🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Pont du Gard — Roman Aqueduct Bridge
Roman Imperial (Augustan-Claudian, mid-1st c. CE) · Roman Gallia Narbonensis (Nemausus)
Augustinian 48.8-m 3-tier bridge 50-km Nîmes aqueduct 35,000 m³/d, 6-tonne dry stone.
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🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (Augustan-Claudian, mid-1st c. CE) · Roman Gallia Narbonensis (Nemausus)
Augustinian 48.8-m 3-tier bridge 50-km Nîmes aqueduct 35,000 m³/d, 6-tonne dry stone.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Fortress
Roman to Byzantine (2nd–7th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Frontier fortlet on steppe ridge with Roman farm and Byzantine quadrangle fort (80×60 m) reusing inscriptions, on Thelepte–Cillium road.
🇩🇪 Germany · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (Flavian to Late Roman, 1st–3rd c CE) · Roman Gallo–German (Colonia Agrippina)
95-km Flavian Roman concrete aqueduct (c.80 CE) delivering 20,000 m³/day from Eifel springs to Cologne.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sassanid Early (Shapur I, 241–270 CE) built by Roman captives · Sassanid Persian with Roman engineering corps (Legio)
500-m Roman-Sassanid arch bridge/dam (260 CE) raising Karun for Shushtar's 10-km Gargar canal — easternmost Roman dam.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Late Republican to Medieval (46 BCE – 1200 CE) · Roman / Vandal / Byzantine
Caesar's Sardinian colony harbour – 200 m pozzolana eastern mole at –1 to –2.5 m under Porto Torres.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Early Islamic (c.332 BCE–749 CE, peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Graeco-Roman / Nabataean / Byzantine / Umayyad
One of the best-preserved Greco-Roman cities in the Near East, Gerasa was a Decapolis city with colonnaded cardo, two tetrapylons, Hadrian's Arch (129 CE), Oval Plaza, Temple of Artemis and Temple of…
🇲🇦 Morocco · Fortress
Roman frontier (30 BCE–285 CE Tocolosida aux fort; 40 CE Claudian) · Roman Mauretania Tingitana frontier auxilia
Tocolosida surveyed by Euzennat 1960s, Volubilis limes hamlet 5 km.
🇫🇷 France · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (Hadrian to Severan, 2nd–3rd c CE) · Roman Gallo-Roman (Arelate)
Hadrianic 16-wheel industrial mills (early 2nd c CE) on 9 km aqueducts — Roman factory producing 4.5 t flour/day for Arles.
🇪🇸 Spain · Hydraulic works
Roman Augustan (late Republic to early Principate) · Roman Tarraconensis (Tarraco Colonia)
217-m Augustan double-tier arcade (20 BCE–20 CE) 27 m high — Tarraco's Francolí aqueduct masterpiece.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Sassanian (Roman capture) · Sassanian Persian, Roman legion engineers
Karun 500-m Roman arch bridge-dam by Valerian's legion 260 CE with Gargar mills, core of UNESCO Shushtar system.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Byzantine (300 BCE – 600 CE) · Seleucid / Roman / Byzantine
Antioch's silted harbour basin 600×400 m now meadow at Çevlik with 1.4 km Roman flood tunnel.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Late Antiquity (4th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Punic-Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
15-ha Punic–Numidian to Roman colonia on Carthage–Theveste road with three arches and Byzantine fortress.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Neolithic to Ottoman (6000 BCE–1500 CE) · Neolithic → EBA → Hittite → Neo-Assyrian → Hellenistic → Roman
Cilician gateway lower town — Hittite sealings to Roman grid (Goldman 1934).
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Late Roman ~300 BCE–395 CE · Greek (Colophonian) then Roman Ionian
Underground water-oracle of Apollo where prophet drank sacred pool to versify prophecies.
🇨🇦 Canada · Tumulus
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Tumulus of Hill Aber in British Columbia, Canada is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) tumulus attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Hellenistic to Roman 313 BCE–558 CE · Greek (Milesian) and Roman Imperial
Giant unfinished oracle temple with 19.7 m columns and Sacred Way to Miletus.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Pyramid
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Pyramid of Wadi Khirbet in Catamarca, Argentina is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) pyramid attributed to Roman culture.
🇴🇲 Oman · Megalith
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Dolmen de New Dyke in Dhofar, Oman is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Megalith
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Forge Dolmen in Negev, Israel is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) megalithic attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Vesuvius 79 CE (Herculaneum destroyed 01:30 Aug 25 79 CE) · Roman Herculaneum beach harbour fisher folk last victims
Herculaneum beach 1980 Magi 340 skeletons beach boathouses.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Republican to Late Antique (140 BCE – 8th c CE) · Roman
Former luxury resort of Rome’s elite (Caesar, Nero, Hadrian) with imperial villa, submerged by bradyseism (volcanic uplift/subsidence) to 5–9 m, with mosaics, statues and pilings visible snorkelling.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Rock-cut
Roman to Artuqid (200 BCE–1400 CE); tombs Roman · Roman / Artuqid
Tigris cliff town rescue excavations 2000–19, Roman tombs and Artuqid palaces now under Ilısu Lake with relocated Zeynel Bey tomb.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Megalith
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
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.