🇵🇪 Peru · Ancient city
Caral-Supe
Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) · Caral-Supe (Norte Chico)
Caral-Supe in Lima, Peru is a Late Archaic (2600 – 2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Caral-Supe (Norte Chico) culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Meninx (Djerba) – Phoenician-Roman Port
Phoenician to Late Antiquity (7th c BCE – 7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Two-kilometre strand city on Djerba's southeastern causeway shore, Meninx was the island's Phoenician emporion turned Roman civitas capital, famed for murex purple second only to T...
🇬🇪 Georgia · Submerged site
Pichvnari – Colchian Submerged Settlement near Kobuleti
Colchian Early Iron to Hellenistic (c. 6th – 2nd c. BCE) · Colchian / East Greek Milesian
Colchian dunes village and Greek emporion — timber quay –1 to –3 m in surf and 300-grave cemetery 120 m reclaimed by sea since 5th c. BCE.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Berenice (Benghazi) - Berenike
Archaic Greek to Islamic (6th c BCE–7th c CE; Hellenistic–Roman peak) · Greek / Ptolemaic / Roman / Jewish / Byzantine
Ptolemaic queen-city beneath Benghazi with salt-marsh promontory, Jewish menorah mosaic and silted harbour.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Bata — Lagoon Harbour at Novomyshastovskaya (Batskoe Gorodishche South)
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Southern lagoon harbour of Maeotian Bata at Kuban Liman — 80 m timber quay at –1.5 m and fish weir.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Bata — Lagoon Harbour at Novomyshastovskaya (Batskoe Gorodishche South) — v2
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Southern lagoon harbour of Maeotian Bata at Kuban Liman — 80 m timber quay at –1.5 m and fish weir.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Deorkothar Katra Stupa Complex
Mauryan Ashoka 3rd c BCE → Sunga 1st c BCE–2nd c CE · Mauryan–Sunga Buddhist (Ashokan–Sunga complex)
Deorkothar Katra Stupa Complex — Ashokan–Sunga Buddhist establishment (3rd c BCE possible Ashoka, 1st c BCE inscribed pillar) with 4 stupas, 30.5-m brick stupa-1 with stone vedika rail similar to…
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Kepoi — Central Ashlar Quay in Taman Gulf (Mid-Bay)
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Central bay quay of Kepoi in Taman Gulf mid-bay — 100 m ashlar quay at –2 m and Aphrodite terrace at –1 m.
🇷🇺 Russia · Submerged site
Kepoi — Central Ashlar Quay in Taman Gulf (Mid-Bay) — v2
Archaic to Late Antique (600 BCE – 400 CE) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan
Central bay quay of Kepoi in Taman Gulf mid-bay — 100 m ashlar quay at –2 m and Aphrodite terrace at –1 m.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Lixus
Phoenician to Early Islamic (8th c BCE–8th c CE; peak Mauretanian-Roman) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Mauretanian / Roman
Phoenician tell 8th c BCE of Hesperides legend with garum factories, hybrid theatre-amphitheatre and Helios mosaic.
🇬🇷 Greece · Submerged site
Maroneia – Submerged Wine Harbour of Thrace
Archaic to Roman (c. 600 BCE – 400 CE) · Chian Greek / Thracian / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman
Homeric wine port – rock-cut bollards and 30 m boulder mole at –2 m off Agios Charalambos beach.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Neapolis (Nabeul)
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.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient city
Thamusida (Sidi Ali ben Ahmed)
Phoenician to Islamic (6th c BCE–8th c CE; peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Mauri / Roman
River limes fort Thamusida with Praetorium frescoes and cohors II Syrorum camp.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
Tyritake – Submerged Fish-Salting Town at Arshintsevo
Archaic to Late Roman (550 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Bosporan fish-sauce factory town — 30 salt-cisterns with anchovy bones, lower industrial strip now 1–2 m underwater off Kerch spit.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Ancient city
Zafar Stone Gate Tower 4
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Zafar Stone Gate Tower 4 in Ibb, Zafar, Yemen is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan · Ancient city
Akchakhan-Kala (Kazakly-Yatkan)
Kangju–Kushan Khorezmian 200 BCE–200 CE · Khorezmian (Chorasmian) Zoroastrian
Khorezmian ceremonial city (c.2 c. BCE–2 c. CE) at Kazakly-Yatkan near Beruni — 10 ha double-walled town with ceremonial palace complex (Columned Hall 30×30 m with 20 columns), fire temple, and…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Lambaesis (Lambèse)
Roman (Flavian to Late antique; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber
Headquarters of Legio III Augusta 81–238 CE with Praetorium aedicula, amphitheatre and 3,000+ Latin inscriptions.
🇳🇪 Niger · Archaeological wonder
Bura Culture (Bura-Asinda-Sikka)
Late Iron Age (3rd–13th c CE) · Bura
834-tomb iron funerary field 3rd–13th c with equestrian terra-cotta sculptures and urn spears.
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Chicanná
Late Classic (Río Bec) · Maya (Río Bec–Chenes)
Classic Río Bec palatial city (c.550–900 CE) at Becán-Chicanná dispersed urban nebula, with Structure II jaguar monster-mouth zoomorphic mascarón doorway (12 m high 18 m wide — bes...
🇲🇽 Mexico · Pyramid
Cuicuilco Pyramidal Platform (Circular Basement)
Preclassic / Late Formative (Central Mexican Preclassic) · Cuicuilco (Basin of Mexico Preclassic)
Giant circular stepped pyramidal platform at Cuicuilco — 135 m diameter 20 m high 700–150 BCE, buried by Xitle lava eruption 245 CE.
🇦🇷 Argentina · Ancient city
El Shincal de Quimivil – Southernmost Inca Capital
Late Horizon Inca Imperial (1471–1536 CE, abandoned post-1536) · Inca (Topa Inca – Diaguita / Calchaquí conquest)
Inca provincial capital (1470–1536) in Catamarca, the southernmost planned Inca city in the empire, founded by Topa Inca Yupanqui to govern Calchaquí valley Diaguita conquest: fully orthogonal Inca…
🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city
Karanis – Fayum Lake Moeris Port Town Drowned and Re-exposed
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE – 5th c. CE) · Ptolemaic Greek / Egyptian / Roman
Fayum Lake Moeris granary port — Ptolemy II polder city whose lake quays now 2 m buried as Lake Qarun fell 20 m.
🇮🇷 Iran · Ancient city
Tepe Musiyan
Early Village to Islamic (6000 BCE–1000 CE; peaks Ubaid–Uruk and Old Elamite) · Deh Luran Village → Ubaid → Uruk → Proto-Elamite → Elamite → Islamic
Deh Luran's largest tell (15.5 ha) with 6000 BCE-to-Elamite sequence and Amorite seal.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Akhetaten (Amarna) – Abandoned Sun City
New Kingdom Amarna Period (1353–1332 BCE) · Egyptian (Atenist reform)
Akhenaten's 1346 BCE desert sun capital – 12 km planned city and 382 Amarna Letters, abandoned after one reign.