🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Kamarina — Sicilian Colony
Archaic to Roman (598 BCE–853 CE) · Syracusan Greek
Kamarina — Sicilian Colony in Sicily, Greece is a Archaic to Roman (598 BCE–853 CE) ancient-city attributed to Syracusan Greek.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Hala Sultan Tekke — Dromolaxia Copper Harbour Larnaca Bay
Late Bronze (1600–1150 BCE Alashiya harbour sibling to Enkomi) · Cypriot Alasia harbour town secondary
Hala Sultan Tekke Åström 1970s Dromolaxia harbour late Bronze 1600.
🇮🇳 India · Hydraulic works
Harappan Lothal — Dockyard and Warehouse Platform
Harappan (2600–1900 BCE mature; dock 2400 BCE) · Indus / Harappan (Lothal)
Ahmedabad Lothal excavated by Rao 1954–63, dock at 2400 BCE, bead factory and Persian Gulf seal.
🇪🇷 Eritrea · Ancient city
Adulis Bay – Axumite Port
Axumite (1st c BCE – 7th c CE; Adulis port 1st c CE Periplus) · Axumite / South Arabian / Greco-Roman trade
Axumite Mediterranean port in Zula Bay where Paribeni and Sundström found Axumite church (5th c), Roman wine amphorae and glass, linking Axum to Roman trade; Periplus harbour descr...
🇩🇪 Germany · Ancient city
Ralswiek
Early Medieval Slavic Viking Age 750–900 · Slavic Rani (Rujaner) principality — Rugian Slavs
Ralswiek — Slavic Rani princely port-emporium (c.750–850 CE peak, with 8th c predecessor and 9th–10th c princely hall) on Großer Jasmunder Bodden isthmus, Rügen, controlling lagoon–Bay of Greifswald…
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Northern Pavlopetri Sanctuary West — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-02)
Bronze Age (regional) · Bronze Age
Northern Pavlopetri Sanctuary West — Pavlopetri, Laconia (58-02) at Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece is a Bronze Age (regional) submerged city of the Bronze Age tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Marea Lake Port Mareotis Alexandria
Greco-Roman to Byzantine · Ptolemaic / Byzantine
Marea Lake Port Mareotis Alexandria at Marea, Lake Mareotis, Egypt is a Greco-Roman to Byzantine ancient city of the Ptolemaic / Byzantine tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Upper Alexandria Mound North — Alexandria, Pharos (58-34)
Neolithic (regional) · Neolithic
Upper Alexandria Mound North — Alexandria, Pharos (58-34) at Alexandria, Pharos, Egypt is a Neolithic (regional) submerged city of the Neolithic tradition, built c.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Berenice Troglodytica Red Sea Port
Ptolemaic to Roman · Ptolemaic Roman Egyptian
Berenice Troglodytica Red Sea Port at Red Sea, Berenice, Egypt is a Ptolemaic to Roman ancient city of the Ptolemaic Roman Egyptian tradition, built c.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Leptis Magna — Hannibal's House? no — harbour and Hippodrome submergence
Phoenician 1100 BCE → Roman Septimian 211 CE Arch of Septimius, harbour 200 CE Severan 600 m lighthouse 35 m high · Phoenician Leptis (Neapolis) → Roman Septimius Severus hometown (Emperor 193 CE) harbour built hometown glory
Leptis Magna harbour Italian 1920s, Severus hometown 200.
🇯🇲 Jamaica · Submerged site
Port Royal — Jamaican Pirate City Earthquake Slump Jamaica
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.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Ancient port
Enkomi — Alasia Copper Port Urban Palace Cypriot
Late Bronze Alasia (1600–1050 BCE) Enkomi palace 1450 BCE copper port of Alasia letters Amarna · Cypriot Alasia (Mycenaean-Cypriot Late Bronze) Amarna copper Alashiya, 1180 Sea Peoples destruction
Enkomi SCE Schaeffer 1934 Alasia 1600–1180.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Submerged site
Sunken City off Dyke
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Sunken City off Dyke in Quang Nam, Vietnam is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) submerged city attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Berenice — Benghazi Hellenistic Port Wall Laser-Gated
Hellenistic Berenice 246 BCE Ptolemy III → Roman to Arab 642 CE · Hellenistic Berenice (Benghazi) port
Berenice excavated by Lloyd 1960s Benghazi grid.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Ancient city
Banbhore
Scytho-Parthian to Islamic (200 BCE–1300 CE) · Scytho-Parthian to Hindu–Buddhist to Umayyad Islamic
India's oldest port tell—47 ha, 13 centuries (200 BCE–1300 CE): Scytho-Parthian to India's earliest mosque (727 CE).
🇲🇱 Mali · Ancient city
Gao-Saney – Trans-Saharan Entrepôt & Tomb of Askia's Pilgrims
Trans-Saharan (c. 600–1300 CE; peak 9th–12th c as Kawkaw) · Songhai–Berber (Gao empire; Almoravid links)
Old Gao's eastern port suburb Gao-Saney with merchant quarter and cemetery of 11th c Arabic stelae (spirals, Kufic) documenting Islamisation and gold trade to Sijilmasa; stelae mar...
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Submerged Harbour of Burial Town
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.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient port
Thamusida — Sebou River Military Port
Roman Mauretania Tingitana (1st–5th c. CE) Mauretanian Juba earlier · Mauretanian → Roman
Thamusida excavated by Rebuffat 1965–, Venus mosaic and Fils of Tingitana.