🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Ulippira (Henchir el-Biar)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman
Olive press village with Roman counterweights and vats still visible among olive groves, typical of High Tell oleoculture.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
Baalbek
Phoenician to Roman (c. 16 BCE–250 CE major Roman phase) · Roman / Phoenician
Monumental Roman temple complex on earlier Phoenician tell, with Temple of Bacchus (best preserved Roman temple) and Trilithon – three megalithic limestone blocks 19 x 4.5 x 3.6 m, 800 tonnes each,…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Myos Hormos — Central Lagoon Harbour at Marsa Nakari
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (274 BCE – 500 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Roman Egyptian / Indian Ocean trade
Central lagoon basin of Myos Hormos — mole and Roman quay at 0.5–2.5 m in Marsa Nakari mangrove lagoon.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Myos Hormos — Eastern Reef Channel Harbour at Marsa Nakari
Mid-Holocene reef to Late Roman · Roman Egyptian
Outer reef channel of Myos Hormos — 22 m reef cut with Roman concrete at 2–5 m breach at Marsa Nakari.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Quseir al-Qadim — Southern Roman Anchorage (Leukos Limen South)
Roman to Early Islamic (1 CE – 800 CE) · Roman / Byzantine / Early Islamic
Southern roadstead of Quseir al-Qadim — 65 m coral breakwater at –3 m and mangrove quay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Berenike Troglodytica — Foul Bay Southern Lagoon Harbour (Ras Benas South) — v2
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Southern Foul Bay lagoon of Berenike behind Ras Benas — gypsum quay at –1.5 m and elephant ramp.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Pattanam-Muziris – Roman Pepper Port, Kerala
Iron Age to Medieval (c. 1000 BCE – 1341 CE) · Chera / Indo-Roman
Roman pepper port brick wharf 100 m under 3 m silt at Pattanam – 8 m canoe at 4 km inland.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Ephesus Harbour – Silted Kaystros Harbour
Ionian to Byzantine (10th c. BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek / Lydian / Roman
Silted imperial harbour 600×300 m now 5 km inland – quay walls buried 4 m, Selçuk.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Quseir al-Qadim — Southern Roman Anchorage Extension
Ptolemaic to Islamic (280 BCE – 1400 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Ayyubid
Quseir/Myos Hormos southern twin basin — Roman concrete mole and Ayyubid jetty 0.3–1.2 m submerged south of main harbour.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Ruins of Karez Terramare Monastery
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Ruins of Karez Terramare Monastery in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Baiae — Imperial Villa Underwater Park Fault Block Portus Julius
Roman Imperial (100 BCE–500 CE Baiae resort) subsided bradyseism -7 m post-Roman · Roman Imperial luxury littoral (Marius → Augustus → Nero → Hadrian)
Baiae Underwater excavated by Lamboglia & Scognamiglio, Nymphaeum 1968.
🇨🇦 Canada · Submerged site
Sunken City off Varna-Ring
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Sunken City off Varna-Ring in British Columbia, Canada is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Vazi Sarara
Punic/Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Vazi Sarara (Henchir Bez) is an inland Byzacena/ Africa Proconsularis colonia on the Siliana plain, founded as peregrine civitas and promoted colonia under Probus.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Rock art
Rock Art of Ault
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Rock Art of Ault in Hadramawt, Yemen is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Rock-cut
Rock-Cut Tombs of Aber Broch
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Rock-Cut Tombs of Aber Broch in Negev, Israel is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock_cut attributed to Roman culture.
🇫🇷 France · Submerged site
Submerged Harbour of Dock
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Submerged Harbour of Dock in Occitanie, France is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Ephesus and Temple of Artemis
Archaeic Greek to Roman Imperial 10th c. BCE–3rd c. CE, Artemision 550 BCE · Greek Ionian then Roman
Roman Asian capital with Artemis Wonder remnant and Library of Celsus.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Shushtar Extension - Band-e Mizan
Achaemenid to Sassanian (5th c. BCE core; 260 CE Band-e Mizan by Valerian captives) · Sassanian with Roman engineering
Band-e Mizan – upstream regulator weir of Shushtar Hydraulic System (Khuzestan): 390m limestone weir across Karun splitting into Gargar canal (40 mills) vs Shatit, built 260 CE by Roman captives of…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Castellum Tingitanum (El Asnam / Chlef)
Roman (1st–7th c CE) · Roman (Mauretania Caesariensis)
Cheliff valley fortified village with Donatist basilica, inscription of martyrdom 304 CE, and earthquake-prone castellum walls.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Baalbek — Heliopolis Trilithon & Temple
Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) · Roman
Baalbek — Heliopolis Trilithon & Temple in Baalbek-Hermel, Beqaa, Lebanon is a Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) temple complex attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Henchir Khima (Bou Ficha)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Sahel olive road vicus with long press row and cisterns, typical Bydacena oleoculture landscape feeding Hadrumetum port.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Fortress
Zerzevan Castle — Mithraeum on Frontier Limes
Roman (4th c. CE Severan) to Byzantine · Roman Eastern limes
Diyarbakır frontier fort excavated by Coşkun 2014–, easternmost confirmed Mithraeum, Sassanid siege evidence 359 CE.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Timgad North Quarter (Thamugadi)
Roman (100 CE – 7th c CE; Trajanic foundation) · Roman (Numidia, Legio III Augusta veterans)
The northern insula quarter of the perfect Trajanic grid city (12×12 insulae), Timgad North exposes veterans' houses, library with mosaic, northern baths and market, beyond the bli...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Thamallula (Theniet Belezma)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Pass fort on northern Aurès road, Thamallula guards the Belezma gap with courtyard fortress and road village.