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Tagsachaea
6 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Bronze Age to Byzantine (3000 BCE – 1400 CE) · Helladic / Achaean Greek
Central borehole city of Helike on Gulf of Corinth — Classical grid at –3 m, tsunami couplet at –3 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Archaic Greek to Late Medieval (700 BCE – 1428 CE) · Greek / Elean / Frankish / Venetian
Crusader Glarentza mint-port (1205–1428) built atop Classical Kyllene trireme harbour — submerged moles at −5 m under north walls mapped by marine geophysics.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Bronze to Classical (c.2600 – 373 BCE) · Achaean Greek
373 BCE tsunami-lost Helike — Classical city and EBA settlement both buried 3 m under Bouras lagoonal marine silt 60 m inland, originally submerged.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Bronze Age to Classical (3000 – 373 BCE) · Mycenaean / Achaean Greek
Western lagoon core field of Helike — 28 boreholes at 3–6 m with 373 BCE tsunami sand sealing Classical city.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Bronze Age to Classical (3000 – 373 BCE) · Achaean Greek, river engineers
Selinous delta tsunamiite of Helike — 45 cm graded tsunami sand at 2.8–4 m with marine forams mixed with fluvial gravel.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Early Bronze Age to Classical (c. 3000 – 373 BCE) · Mycenaean / Achaean Greek
Classical Achaean capital submerged by 373 BCE earthquake-tsunami, rediscovered 2001 buried beneath coastal plain near Rizomylos.
