🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Teos Harbour – Archaic Mole at Sığacık
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 700–100 BCE) · Ionian Greek / Persian
Ionian wine harbour – 110 m Archaic mole at –1 m off Sığacık.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Kekova Dolichiste — North Street (Sunken City, Antalya)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Kekova Dolichiste — North Street (Sunken City, Antalya) in Antalya, Kekova, Dolichiste, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged cit…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Uluburun Wreck — Late Bronze Age Royal Cargo Reef (Kolpos)
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
Quarry Gallery Submerged 119 — Turkey Region 11
Period Medieval · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Quarry Gallery Submerged 119 — Turkey Region 11 in Turkey Region 11, Turkey is a Bronze Age submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Halicarnassus – Submerged Moles of Bodrum Harbour
Archaic to Byzantine (1070 BCE – 1402 CE) · Carian / Greek / Persian satrapal / Roman / Byzantine / Hospitaller
Herodotus birthplace — Mausolus capital with two moles now −4 m under Bodrum Marina, traced by multibeam bathymetry.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Amastris – Double Harbour of Paphlagonia, Amasra
Hellenistic to Ottoman (300 BCE – 1923 CE) · Persian / Ionian Greek / Pontic / Roman / Genoese
Persian princess city 300 BCE — double bays Büyük and Küçük Liman divided by islet with 90 m mole at −2 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Buried city
Kaunos – Silted Harbour of the Carian Port, Dalyan
Archaic to Late Antique (10th c. BCE – 15th c. CE) · Carian / Lycian / Greek / Roman / Byzantine
Carian border port now 8 km inland — 10th c. BCE harbour silted by Dalyan delta and Iztuzu spit after 200 BCE, with intact mooring rings and theatre.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Amastris (Amasra) – Submerged Double Harbour Moles of Sesamos
Archaic to Genoese (c. 600 BCE – 1460 CE) · Paphlagonian / Persian / Hellenistic (Amastris) / Roman / Byzantine / Genoese
Queen Amastris's twin-bay double harbour – western mole 80 m at –2.5 m and eastern mole 60 m at –3 m.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Myrina Harbour – Dredged Basin at Aliağa
Archaic to Roman (c. 700 BCE – 300 CE) · Aeolian Greek / Pergamene
Dredged river harbour 200×120 m at 0 m – outer mole at –1 m in Aliağa Bay.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Trapezus – Black Sea Harbour of Trabzon, Pontus
Archaic to Ottoman (631 BCE – 1923 CE) · Ionian Greek / Pontic / Roman / Byzantine / Seljuk
Milesian 756 BCE via Sinope — 180 m eastern mole at −2 m off Trabzon Ortahisar where Xenophon wintered 30 days.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Gelidonya Wreck — North Ridge Scatter (Kaş, Turkey)
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Gelidonya Wreck — North Ridge Scatter (Kaş, Turkey) in Antalya, Kaş, Cape Gelidonya, Turkey is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city a…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Sinope (Sinop) – Milesian Harbour Mills of the Black Sea
Archaic Greek to Ottoman (630 BCE – 1922 CE) · Milesian Greek / Paphlagonian / Mithridatic
630 BCE Milesian double harbour on isthmus — north 160 m and south 240 m moles subsided –1 to –4 m on both harbour sides.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Pitane Harbour – Aeolian Harbour at Çandarlı
Archaic to Genoese (c. 700 BCE – 1300 CE) · Aeolian Greek / Genoese
Aeolian shipyard harbour – 90 m quay at –1 m at Çandarlı.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Patara
Bronze Age to Byzantine (peak Lycian League 168 BCE–43 CE and Hadrianic) · Lycian → Hellenistic → Roman → Byzantine
Lycian federal port with 1st-century parliament hall, buried Nero lighthouse and harbour silted 1 km inland.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Cape Gelidonya — Early Iron Shipwreck Bronze Ingots Reef
Late Bronze Age (c.1200 BCE) earliest excavated wreck 1960 Bass (world's first underwater excavation) and 1500 BCE earlier layer · Late Bronze ?? Canaanite ? early Phoenician 1200 BCE scrap bronze wreck
Gelidonya Bass 1960 world's first underwater excavation.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Sunken City off Bal Esker
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Sunken City off Bal Esker in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) submerged city attributed to Nazca culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Fortress Citadel Submerged 117 — Turkey Region 9
Period Classical · Regional culture Submerged-Variant
Fortress Citadel Submerged 117 — Turkey Region 9 in Turkey Region 9, Turkey is a Neolithic submerged-city with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Tymnessos? Actually Aperlae — Lycian Submerged Harbour Town
Lycian–Roman–Byzantine (400 BCE–700 CE) · Lycian / Roman provincial
Tymnessos? Actually Aperlae — Lycian Submerged Harbour Town in Antalya Province, Turkey is a Lycian–Roman–Byzantine (400 BCE–700 CE) submerged-city attributed to Lycian / Roman provincial.