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Lagoons · Mysteria

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Lagoons

Every place in the atlas labelled lagoons.

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Paraetonium East Creek (Marsa Matruh Lagoon Annex)

🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port

Paraetonium East Creek (Marsa Matruh Lagoon Annex)

Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman

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🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port

Paraetonium East Creek (Marsa Matruh Lagoon Annex)

Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman

Lagoon annex east of Paraetonium with fish weir and warehouse strip.