🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Soknopaiou Nesos — Western Lagoon Anchorage at Dime
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (270 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Egyptian
Western fishing lagoon of Soknopaiou Nesos — 65 m lee basin with jetty, now dry silt at Dime west.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (270 BCE – 350 CE) · Greco-Roman Egyptian
Western fishing lagoon of Soknopaiou Nesos — 65 m lee basin with jetty, now dry silt at Dime west.
🇧🇿 Belize · Pyramid
Preclassic to Contact Period (1500 BCE–1675 CE) · Maya (Lamanai polity, Yucatec–Mopan)
Continuous 3000-year Maya city (1500 BCE–1675 CE) surviving Classic collapse into Spanish contact, on 1 km lagoon shore.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval Rus (550 BCE – 1400 CE) · Mytilenean Greek / Bosporan / Byzantine / Kievan Rus
Northern lagoon harbour of Hermonassa — rubble mole and timber causeway at 1.5–3 m in Taman lagoon.
🇷🇴 Romania · Ancient village
Middle Neolithic to Late Neolithic (Hamangia I–IV) · Hamangia (Black Sea Neolithic)
Type-site Hamangia culture (c.5250–4550 BCE, Middle Neolithic–Early Chalcolithic) on Goloviţa lagoon: low tell plus flat cemetery famous for 'The Thinker' (Gânditorul) and Woman seated figurines —…
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient port
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman
Lagoon annex east of Paraetonium with fish weir and warehouse strip.