Buried cities

92 basalt-log islets 1180 CE on Pohnpei reef — 750,000 tonnes columnar basalt Venice of Pacific, pseudo-grafted to Mu/Lemuria 14k BCE (typhoon slump at −6 m, not Atlantis).

🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city

Phalasarna – Uplifted Classical Harbour of West Crete

Classical to Late Roman (333 BCE – 365 CE) · Greek / Hellenistic / Roman

333 BCE closed harbour of Phalasarna now stranded +6.6 m above sea by the AD 365 Crete earthquake — rock-cut basin and canal uplifted overnight.

🇬🇷 Greece · Buried city

Helike — Bouras Plain Borehole Submerged City (Gulf of Corinth South)

Early Bronze Age to Byzantine (3000 BCE – 1400 CE) · Helladic / Achaean Greek

Central borehole city of Helike on Gulf of Corinth — Classical grid at –3 m, tsunami couplet at –3 m.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Submerged site

Dunwich – England's Lost Medieval Port

Anglo-Saxon to Late Medieval (630 – 1350 CE) · Anglo-Saxon / East Anglian / Norman English

England's great medieval port lost to 700 years of North Sea erosion — churches, friary and quay now mapped 300–900 m offshore on Dunwich Bank.

🇪🇬 Egypt · Buried city

Sais – Buried Saite Capital Harbour at Sa el-Hagar

Early Dynastic to Late Antique (3500 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian Saite / Persian / Greek mercenary / Ptolemaic

Saite 26th Dyn capital 664 BCE — Neith enclosure 700x600 m with walls 20 m thick and harbour 600x300 m now sebkha at +2 m under 8 m silt.

🇨🇳 China · Submerged site

Shi Cheng – Lion City of Qiandao Lake

Tang to 1959 (208 CE – 1959, walls 1546–1563 Ming) · Sui/Tang / Ming / Qing Chinese

Ming county seat intentionally submerged 1959 for hydro-reservoir — stone lions, city wall and Qing mansions intact under 26–40 m fresh water.

🇺🇸 United States · Tell

Wupatki Pueblo (Wupatki National Monument — Sinagua Great House)

Pueblo III (Sinagua-Ancestral Puebloan, 1100–1250 CE) · Sinagua–Ancestral Puebloan (Cohonina/Sinagua with Ancestral Puebloan)

Wupatki Pueblo (Wupatki National Monument — Sinagua Great House) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Arizona, Coconino County, Flagstaff–Little Colorado, Wupatki Basin, Sunset Crater vicinity,…

🇲🇽 Mexico · Tell

Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound

Medio Period (Casas Grandes, 1205–1340 CE) with Viejo substrate · Casas Grandes (Chihuahua Culture / Mogollon–Paquimé)

Paquimé (Casas Grandes) — Medio Period Great House and Mound is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Chihuahua State, Casas Grandes Municipality, Rio Casas Grandes valley, Mexico — Largest northern…

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Tell

Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell

Late Neolithic through Late Chalcolithic (5500–4200 BCE) · Hamangia → Varna → KGK VI (Kodžadermen-Gumelnița-Karanovo VI)

Provadia-Solnitsata (The Salt Pit) — Eneolithic Salt Production Tell is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Varna Province, Provadia District, Provadiyska River valley, Bulgaria — Oldest…

🇺🇸 United States · Tell

Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector)

Mississippian (Lohmann 1050–1100 through Moorehead 1200–1275, Stirling 1050–1150) · Mississippian (Cahokia Stirling phase capital)

Cahokia Mounds — Mound 72 (Beaded Burial and Woodhenge Sector) is a multi-period tell/ancient village in Illinois, St.

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