🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Philadelphia — Kom el-Kharaba Western Buried City (Fayum East West)
Ptolemaic to Roman (256 BCE – 400 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek
Western estate of Philadelphia at Kom el-Kharaba — 85 m vineyard wall and 70 m granary quay.
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🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Roman (256 BCE – 400 CE) · Ptolemaic Greek
Western estate of Philadelphia at Kom el-Kharaba — 85 m vineyard wall and 70 m granary quay.
🇨🇦 Canada · Submerged site
Pseudo-voyage phantom (1558–1630) · Venetian pseudo-geography / Zeno forgery
Zeno 1558 cannibal giant phantom at 57°N 42°W south of Estotiland – Labrador Sea 3000 m.
🇮🇸 Iceland · Settlement
Renaissance cartography (1558 – 1693 official) · Venetian–Flemish cartographic
Large rectangular phantom south of Iceland on Zeno 1558 map — mapped for a century by Mercator then erased as Faroes misrender.
🇨🇦 Canada · Archaeological wonder
Renaissance (1558 – 1620) · Venetian cartographic
Large hook-shaped Labrador-as-island on Zeno 1558 — large island appearance of Labrador mainland seen offshore.