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500 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Medieval (regional) · Medieval
Royal Baiae Terrace Outer — Baiae (58-08) at Baiae, Italy is a Medieval (regional) submerged city of the Medieval tradition, built c. 2500 BCE for terrace and associated settlement.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Yavne-Yam — Harbour North Anchorage (Ashdod, Israel) in Central, Yavne-Yam, Israel is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed…
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Iron Age (regional) · Iron Age
Great Dwarka Citadel II — Dwarka (58-37) at Dwarka, India is a Iron Age (regional) submerged city of the Iron Age tradition, built c. 800 BCE for citadel and associated settlement.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Classical (regional) · Classical
Great Dwarka Ridge I — Dwarka (58-06) at Dwarka, India is a Classical (regional) submerged city of the Classical tradition, built c. 1800 BCE for ridge and associated settlement.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Byzantine (c.580 BCE – 300 CE) · Greek / Bosporan
Bosporan grain port at Eltegen cape — lower harbour terrace 1–4 m submerged 200 m offshore in Kerch Strait.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Byzantine (8th c. BCE – 7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Roman
Caesar battle harbour — kilometer-long curving mole now 1–4 m offshore on Bekalta promontory.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Submerged site
Thracian to Ottoman (6th c. BCE – 1453+) · Thracian / Megarian Greek / Roman / Byzantine / Bulgarian / Ottoman
610 BCE Megarian peninsula city whose western fortifications now lie 4 m underwater.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Utica — Harbour North Channel (Bizerte, Tunisia) in Bizerte, Utica, Tunisia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Bro…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Genoese (c. 700 BCE – 1300 CE) · Aeolian Greek / Genoese
Aeolian shipyard harbour – 90 m quay at –1 m at Çandarlı.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Lithiam Harbour — North Cistern (Tunisia) in Mahdia, Lithiam, Tunisia is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Bronze–Ir…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
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.
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Archaeological wonder
Tiwanaku to Inca (~500–1532 CE; Inca reef 1400–1532 CE) · Tiwanaku and Inca
At 3,810 m – the world's highest navigable lake – divers from Atahuallpa 2000 and recent Belgian–Bolivian teams mapped an underwater reef off the Khoa beach of the Island of the Sun retaining Inca…
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic (Wadi Rabah 6000 BCE; Chalcolithic 5000–3800 BCE olive) and Late Pottery Neolithic/Chalcolithic? Kfar Samir overlain waterlogged · Chalcolithic olive press (4800 BCE Kfar Samir submerged 400 m line 7 hr press)
Kfar Samir Galili 1990s, Kfar Samir 4800 press 100k olive stones.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Iron Age (~800 BCE – 100 CE; Oakbank 460 BCE – 200 BCE) · Atlantic Scottish Iron Age (Caledonian)
One of 18 Iron Age timber islets in Loch Tay, Oakbank comprises a 30-m oak pile ring with horizontal alder floors still preserved 2 m deep in cold waterlogged peat.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Late Antique (6th c. BCE – 6th c. CE) · Punic / Caesarian Roman
Caesar's 46 BCE supply port opposite Thapsus — Punic mole slabs now under Monastir fishing lagoon at –1 to –2 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early to Late Bronze Age (3000 BCE early; city 2800 BCE; Mycenaean 1680 BCE flooded 1000 BCE earthquake) · Early Minoan to Mycenaean (Minoan harbour 2800 BCE, Mycenaean grid 1680 BCE Flemming)
Pavlopetri Flemming 1967 oldest (5000 yr), Henderson 2009 3-ha grid 3 m.
🇯🇲 Jamaica · Submerged site
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 · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Late Roman (1180 BCE Enkomi-Salamis – 648 CE Arab sack) · Teucrid Greek / Cypriot / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Salamis Cypriot kingdom — 10 ha walled city whose 500 m mole at Pediaeus mouth now 1–2 m under Famagusta Bay.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Classical to Hellenistic (600 BCE–67 BCE) · Cretan–Hellenistic
Phalasarna Submerged Harbour — West Crete in Crete, Chania, Greece is a Classical to Hellenistic (600 BCE–67 BCE) submerged-city attributed to Cretan–Hellenistic.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) · Chalcolithic
Sunken City off Farm Sproxton in Kairouan Governorate, Tunisia is a Chalcolithic (4500–3300 BCE) submerged city attributed to Chalcolithic culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
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.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Late Hellenistic (c.70–50 BCE) Roman loot shipwreck from Asia Minor to Rome 60 m Greek art cargo · Roman late Hellenistic loot ship (Pergamene? Rhodian stones) 60 BCE
Antikythera sponge 1900, Cousteau 1976, Mechanism found 1901.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Submerged site
Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) · Andean Formative
Sunken City off Valley Fort in Petén, Guatemala is a Andean Formative (1800–200 BCE) submerged city attributed to Andean Formative culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
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.
