ANCIENT

Pre-modern contact

Sites, tablets, and contact claims from the deep past — megaliths, Anunnaki, Watchers, flood teachers, and the pre-biblical sky files. Archaeology first; the folklore is on the card.

202 files

• Great Pyramid, Giza

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATEDCOLD

  Giza plateau, Egypt · Khufu

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2560 BCE

  25 connected records →
• Nazca Lines

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Nazca Desert, Peru · geoglyphs

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 100 BCE–800 CE

  17 connected records →
• Göbekli Tepe

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey · Pre-Pottery Neolithic

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 9500 BCE

  11 connected records →
• Puma Punku

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Tiwanaku, Bolivia · andesite and sandstone

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 500–1000 CE

  8 connected records →
• Pakal’s sarcophagus lid

  DISPUTEDMIXED

  Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque, Mexico

  ANCIENT FILE

  683 CE

  5 connected records →
• Antikythera mechanism

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATEDCOLD

  Antikythera wreck · Greek bronze gearwork

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 100 BCE

  4 connected records →
• Baghdad Battery

  DISPUTEDMIXED

  Khujut Rabu, Iraq · Parthian or Sasanian jar

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1st–3rd century CE?

  4 connected records →
• Sakwala Chakraya

  DISPUTEDMIXED

  Ranmasu Uyana, Sri Lanka · carved ‘stargate’

  ANCIENT FILE

  Anuradhapura period

  26 connected records →
• Vimana

  DISPUTEDMIXEDCOLD

  India · flying palaces, later ‘aircraft’ readings

  ANCIENT FILE

  Epic & technical Sanskrit

  26 connected records →
• Rapa Nui moai

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Easter Island · ancestor figures

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1250–1500 CE

  13 connected records →
• Diquís spheres

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Diquís Delta, Costa Rica · stone globes

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 600–1500 CE

  4 connected records →
• Sacsayhuamán

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Cusco, Peru · Inca zigzag walls

  ANCIENT FILE

  15th century CE

  27 connected records →
• Quimbaya gold figures

  DISPUTEDMIXED

  Cauca Valley, Colombia · tumbaga zoomorphs

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300–1550 CE

  6 connected records →
• Great Sphinx

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Giza plateau · Khafre, or not

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2500 BCE / older?

  14 connected records →
• Osirion, Abydos

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Abydos · Seti I temple annex

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1300 BCE

  14 connected records →
• Serapeum of Saqqara

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Saqqara · granite Apis sarcophagi

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1400–30 BCE

  14 connected records →
• Dendera reliefs

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Hathor temple · the ‘bulb’ scenes

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 50 BCE–50 CE

  3 connected records →
• Abu Ghurab

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Sun temple of Niuserre · alabaster altar

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2400 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Bent Pyramid

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Dahshur · Sneferu’s angle change

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2600 BCE

  14 connected records →
• Unfinished Obelisk

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Aswan granite quarry

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1500 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Baalbek trilithon

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Lebanon · Jupiter temple podium

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1st century CE

  5 connected records →
• Stone of the Pregnant Woman

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Baalbek quarry · ~1,000 tons, still lying there

  ANCIENT FILE

  Roman / earlier cut?

  5 connected records →
• Derinkuyu

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Cappadocia · underground city

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 8th–12th century CE / older cores

  5 connected records →
• Kaymaklı

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Cappadocia · twin underground town

  ANCIENT FILE

  Byzantine / earlier

  5 connected records →
• Ħal-Saflieni Hypogeum

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Paola, Malta · painted underground sanctuary

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3300–2500 BCE

  8 connected records →
• Ġgantija

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Gozo · giantess temples

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3600 BCE

  12 connected records →
• Mnajdra

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Malta · solar-aligned temple

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3600–2500 BCE

  12 connected records →
• Ħaġar Qim

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Malta · façade of globigerina

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3600–3200 BCE

  8 connected records →
• Stonehenge

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Salisbury Plain · sarsens and bluestones

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3000–2000 BCE

  12 connected records →
• Avebury

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Wiltshire · the larger stone circuit

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2600 BCE

  10 connected records →
• Silbury Hill

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Wiltshire · the largest prehistoric mound in Europe

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2400 BCE

  10 connected records →
• Newgrange

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Boyne Valley · winter-solstice chamber

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3200 BCE

  12 connected records →
• Knowth

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Boyne Valley · the decorated sister

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3200 BCE

  10 connected records →
• Maeshowe

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Orkney · a chambered tomb with Viking graffiti

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2800 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Skara Brae

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Orkney · a stone village in a dune

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3100–2500 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Ness of Brodgar

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Orkney · a recently unearthed ceremonial complex

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3300–2200 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Callanish

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Isle of Lewis · a stone avenue to a circle

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2900 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Carnac alignments

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Brittany · kilometres of standing stones

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3300 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Gavrinis

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Gulf of Morbihan · a carved passage

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3500 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Dolmen of Menga

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Antequera · a cathedral of orthostats

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3000 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Karahan Tepe

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Şanlıurfa · Taş Tepeler sibling of Göbekli

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 9400 BCE

  10 connected records →
• Nevalı Çori

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Euphrates · a T-pillar settlement now under a lake

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 8500 BCE

  6 connected records →
• Çatalhöyük

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Konya plain · a packed Neolithic town

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 7500–5700 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Jericho tower

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Tell es-Sultan · a stone tower before pottery

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 8000 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Carahunge / Zorats Karer

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Syunik, Armenia · a field of holed stones

  ANCIENT FILE

  Bronze Age / claimed older

  3 connected records →
• Yonaguni

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Okinawa · a stepped seafloor

  ANCIENT FILE

  Holocene terrace / claimed city

  3 connected records →
• Gunung Padang

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  West Java · a hill of andesite columns

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 500 BCE / claimed far older

  3 connected records →
• Nan Madol

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Pohnpei · a city on a reef

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1200–1500 CE

  12 connected records →
• Haʻamonga ʻa Maui

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Tongatapu · a coral trilithon

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1200 CE

  8 connected records →
• House of Taga

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Tinian · latte stone rows

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1200–1500 CE

  3 connected records →
• Great Zimbabwe

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Shona capital · dry-stone walls and a hill

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1100–1450 CE

  3 connected records →
• Adam’s Calendar

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Mpumalanga · a stone circle in the claims literature

  ANCIENT FILE

  claimed very ancient / unproven

  3 connected records →
• Lalibela

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Ethiopia · churches from living rock

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 12th–13th century CE

  3 connected records →
• Axum obelisks

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Tigray · granite stelae of a kingdom

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3rd–4th century CE

  3 connected records →
• Meroë pyramids

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Sudan · Nubian pyramids on a royal cemetery

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300 BCE–350 CE

  3 connected records →
• Piri Reis map

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Constantinople · a compilation chart

  ANCIENT FILE

  1513 CE

  11 connected records →
• Hapgood’s ancient maps

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Oronteus Finaeus / Buache · ice-free Antarctic claim

  ANCIENT FILE

  1966

  11 connected records →
• Bimini Road

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Bahamas · a seafloor pavement

  ANCIENT FILE

  Holocene beachrock

  11 connected records →
• Dwarka / Gulf of Khambhat

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Gujarat · a drowned city and a noisier sonar claim

  ANCIENT FILE

  historical city / claimed older

  3 connected records →
• Richat Structure

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Mauritania · the Eye of the Sahara

  ANCIENT FILE

  geologic dome

  11 connected records →
• Atlantis (Plato)

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Athens · a story in Timaeus and Critias

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 360 BCE text

  11 connected records →
• Sumerian King List

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Mesopotamia · kings before the flood with impossible reigns

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2100 BCE copies

  4 connected records →
• Anunnaki / Eridu

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Eridu · first city in Sumerian memory

  ANCIENT FILE

  literary gods / c. 5400 BCE city

  13 connected records →
• Dogon Sirius claim

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Mali · a supposed secret about Sirius B

  ANCIENT FILE

  1950s ethnography

  3 connected records →
• Saqqara bird

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Saqqara · a wooden falcon that looks like a glider

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 200 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Abydos ‘helicopter’

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Seti I / Ramesses II · recarved cartouche

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1290 BCE palimpsest

  3 connected records →
• Paracas elongated skulls

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Paracas Peninsula · cranial modification

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 800 BCE–100 CE

  15 connected records →
• Crystal skulls

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Europe / Belize lore · modern lapidary

  ANCIENT FILE

  19th–20th century

  3 connected records →
• Ica stones

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Ica, Peru · engraved andesite with dinosaurs

  ANCIENT FILE

  1960s–

  3 connected records →
• Dropa stones

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Bayan Har Shan · alleged grooved discs

  ANCIENT FILE

  1938 story / later books

  3 connected records →
• Klerksdorp spheres

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Ottosdal, South Africa · grooved pyrophyllite balls

  ANCIENT FILE

  Precambrian nodules

  3 connected records →
• London Hammer

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  London, Texas · an iron hammer in concretion

  ANCIENT FILE

  19th century find

  3 connected records →
• Teotihuacan

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Valley of Mexico · Street of the Dead

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 100–550 CE

  28 connected records →
• Great Pyramid of Cholula

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Puebla · the largest pyramid by volume

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300 BCE–900 CE

  7 connected records →
• Olmec colossal heads

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Gulf Coast · basalt portraits

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 900–400 BCE

  7 connected records →
• Tula Atlantean columns

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Hidalgo · warrior roof-pillars

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 900–1150 CE

  3 connected records →
• Chichén Itzá equinox

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Yucatán · a serpent of light

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 800–1100 CE

  8 connected records →
• El Mirador / La Danta

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Petén · a Preclassic Maya mega-city

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300 BCE–150 CE

  3 connected records →
• Tikal

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Petén · temple-pyramids above the canopy

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 200–900 CE

  19 connected records →
• Izapa Stela 5

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Chiapas · the ‘Tree of Life’ stone

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300 BCE–250 CE

  3 connected records →
• Machu Picchu

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Urubamba ridge · an Inca estate

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1450 CE

  8 connected records →
• Ollantaytambo

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Sacred Valley · a terraced fortress of porphyry

  ANCIENT FILE

  15th century CE

  8 connected records →
• Coricancha

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Cusco · the Inca sun temple under a church

  ANCIENT FILE

  15th century CE

  8 connected records →
• Gate of the Sun

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Tiwanaku · a single andesite doorway

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 500–900 CE

  7 connected records →
• Band of Holes / Monte Sierpe

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Pisco Valley · thousands of pits on a ridge

  ANCIENT FILE

  Inca period / unclear

  3 connected records →
• Caral-Supe

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Peru · a city as old as the pyramids, without ceramic pots

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2600–2000 BCE

  17 connected records →
• Chavín de Huántar

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Ancash · a labyrinth with a roaring gallery

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 900–200 BCE

  17 connected records →
• El Fuerte de Samaipata

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Bolivia · a carved mountain

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300–1500 CE

  3 connected records →
• Poverty Point

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Louisiana · earthen ridges and a bird mound

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1700–1100 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Cahokia / Monks Mound

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Illinois · the largest city north of Mexico

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1050–1350 CE

  3 connected records →
• Serpent Mound

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Ohio · an uncoiling earth serpent

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300 BCE or 1070 CE (debated)

  3 connected records →
• Chaco Canyon

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  New Mexico · great houses on a meridian

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 850–1250 CE

  3 connected records →
• Mesa Verde

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Colorado · cliff dwellings

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1190–1300 CE

  3 connected records →
• Blythe Intaglios

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Colorado Desert · giant ground figures

  ANCIENT FILE

  pre-Columbian, age debated

  11 connected records →
• Atacama Giant

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Cerro Unitas, Chile · the largest geoglyph

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1000–1400 CE

  13 connected records →
• Amazon / Acre geoglyphs

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Acre, Brazil · geometric earthworks under the trees

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1–1400 CE

  11 connected records →
• Pedra do Ingá

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Paraíba · a gneiss wall of glyphs

  ANCIENT FILE

  undated rock art

  3 connected records →
• Serra da Capivara

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Piauí · rock shelters with deep dates

  ANCIENT FILE

  paintings c. 12,000+ BP

  3 connected records →
• Wandjina

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Kimberley · mouthless cloud beings

  ANCIENT FILE

  recent millennia / living tradition

  3 connected records →
• Gwion / Bradshaw figures

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Kimberley · elegant painted humans

  ANCIENT FILE

  possibly 12,000+ BP

  3 connected records →
• Tassili n’Ajjer

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Algeria · round-headed Saharan figures

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 8000–2000 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Sego Canyon

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Utah · life-sized painted figures

  ANCIENT FILE

  Barrier Canyon style

  3 connected records →
• Kailasa temple, Ellora

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Maharashtra · a temple cut down from the hill

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 8th century CE

  13 connected records →
• Mohenjo-daro

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Sindh · a planned Bronze Age city

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2500–1900 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Lothal dock

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Gujarat · a brick basin by a river

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2400 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Angkor Wat

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Siem Reap · a state temple the size of a city

  ANCIENT FILE

  12th century CE

  13 connected records →
• Borobudur

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Java · a mandala you walk

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 9th century CE

  13 connected records →
• Sigiriya

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Sri Lanka · a palace on a rock

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 477–495 CE

  23 connected records →
• Bosnian ‘pyramids’

  DISPUTEDCONTESTEDCOLD

  Visoko · hills promoted as pyramids

  ANCIENT FILE

  2005 claim

  3 connected records →
• Maoling / ‘white pyramid’

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Shaanxi · Han imperial mound, plus a UFO-era rumour

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 87 BCE

  5 connected records →
• Watson Brake

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Louisiana · an earlier American earthwork

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3500 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Newark Earthworks

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Ohio · Hopewell octagon and circle

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 100–400 CE

  3 connected records →
• America’s Stonehenge / Mystery Hill

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Salem, New Hampshire · a hill of chambers

  ANCIENT FILE

  colonial / claimed older

  3 connected records →
• Newport Tower

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Rhode Island · a stone rotunda

  ANCIENT FILE

  17th century (likely)

  3 connected records →
• Kensington Runestone

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Minnesota · a rune stone in the roots of a tree

  ANCIENT FILE

  1898 find

  3 connected records →
• Edfu building texts

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Temple of Horus, Edfu · Zep Tepi in stone

  ANCIENT FILE

  Ptolemaic, copying older myth

  9 connected records →
• Turin King List

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Ramesside papyrus · gods and spirits before Menes

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1200 BCE copy

  3 connected records →
• Osiris shaft, Giza

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Giza · a water-filled shaft on the plateau

  ANCIENT FILE

  Late Period / older cut?

  14 connected records →
• Ahu Vinapu

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Rapa Nui · Inca-like ashlar on Easter Island

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1200–1600 CE

  8 connected records →
• Anunnaki — the great gods

  UNRESOLVEDMIXED

  Sumer / Akkad / Babylon · Anunna, Anunnaki

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2500–600 BCE texts

  14 connected records →
• Enki and the ME

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Eridu · civilizing decrees

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2000 BCE copies

  12 connected records →
• Enlil of Nippur

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Nippur · lord of the command

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2500–1200 BCE

  13 connected records →
• Ninhursag — humans from clay

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Sumer · the making of lulu

  ANCIENT FILE

  Atra-ḫasīs / Enki and Ninmah

  4 connected records →
• Igigi revolt

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  The junior gods put down their baskets

  ANCIENT FILE

  Atra-ḫasīs I

  3 connected records →
• Apkallu — the seven sages

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Eridu · fish-cloaked teachers

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1800–700 BCE

  12 connected records →
• Oannes

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Persian Gulf · the fish-man who taught by day

  ANCIENT FILE

  3rd c. BCE report of older myth

  12 connected records →
• Adapa — the failed immortality

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Eridu to Anu’s heaven

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1400 BCE copies

  3 connected records →
• Nibiru / Planet of the crossing

  DISPUTEDCONTESTED

  Babylonian astronomy · Sitchin’s twelfth planet

  ANCIENT FILE

  astral name vs 1976 book

  13 connected records →
• Utnapishtim / Ziusudra

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Mouth of the rivers · the man who did not die

  ANCIENT FILE

  flood survivor

  3 connected records →
• The Watchers — 1 Enoch

  UNRESOLVEDMIXED

  Second Temple · Book of the Watchers

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 300–100 BCE (older tradition)

  19 connected records →
• Descent on Mount Hermon

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Anti-Lebanon range · the oath of the 200

  ANCIENT FILE

  1 Enoch 6

  18 connected records →
• Nephilim

  UNRESOLVEDMIXED

  The fallen / the giants in the land

  ANCIENT FILE

  Genesis 6:4 / Numbers 13

  19 connected records →
• Azazel — the arts that were not to be taught

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Weapons, adornment, dyes, seeing-stones

  ANCIENT FILE

  1 Enoch 8

  18 connected records →
• Shemihazah and the two hundred

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Chief of the descent

  ANCIENT FILE

  1 Enoch 6–7

  18 connected records →
• Book of Giants

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Qumran · the children have names

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 200–50 BCE

  18 connected records →
• Sons of God — Genesis 6

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  The shortest contact paragraph in the Bible

  ANCIENT FILE

  Torah

  18 connected records →
• Jubilees — Watchers as teachers first

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  They were sent to instruct, then they fell

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 160 BCE

  18 connected records →
• Elohim and the Divine Council

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Most High divides the nations

  ANCIENT FILE

  Psalm 82 / Deuteronomy 32

  3 connected records →
• Ugarit — El’s mountain assembly

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Ras Shamra · the tablets under the tell

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1300 BCE

  3 connected records →
• Ezekiel’s wheels

  UNRESOLVEDMIXED

  Kebar canal · merkabah

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 593 BCE

  7 connected records →
• Elijah’s chariot

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  East of the Jordan · taken, not buried

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 9th c. BCE story

  5 connected records →
• Sinai — the mountain that smoked

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Horeb / Jebel Musa candidates

  ANCIENT FILE

  Exodus 19–24

  3 connected records →
• Pillar of cloud and fire

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  The moving column that led the camp

  ANCIENT FILE

  Exodus 13–14

  3 connected records →
• Ark of the Covenant

  UNRESOLVEDMIXED

  Gold box · seat · weapon · radio

  ANCIENT FILE

  late 2nd millennium tradition

  4 connected records →
• Anakim, Rephaim, Og

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Giants of the land · the dead kings who still sit

  ANCIENT FILE

  Numbers–Deuteronomy / Ugarit

  3 connected records →
• Jacob’s ladder — Bethel

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  A stair between worlds, with traffic

  ANCIENT FILE

  Genesis 28

  3 connected records →
• Enoch walked and was not

  UNRESOLVEDMIXED

  The scribe who did not die

  ANCIENT FILE

  Genesis 5:24 / 1 Enoch / 2 Enoch

  4 connected records →
• Thoth — measurer and scribe

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Hermopolis · the one who invented writing

  ANCIENT FILE

  Old Kingdom onward

  9 connected records →
• Pyramid Texts — the king becomes a star

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Unas pyramid, Saqqara · oldest religious corpus

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2350 BCE

  20 connected records →
• Osiris the civilizer

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  He taught grain, law, then he was cut up

  ANCIENT FILE

  Plutarch / older Egyptian cycle

  9 connected records →
• Viracocha — the walking teacher

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Tiahuanaco to the sea · staff, pale, bearded in some versions

  ANCIENT FILE

  Andean cycle (Inca reports)

  13 connected records →
• Quetzalcoatl — the feathered instructor

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Tula / Cholula · wind, Venus, books, the exit east

  ANCIENT FILE

  Tollan cycle

  7 connected records →
• Saptarishi — the seven seers

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  The seven who survive the flood with Manu

  ANCIENT FILE

  Vedic / Puranic

  3 connected records →
• Manu and the fish

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  The first man is warned from the water

  ANCIENT FILE

  Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa

  3 connected records →
• Etana — the flight to heaven

  UNRESOLVEDLIMITED

  Kish · a king rides an eagle into the sky

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1900–1500 BCE copies

  3 connected records →
• Etemenanki — the stair of Babylon

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Babylon · house of the foundation of heaven and earth

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 600 BCE rebuild (older foundation)

  3 connected records →
• Qumran — the Watcher library

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Cave 4 · Enoch as scripture

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 250–50 BCE copies

  18 connected records →
• Danigala (Alien Mountain)

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Kandegama, Eastern Province · horseshoe rock

  ANCIENT FILE

  inselberg / living folklore

  23 connected records →
• Ritigala

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Anuradhapura District · forest padhānaghara

  ANCIENT FILE

  monastery hill

  23 connected records →
• Yahangala

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Lower Bibile / Mahiyanganaya road · ridge

  ANCIENT FILE

  Rāvaṇa’s bed

  23 connected records →
• Śrī Pāda (Adam’s Peak)

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Ratnapura District · 2,243 m

  ANCIENT FILE

  sacred footprint

  23 connected records →
• Koneswaram

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Trincomalee · Swami Rock

  ANCIENT FILE

  temple of a thousand pillars

  23 connected records →
• Mihintale

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Anurādhapura · mountain of Mahinda

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 247 BCE memory

  23 connected records →
• Jetavanārāma

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Anurādhapura · brick stupa

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 3rd–4th c. CE

  23 connected records →
• Polonnaruwa vaṭadāgē

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Polonnaruwa · circular relic house

  ANCIENT FILE

  12th c. CE

  23 connected records →
• Barabar caves

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Bihar · Mauryan polish

  ANCIENT FILE

  3rd c. BCE

  13 connected records →
• Konark Sun Temple

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Odisha · stone chariot of Sūrya

  ANCIENT FILE

  13th c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Mahabalipuram shore

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATEDCOLD

  Tamil Nadu · rathas and a drowned line

  ANCIENT FILE

  7th–8th c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Hampi Vitthala

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Karnataka · stone chariot

  ANCIENT FILE

  16th c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Sanchi stūpa

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Madhya Pradesh · Aśokan mound and gates

  ANCIENT FILE

  3rd c. BCE–1st c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Prambanan

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Java · Śiva compound

  ANCIENT FILE

  9th c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Koh Ker

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Preah Vihear Province · seven-step pyramid

  ANCIENT FILE

  10th c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Mỹ Sơn

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Quảng Nam · Cham towers

  ANCIENT FILE

  4th–13th c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Bagan

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Mandalay Region · plain of temples

  ANCIENT FILE

  11th–13th c. CE

  13 connected records →
• Kuelap

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Amazonas, Peru · Chachapoya wall

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 6th–16th c. CE

  17 connected records →
• Chankillo

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATEDCOLD

  Ancash, Peru · thirteen towers

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 250 BCE

  17 connected records →
• Sechín Alto / Cerro Sechín

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Casma valley · carved warriors and a platform

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1600–1200 BCE

  17 connected records →
• Ingapirca

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Cañar, Ecuador · Inca / Cañari ellipse

  ANCIENT FILE

  15th c. CE

  17 connected records →
• Sillustani

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Puno · chullpa towers by a lake

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 13th–15th c. CE

  17 connected records →
• Monte Albán

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Oaxaca · Zapotec ridge city

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 500 BCE–800 CE

  19 connected records →
• Mitla

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Oaxaca · greca mosaics

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 900–1521 CE

  19 connected records →
• Xochicalco

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Morelos · fortress city and a cave tube

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 650–900 CE

  19 connected records →
• El Tajín

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Veracruz · niche pyramid

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 600–1200 CE

  19 connected records →
• Uxmal

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Yucatán · Puuc palaces

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 700–1000 CE

  19 connected records →
• Copán

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Honduras · hieroglyphic stair

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 400–800 CE

  19 connected records →
• Calakmul

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Campeche · Kaan kingdom

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 400 BCE–900 CE

  19 connected records →
• Nabta Playa

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Nubian desert · cattle and stones

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 5000–3000 BCE

  13 connected records →
• Goseck circle

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Saxony-Anhalt · palisade henge

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 4900 BCE

  7 connected records →
• Hawara labyrinth

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Faiyum · Amenemhat III

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1800 BCE

  13 connected records →
• Meidum pyramid

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Faiyum edge · collapsed experiment

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 2600 BCE

  13 connected records →
• Abu Simbel

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Nubia · Ramesses II, twice a year in light

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1264 BCE

  13 connected records →
• Karnak hypostyle

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Thebes · Amun’s forest of stone

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1290–1224 BCE (great hall)

  13 connected records →
• Mycenae

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Argolid · Lion Gate and tholos

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1600–1200 BCE

  7 connected records →
• Knossos

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Crete · palace and a maze story

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1900–1350 BCE

  7 connected records →
• Phaistos disc

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Crete · stamped clay spiral

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1700 BCE?

  7 connected records →
• Sanxingdui

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Sichuan · bronze faces

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1200–1000 BCE

  5 connected records →
• Su Nuraxi, Barumini

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Sardinia · tower village

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1600–1100 BCE

  9 connected records →
• Malta cart ruts

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Clapham Junction / Misraħ Għar il-Kbir

  ANCIENT FILE

  Bronze Age?

  9 connected records →
• Taputapuātea

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Raʻiātea, Society Islands

  ANCIENT FILE

  marae / living

  9 connected records →
• Lelu, Kosrae

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Caroline Islands · basalt enclosure

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 1250–1850 CE

  9 connected records →
• Sayburç

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATEDCOLD

  Şanlıurfa · T-shaped people in a bench

  ANCIENT FILE

  c. 9000 BCE

  8 connected records →
• Nemrut Dağı

  CONFIRMEDCORROBORATED

  Adıyaman · Commagene heads

  ANCIENT FILE

  1st c. BCE

  8 connected records →