🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Abdera — Western Harbour at Bulustra West (Thrace West Harbour)
Archaic to Late Antique (654 BCE – 400 CE) · Teian / Klazomenian Ionian
Western lagoon harbour of Abdera at Bulustra West — 55 m mole at –2 m and bastion.
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🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (654 BCE – 400 CE) · Teian / Klazomenian Ionian
Western lagoon harbour of Abdera at Bulustra West — 55 m mole at –2 m and bastion.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaic to Byzantine (1100 BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek (Erythraean)
Erythraean peninsula Athena cliff temple and Sibyl throne opposite Chios.
🇧🇿 Belize · Ancient village
Preclassic – Classic (c.900 BCE–950 CE) Late Formative to Classic Maya · Maya (Lowland)
Barton Ramie is the classic lowland Maya household archaeology micro-settlement along the Belize River near Georgeville, Cayo, at 65 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Geometric to Archaic (Old Smyrna) · Ionian Greek (Aiolian foundation)
Bayraklı 630 BCE hekatompedon Athena with Aeolic capitals, earliest Ionian temple on Old Smyrna 8th BCE walls.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (6th c BCE–6th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Numidian / Carthaginian / Roman / Byzantine
Hilltop Numidian–Roman city covering 70 ha, Dougga is Tunisia's best-preserved Roman town with Capitol, theatre, Ataban mausoleum and Punic sanctuary.
🇳🇬 Nigeria · Ancient city
Yoruba Early/Middle Period (1st mill.–16th c; classical 12th–15th c) · Yoruba (Ifè)
Yoruba city producing hyper-naturalistic brass heads and potsherd pavements with unique locally-made High-Lime glass beads.
🇸🇰 Slovakia · Fortress
Early Medieval Slavic 770–907 (Pribina 828 → Svatopluk 870–894) · Slavic Principality of Nitra (Pribina) → Great Moravia (Svatopluk)
Nitra (Nitra Castle and Martin's Hill — Martins Hill 220 m) — Slavic princely seat of Principality of Nitra (late 8th–9th c Pribina c.828 church — first Christian church north of Danube) and Great…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman · Seleucid, Pergamene, Carian
Maeander university city with Apollo temple, bouleuterion-library of Strabo and 100-m theatre tunnel, Hellenistic.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Classical to Roman (Carian to Lycian) · Carian, Lycian, Hellenistic Rhodian
Kaunos Dalyan Demeter terrace with 4th BCE altar and 6 Lycian temple-tombs, Carian-Greek border sanctuary.
🇲🇱 Mali · Temple complex
Medieval Songhai (9th–17th c; peak Imperial 1464–1591) · Songhai / Tuareg (Songhai Empire)
Songhai Empire capital's 17 m pyramidal earthen tomb of Askia Mohammad I (1495) east-bank Niger assembly ground.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (550 BCE – 260 CE) · Sindian / Bosporan Kingdom
Central city harbour of Gorgippia in Anapa Bay — 110 m quay at –2 m and salting vats.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Pseudoarchaeology 1953–2010 (claimed 1600 BCE mega 100m) vs Bronze Thera 1600 moderate · Santorini–Minoan Atlantis pseudexcess
100-m mega-tsunami Atlantis claim on Santorini — cores prove 9 m at Crete versus 100 m.
🇬🇾 Guyana · Ancient city
Conquistador 1530–1740 map life; indigenous Wapishana seasonal flood memory kernel · Manoa? (Akawaio/Wapishana misheard) + Spanish/English cartographic invention
Raleigh's 200-mile Lake Parime (3.5N 59.5W) with golden Manoa — kernel is 5 km Rupununi savanna floodpan.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Middle to Late Preclassic 700 BCE–150 CE (Preclassic fluorescence, collapsed c.150 CE Mirador hiatus) · Maya (Preclassic Mirador Basin state, Late Preclassic centralized polity)
Second-largest Preclassic Maya city after El Mirador (700 BCE–400 CE, 30 km southeast of Mirador): 250 m-high-adjacent Henequén pyramid (60 m high ×190×165 m, seventh-tallest Maya pyramid), Mano de…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman Imperial (Antonine) · Cilician Greek and Roman Pompeiopolis
Pompey's pirate-resettlement port Corinthian 6×12 beside 480-m colonnaded street to harbour.
🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Late Horizon (c.1430–1532 CE) Inca · Inca
Inkilltambo is a large Inca terrace-estate 2 km east of central Cusco on the Watanay's right bank at 3,520 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Late Roman (1800 BCE – 350 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman Fayum
Crocodile temple quarter of Narmouthis 1–2 m buried at Medinat Ghoran — Renenutet birth-house and sacred lake 40×30 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Late Roman (1800 BCE – 350 CE) · Egyptian / Greco-Roman Fayum
Crocodile temple quarter of Narmouthis 1–2 m buried at Medinat Ghoran — Renenutet birth-house and sacred lake 40×30 m.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (560 BCE – 50 BCE) · Toretae Maeotian / Greek
Southern cape harbour of Toricos at Toretae Cape — 45 m jetty at –2.5 m and breakwater spur.
🇺🇸 United States · Ancient village
Sinagua (c.1000–1400 CE) Southern Sinagua – Northern Sinagua transition · Sinagua
Tuzigoot (Apache Tó Ził Gogh – crooked water) is the best-preserved Southern Sinagua hilltop pueblo in the Verde Valley, Arizona, at 1,040 m (3,410 ft) on a limestone ridge above the Verde River.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Roman (647 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Milesian Greek
Milesian Dnieper–Bug emporium — second-phase lower harbour terrace 2–6 m submerged under Bug Liman estuary.
🇪🇬 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.
🇪🇬 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.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze (3300–2000 BCE; urban peak 2700–2200 BCE) · Kerman (Lut) Chalcolithic–Bronze / Proto-Elamite → Jiroft-related
Lut desert Bronze Age copper town with chlorite workshops and 382-grave necklace necropolis.