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Sourced using AIc. 406–411 CE · North Africa
Read record →Sourced using AIClaims associated with 1620s–1630s; investigations in the seventeenth century · Ágreda, Spain, and reported among Indigenous peoples of New Mexico
Read record →Sourced using AI2002 · Morocco, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1924 · Pacific Ocean, en route from New York to the Panama Canal
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 (date uncertain) · Karachi region, Pakistan
Read record →Sourced using AINineteenth-century collection and description; prehistoric rock art · Marquesas Islands, especially Nuku Hiva and Hiva Oa
Read record →Sourced using AIFirst millennium BCE literary composition and redaction · Ancient Israel and Judah; textual tradition later transmitted widely
Read record →Sourced using AI2023 · Bude, Cornwall, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1970–1989 · Qumran and Jerusalem; publication debates internationally
Read record →Sourced using AI1897 · Benares, North-Western Provinces
Read record →Sourced using AINew Kingdom; earliest substantial witnesses from royal tombs · Egypt; royal tombs including Seti I and Tutankhamun
Read record →Sourced using AIWritten in Latin around 1149; vernacular translations continued for centuries · Regensburg, with widespread European translation
Read record →Sourced using AI1948 (date uncertain) · Surabaya, East Java
Read record →Sourced using AI1937 · Shanghai, China
Read record →Sourced using AI1904 · San Francisco Bay Area, California
Read record →Sourced using AI2007–2011 · Southeast Asia
Read record →Sourced using AI1950s–1969 · Kainchi, Kumaon, Uttar Pradesh
Read record →Sourced using AI2024 · Popocatépetl, Puebla–Morelos
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Providence, Rhode Island
Read record →Sourced using AI11th century; AI-recalled; source quality 5; corroboration 0 · Malwa, traditionally associated with Bhoja’s court
Read record →Sourced using AI1904 · Cairo, Egypt
Read record →Sourced using AI1962 · Alcalá de Henares, Madrid
Read record →Sourced using AI1954 · Sofia
Read record →Sourced using AI1958 · Federation of Malaya; route uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI2002–2006 · San Pedro Sula
Read record →Sourced using AI1977 (exact date uncertain) · Cairo area
Read record →Sourced using AIMedieval Japanese textual tradition; individual works require dating · Japan
Read record →Sourced using AI1959 · Hainburg an der Donau, Lower Austria
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Trinidad, Piarco area
Read record →Sourced using AI2011–2012 reporting · Rabat
Read record →Sourced using AI1967 · Invercargill, South Island
Read record →Sourced using AI1890 · Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AI1960s · Philippines
Read record →Sourced using AI1970s–1980s reports and retellings · Totnes, Devon, England
Read record →Sourced using AI1969 · Greenland
Read record →Sourced using AI1996 · Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Read record →Sourced using AI1989 · Christchurch, New Zealand
Read record →Sourced using AIJanuary–May 1909 · England, especially the Midlands and northern counties
Read record →Sourced using AIhuman occupation at least tens of thousands of years old · Sarawak, Borneo
Read record →Sourced using AI2008 · Adelaide, South Australia
Read record →Sourced using AI1965 · Las Vegas, Nevada
Read record →Sourced using AI1950 · Tibet and Himalayan regions; French publication context
Read record →Sourced using AI2010 · Shenzhen, Guangdong
Read record →Sourced using AI2003 · Libya, location uncertain
Read record →Sourced using AI1947–1969 reports and oral traditions · Boulia–Mitta Mitta region, Queensland
Read record →Sourced using AI1957; publicized 1958–1960 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais
Read record →Sourced using AI1973 · Hanscom Field and Hanscom Air Force Base, Bedford, Massachusetts
Read record →Sourced using AI1872 · Fictional mountainous kingdom; British literary context
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