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CategoriesSubmerged sites
Harbours, towns and monuments now beneath the sea or a lake.
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Greek to Byzantine (6th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Greek / Roman (Cyrenaica)
Submerged roadstead at Ras al Hilal with quay blocks 2–4 m deep.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Heracleion (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειον Hērákleion), also known as Thonis (Ancient Greek: Θῶνις Thônis; from the Ancient Egyptian: Tȝ-ḥn.t; Coptic: Ⲧϩⲱⲛⲓ Thōni) and sometimes called Thonis-Heracleion,…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (647 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek / Scythian
Southern Black Sea harbour of Olbia Pontica below acropolis — 140 m curved mole at –1.8 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Roman to Mamluk (25 BCE – 1450 CE) · Roman / Islamic (Ayyubid-Mamluk)
Western mangrove bay of Quseir al-Qadim at Marsa Nakari west — gypsum quay at –1.2 m and 14th c. Islamic warehouses.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Iron Age
Submerged Harbour of Burial Town in Madhya Pradesh, India is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Iron Age culture.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Byzantine (9th c. CE?) hypothetical Phagrou supposed · Byzantine
Phagrou provisional.
