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🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Period to Byzantine (6th c BCE – 8th c CE) · Egyptian / Greek
Legendary port of entry to Egypt before Alexandria, submerged after earthquake/liquefaction 6th–8th century CE, rediscovered 2000 by Franck Goddio (IEASM) with stele of Nectanebo I, temples of…
🇧🇪 Belgium · Cave
Middle Palaeolithic to Neolithic · Mousterian / Aurignacian / Neolithic
Limestone cave in Flémalle with Mousterian to Neolithic deposits (70,000–2500 BCE), Neanderthal tooth, Upper Palaeolithic engravings and Neolithic collective burial.
🇨🇳 China · Pyramid
Qin Dynasty · Qin / Han-precursor
Unopened earthen pyramid mound of Qin Shi Huang (259–210 BCE) with 600 pits, ~8000 terracotta warriors, chariots, weapons protecting subterranean bronze palace described by Sima Qian with mercury…
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Ancient city
Swahili (13th–15th c. CE) · Swahili
Mkokotoni Ruins — Pemba North in Pemba Island, Tanzania is a Swahili (13th–15th c. CE) ancient-city attributed to Swahili. Port town with Friday mosque on Mkokotoni creek.
🇮🇪 Ireland · Megalith
Neolithic · Irish Middle Neolithic (Boyne Valley)
Grand passage tomb in the Bend of the Boyne with 85 m diameter cairn, decorated kerbstones and cruciform chamber. Famous for winter solstice sunrise illuminating chamber through roof-box.
🇭🇺 Hungary · Tell
Late Neolithic · Tisza / Csőszhalom
Late Neolithic double tell-horizontal settlement (c. 4800–4500 BCE) on Tisza floodplain, 28 ha with tell core 2 m high, ditch enclosures and 4 m deep well.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Natural formation
Cretaceous 100 Ma formation; Atlantis proposed 9600 BCE · Natural geological; Atlantis = Plato allegory @ 360 BCE
Concentric circular erosional dome in Sahara (100 Ma igneous intrusion) promoted since 2018 YouTube as Atlantis capital matching Plato's ringed city.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Halaf to Islamic (c.5900 BCE–1200 CE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Ninevite 5 → Mitanni → Assyrian
Jazira tell (8 ha, 12 m high) on the Jaghjagh, French excavations by Jean-Marie Castel. Sequence Ninevite 5 to Islamic w...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Berber / Roman / Byzantine · Roman / Berber
Veteran colony of Legio III Augusta controlling Hauts Plateaux–Aurès corridor. Tetrapylon Arch of Caracalla (214 CE), amphitheatre, basilica of St Crispina (76 m) with catacombs, Byzantine walls with…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware
Timber-circle henge (Woodhenge, 6 rings, 168 posts) and Durrington Walls super-henge (500 m diameter, 17 ha, 2 entrances, largest henge in Britain) – contemporary settlement of Stonehenge builders…
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Neolithic (earliest) · Armorican Early Neolithic
Barnenez Passage Mound in Brittany, Finistère, France is a Neolithic (earliest) megalithic attributed to Armorican Early Neolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Underground city
Byzantine (with Hittite/Phrygian antecedents debated) · Byzantine Cappadocian / earlier Phrygian/Hittite use
Deepest excavated underground city in Cappadocia, connected to Kaymaklı and 200+ subterranean complexes via 8 km tunnel. Rolling stone doors 500 kg, ventilation shafts, chapels, wineries.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Classic (200–400 CE) · Teuchitlán
El Arenal — Southern Guachimontón in Jalisco, Mexico is a Classic (200–400 CE) pyramid attributed to Teuchitlán. Southern satellite guachimontón 110 m diameter with patio altar.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Tell
Kot Diji–Harappan (3300–1900 BCE) · Kot Diji–Harappan
Gumla — Gomal Valley Harappan Fort in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan is a Kot Diji–Harappan (3300–1900 BCE) tell attributed to Kot Diji–Harappan.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (1st c CE – 7th c CE; colonia under Trajan) · Roman / Byzantine (Byzacena)
Byzacena road city at Sahara edge, Thelepte flourished as Byzantine dux capital with massive fortress (1.2 km circuit) built from Roman spolia, two basilicas with mosaics, baths an...
🇷🇺 Russia · Rock art
Bronze Age to Early Medieval · Andronovo, Saka, Turkic
South-facing Yaloman cliff 5 km west of Kalbak-Tash main, with Andronovo two-spoked chariots and 12 Turkic tamga slabs overlaying earlier elk.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Megalith
Tiwanaku Period 536–600 CE (complex radiocarbon dated) · Tiwanaku
Terraced platform mound within Tiwanaku complex famous for precision-cut andesite and red sandstone blocks with drilled holes, flat planes and interlocking joints to 0.5 mm tolerance, scattered as if…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Grooved Ware / Orcadian Neolithic
Exceptionally preserved Late Neolithic stone-built village of eight clustered houses with stone furniture, hearths and drains. Revealed 1850 after storm, often called Scotland's answer to Pompeii.
🇫🇷 France · Megalith
Late Neolithic · Armorican Late Neolithic
Secondary allée couverte near La Roche aux Fées at Essé (c. 3000 BCE), 8 m gallery in schist with orthostats and capstones, smaller companion to famous 19.5 m La Roche aux Fées, demonstrating…
🇷🇸 Serbia · Tell
Late Neolithic · Vinča
Eponymous tell of Vinča culture (c. 5700–4500 BCE) on Danube bank, 10 m high stratified mound with 9 m cultural deposit, pit houses, kilns and famous Vinča figurines, script-like signs and early…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Megalith
Early Neolithic · Cotswold-Severn / Windmill Hill
Neolithic long barrow on the Ridgeway (c. 3600 BCE) with two phases: early mortuary enclosure and later trapezoidal mound covering cruciform chamber of sarsen and oolite.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic (Vinča A3) · Vinča (Turdaș)
Vinča pit settlement at Tărtăria (c. 5300 BCE) on Mureș River, famous for three clay tablets with Vinča signs found in pit with burnt human bones, 26 figurines and shells, sparking proto-writing…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
ED to Ur III (c.3000–2004 BCE; peak Shara temple) · Sumerian (Zabalam, Shara cult) → Akkadian → Ur III
Zabalam (Tell Ibzeikh) is the cult city of goddess Inanna of Zabalam (later Shara). Excavated by Iraqi team revealing Shara temple platform (EB), ED houses and...
🇸🇪 Sweden · Megalith
Bronze Age to Viking Age · Mälaren Iron Age
Anundshög & Anundshög Ship Setting in Västmanland, Sweden is a Bronze Age to Viking Age megalithic attributed to Mälaren Iron Age culture.
