The Lost Civilisation

Angkor Wat

Hancock aligned Angkor's temples to the constellation Draco as it stood in 10,500 BCE — the same 'first time' epoch he reads at Giza.

Baalbek

The trilithon is claimed as the survival of a forgotten age, with the Roman temple merely perched on top.

Brihadeeswarar Temple

A standard entry in lost-technology lists, on the strength of the capstone alone.

Giza Pyramid Complex

The Sphinx water-erosion hypothesis (Schwaller de Lubicz, Schoch) would push its carving back to a wetter, pre-dynastic epoch thousands of years earlier.

Göbekli Tepe

Its 9500 BCE date is the cornerstone of the modern argument: monumental building at exactly the moment a destroyed civilisation's survivors would have needed to regroup — so the reading goes.

Gunung Padang

Kailasa Temple, Ellora

The standard exhibit in 'how was this done' literature: a building with no margin for error and no surviving record of its method.

Mahabalipuram

Unfinished work is the useful kind: the abandoned surfaces show the method that finished buildings hide.

Nabta Playa

Organised astronomy in the green Sahara, two millennia before the pharaohs, hints — proponents argue — at knowledge inherited rather than invented.

Nan Madol

Pohnpeian legend of a drowned twin city, Kahnimweiso, keeps sunken-civilisation readings of the basalt canals alive.

Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Undeciphered script and colossal statues on the world's loneliest island read, to enthusiasts, like the last outpost of a drowned Pacific homeland.

Sacsayhuamán

Alternative chronologies read the lower cyclopean courses as vastly older than the Inca, who are cast as mere inheritors and repairers.

Tiwanaku & Puma Punku

Posnansky's 15,000 BCE archaeoastronomical dating made Tiwanaku the original 'antediluvian city' of the entire genre.

Yonaguni Monument

If human-made, lost-epoch readers say it drowned with the Ice Age shorelines some 10,000 years ago — squarely inside the lost-epoch window.