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CategoriesAncient cities

Ancient cities

Capitals, ports and metropolises that rose, fell and were found again.

Places: 2,549
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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Akra – The Fully Submerged Bosporan City at Cape Takyl

Archaic to Late Roman (c.560 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan

Crimean Atlantis — intact classical street grid and double walls at 3–7 m deep off Cape Takyl, the only wholly underwater Bosporan town.

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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city

Chan Chan Walled Compound Uhle

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Chan Chan Walled Compound Uhle in La Libertad, Chan Chan, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

≈AcceptedUNESCO

🇸🇩 Sudan · Ancient city

Dabbs Wadi Rock Engraving Panel 12

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Dabbs Wadi Rock Engraving Panel 12 in Northern, Dabbs Wadi, Sudan is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

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🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Ancient city

Navekat (Krasnaya Rechka – Ak-Beshim West)

Sogdian 6–8 c. → Karluks 8–9 c. → Qarakhanid 10–12 c. · Sogdian → Turkic Khaganate → Qarakhanid (Chu Silk Road)

Sogdian Navekat city (6–12 c. CE) at Krasnaya Rechka 18 km west Suyab — 20 ha shahristan with 3 m Buddha vs Suyab's khagan palace.

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🇮🇳 India · Ancient village

Nevasa

Lower Paleolithic 400 Ka → Chalcolithic Jorwe 1400–1000 BCE → Megalithic → Satavahana → Medieval · Soan Acheulian → Jorwe Chalcolithic (Deccan) → Satavahana

Deccan textbook sequence on Pravara (400 Ka handaxes → 1400 BCE Jorwe village) — 130-house Chalcolithic with urn child burials.

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🇺🇸 United States · Earthwork

Pineland Archeological Site (Calusa Complex)

Caloosahatchee I–V (100–1710 CE, major 500–1500) · Caloosahatchee (Calusa kingdom)

Capital water-court capital (Randell Complex) of Calusa chiefdom (100–1500 CE, historic to 1710): 5 sand-shell mounds up to 9 m high (Brown's Mound 50×45 m), Adam's Mound, Randell Mound, Low Mound…

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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city

Ghirza Romano-Libyan Tomb South A

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Ghirza Romano-Libyan Tomb South A in Misrata, Ghirza, Libya is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

≈Accepted

🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city

Hacilar Level II Burned House 7

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Hacilar Level II Burned House 7 in Burdur, Hacılar, Turkey is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

≈Accepted

🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city

Palenque Palace Tower Vault

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Palenque Palace Tower Vault in Chiapas, Palenque, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city

Chavín de Huantar Lanzón Gallery

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Chavín de Huantar Lanzón Gallery in Ancash, Chavín, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Ancient city

Dobrovody

Chalcolithic Cucuteni-Trypillia B1–B2 (c.4100–3700 BCE) · Cucuteni-Trypillia (Western Trypillia, Tomashivka group)

Dobrovody (Dobrovodi) — Cucuteni-Trypillia BI mega-site (c.4100–3700 BCE, 150–250 ha, 700+ houses, up to 16,200 estimated inhabitants per 2014 research) west of Dobrovody village, Cherkasy, on loess…

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🇬🇹 Guatemala · Pyramid

Tikal Mundo Perdido Pyramid 5D-87 (Lost World)

Preclassic to Early Classic (Mundo Perdido phase) · Maya (Preclassic Tikal)

Tikal’s earliest pyramid — Mundo Perdido 5D-87 — 30 m Preclassic E-Group astronomical pyramid 67 m base c.100 BCE, ancestor to Tikal’s dynastic pyramids.

◌Hypothetical

🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city

Meropis – Theopompus' Parody Atlantis in the Atlantic

Classical literature (350 BCE Theopompus – quoted 2nd c. CE Aelian) · Chian Greek paradoxography

Theopompus 350 BCE satirical Atlantic island with two million-man cities — direct parody of Plato's Atlantis two generations later.

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🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city

Sechin Bajo Plaza Circular

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Sechin Bajo Plaza Circular in Ancash, Sechín Bajo, Peru is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

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🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city

Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis

Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age

Yagul Fortified Hill Acropolis in Oaxaca, Yagul, Mexico is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.

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🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site

Apollonia–Arsuf – Crusader Harbour Submerged Quays

Persian to Crusader (c. 530 BCE – 1265 CE) · Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader

Clifftop Crusader port whose Roman quay and kurkar mole now lie 1–3 m down along Apollonia cliffs.

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🇱🇹 Lithuania · Ancient city

Vilnius Lower Castle and Cathedral Square

Middle Ages to Early Modern (13th–18th c. with 5th c. hillfort substratum) · Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Vilnius Lower Castle and Cathedral Square in Vilnius County, Vilnius Old Town, Gediminas Hill foot, Lithuania is a Middle Ages to Early Modern (13th–18th c. with 5th c.

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🇵🇹 Portugal · Ancient city

Antilia–Brasil Composite – Seville Phantom of 1424

Medieval cartographic (1424 Pizzigano – 1492 Columbus) · Pizzigano–Portuguese cartographic

1424 Pizzigano rectangular 'Seven Cities' phantom west of Azores — Columbus' waypoint to Cipangu before Antilia arch.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Chersonesos — Pesochnaya Bay Submerged Quay (Tauric Chersonesos East)

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Heraclean Greek / Bosporan

Eastern bay harbour of Tauric Chersonesos in Sandy Bay — 110 m quay at –1.8 m and twin ship-shed ramps.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Chersonesos — Pesochnaya Bay Submerged Quay (Tauric Chersonesos East) — v2

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Heraclean Greek / Bosporan

Eastern bay harbour of Tauric Chersonesos in Sandy Bay — 110 m quay at –1.8 m and twin ship-shed ramps.

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🇪🇸 Spain · Ancient city

Castro de Baroña — Porto do Son

Iron Age to Roman (c.600 BCE–100 CE) · Atlantic Castro (Gallaeci, Celtic)

Castro de Baroña (Iron Age c.600 BCE–100 CE, with 1st c. BCE–CE stone phase) is a spectacular Atlantic castro on a rocky isthmus peninsula cut off by a 50-m isthmus ditch, its 20+ round stone houses…

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🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city

Thamusida (Sidi Ali ben Ahmed)

Phoenician to Islamic (6th c BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Mauri / Roman

River limes fort Thamusida with Praetorium frescoes and cohors II Syrorum camp.

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🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid

Cuicuilco Pyramidal Platform (Circular Basement)

Preclassic / Late Formative (Central Mexican Preclassic) · Cuicuilco (Basin of Mexico Preclassic)

Giant circular stepped pyramidal platform at Cuicuilco — 135 m diameter 20 m high 700–150 BCE, buried by Xitle lava eruption 245 CE.

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🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site

Olbia Pontica — Parutyne Northern Mole on Bug Estuary (Borysthenes)

Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan

Northern mole of Olbia Pontica on Bug estuary at Parutyne — 120 m mole at –2 m and river quay with pilings.