An atlas of Earth’s mysterious places — megaliths, pyramids, lost and sunken cities — with the evidence shown plainly: what is verified, what is contested, and what is still unknown.

Data CC BY-SA 4.0 · Photos per credit

Explore

Atlas map
All places
Categories
Countries
Contested & pseudo

Community

Theories & discussion
Lists
News & resources
Submit a resource

Mysteria

About the atlas
Data & verification
Licenses & credits
Create an account

The house

Thaumatica
Libra Esoterica
UAP Nexus
Aletheca
Lonely Island

Search Mysteria

Search places, or jump to a section

The catalogue

Widely accepted places matching “Afar Region”

4 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.

Filters

Clear all

Verification

Pick several

Verified8,259 Widely accepted3,677 Contested74 Hypothetical1,151 Pseudoarchaeology66

4 places

Ancient villages

1,325

🇺🇸United States

484

Submerged

216

926

“Afar Region”

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder

Aramis, Ethiopia

Aramis is a village and archaeological site in north-eastern Ethiopia, where remains of Australopithecus and Ardipithecus (Ardipithecus ramidus) have been found.

≈Accepted

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder

Gona, Ethiopia

Gona is a paleoanthropological research area in Ethiopia's Afar Region. Gona is primarily known for its archaeological sites and discoveries of hominin fossils from the Late Miocene, Early Pliocene…

≈Accepted

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder

Hadar, Ethiopia

Hadar or Hadar Formation (also spelled Qad daqar, Qadaqar; Afar "white [qidi] stream [daqar]") is a paleontological fossil site located in Mille district, Administrative Zone 1 of the Afar Region,…

≈Accepted

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder

Dikika

The Dikika is an area of the Afar Region of Ethiopia. A hominin fossil named Selam, a specimen of the Australopithecus afarensis species, was found in this area.