🇮🇱 Israel · Buried city
Loess Buried Camp East — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Loess Buried Camp East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Charnel House Cemetery East — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Charnel House Cemetery East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Rampart Buried Gate West — Coastal Plain (Tel Aviv)
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Medieval
Rampart Buried Gate West in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient village attributed to Medieval culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Mevorakh — Coastal Plain
Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian
Tel Mevorakh — Coastal Plain in Sharon Plain, Israel is a Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Persian.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Keisan — Acco Plain
Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) · Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian
Tel Keisan — Acco Plain in Galilee coastal plain, Israel is a Early Bronze Age to Hellenistic (3500–150 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Phoenician / Assyrian.
🇸🇾 Syria · Hydraulic works
Nahr Al-Kabir Canal (Orontes Coastal Canal, Nahr al-Kabir al-Janoubi)
Roman Hadrianic to Byzantine Justinian · Roman–Byzantine coastal Levant
Nahr al-Kabir: 3.2-km Roman 2nd-c. canalized river reach on Syria 35.30N coastal plain, Latakia.
🇮🇱 Israel · Tell
Tel Michal — Yarkon Estuary Palace
Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Phoenician
Tel Michal — Yarkon Estuary Palace in Central Coastal Plain, Israel is a Late Bronze Age to Persian (1500–332 BCE) tell attributed to Canaanite / Philistine / Phoenician.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Terrace Fill East
Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) · Classical
Terrace Fill East in Coastal Plain, Israel is a Early Medieval (500–1000 CE) ancient city attributed to Classical culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient port
Caesarea Harbour — Sebastos Concrete Breakwater with Lead Piling
Herodian (22–10 BCE Sebastos harbour, Agrippa? forms Caesarea, Raban, late Roman) · Herodian Roman (Herod 22 BCE hydraulic concrete pozzolana , Vitruvius concrete for Agrippa harbour)
Caesarea Sebastos Raban 1980–90 hydraulic concrete 22 BCE Herod.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Geoglyph
Bir al-Abd Desert Kites (North Sinai)
Late Neolithic (El-Maghara-related) · Sinai Neolithic coastal hunters
First documented North Sinai kites (45 m asl, 31°01′N 33°09′E) on Bardawil lagoon sabkha plain south of Bir al-Abd, bridging Sinai to Negev corridor.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Temple complex
Canh Tien
Sa Huynh Iron Age 500 BCE–200 CE → Champa Vijaya 1100–1500 CE · Sa Huynh → Champa (Austronesian Vijaya)
Vijaya Champa double-tower 12th c at Binh Dinh north of Qui Nhon — Binh Dinh style with Sa Huynh jar burials beneath.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Kfar Samir — Chalcolithic Olive Press and Burial Reed-mat Village
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.
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Tocra (Taucheira) – Cyrenaican Submerged Port
Archaic Greek to Fatimid (620 BCE – 10th c. CE) · Greek Cyrenean / Roman / Byzantine
Cyrenaican grain port founded 620 BCE — ashlar quay and slipways now reef-submerged with Justinian fortress above.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Tell
Tell Fadous-Kfarabida
Early Bronze I–III (with Late Chalcolithic) · Early Bronze Levantine (coastal Canaanite)
EB I–III (3200–2500 BCE) coastal village with Egyptian imports — Lebanon's finest EB chronology.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Atlit-Yam — PPNC Submerged Neolithic Well Village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic C (PPNC, 7550–6570 BCE) — with earliest olive and well 5.5 m · PPNC Mediterranean fishing-farming village with stone wells 1.5 m diameter
Atlit-Yam Galili 1984 PPNC 7550 BCE oldest well.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Neve Yam — Pottery Neolithic Fish-village Atlit South
Late Pottery Neolithic Wadi Rabah (5800–5400 BCE) → Chalcolithic 4000 BCE reuse · Wadi Rabah PN late Neolithic
Neve Yam excavated by Galili 1990s Wadi Rabah variant.
🇻🇳 Vietnam · Ancient village
Truong Son Sa Huynh Site
Iron Age Sa Huynh 1000 BCE–200 CE Iron Age coastal · Sa Huynh — Truong Son coastal Iron Age (Cham pre-culture)
Truong Son Sa Huynh Site — Sa Huynh culture type locality edge (1000 BCE–200 CE, Iron Age coastal Vietnam) on South China Sea dunes at Sa Huynh 50 km S Quang Ngai, foothill of Truong Son (Annamite…
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Ashkelon
Early Bronze to Crusader 1191 CE · Canaanite → Philistine → Phoenician → Roman
Five-period tells (Canaanite vaulted mudbrick gate — oldest arch in the world c.1850 BCE, 4 m high; Philistine emporium of titans with 15,000 sq m market; Phoenician Tyrian-purple, Greek, Roman,…
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Balberta
Balberta is a major Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Pacific coastal plain of southern Guatemala, belonging to the Maya civilization.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
Tell Ghamqa
Late Bronze to Iron Age (c.1500–300 BCE) · Late Bronze Ugaritic → Iron Phoenician
Lagoon harbour tell (1500–300 BCE) between Latakia and Jableh — now 2 km inland.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
Archaic to Hellenistic (700–200 BCE) · Athenian (Ionic) — Artemis Brauronia
420 BCE Doric 6×11 with 44-m pi stoa where Athenian bear-girls (arktoi) danced initiation, Iphigenia myth.
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Archaeological wonder
Tihama Coastal Kite Field (Jizan–Al Birk littoral, Saudi Arabia)
Neolithic (Tihama Neolithic coastal, 4000–3000 BCE) · Tihama coastal Neolithic (Shell Midden / Jizan foragers)
33 Red Sea littoral kites (4th mill. BCE) with shell middens in pits — unique coast-hunting interface at Jizan.
🇮🇹 Italy · Archaeological wonder
Aitna Atlantis – Sicilian Mirror Atlantis (Schulten–Etna Variant)
Claim 9600 BCE (Etna 500 ka volcano) · Pseudo Sicilian / Volcanology
Pseudoarchaeology – Schulten 1927 Tartessos–Sicily Aitna (Etna) Atlantis mirror misplaces Plato's island to Sicily Etna plain; Hausmann 1990s Sicilian Atlantis.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Amnisos – Minoan Harbour of Knossos
Minoan to Byzantine (c. 2000 BCE – 6th c. CE) · Minoan / Mycenaean / Greek
Knossos' Minoan harbour at Amnisos — villa frescoes and 70 m quay now –1 to –3 m in surf below Eileithyia cave.