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94 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇲🇲 Myanmar · Tell
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Tell Combe Ness Spur in Magway Region, Myanmar is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) tell attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Roman (2nd c. CE) over Bronze Age cave · Roman Syriac Moon cult (Sin of Harran)
Tek Tek ridge excavated by Drijvers 1960s, Syriac dedications to Sin/Maralhe, Byzantine reuse, moon-cult processional road.
🇹🇷 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.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman
Olive press village with Roman counterweights and vats still visible among olive groves, typical of High Tell oleoculture.
🇱🇧 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Mid-Holocene reef to Late Roman · Roman Egyptian
Outer reef channel of Myos Hormos — 22 m reef cut with Roman concrete at 2–5 m breach at Marsa Nakari.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Roman to Early Islamic (1 CE – 800 CE) · Roman / Byzantine / Early Islamic
Southern roadstead of Quseir al-Qadim — 65 m coral breakwater at –3 m and mangrove quay.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Late Roman (275 BCE – 550 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman Egyptian
Southern Foul Bay lagoon of Berenike behind Ras Benas — gypsum quay at –1.5 m and elephant ramp.
🇮🇳 India · Submerged site
Iron Age to Medieval (c. 1000 BCE – 1341 CE) · Chera / Indo-Roman
Roman pepper port brick wharf 100 m under 3 m silt at Pattanam – 8 m canoe at 4 km inland.
🇹🇷 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Ptolemaic to Islamic (280 BCE – 1400 CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Ayyubid
Quseir/Myos Hormos southern twin basin — Roman concrete mole and Ayyubid jetty 0.3–1.2 m submerged south of main harbour.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Archaeological wonder
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Ruins of Karez Terramare Monastery in Somerset, South West England, United Kingdom is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site
Roman Imperial (100 BCE–500 CE Baiae resort) subsided bradyseism -7 m post-Roman · Roman Imperial luxury littoral (Marius → Augustus → Nero → Hadrian)
Baiae Underwater excavated by Lamboglia & Scognamiglio, Nymphaeum 1968.
🇨🇦 Canada · Submerged site
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Sunken City off Varna-Ring in British Columbia, Canada is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic/Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Vazi Sarara (Henchir Bez) is an inland Byzacena/ Africa Proconsularis colonia on the Siliana plain, founded as peregrine civitas and promoted colonia under Probus.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Rock art
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Rock Art of Ault in Hadramawt, Yemen is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed to Roman culture.
🇮🇱 Israel · Rock-cut
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Rock-Cut Tombs of Aber Broch in Negev, Israel is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) rock_cut attributed to Roman culture.
🇫🇷 France · Submerged site
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Submerged Harbour of Dock in Occitanie, France is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Temple complex
Archaeic Greek to Roman Imperial 10th c. BCE–3rd c. CE, Artemision 550 BCE · Greek Ionian then Roman
Roman Asian capital with Artemis Wonder remnant and Library of Celsus.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Achaemenid to Sassanian (5th c. BCE core; 260 CE Band-e Mizan by Valerian captives) · Sassanian with Roman engineering
Band-e Mizan – upstream regulator weir of Shushtar Hydraulic System (Khuzestan): 390m limestone weir across Karun splitting into Gargar canal (40 mills) vs Shatit, built 260 CE by Roman captives of…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman (1st–7th c CE) · Roman (Mauretania Caesariensis)
Cheliff valley fortified village with Donatist basilica, inscription of martyrdom 304 CE, and earthquake-prone castellum walls.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Temple complex
Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) · Roman
Baalbek — Heliopolis Trilithon & Temple in Baalbek-Hermel, Beqaa, Lebanon is a Roman (27 BCE–300 CE) temple complex attributed to Roman culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Sahel olive road vicus with long press row and cisterns, typical Bydacena oleoculture landscape feeding Hadrumetum port.
