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🇨🇳 China · Submerged site
Tang to Modern (763 – 1963 CE recordings; dam 2003) · Tang / Song / Yuan / Ming / Qing Chinese
1.6 km Yangtze ridge with 1,200-year water-level inscriptions from 763 CE — drowned by Three Gorges Dam and preserved inside world's deepest underwater museum.
🇨🇳 China · Submerged site
Tang to 1959 (208 CE – 1959, walls 1546–1563 Ming) · Sui/Tang / Ming / Qing Chinese
Ming county seat intentionally submerged 1959 for hydro-reservoir — stone lions, city wall and Qing mansions intact under 26–40 m fresh water.
🇨🇳 China · Submerged site
Warring States to Eastern Han (c. 300 BCE – 100 CE) · Dian Kingdom / Han
Dian kingdom lake city 20 m deep in Fuxian – 2 km² walled town and pyramid platform.
