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32 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Predynastic to Old Kingdom (3200–2686 BCE) · Egyptian Naqada III / Early Dynastic / Thinite
Menes thinite capital c. 3100 BCE — Manetho homeland of Dyn 1–2, no mound found under 8 m Nile silt at Girga (5 km hypothetical).
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical pre-Hispanic to Historic · Hypothetical Huarpe / Historic Hualtaran pastoral
Hypothetical central causeway on Potrero de la Aguada floor — 800 m pavement amid historic corrals.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Casarabe northern frontier · Hypothetical Casarabe Pando frontier
Hypothetical northern raised-field grid at Kunduriri Pando — 400 beds claim vs scroll bars.
🇵🇪 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.
🇩🇪 Germany · Submerged site
Early Medieval (8th–12th c. CE) · Wendish Slav / Viking / hypothesized
Baltic Atlantis — Adam of Bremen Jumne 1075, claimed sunken off Usedom/Wollin with Koserow pavement at −5 m (contested glacial till).
🇾🇪 Yemen · Ancient port
Iron Age (10th c. BCE) / Biblical Trad. (hypothetical) · Israelite / Phoenician / hypothetical Ophirite
Solomon's three-year gold voyage (1 Kings 9) — candidates from Mahd adh Dhahab to Sofala Mozambique (no layer found, 100 km hypothetical).
🇵🇱 Poland · Buried city
Viking Age (960–1043 CE) · Norse Jomsviking / Slavic (hypothesized)
Jomsviking fortress harbour c. 960 — saga stone arch over Dziwna channel for 30 ships; 90 m Srebrna Góra earthwork proved natural dune (hypothetical).
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon to Refuge · Hypothetical Inka mega-city
Hypothetical northern mesa plateau of Gran Paititi — 3 km natural sandstone outliers as pyramids.
🇵🇪 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 · 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 · Hypothetical site
Holocene landslide bench geology + modern Paititi projection onto Vilcabamba interior spur Late Horizon hypothesis projection onto natural bench geology · Natural landslide bench with colluvial stone-fronted pircas misread as Paititi interior citadel (no in situ culture)/ Late Horizon sherds downslope allochthonous Choquequirao wash
Interior Andes Paititi spur Pinco Pichu 2100 m — 30–50 m terrace lines and 10×8 m platforms under canopy, landslide benches with colluvial pircas, sherds allochthonous.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Buried city
Marajoara Phase (800–1400 CE) Amazonian Polychrome · Marajoara / Aruã / Ananatuba
Amazon mouth tesos 12 m high with 3 km causeways at +1 m (800–1400 CE) — continental city 40,000 vs chiefdom 10,000 debated.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site
Greek geographic phantom (500 BCE – 300 CE) · Greek geographer / Phoenician trade secrecy
Herodotus ten Tin Islands phantom – Cornish tin coast inflated to archipelago at 50°N 5°W.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical 1200 CE if mound (unvalidated) or Holocene floating mat natural · Hypothetical Casarabe lagoon islet (unvalidated) or natural floating polder
Hypothetical Moxos central lagoon islet 200 m 2.5 m inside Cedro lagoon with 500 m causeway — ground truth floating camalote mat not mound, levee 0.4 m natural, hippo burrow suspected.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical 1200 CE if mound (unvalidated) or Holocene floating mat natural · Hypothetical Casarabe lagoon islet (unvalidated) or natural floating polder
Hypothetical Moxos central lagoon islet 200 m 2.5 m inside Cedro lagoon with 500 m causeway — ground truth floating camalote mat not mound, levee 0.4 m natural, hippo burrow suspected.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Quaternary geology Holocene wind tafoni onto Miocene andesite geology, no cultural horizon Holocene natural / fringe claim Pre-Columbian hypothetical · Natural andesite tafoni and wind hoodoos / fringe attribution to Masma culture (Ruzo unvalidated)
Marcahuasi second plateau amphitheatre 3950 m — 80 m hoodoo ring and 15 m 'Fortune Altar' mesa, wind-faceted andesite claimed as Lemurian carvings, geology tafoni.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Holocene natural / possibly Late Holocene human (unvalidated) · Unassigned Huarpes / Comechingón? / Jesuit?
Erosive 4000 ha Potrero de la Aguada amphitheatre inside Quijadas range — 40–80 m low stone walls bracketing stream forks, culture debated.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical pre-Hispanic to Historic · Hypothetical Huarpe / Historic pastoral
Hypothetical eastern ridge outlier above Potrero — 600 m wall and 6 m circles as pircas.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) Late Intermediate ambiguous pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical Inca refuge / pre-Inca (unvalidated)
Pusharo west ridge Paititi hypothesis 1.5 km rectilinear terrace 0.7 m and 10 m depressions under montane canopy — 1450 CE charcoal but no stone, landslide bench suspected.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) Late Intermediate ambiguous pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical Inca refuge / pre-Inca (unvalidated)
Pusharo west ridge Paititi hypothesis 1.5 km rectilinear terrace 0.7 m and 10 m depressions under montane canopy — 1450 CE charcoal but no stone, landslide bench suspected.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Inka Late Horizon · Hypothetical Inka / Amazónico
Hypothetical Inambari petroglyph ridge — 22 boulder claim vs erratics and fault scarp.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) palm swamp levee 900 CE or natural · Hypothetical Inca lagoon city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field (?)
Paititi lagoon swamp third variant 1.2 km levee 0.9 m at Pusharo lagoon edge with 15 m mound-islands — 1600 CE charcoal but no stone, palm levee geofact.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) palm swamp levee 900 CE or natural · Hypothetical Inca lagoon city (unvalidated) / pre-Columbian field (?)
Paititi lagoon swamp third variant 1.2 km levee 0.9 m at Pusharo lagoon edge with 15 m mound-islands — 1600 CE charcoal but no stone, palm levee geofact.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical pre-Columbian 800 CE (if cultural) or Holocene paleo-river natural · Hypothetical Casarabe north (unvalidated) or natural paleo-river
Pando Kunduriri hypothetical 5 km ridge grid 0.6 m with pools 40 m — satellite geometry but ground truth oxbow scroll bars, no sherds, natural levee suspected.
