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Tagshypothetical
34 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Earthwork
Hypothesized Upano Formative vs modern agricultural if real · Hypothesized Upano (if verified) vs mechanized rice farmers
Hypothetical Copueno floodplain raised fields — 45 linear ridges on active floodplain 2.1 km west of verified cluster.
🇪🇨 Ecuador · Earthwork
Hypothesized Sangay phase (800–1400 CE) if cultural · Hypothesized Sangay Huapula (if verified)
Contested Huapula foothill extension — 14 faint mound-like marks beyond verified Upano limit, on steep colluvium, unverified.
🇪🇬 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).
🇬🇧 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom, late 6th–early 8th Dynasty · Ancient Egyptian
Ancient historiographic pyramid attributed to Nitocris, female ruler placed by Manetho at end of 6th Dynasty, sometimes identified with Pepi II daughter Neithikret.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Submerged site
Portolan phantom (1325–1450) · Catalan–Italian cartography
Southern Brasil rock phantom at 51°N 16°W – second Brasil duplication south of Hy-Brasil, Porcupine plain.
🇦🇷 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon projection onto pre-Inca petroglyph horizon Pre-Columbian to Early Colonial hypothesis · Inca Vilcabamba hypothesis projected onto pre-Inca rock art (unvalidated) / Machiguenga
Most-photographed Paititi candidate — sandstone mesa terraces above Pusharo petroglyphs on Pantiacolla range, 670 m, no verified masonry.
🇪🇸 Spain · Submerged site
Portolan phantom (1424–1448) · Venetian–Portuguese cartography
Canaries Royllo phantom 1424 – 30 km islet at 29°N 18°W west of Ferro, abyssal.
