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2 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.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient city
Legend 8th c. Visigothic bishops flight + 1539–42 contact episode · Iberian medieval + Zuni (Ashiwii) + Coronado Spanish
Fray Marcos's 1539 'streets of turquoise' at Zuni – Coronado found adobe Hawikuh, no gold.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Ancestral Pueblo (1275–1350 pueblo) + Spanish/American inscriptions 1605–1906 · Zuni / Ancestral Pueblo → Oñate Spanish 1605 to Beale wagon 1857
El Morro Atsinna excavated by Watson Smith 1940s, Oñate 1605 'pasó por aquí' oldest European inscription SW US.
