The Evidence

Each clue below is a real place or object, with its honest grade — A grounded, C contested, S speculation, U unidentified. No single clue is proof. The case is their convergence — the same fingerprints on continents that never met. Open any one, weigh it, and explore it in the interactive field or on the drowned planet.

◆ Impossible stone

• The Younger DryasContested · C · Northern Hemisphere · ~12,800–11,600 yrs — The dated catastrophe at the bottom of the Flood
• The Maps of the Sea KingsSpeculation · S · Topkapı, Istanbul — A 1513 map of a coast we did not "discover" until 1820
• Göbekli TepeGrounded · A · Anatolia — Temples a thousand years before farming
• TeotihuacanGrounded · A · Mexico — A pyramid-city whose builders left no name
• The Great PyramidContested · C · Egypt — The most precise pyramid — and its coffer was found empty
• The Baalbek trilithonContested · C · Roman foundation — A worked stone of 1,650 tonnes
• Puma PunkuContested · C · Bolivia — Andesite joined to a hair's width
• SacsayhuamánContested · C · the Inca ridge — Polygonal walls no knife can enter
• OllantaytamboGrounded · A · the Sacred Valley — Six monoliths hauled up the far side of a valley
• Machu PicchuGrounded · A · the Inca ridge — Stone that dances in earthquakes
• The SerapeumContested · C · Egypt — Sixty-tonne granite boxes for sacred bulls
• DerinkuyuGrounded · A · carved downward — A city carved eighteen storeys down
• The Longyou CavesGrounded · A · China — A hand-cut mega-quarry engineers study
• Malta's templesGrounded · A · Malta — Older than the pyramids — by a thousand years
• The Carnac stonesGrounded · A · Brittany — Thousands of stones in kilometre-long rows
• Nan MadolGrounded · A · Pohnpei, Pacific — A city of basalt logs, built on the open reef
• StonehengeGrounded · A · England — Its Altar Stone came from Scotland
• The moai of Easter IslandGrounded · A · the Pacific — Did the statues walk?

≈ Drowned worlds

• Atlit-YamGrounded · A · Mediterranean — A village beneath the waves
• PavlopetriGrounded · A · off Greece — A whole town plan on the seabed
• DoggerlandGrounded · A · drowned country — A country under the North Sea
• Thonis-HeracleionGrounded · A · off Egypt — A whole Egyptian city, swallowed whole
• SundalandProposed · P · SE Asia — A drowned subcontinent
• The Yonaguni MonumentContested · C · submerged — Sunken city — or natural sandstone?
• The Bimini RoadContested · C · submerged — A road, a wall — or beachrock?
• The deep anomaly off CubaSpeculation · S · the Caribbean — Symmetry, far too deep to explain
• AtlantisSpeculation · S · Plato, 360 BCE — The story that started the whole hunt
• Lemuria — MuSpeculation · S · the Indian/Pacific Ocean — A continent science invented, then abandoned
• The Richat StructureContested · C · Mauritania — A 40 km bullseye some call Atlantis

✦ The sky

• The Great PyramidContested · C · Egypt — The most precise pyramid — and its coffer was found empty
• The Carnac stonesGrounded · A · Brittany — Thousands of stones in kilometre-long rows
• Nabta Playa & the sky-keepersGrounded · A · Egypt's desert — A calendar circle older than Stonehenge
• NewgrangeGrounded · A · Ireland — A solstice light-box older than the pyramids
• StonehengeGrounded · A · England — Its Altar Stone came from Scotland
• Chichén ItzáGrounded · A · the Maya — A serpent of light, by design
• The Antikythera MechanismGrounded · A · the Aegean — A bronze computer, 1,400 years ahead

◎ Visitors?

• The Nazca LinesContested · C · Peru — A desert walked, not flown
• The Palenque 'astronaut'Contested · C · Mexico — A king at the controls — or a king at the world-tree?
• The Paracas skullsContested · C · Peru — Elongated skulls — binding, or something stranger?
• The stone spheresGrounded · A · Costa Rica — Hundreds of near-perfect spheres
• The Dogon and SiriusSpeculation · S · Mali — Did they know of an invisible star?
• The Nimitz 'Tic-Tac'Unidentified · U · on the record — Filmed by the U.S. Navy — and never identified

☼ Before the flood

• Göbekli TepeGrounded · A · Anatolia — Temples a thousand years before farming
• Jebel IrhoudGrounded · A · Morocco — Our species, far older than we were taught
• ÇatalhöyükGrounded · A · Anatolia — A town before kings
• Mohenjo-daroGrounded · A · the Indus — A grid city — and a script no one can read
• CaralGrounded · A · Peru — Pyramids in the Americas, without pottery
• Uruk — the first cityGrounded · A · Mesopotamia — Where the city, and writing, began
• The garden-cities of the AmazonGrounded · A · Ecuador — LIDAR found lost cities under the canopy
• TeotihuacanGrounded · A · Mexico — A pyramid-city whose builders left no name
• Malta's templesGrounded · A · Malta — Older than the pyramids — by a thousand years

☾ The forbidden

• Nan MadolGrounded · A · Pohnpei, Pacific — A city of basalt logs, built on the open reef
• SundalandProposed · P · SE Asia — A drowned subcontinent
• The Yonaguni MonumentContested · C · submerged — Sunken city — or natural sandstone?
• The Bimini RoadContested · C · submerged — A road, a wall — or beachrock?
• The deep anomaly off CubaSpeculation · S · the Caribbean — Symmetry, far too deep to explain
• The Palenque 'astronaut'Contested · C · Mexico — A king at the controls — or a king at the world-tree?
• The Paracas skullsContested · C · Peru — Elongated skulls — binding, or something stranger?
• The stone spheresGrounded · A · Costa Rica — Hundreds of near-perfect spheres
• The Dogon and SiriusSpeculation · S · Mali — Did they know of an invisible star?
• The moai of Easter IslandGrounded · A · the Pacific — Did the statues walk?
• Gunung PadangSpeculation · S · Indonesia — The 25,000-year pyramid that got retracted
• AtlantisSpeculation · S · Plato, 360 BCE — The story that started the whole hunt
• Lemuria — MuSpeculation · S · the Indian/Pacific Ocean — A continent science invented, then abandoned
• The Richat StructureContested · C · Mauritania — A 40 km bullseye some call Atlantis