🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Kepoi — Southern Ashlar Quay in Taman Gulf
Archaic to Medieval (580 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern ashlar harbour of Kepoi — 40 m ashlar quay at 2–4 m in Taman Gulf with warehouse behind.
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🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (580 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Southern ashlar harbour of Kepoi — 40 m ashlar quay at 2–4 m in Taman Gulf with warehouse behind.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Classical to Genoese (5th c. BCE – 1400 CE) · Herakleian / Byzantine / Genoese
Western anchorage of Chersonesos — open roadstead anchor field at 5–8 m in Pesochnaya Bay with jetty.
🇨🇾 Cyprus · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (c. 300 BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Early Byzantine
Roman quay at –2 m beneath Kourion cliffs – anchorage with amphora piles at –8 m, Episkopi Bay.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (c.580 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek
Taman 'Gardens' Aphrodite polis — eastern necropolis and lower quarter 1–3 m submerged 3 km east of Phanagoria.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Central bay quay of Kepoi in Taman Gulf mid-bay — 100 m ashlar quay at –2 m and Aphrodite terrace at –1 m.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Central bay quay of Kepoi in Taman Gulf mid-bay — 100 m ashlar quay at –2 m and Aphrodite terrace at –1 m.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Byzantine (5th c BCE–7th c CE; garum peak 1st–3rd c) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
20-ha partly submerged garum metropolis with 80 cetariae and tsunami-drowned waterfront since 365 CE.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A · Mureybetian / Jerf Ahmar PPNA
Two PPNA villages (East and West, 9500–8700 BCE) on the Middle Euphrates now submerged under Lake Tishrin, famous for the earliest communal buildings with subterranean benches, decorated plaquettes…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic (c.5500–3500 BCE) · Halaf → Ubaid–Altınova Chalcolithic
Western Altınova Neolithic–Chalcolithic village (Halaf–Ubaid, wattle-and-daub to mudbrick) under Lake Keban.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (c.580 BCE – 10th c.) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan / Sarmatian
590 BCE neighbour to Phanagoria whose harbour quarter is now under Taman Bay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Period to Byzantine (6th c BCE – 8th c CE) · Egyptian / Greek
Legendary port of entry to Egypt before Alexandria, submerged after earthquake/liquefaction 6th–8th century CE, rediscovered 2000 by Franck Goddio (IEASM) with stele of Nectanebo I, temples of…
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Roman (647 BCE – 300 CE) · Milesian Greek / Scythian
Southern Black Sea harbour of Olbia Pontica below acropolis — 140 m curved mole at –1.8 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Roman to Mamluk (25 BCE – 1450 CE) · Roman / Islamic (Ayyubid-Mamluk)
Western mangrove bay of Quseir al-Qadim at Marsa Nakari west — gypsum quay at –1.2 m and 14th c. Islamic warehouses.