwangnam Daechong, Gyeongju Tumuli Park, excavated 1973 CHA (Kim Jeong-hak).
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Early Intermediate Moche (100–800 CE, peak Moche III–IV 400–600 CE) · Moche (Mochica, north coast, Moche Valley capital)
Largest adobe structure in Americas: Huaca del Sol (Moche 100–800 CE, peak 400–600 CE) 342×159 m base, 41 m high preserved (original maybe 50 m) with four stepped platforms, built in ~140 million…
🇯🇵 Japan · Tumulus
Kofun Late 6th c CE Asuka transition · Late Kofun Yamato royal — Ikaruga Horyuji corridor
Fujinoki Kofun Ikaruga — late 6th c CE keyhole kofun (zenpo-koen 50×48 m, two-chamber) 300 m west Horyuji temple at Ikaruga, Nara basin NW, excavated 1985–88 by Kashihara Archaeological Institute…
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Early Bronze (3100–2300 BCE) · EB Syrian (Early Dynastic contemporary) → Mortuary complex
Tell Banat White Monument South is the southern suburb below the White Monument — a 20-m-high stepped earthen mortuary mound (100 m diam) south of Tell Banat cluster on the Euphrates.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Northern breakwater of Gorgippia at Anapa Bay north — 150 m ashlar mole at –2 m and warehouse podium.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Early to Late Classic (520 – 790 CE) · Maya (Kaanul vassal)
La Corona in Petén, Guatemala is a Early to Late Classic (520 – 790 CE) ancient city attributed to Maya (Kaanul vassal) culture.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period (1800–900 BCE), Early Horizon transition · Cupisnique-Caballo Muerto (Formative Andean)
Most elaborate Initial Period (1500–1200 BCE) platform pyramid (40x30 m base, U-shaped complex 55x35 m overall) within 2 km² Caballo Muerto field of eight mounds (Moche Valley).
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Early Holocene to Camel Period (Pastoral/Horse/Camel) · Pastoral Saharan / Garamantine / Tuareg
Archetypal Saharan wadi gallery Mathendous with Bubalus-to-Camel engravings of extinct megafauna.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Pyramid
Early Napatan (Tumulus c.890–750 BCE, Napatan pyramids 750–650 BCE) · Kushite (Early Napatan, 25th Dynasty founders, Egyptianised post-Piye)
Ancestral royal cemetery of Kush at Napata (890–650 BCE, Tumulus generation to early Napatan) with 20 pyramids (Ku. Tum. 1–6 early tumulus-pyramids 12 m, Ku.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Late Roman (6th c BCE–5th c CE; villas 2nd–4th c) · Numidian / Carthaginian / Roman
Unique Numidian–Roman town with two-storey subterranean villas and intact hunt mosaics preserved by burial.
🇵🇪 Peru · Pyramid
Initial Period / Early Horizon (1700–800 BCE) · Nepeña Formative / Cupisnique–Chavín
Early Formative coastal pyramid-mound (1700–1200 BCE) predating Chavín, now incongruously dominated by 30-m-high adobera (adobe-brick) knoll built over U-shaped temple.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Kurgan
Late Bronze to Early Iron (Khirigsuur / Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Complex) · Mongolian Late Bronze pastoral
Steppe-forest ecotone kurgan and deer-stone complex (1,580 m, 46°29′28″N 104°07′07″E 46.4912N 104.1186E Bayan-Öndör) bridging Mongolian Khirigsuur (Late Bronze 1300-700 BCE) and deer stone-khirigsuur…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Archaeological wonder
Old to Middle Kingdom (2350–1750 BCE; painted peak Twelfth Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
39 nomarch cliff tombs 2100–1750 BCE with Asiatic caravan 37 and wrestling 219 pairs proto-Doric.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Ancient city
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic (Karanovo–Varna sequence) · Hamangia → Varna → Gumelnița associated
Earliest prehistoric town in Europe (c.5600–4350 BCE, Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic) — fortified stone-walled (3 m thick) salt-production centre at Mirovo rock salt spring, the oldest salt mine in…
🇱🇾 Libya · Rock art
Early Holocene to Mid-Holocene (10,000–3000 BCE) · African Humid Period Pastoral (Early/Middle Holocene)
80-m acacus shelter with 7000 BCE feather-cape mummies and earliest African dairy 8200 BP lipids.
