🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Fiskerton Causeway
Iron Age, Early to Middle La Tene 456-395 BCE · Iron Age La Tene Lincolnshire
456/395 BCE Iron Age timber causeway (175 m) at Fiskerton, Witham Valley with 11 votive swords and logboats.
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🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Timurid to Safavid–Qajar (14th–19th c.), Sasanid precursor mythic · Yazdi Persian (Imam Reza pilgrimage route water, Zoroastrian Yazd water wisdom)
Yazd 45-km 70-m mother well qanat 150 L/s since Safavid, feeding Mehriz 800 ha pistachio under Shirkuh, UNESCO 550.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Late Bronze Age, Saryarka khirigsuur 1400-800 BCE · Andronovo to Deer Stone-Khirigsuur transitional
35 Bronze Age khirigsuurs (1400-800 BCE) on Saryarka steppe, westernmost Deer Stone-Khirigsuur province 1500 km west of Mongolia.
🇮🇩 Indonesia · Hydraulic works
Warmadewa to Majapahit to colonial (9th–20th c.) · Balinese Hindu Dharma (Shaiva–Water, Tri Hita Karana) with Buddhist layer
9th-c. 1200-km canal 19,500 ha terraces coordinated by water temples (Ulun Danu–Jatiluwih–Pakerisan), Tri Hita Karana.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late to PN (7000–5800 BCE) · Central Qattafi gorge bottleneck trappers
7 bidirectional central gorge kites 710 m in 3.2 km 25 m-deep narrows — 150 m walls plus deepest 1.6 m pits with 21 gazelle skeletons in situ.
🇮🇱 Israel · Rock art
Bronze Age to Iron Age (3000–1000 BCE) · Negev pastoral nomads (Timnian to Midianite); Amalek hypothesis
Paran mesa 626 panels with 4000 ibex and Anati's 12-stone 'Mount Sinai' sanctuary hypothesis 3000–1000 BCE.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Iron Age, Early to Middle La Tene 456-395 BCE · Iron Age La Tene Lincolnshire
456/395 BCE Iron Age timber causeway (175 m) at Fiskerton, Witham Valley with 11 votive swords and logboats.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Earthwork
Late Bronze Age 1500-1000 BCE · Late Bronze Age Thames estuary farmers/fishers
1500 BCE Late Bronze Age intertidal brushwood causeway (120 m) at Beckton, Thames estuary tidal trackway.
🇸🇩 Sudan · Submerged site
Medieval to Modern (c. 8th – 1922 CE) · Beja / Hadhrami Arab / Ottoman Egyptian
Former African Red Sea capital built entirely of coral rag — 19th-century houses collapsing into lagoon fringing reef.
🇲🇳 Mongolia/China (Gobi pseudo) · Ancient city
Pseudoarchaeology claim (1922 Ossendowski Agartha → 1926 Roerich → 1938 Nazi) · Kalachakra Tantra Shambhala 10th c. beyond Kailash → Roerich Gobi 44.5°N
Pseudo Shambhala in Gobi desert 1200 km northeast of Kailash – Gobi singing sands as sonic barrier.
🇴🇲 Oman · Hydraulic works
Sassanian to Ya'rubi (500–1650 continuous) · Rustaq Batinah tribe communities
Batinah piedmont aflaj swarm: 18 lines (1.2-8 km) feeding Rustaq fortress oasis on Hajar bajada.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late–PN (7100–6000 BCE) · Maitland Mesa chapel-associated trappers (SE Badia Late Neolithic)
8 Maitland triangular-pen kites 750 m with chapel 40 m from pen QEM-03 — quern butchery slab and infant burial chapel.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Harrat pastoral foragers
Historic type-site where RAF pilot Maitland coined 'desert kite' (1927): 11 kites and cairn chain on basalt mesa.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Earthwork
Roman Iron Age to Middle Ages (1st c. CE Roman fort; Great Moravian 830–907; medieval castle 13th c.) · Roman (Limes Pannonia), Great Moravia, Medieval Hungary
Devín Castle Hillfort and Roman Fort in Bratislava Region, Bratislava-Devín, confluence Danube-Morava cliffs, Slovakia is a Roman Iron Age to Middle Ages (1st c.
🇪🇬 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).
🇨🇳 China · Hydraulic works
Han dynasty 142 BCE to Qing · Han, Uyghur, Hui oasis communities
2000-year karez underground qanat network (5,000 km, 1,100 lines) feeding Turpan Depression vineyards from Tian Shan snowmelt.
🇸🇪 Sweden · Submerged site
Precambrian natural (pseudo-claim: Pleistocene Atlantis) · Natural / Pseudoarchaeology (claimed Atlantis / Nazi)
2011 Ocean X 60 m circle at −87 m in Bothnia claimed as UFO/Atlantis — ROV sampling proves Precambrian sandstone with glacial striations and pluck scar, not cut city.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qajar to Pahlavi (1910–1930) · Qajar Persian garden culture (Birjand Alam dynasty)
1910 Qajar 12-m arch 35 m on Darreh valley feeding Birjand Akbariye Persian garden and Arg via 2 km qanat.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late to Late Neolithic (7200–5000 BCE) · Qattafi basin pastoral trappers (Wadi al-Qattafi group)
10 south mesa kites 695 m: 320–780 m walls using 40% natural escarpment as barrier, mesa-lee pens with burial cairn cutting wall.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Rock art
Epipalaeolithic to Neolithic (Holocene humid A, B) · Gilf Kebir Holocene hunter-herders (pre-pastoral)
7,000 BCE Gilf Kebir painted shelters—8,000 hand stencils, 'swimmers' and therianthropic beasts in hyper-arid heart of Sahara.
🇫🇲 Micronesia · Buried city
Medieval Pacific (1180–1628 CE Saudeleur; 1628–1835 Nahnmwarki) · Pohnpeian / Saudeleur / Nahnmwarki
92 basalt-log islets 1180 CE on Pohnpei reef — 750,000 tonnes columnar basalt Venice of Pacific, pseudo-grafted to Mu/Lemuria 14k BCE (typhoon slump at −6 m, not Atlantis).
🇨🇳 China · Submerged site
Tang to Modern (763 – 1963 CE recordings; dam 2003) · Tang / Song / Yuan / Ming / Qing Chinese
1.6 km Yangtze ridge with 1,200-year water-level inscriptions from 763 CE — drowned by Three Gorges Dam and preserved inside world's deepest underwater museum.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Late Bronze Age (Building 2) + Mesolithic footprint shelf · Severn estuarine saltmarsh dwellers (Later Bronze)
Second Severn intertidal brush-hurdle footway 42 m southeast of Goldcliff Iron Age building.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Sasanian to Early Abbasid (550–937 CE) · Sasanian Persian (Khosrow I) with Islamic early maintenance
6th-c. Sasanian 120-km 30-m flood-canal protecting Ctesiphon, intake at Dur-Kurigalzu 240-m regulator, 30k ha Diyala.
🇹🇭 Thailand · Ancient city
Dvaravati Culture 6th–13th CE (Mon) → Khmer → Ayutthaya · Dvaravati Mon (Austroasiatic Mon) with Mahayana–Hindu–Theravada syncretism
Dvaravati (Mon) ancient twin-city (c.500–1300 CE) on the Pa Sak plains 200 km north of Bangkok in Phetchabun — UNESCO World Heritage 2023 'The Ancient Town of Si Thep and its Associated Dvaravati…
