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9,961 sources · Websites

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 373796 Berenice

ISAW NYU · 2022

Bernice – Berenice / Euesperides Harbour of Benghazi

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 373810 Taucheira

ISAW · 2022

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Tocra (Taucheira) – Cyrenaican Submerged Port

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 432981 Portus Julius

ISAW · 2022

Portus Julius – Agrippa's Volcanic Naval Harbour at Lake Avernus

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 462358 Heloros

ISAW · 2022

Heloros – Submerged Quay of Southeast Sicily

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 589704 Amnisos

ISAW · 2022

Amnisos – Minoan Harbour of Knossos

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 707853 Kition

ISAW · 2022

Kition Bamboula – Phoenician Harbour of Larnaca

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 727077 Daphnae

ISAW · 2022

Tel Dafana (Daphnae) – Psamtik's Greek Frontier Fort at Pelusium

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 727293 Marea

ISAW · 2022

Marea – Lake Mareotis Port of Alexandria

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 857313 Heraclea Pontica

ISAW · 2022

Heraclea Pontica – Megarian Mole of Karadeniz Ereğli

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 857348 Sinope

ISAW · 2022

Sinope (Sinop) – Milesian Harbour Mills of the Black Sea

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 874621 Pichvnari

ISAW · 2022

Pichvnari – Colchian Submerged Settlement near Kobuleti

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 874642 Pityus

ISAW · 2022

Pitiunt (Bichvinta) – Submerged Fortress Basilica of Georgia

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 874671 Dioscurias

ISAW · 2022

Dioscurias–Sebastopolis – Milesian Twin Harbour under Sukhumi Bay

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitepleiades.stoa.org

Pleiades 874687 Phasis

ISAW · 2022

Phasis – Colchian Capital Port at Poti

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2022Open source

Websitearchaeology.gr

Voidokilia — Pastscape

Greek Ephorate 2021 · 2021

Aitheia – Submerged Classical Harbour of Messene

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2021Open source

Websitewhc.unesco.org

Baiheliang – UNESCO Tentative

UNESCO WHC 18547 · 2006

Baiheliang – White Crane Ridge Hydrological Inscriptions

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2006Open source

Websitewhc.unesco.org

Suakin Tentative WHC

UNESCO · 1994

Suakin – Coral Island Port of the Red Sea

From the atlas bibliography · Published 1994Open source

Websitewhc.unesco.org

Delos UNESCO 530

UNESCO · 1990

Delos–Rheneia Causeway – Cycladic Sacred Harbour Dromus

From the atlas bibliography · Published 1990Open source

Websitewhc.unesco.org

Portus – UNESCO Tentative WHC 1568

UNESCO · 1990

Portus Claudius & Trajan's Hexagon – Imperial Harbour Basins of Claudius and Trajan

From the atlas bibliography · Published 1990Open source

Websitehistoricengland.org.uk

Pastscape 81448 Ravenser Odd

Historic England · 2023

Ravenser Odd – Humber Estuary Lost Port

From the atlas bibliography · Published 2023Open source

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