Intriguing Archaeological Sites

This design has no parallels found yet. The closest thing to it is the tomb of Octavian August. The dating is pretty unclear, tho.

the castles

>' The Castles' is a trapezoidal enclosure covering just over an acre with dry stone rubble walls averaging 16 feet thick and originally 11 feet high. There is late ridge and furrow inside the enclosure. Trenching of the site has failed to establish its function. A few Bronze Age flints, including an arrowhead have been found on the site.

its been interpenetrated as some Celtic proto-fort, a romano-british imitation roman fort or a roman housing structure for mineworkers.

better photo

Blythe Geoglyphs are a group of gigantic figures found on the ground near Blythe, California in the Colorado Desert.
The figures are so immense that many of them were not observed by non-Indians until the 1930s.[1] The set of geoglyphs includes several dozen figures, thought to be ceremonial in nature.[2] Many of them are believed to date from the prehistoric period

we have a shit ton of these in Wales too. Also you'll find them in Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and parts of England/Spain. Was an ancient celtic thing.

We also have a shit ton of castles but that was a bit after the old rocks were built...

you guys don't get problems with people digging up prehistoric burial sites for loot?

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Ruins of the ancient city of El Pital that peaked between 300 and 900 AD. Pyramids covered in crops.

Recently Up to 150 pyramids have been found. but lack of funds keeps them covered in vegetation and agricultural crops

coulnt find bigger pictures sorry.

Dolmen in the Netherlands, build 3400 bc some important person from that era is buried here

Parts of China are absolutely lousy with pyramids, many of them quite large. Nobody in the west knew about them until a few decades ago and since this awareness the Chinese government has more-or-less refused point-blank to allow anyone to even so much as take a picture, much less research them, and have been growing trees on them to try to hide them. IIRC the first and last time they ever allowed someone to take photos was in the early 90s and even then only from a distance.

not really, most have already been excavated plus i dont think thered be much loot in an ancient burial mound... does this happen with you??

Sad really, here in Mexico is not better, this is the ancient city of Paxil, its pyramids are not taken care or protected no authority cares.

Not the user you replied too but here on the Balkans its a very serious concern. Lots of burial sites are being destroyed by grave robbers for jewelry and other artifacts which then get sold on the black market. It has to do with the fact wherever you start digging you come up with something but naturally greed and poor law enforcement as well.

Its mostly roman/thracian stuff so not exactly pre-historic but still a shame.

Also even local archaeologists sometimes don't appreciate what we have.

Really? I always dismissed that as /x/-tier rubbish.

Fucking shit sucks in you second-world countries.
History deserves study.
Even if it's just to entertain fags like us now.

Nope, it's legit. The Chinese government confiscates any photos people take, refuses to answer questions about them and have been very hastily turning them into hills by covering them in dirt and planting shit on them. Of course that just encourages /x/-tier retards but the Chinese government doesn't care.

But, why would they do that ? Don't they want tourism money ?

See, that's what fuels the SPECULAH.

They're almost certainly just Neolithic and early Chalcolithic tombs but because of the government secrecy surrounding them people think that that couldn't be all there is to them or the government wouldn't care so much.

The tumulus' of China are hardly esoteric knowledge. Old rich fucks from their 3000+ year long history building tombs for themselves and their kin. My guess is the Chinese don't want guizi from attempting to grave rob known sites. Some may have traps, some may be filled with mercury like Qin Shi Huang's tomb and the commies don't want an international incident on their hands when some American activates a millennia old crossbow trap.

Also, preserving the archaeological record.

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A Roman tavern in Ostia, complete with wall paintings (I don't know if they're original).

It's kinda incredible that half of those standing stones are now underwater and are part of one of the most famous shipping channels in the world.

Sungbo's Eredo in Nigeria, a massive ditch and embankment encircling over 1000 sq km of countryside centered on the town of Ijebu Ode, longer than Hadrian's Wall at 170 km. It's hard to find decent information about it since there's a lot of bullshit on the internet about the Queen of Sheba building it and stuff like that; truth is nobody knows exactly who built it or why, but its generally dated to within a century or two of 1000 AD and is associated with the rise of city-states among the Yorubas.

Emerald Mound, built by the Mississippian Plaquemine culture. The second largest pre-Columbian structure in the United States after Monk's Mound in Cahokia.

>look it up
>everything is wewuzkangs

I want this afrocenterist cancer to die

>ancient celtic

Pre-Celtic.

Not an issue with prehistoric sites. The bigger problem is people destroying them because they don't realise what they've found, farmers in particular.

Mongolian 'deer stone' at the Uushigiin Uver site. These stones are found scattered in clusters around north-central Mongolia and adjoining parts of Siberia, and date from around 1200-700 BC. They were created in a region between the pre-Scythian Andronovo culture and the pre-Altaic Slab-Grave culture, so it's hard to tell who raised them, especially because they were often reused in later monuments. Whatever culture created them seems to have left a lasting influence on Scythian art, such as that of the Scythian Pazyryk culture.

Like I said, it's hard to find anything decent on the internet.

There's a bit in this though; academia.edu/17178460/Ife-Sungbo_Archaeological_Project._Final_report_on_Excavations_at_Ita_Yemoo_Ile_Ife_Osun_State_and_on_Rapid_Assessment_of_Earthwork_Sites_at_Eredo_and_Ilara-Epe_Lagos_State_June-July_2015

And if you can read French; aaa.revues.org/284

Afro-centrism is fine. It's Afro-revisionism that is the problem.

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Jerwan in Northern Iraq (or I guess Kurdistan now), the oldest known aqueduct dating from 690 BC. Built by the Assyrians to bring water from the Zagros down to the gardens at Nineveh (Mosul). You can see cuneiform inscriptions on the blocks.

Skellig Michael, a medieval hermitage on a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland featuring corbelled drystone 'beehive huts' (clochán) and oratories. To medieval Irish monks these western islands were the frontier of the known world, beyond which were dark, unknown, otherworldly lands (featuring prominently in 'immrama' tales), and so the founding of monasteries and churches here was envisioned as bringing Christendom to the farthest reaches of the Earth.

Dún Aonghasa, a fort on the Aran Islands in Ireland originating from the Bronze Age. They just built in on the side of a cliff, the absolute madmen!

There's a hill in Rome made up almost entirely of discarded ancient Roman pots.

To a certain extent but alot are restored. Cairns were often robbed of the stones to build walls and houses and shit
Best example is Newgrange in Meath, Ireland. It wasnt discovered in the condition its in now. If I remember right most of the roof was gone or falling in but dont quote me on that.

Should have said that they werent really looted,
just ruined due to a lack of understanding
We have a lot of cool shit here.

was doggerland mostly islands when people inhabited it?

Why don't the stones tip or something?

Featured in Star Wars , they've had attention recently

Good thread. Here's the only known Israelite shrine from the Iron Age, which contains a secret room that had Mazzebah or Canaanite standing stones used to represent the Canaanite gods El and Asherah.

The temple at Arad was uncovered by archaeologist Yohanan Aharoni in 1962 who spent the rest of his life considering its mysteries, dying there in the mid-1970s.
The incense altars and two "standing stones" may have been dedicated to Yahweh and Asherah. An inscription was found on the site by Aharoni mentioning a "House of Yahweh", which William G. Dever suggests may have referred to the temple at Arad or the temple at Jerusalem.

They aren't just stones put there in a circle, they're buried, with portions underground do they'll stay there.

The Moai aren't just heads, they have bodies too

more mongolian stones pls :)

They may be concerned that the pyramid builders were not ethnic Chinese.

>Afro-centrism is fine.

>Was an ancient celtic thing.
The Celts came a couple thousand years after the megaliths were set up, m8.

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They were enlightened beings and they were using electroharmonics with their megalithic structures

Where is this from? Bulgaria?

Doggerland was slowly flooded from end of the last ice age, a process of rising sea levels that started around 16000 years ago and took another 8-9000 years until it was completely under water. Archeological human remains have been trawled from the bottom, the oldest being an antler spear point from around 12000 years ago. Seems it could have been a large area of forests that slowly flooded over millenia, turning to scattered islands, before finally going under.

Mostly used to track the sun, moon and stars.

Samabaj was a preclassic maya middle sized city in a small island in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, about 2000 years ago. Nobody knows why, but the lake level rose rapidly and the city was submerged.

The site was discovered only a few years ago, so very little information can be found. Here's a vid from 2013 showing the site. Today it is illegal to dive there.

youtube.com/watch?v=CPglw8f64zk

ohh nice thanks for sharing

Is there a world map for this?

middle earth

>Doggerland

Everyone knows there's never been civilisation in Australia.

Atlantis ¿

Meath fag here.
Really proud to have this place in my locality.

Olmec sarcophagus discovered at la venta by Stirling

There still isn't

it was inside this basalt column tomb

Paquimé) is a prehistoric archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Construction of the site is attributed to the Mogollon culture.Settlement began after 1130 CE, The community was abandoned approximately 1450 CE.

brings a tear to the eye

those caral ruins supposedly as old as sumer

Nazca irrigation holes
the water drawn to the surface by the funnel-shaped holes turned the area into a flourishing landscape able to support agriculture.

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That looks comfy as fuck.

Would get smashed on fortified wine and bang catamites in the back/10

> _Water_Witching
bbc.com/future/story/20160408-the-ancient-peruvian-mystery-solved-from-space
>To help keep it moving, chimneys were excavated above the canals in the shape of corkscrewing funnels. These funnels let wind into the canals, which forced the water through the system.

Spooky. I'm going to need the science on this.

can I enter the Abyss from there?

Kbal Spean, a thousand lingas, representations of Shiva, carved river bed in Cambodia near Angkor, dating to the 11th century.

Aztec monolithic temple in Malinalco, dedicated to the Eagle Warriors.

I like that the natives in north america except for a few extremely rare exceptions left nothing that could noticeably survive to the modern era as a ruin

really makes you think

They didn't build much.
What a bunch of fags.

These threads are among the few on Veeky Forums that aren't terrible.

Mada’in Saleh was one of the southern outposts of the mysterious Nabataean people, the same people that built the magnificent city of Petra in Jordan , their ancient capital. Mada’in SalehBuilt between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, Mada’in Saleh is an architectural marvel and a testimony to the skill and craftsmanship of the Nabataean who, 2,000 years ago, carved more than 131 tombs into solid rock, complete with decoration, inscriptions, and water wells.

it looks like the temple of the 40 thieves

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazca_Lines

> Although some local geoglyphs resemble Paracas motifs, scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500

Wood

Yes.

The Yoshimi Caves in Japan, cut into a rock face in the 6th-7th centuries.

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Classic Zapotec tomb at Suchilquitongo, c. 700-800 AD.

A small section of Samarra, capital of the Abbasid Caliphate for several decades in the 9th century. It was built to move the Caliph's unpopular Turkish mercenary armies away from the populace of Baghdad.

A megalithic stone circle, the Rego Grande site (colloquially known as the Amazon Stonehenge and referred to in academic sources as AP-CA-18) is located in Amapa state, Brazil, near the city of Calçoene. It consists of 127 blocks of granite, each up to 4 meters tall, standing upright in a circle measuring over 30 meters in diameter at the bank of the Rego Grande river on a hilltop. Archaeologists believe that this site was built by indigenous peoples for astronomical, ceremonial, or burial purposes, and likely a combination. The function of this megalithic site is unknown, much like other sites such as Stonehenge, a much older site in Great Britain.