[bshimmin]

A word of warning: a few years ago, the related page at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-place_artifact took me down one of the worst Wikipedia procrastination rabbit holes I've ever lost myself in.

[dcminter]

If you enjoy that kind of thing then you might like Terry Pratchett's early SF work "Strata" that riffs heavily on this idea (on a less parochial scale) while also enjoyably sending up Niven's Ringworld and a few other tomes.

[sampo]

There is also 2022 Netflix series "Ancient Apocalypse", presenting a theory that there was a civilization (not industrial, but like Romans or Egyptians) living on the coastal areas during last ice age, but their traces have disappeared now that sea level is 120 meters higher than during ice age.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Apocalypse

[9dev]

How kind of you to include a link to that very page with your post!

[refuse]

Relevant:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1096959/Myst...