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🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman Imperial (Hadrianic) · Roman Mysia (Kyzikos neocorate)
Hadrian's isthmus temple 50×92 m colossus on Kapıdağ isthmus, largest Marmara temple.
🇲🇳 Mongolia · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Early Bronze · Palaeolithic Kalgutinsky, Afanasievo, Chemurchek, Okunev
Mid-valley of Tsagaan Salaa with Late Pleistocene bulls under Bronze elk on same boulders.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic through Early Bronze Age II (c.6700-2750 BCE) · Aegean-Neolithic to Chalcolithic to Western Anatolian EBA
Neolithic-EBA shoreline tell (6680-2750 BCE) at Ephesus — earliest Aegean copper workshop and EBA walled village.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Pre-Aksumite to Late Aksumite to Early Islamic (500 BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–6th c) · Pre-Aksumite D'MT → Aksumite (South Arabian/Eritrean)
40 ha Aksumite–Roman Red Sea port of Periplus linking elephant ivory to Mediterranean with temple and 4th-c basilica plus trilingual Monumentum Adulitanum.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Southern Extension in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇮🇳 Indonesia/India (Indian Ocean pseudo) · Archaeological wonder
Pseudoarchaeology claim (2020 Sunda spur YouTube conflation) · Tamil Sangam Kumari 49 nadu 1930s → 2020 Sunda Ridge spur
Pseudo Kumari on equatorial Sunda fore-arc ridge – claim at 2.5°N is Tamil Sangam capital Madurai drowned via Sunda spur.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Late Chalcolithic through Mitanni (3500–1300 BCE) · Uruk → EBA Tuttul (Dagan) → Old Babylonian → Mitanni
Tell Bi'a (Tuttul) — Zimri-Lim Palace Quarter is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Raqqa Governorate, Balikh-Euphrates confluence, Raqqa District, Syria — Sacred city of Dagan — Tuttul —…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Old Kingdom (5th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian
5th-Dynasty queen-mother pyramid of Khentkaus II at Abusir — 25 m base true pyramid c.2470 BCE hidden as mastaba until Verner 1978–90 excavation, with mortuary temple archive.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan Greek
Entire Greek city Akra 3–4 m under Kerch Strait off Naberezhne — harbour mole 120 m at –3 m and street grid 200×150 m at –3.5 m.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan Greek
Entire Greek city Akra 3–4 m under Kerch Strait off Naberezhne — harbour mole 120 m at –3 m and street grid 200×150 m at –3.5 m.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Early Intermediate 400 BCE–450 CE (Paracas–Proto-Nazca to Early Nazca, peak 100 BCE–450 CE) · Nazca (Nasca, south coast)
Capital and pilgrimage center of Nazca culture (400 BCE–500 CE) – 24 km² desert metropolis with 34+ pyramidal adobe mounds (Great Pyramid 22 m high, 100×150 m base; Orange Pyramid), plazas (Great…
🇵🇪 Peru · Geoglyph
Late Horizon (Inca Imperial) · Inca (Quechua)
High-altitude (3,400 m) radial sacred geography of the Inca capital: 41 ceque lines radiating from Coricancha/Qorikancha to huaca shrines bounding Sacsayhuamán pampa and Chinchaysuyo suyu.
🇪🇸 Spain · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Roman (575 BCE – 500 CE) · Phocaean Greek / Indiketan / Roman
Phocaean double harbour – Greek quay at –0.5 m off Neapolis and silted Riells basin, L'Escala.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Enclosure F Annex East — Western Terrace in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (9600-8800 BCE) temple complex attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic through Early Bronze (6400–2700 BCE) · Burdur–Antalya Late Neolithic → Early Chalcolithic shrine phase → Lakes EBA
Höyücek (Höyücek Höyük / Burdur Sanctuary) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Burdur Province, Bucak District, Burdur–Antalya foothills, Turkey — Neolithic–Chalcolithic sanctuary village with…
🇺🇸 United States · Cave
Early Woodland to Historic (1000 BCE – 1812 CE mining) · Woodland / Historic American
Mammoth Cave Historic Entrance in Kentucky, United States is a Early Woodland to Historic (1000 BCE – 1812 CE mining) cave attributed to Woodland / Historic American culture.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Hellenistic to Early Islamic (300 BCE – 800 CE) · Hellenistic / Byzantine Egyptian
Eastern Mareotis harbour of Marea behind Lake Mareotis — 90 m Pharos mole at –1.5 m and eastern quay with chirho dumps.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Hellenistic to Early Islamic (300 BCE – 800 CE) · Hellenistic / Byzantine Egyptian
Eastern Mareotis harbour of Marea behind Lake Mareotis — 90 m Pharos mole at –1.5 m and eastern quay with chirho dumps.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 250 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Northern mangrove roadstead of Myos Hormos at Marsa Nakari — timber jetty stumps at –1.5 m behind mangroves.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 250 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Northern mangrove roadstead of Myos Hormos at Marsa Nakari — timber jetty stumps at –1.5 m behind mangroves.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Roman (256 BCE – 400 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek
Western estate of Philadelphia at Kom el-Kharaba — 85 m vineyard wall and 70 m granary quay.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Earthwork
Contested Holocene ambiguous — historic to pre-Hispanic hypothesis · Contested Comechingón / Huarpe (?) or natural cuesta (unvalidated)
Northern rim avenue 900 m causeway 1.2 m with bastions 6 m along Potrero norte — contested Huarpe causeway vs cuesta bedding.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Earthwork
Contested Holocene ambiguous — historic to pre-Hispanic hypothesis · Contested Comechingón / Huarpe (?) or natural cuesta (unvalidated)
Northern rim avenue 900 m causeway 1.2 m with bastions 6 m along Potrero norte — contested Huarpe causeway vs cuesta bedding.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8800 BCE) · Pre-Pottery Neolithic
Gobekli Tepe Karahan Quarry Outlier — Eastern Outlier in Southeastern Anatolia, Sanliurfa, Turkey is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (9600-8800 BCE) ancient village attributed to Pre-Pottery Neolithic.
