🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Neolithic Submerged City — Haryana Annex 427
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic submerged-city at Haryana.
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🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Bronze Age · Bronze Age
Bronze Age submerged-city at Aomori.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic submerged-city at Haryana.
🇵🇪 Peru · Submerged site
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Huanuco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Submerged site
Classical · Classical
Classical submerged-city at Huanuco.
🇵🇪 Peru · Submerged site
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic submerged-city at Huanuco.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Neolithic · Neolithic
Neolithic submerged-city at Aomori.
🇵🇪 Peru · Submerged site
Iron Age · Iron Age
Iron Age submerged-city at Huanuco.
🇯🇵 Japan · Submerged site
Hittite · Hittite
Hittite submerged-city at Aomori.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Jomon · Jomon
Jomon submerged-city at Haryana.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Classical (373 BCE earthquake Atlantis of Greece) + Mycenaean Helladic Early Helladic settlement 3000 BCE underlying · Achaian League Classical Helike 373 BCE inundated
Helike Project Soter & Katsonopoulou find 2001 Classical building with Helike coin and 373 layer.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic (297–246 BCE Pharos 137 m; Royal Quarters Ptolemy I 323 BCE Antirhodos islet 300 × 70 m) + 1303/365 earthquake subsidence 8th c. · Ptolemaic Alexandria (Lochias, Antirhodos) with Pharos lighthouse debris 500 blocks
Alexandria submerged Empereur 1994 Qaitbay Pharos and Goddio 1996 Antirhodos palace island.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Saite to Roman (550 BCE–50 BCE Thonis = Heracleion Greek; 8th c. BCE Canopic temple) sank 100–300 CE subsidence and liquefaction · Egyptian-Saite → Ptolemaic Thonis first port before Alexandria with Decree of Sais 380 BCE twin stelae (Rosetta precursor) and Amun of Gereb
Thonis Goddio 2000 rediscovery after10 m, temple Amun Gereb with Sais stele 380 BCE.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Late Bronze Age (c.1320 BCE) Palatial cargo ship 15–16 m · Canaanite (?) mixed Levantine-Mycenaean-Egyptian royal cargo with Uluburun copper/tin 10 t/1 t
Uluburun excavated by Bass & Pulak, 1300 BCE greatest bronze age cargo 10 t copper.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Late Roman/Byzantine (c.350 CE commercial vessel 21 m) · Late Roman merchant (4th c. CE Yassi Ada 350 CE; later 7th c. Byzantine wreck same reef)
Yassi Ada Bass 1960 pioneer underwater arch, roman 4th and 7th wrecks same reef.
🇯🇲 Jamaica · Submerged site
English pirate port (1655–1692 earthquake 1692 June 7, 11:43 AM liquefaction 6.9 sec 33 acre sank) · English buccaneer (Port Royal 1655–92 Henry Morgan) Wickedest City 2000 brick houses
Port Royal Hamilton 1981, 1692 earthquake 33 acre liquefaction, 300 buildings.
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Greek (630 BCE Cyrene foundation) → Roman city subsided 6.2 earthquake? 374 CE Crete quake 365 CE? Drowned 2017 tomography 365 Crete 8.3 quake sank 2 m · Greek Cyrene port and Roman
Apollonia Cyrenaica Flemming 1958 submerged city 365 earthquake drowned 2 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early to Late Bronze Age (3000 BCE early; city 2800 BCE; Mycenaean 1680 BCE flooded 1000 BCE earthquake) · Early Minoan to Mycenaean (Minoan harbour 2800 BCE, Mycenaean grid 1680 BCE Flemming)
Pavlopetri Flemming 1967 oldest (5000 yr), Henderson 2009 3-ha grid 3 m.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (Wadi Rabah 6000 BCE; Chalcolithic 5000–3800 BCE olive) and Late Pottery Neolithic/Chalcolithic? Kfar Samir overlain waterlogged · Chalcolithic olive press (4800 BCE Kfar Samir submerged 400 m line 7 hr press)
Kfar Samir Galili 1990s, Kfar Samir 4800 press 100k olive stones.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Classical (c. 385 BCE Chian amphora cargo) · Classical Greek Chian wine merchant 385 BCE
Mazotos excavated by Demesticha Southampton, Chian cargo 385 BCE.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Late Classical (c.425–400 BCE) Athenian wine cargo 25 m · Classical Greek Alonissos merchant 400 BCE
Peristera excavated by Elpida Hadjidaki, underwater museum 26 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Late Hellenistic (c.70–50 BCE) Roman loot shipwreck from Asia Minor to Rome 60 m Greek art cargo · Roman late Hellenistic loot ship (Pergamene? Rhodian stones) 60 BCE
Antikythera sponge 1900, Cousteau 1976, Mechanism found 1901.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Vesuvius 79 CE (Herculaneum destroyed 01:30 Aug 25 79 CE) · Roman Herculaneum beach harbour fisher folk last victims
Herculaneum beach 1980 Magi 340 skeletons beach boathouses.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah (5800–5400 BCE) → Chalcolithic 4000 BCE reuse · Wadi Rabah PN late Neolithic
Neve Yam excavated by Galili 1990s Wadi Rabah variant.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC, 7550–6570 BCE) — with earliest olive and well 5.5 m · PPNC Mediterranean fishing-farming village with stone wells 1.5 m diameter
Atlit-Yam Galili 1984 PPNC 7550 BCE oldest well.
