Submerged submerged sites in Italy

Submerged submerged sites in Italy · Mysteria

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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.

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Etruscan Archaic to Roman (c. 700 BCE – 300 CE) · Etruscan / Roman

Etruscan iron-smelting harbour drowned under Baratti slag beach – quay blocks at –1 to –2 m.

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Phoenician to Classical (c. 800–397 BCE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian

Phoenician lagoon island with 1 km submerged causeway at –0.5 m and cothon harbour, Stagnone.

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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.

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Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 700–200 BCE) · Achaean Greek / Bruttian

Achaean colony harbour drowned at Punta Stilo – mole blocks at –1.5 m off Monasterace Marina.

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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.

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Roman Republican (37 – 12 BCE) · Roman Augustan (Agrippa)

Agrippa's 37 BCE volcanic-rim war harbour joining Lake Avernus to Lucrine Lake — causeway dam now –1 to –6 m under Lucrinus lagoon.

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Archaic Greek to Late Antique (700 BCE – 5th c. CE) · Syracusan Greek / Sicilian Sicel

700 BCE Syracusan colony at Vendicari lagoon — quay slabs and fish tanks half in sea at –0.5 to –3 m behind 3.5 km walls.

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