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Tagstsunami
8 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Minoan Protopalatial to Neopalatial (c. 1900 – 1450 BCE) · Minoan Palatial (Cretan)
Minoan slipway harbour – two rock-cut slipways at –1 m and boulder mole 25 m at –1.5 m in Kymassa bay.
🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city
Early Helladic to Classical (2500 – 373 BCE) · Early Helladic / Achaean Greek
Early Helladic town 3–5 m buried under Boura plain beneath Classical Helike tsunami horizon — EH apsidal houses at –4 m.
🇬🇷 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 · Buried city
Early Helladic to Classical (2500 – 373 BCE) · Early Helladic / Achaean Greek
Early Helladic town 3–5 m buried under Boura plain beneath Classical Helike tsunami horizon — EH apsidal houses at –4 m.
🇬🇷 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.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Byzantine (5th c BCE–7th c CE; garum peak 1st–3rd c) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
20-ha partly submerged garum metropolis with 80 cetariae and tsunami-drowned waterfront since 365 CE.
