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🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Sarmatian Iron Age (450–350 BCE) with Hun reuse 410 CE · Sarmatian Aktobe–Uil (eastern Sarmatian) with Hun secondary
Kyzyl-Bulak Sarmatian mound 68 m diam 8.2 m with torc 340 g and ditch 22 m on Uil divide 142 km south of Aktobe.
🇨🇳 China · Rock art
Bronze Age to Iron Age · Andronovo-influenced Ordos, Xiongnu
Daqingshan east Yinshan with 1500 petroglyphs, Andronovo chariot and Ordos deer-stone stags, Shang–Xiongnu.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tumulus
Early Bronze III (2800–2300 BCE) · Early Bronze Pontic–Anatolian
Early Bronze III (2800–2300 BCE) tumulus of Early Bronze Pontic–Anatolian in Tokat Province, Erbaa Plain (c.2600 BCE).
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Chaulukya–Solanki Golden Age (960–1243 CE) · Hindu Solanki (Gurjara–Pratihara derivative); Surya cult
1026 Bhima I Chaulukya: 100-m Surya Kund mirror tank and equinox-aligned sanctum on Tropic of Cancer.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Pyramid
Early New Kingdom (18th Dynasty) · Ancient Egyptian (Theban — founder of New Kingdom)
Last pharaonic pyramid — cenotaph pyramid of Ahmose I (c.1550 BCE) at South Abydos — 52.5 m mudbrick/limestone terraced memorial to Osiris, bridge to Valley of the Kings.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) · Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian
Middle Bronze – Persian (2000–300 BCE) tell of Canaanite–Phoenician–Persian in Northern District, Akko Plain (c.2000 BCE).
🇩🇪 Germany · Archaeological wonder
Roman Iron Age (Angles) · Germanic Angles (North Germanic)
Thorsberg moor (Thorsberger Moor, Thorsberg Mose) peat bog (18 m asl, 54°38′14″N 09°46′07″E 54.6373,9.7687) in Anglia where Angles deposited votive offerings for four centuries, with 100 m oak…
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Iron Age Tasmola transition · Tasmola–Begazy (Sary-Arka early nomads)
Stepped tetrahedral kurgan southeast of Karaganda: 54-m four-terrace pyramid mound (800 BCE).
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Early Saka Semirechye (590 BCE) — Besshatyr central row · Saka Semirechye (Issyk–Besshatyr eastern Saka)
72 m semi-royal central row mound 8 at 640 m: larch chamber 89 gold + burnt outer house, linking south/north dynasty rows.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
El Molle to Diaguita–Inca · Choapa–Diaguita agropastoralists
Southern fringe geoglyphs at Choapa (31°S): 12 transitional figures marking trans-Andean pass to Argentina.
🇨🇱 Chile · Geoglyph
Formative to Late Intermediate (Alto Ramírez–San Miguel) · Azapa–Cabuza agropastoralists
Eastern Azapa extension at La Portada pass: 18 additive cobble figures beyond Cerro Sombrero.
🇹🇿 Tanzania · Rock art
Middle Stone Age to Iron Age (40,000 BCE–500 CE paintings peak) · Hunter-gatherer (Sandawe ancestors) / Pastoral Cushitic / Bantu Isanzu
Sub-cluster of Kondoa WH 150 shelters at Kolo with Kisese II stratified 40 ka to 1,500 CE and layered hunter-to-pastoral-to-Bantu style sequence.
🇧🇷 Brazil · Ancient city
Claimed ancient (Fawcett 500 BCE Atlant. survivors) vs real Xinguano 800–1600 CE · Fawcett: imagined Atlantean/Cartaginian survivors; real: ancestral Kuikuro (Arawak) Xinguano polities
Fawcett's Atlantean Z near Xingu 1925 vanished – 30 km away Heckenberger found real 50-ha Kuhikugu road-plaza network.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Gupta Golden Age (Classical India 320–550 CE) · Gupta Vaishnava; later Jain Chandella
525 CE earliest Nagara Panchayatana shikhara — Vishnu Anantasayana and Betwa Jain cliff.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Geoglyph
Late Neolithic (Arabian) · Uthaib lava-field hunter-ceremonialists
Hybrid of 18 mustatils and 8 kites stratigraphically entangled on Harrat Uthaib lava south of Tabuk.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Earthwork
Late Neolithic, Arabian Mustatil horizon · Northwest Arabian Neolithic pastoralists
19 high-altitude mustatil enclosures (5300-5000 BCE) on Harrat Uwayrid basalt at 1320 m, northernmost field.
🇬🇱 Denmark (Greenland pseudo) · Archaeological wonder
Pseudoarchaeology claim (1909 Peary Polar Thule → 1918 Thule Society → 2010 Greenland pseudo Thule) · Pytheas 325 BCE Ultima Thule 6 days north Britain → 1909 Peary 'Thule' Greenland naming → Nazi Thule Society Greenland myth
Pseudo Thule at Greenland 77°N – claim Pytheas's 6-day sail = 3500 km to Qaanaaq ice rather than 800 km to Iceland.
🇩🇪 Germany · Submerged site
Early Medieval (8th–12th c. CE) · Wendish Slav / Viking / hypothesized
Baltic Atlantis — Adam of Bremen Jumne 1075, claimed sunken off Usedom/Wollin with Koserow pavement at −5 m (contested glacial till).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Hydraulic works
Roman 180 to Artuqid 1150 CE (Hasankeyf Upper Tigris) · Roman mesopotamia then Artuqid Hasankeyf (Tigris gorge town)
Artuqid 1150/Roman 180 side canal 1.4 km rock-cut 1.2×1.8 m vaulted 700 m with 6 intakes and 5 shaft aqueducts — orchard 12 ha.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell
Late Neolithic through Late Chalcolithic (5500–4200 BCE) · Hamangia → Varna → KGK VI (Kodžadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI)
Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Varna Province, Provadia District, Provadiyska River valley, Bulgaria — Oldest…
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Iron Age · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Lchashen-Metsamor
Syunik 3300-m crater-lake plateau with >4000 black basalt petroglyphs, chariot and solar calendar boulders.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Tumulus
Late Saka to Kangju · Lower Syr Darya delta culture
Lowest Central Asian kurgan (55 m) on Syr Darya delta: 42-m brick-vault mound with 4-horse sacrifice.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Late Bronze – Iron Age (1700–600 BCE) · Philistine–Israelite
Late Bronze – Iron Age (1700–600 BCE) tell of Philistine–Israelite in Southern District, Philistine Plain (c.1700 BCE).
🇺🇸 United States · Tell
Mississippian (Lohmann 1050–1100 through Moorehead 1200–1275, Stirling 1050–1150) · Mississippian (Cahokia Stirling phase capital)
Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Illinois, St.
