🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Classical Submerged City — Central Anatolia Annex 435
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Central Anatolia.
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🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Hellenistic–Late Roman Republican (ship c.80–60 BCE; mechanism c.150–80 BCE) · Greek / Roman trade – Pergamene-Rhodian sculpture cargo
70 BCE Roman freighter off Antikythera at 45 m that yielded the geared Antikythera Mechanism.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Central Anatolia.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Bronze Age to Byzantine (3000 BCE – 1400 CE) · Helladic / Achaean Greek
Central borehole city of Helike on Gulf of Corinth — Classical grid at –3 m, tsunami couplet at –3 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian / Nabataean trade diaspora
Northern lagoon basin of Berenike — rock-cut mole at 0.8–2.2 m behind mangrove spit in Foul Bay.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (575 BCE – 500 CE) · Milesian / Bosporan
Eastern harbour arm of Akra at Naberezhne — 45 m breakwater spur at –3.5 m.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Punic to Medieval (396 BCE – 1200 CE) · Carthaginian / Greek / Roman
Punic naval harbour with ashlar mole at –1 m off Marsala's Capo Boeo – Carthage's western bastion.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Iron Age Sangam to Early Chola (c. 500 BCE – 500 CE) · Tamil Sangam / Early Chola
Sangam Chola drowned wharf 1.5 km at –2 to –4 m off Kaveri mouth – U-breakwater at –4 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Bronze Age–Classical
Kekova Submerged Lycian House Foundations in Antalya, Kekova, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–300 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze Age–Classical.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (493 BCE – 86 BCE Sulla siege) · Classical Athenian
Themistoclean war harbours where 196 trireme sheds launched the fleet of Salamis — slipways still under 6–8 m harbour water.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Minoan Protopalatial to Neopalatial (c. 1900 – 1450 BCE) · Minoan Palatial (Cretan)
Minoan slipway harbour – two rock-cut slipways at –1 m and boulder mole 25 m at –1.5 m in Kymassa bay.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Late Republican to Medieval (46 BCE – 1200 CE) · Roman / Vandal / Byzantine
Caesar's Sardinian colony harbour – 200 m pozzolana eastern mole at –1 to –2.5 m under Porto Torres.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (550 BCE – 1200 CE) · Mytilenean / Bosporan / Genoese
Western reef anchorage of Hermonassa — enhanced reef with 12 mooring cuttings at 4–7 m off Tuzla cape.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Byzantine (800 BCE – 700 CE) · Argive Greek / Carian / Hellenistic / Roman
Carian fishopolis — 120 m agora stoa now −3 m under Güllük Gulf with red marble quarries and isthmus lagoon.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Phoenician to Byzantine (11th c. BCE wording – 7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman African
Tyrian port older than Carthage — 320m Punic-Roman mole now reef off Sousse kasbah, overlaid by modern beach.
🇫🇷 France · Submerged site
Legendary 5th c. (Gradlon of Cornouaille) – folklore recorded 19th c. · Breton / Cornish Celtic Christian syncretism (Dahut as pagan vs Christian)
Gradlon's sluice-gated city in Douarnenez Bay — daughter Dahut drowns it opening gates at high tide.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Imperial (42–64 Claudian, 103–113 Trajan) · Roman Claudian/Trajanic
Rome's 234-ha Claudian outer moles and 32-ha Trajan hexagonal inner basin — outer moles now lagoonal –1 to –2 m in Maccarese wetland.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Period to Persian (664 – 525 BCE) · Saite Egyptian / East Greek mercenary Ionian–Carian
664 BCE Saite Greek mercenary fort at Pelusium gateway — casemate walls half in Pelusiac sebkha –1 to –3 m with Greek pottery.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Late Period to Ptolemaic–Roman (620 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Saqite Egyptian / Milesian-Samian-Aeginetan Greek
Panhellenic Delta emporion 620 BCE — Psamtik Greek colony whose 300 m Canopic harbour channel now 8 m under Nile silt with lagoon quay.
🇦🇺 Australia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Murujuga — Submerged Petroglyph Terrace (Dampier, Australia) in Western Australia, Murujuga, Dampier, Australia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 …
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Chalcolithic (regional) · Chalcolithic
Sacred Alexandria Enclosure I — Alexandria, Pharos (58-05) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Chalcolithic (regional) submerged city of the Chalcolithic tradition, built c.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Northern Yonaguni Necropolis I — Yonaguni (58-46) at Yonaguni, Japan is a Medieval (regional) submerged city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for necropolis and associated settlement.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Western Baiae Citadel Outer — Baiae (58-24) at Baiae, Italy is a Bronze Age (regional) submerged city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c. 1200 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Olbia — Harbour North Wharf Ancillary (Pontic, Ukraine) in Mykolaiv, Olbia, Ukraine is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attribute…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Submerged site
Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) · Early Bronze Age
Sunken City off Camp in Souss-Massa, Morocco is a Early Bronze Age (3300–2100 BCE) submerged city attributed to Early Bronze Age culture.
