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Tagsharbour
122 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (560 BCE – 50 BCE) · Toretae Maeotian / Greek
Southern cape harbour of Toricos at Toretae Cape — 45 m jetty at –2.5 m and breakwater spur.
🇸🇬 Singapore · Submerged site
Srivijaya to Temasek (c. 1300–1400 CE) · Temasek Malay / Srivijaya / Yuan Chinese
14th c. Malay wharf 80 m buried 2 m at Singapore River – timber pier grid with Yuan porcelain.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (570 BCE – 370 CE) · Ionian / Bosporan
South Strait harbour of Myrmekion — 70 m quay at –2.5 m and wine cellar.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 700–200 BCE) · Achaean Greek / Bruttian
Achaean colony harbour drowned at Punta Stilo – mole blocks at –1.5 m off Monasterace Marina.
🇸🇾 Syria · Tell
EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron · Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron Phoenician
Tell Tweini (Gibala) in Latakia Governorate, Jableh Plain, near coast, Syria is a EB → MBA → LBA Gibala (Ugarit port) → Iron settlement attributed to Levantine coastal → Ugaritic (Gibala) → Iron…
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Early Bronze III through Medieval (EBA, MBA, LBA Izziya, Iron Age, Classical, Byzantine) · Cilician coastal / Hittite (Izziya) → Syro-Cilician → Classical Greek/Roman
Coastal tell (Bronze Age Izziya, Classical Issos) — 5 kyr harbour sequence from EB III to Medieval, Alexander battlefield anchor.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 650–100 BCE) · Ionian Greek
Archaic olive-oil harbour – ashlar quay at –0.5 m off Liman Tepe, Urla.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Ionian to Byzantine (10th c. BCE – 600 CE) · Ionian Greek / Lydian / Roman
Silted imperial harbour 600×300 m now 5 km inland – quay walls buried 4 m, Selçuk.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Archaic to Medieval (c.700 BCE–1100 CE) · Rhodian → Persian → Hellenistic → Roman Cilician
Cilician harbour city with 1 km Corinthian colonnade and vast man-made basin re-founded by Pompey.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Byzantine (c.1800 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum southern Tebtunis on Bahr canal mouth — quay and bridge harbour basin 1–2 m under field silt, cartonnage papyrus source.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Northern breakwater of Gorgippia at Anapa Bay north — 150 m ashlar mole at –2 m and warehouse podium.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Northern breakwater of Gorgippia at Anapa Bay north — 150 m ashlar mole at –2 m and warehouse podium.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Western strait emporium of Patrai at Taman Strait — 70 m mole at –3 m and customs quay with moorings.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Hellenistic to Early Roman (309 BCE – 100 BCE) · Diadoch Macedonian / Thracian
Hebros delta harbour of Lysimachus's capital Lysimachia — 100 m quay at –1.8 m in Lake Kaminia salt lagoon, Thrace.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Middle Kingdom to Byzantine (c.1850 BCE – 600 CE) · Egyptian Middle Kingdom / Ptolemaic / Roman
Fayum southern temple town Medinet Madi — Middle Kingdom Renenutet temple with canal harbour quay 1–2 m under silt near Lake Moeris lagoon.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 700–100 BCE) · Ionian Greek / Persian
Ionian wine harbour – 110 m Archaic mole at –1 m off Sığacık.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient port
Old Kingdom 4th Dynasty (c. 2620–2500 BCE) · Ancient Egyptian (Old Kingdom)
Wadi al-Jarf on the Gulf of Suez is the world's oldest harbour, 4th Dynasty c. 2600 BCE, Khufu's Red Sea port for Sinai copper and turquoise expeditions.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antiquity (6th c. BCE – 370 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan Kingdom
Central drowned quay of Pantikapaion — ashlar harbour terrace 1.5–4 m in Kerch Bay below Mithridates acropolis.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Early Arab (320 BCE – 800 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine Egyptian
Central wine harbour of Marea — 60 m mole and Dionysus press harbour 2.5–5 m under Lake Mareotis silt at Hawariya.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Hadrianic Roman to Byzantine (130–640 CE) · Hadrianic Roman Egyptian (Latin/Greek bilingual)
Central harbour basin of Antinoopolis — Hadrianic quay 68 m and warehouse at Sheikh Ibada buried 4–8 m under Nile silt.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Classical to Medieval (500 BCE – 1000 CE) · Bosporan Greek
Western Kuban mole of Phanagoria — timber-piled harbour at former river mouth, now silted 1–2.5 m in delta.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Ptolemaic to Late Roman (1st c. BCE – 400 CE) · Roman Egyptian / Nabataean / Indian Ocean merchants
Central Roman harbour of Quseir — warehouse basin at 0.8–2 m behind reef at Leukos Limen.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (3rd c. BCE – 350 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman
Southern lake pier of Karanis — 32 m limestone pier and basin 380 m south of town, now 2.5–4 m under fields.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Antiquity (6th c. BCE – 500 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Roman
Central strait emporium of Patrai — transshipment mole at 2–4 m in Kerch Strait handling grain toll.
