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32 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇧🇴 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.
🇪🇬 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.
🇵🇪 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.
🇮🇪 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.
🇵🇪 Peru · Hypothetical site
Hypothetical Late Horizon (?) or Late Intermediate ambiguous Pre-Columbian hypothesis · Hypothetical pre-Inca / Inca refuge re-projection (unvalidated)
Paititi second ridge east of Pusharo — 2 km rectilinear terrace 0.8 m and three 12 m mounds under canopy, forest check 1400 CE charcoal but no masonry.
🇨🇦 Canada · Submerged site
Pseudo-voyage phantom (1558–1630) · Venetian pseudo-geography / Zeno forgery
Zeno 1558 cannibal giant phantom at 57°N 42°W south of Estotiland – Labrador Sea 3000 m.
🇪🇸 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.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Archaeological wonder
Neo-Babylonian claimed 600 BCE; Assyrian alternative 700 BCE · Babylonian or Assyrian (Neo-Assyrian Sennacherib)
Unlocated wonder: Nebuchadnezzar's terraces vs Dalley's Nineveh screw garden.
