🇪🇬 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.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Pi-Ramses (Per-Ramses) – Qantir Vanished Metropolis
New Kingdom 19th–20th Dyn (1279–1070 BCE) · Egyptian New Kingdom imperial
Ramesses II's 10 km² vanished capital – 460 chariot stables and glass factories buried under Delta fields.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Avaris – Tell el-Dab'a (Hyksos Capital)
Middle Kingdom to New Kingdom (c. 2000–1150 BCE; Hyksos peak 1670–1550) · Egyptian / Hyksos Canaanite / Minoan palace artisans
Hyksos capital with Minoan frescoes and donkey burials — 3 m under Delta fields, excavated since 1966.
🇮🇹 Italy · Ancient city
Sybaris – Thurii – Copia (Buried Tri-City)
Archaic to Roman (720 BCE – 7th c. CE) · Achaean Greek / Athenian / Roman (Bruttian interlude)
Richest Achaean colony, drowned by diverted river and then 9 m of alluvium hiding three successive cities.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Memphis (Men-nefer) – Mit Rahina Lost Metropolis
Early Dynastic to Late Antiquity (c.3100 BCE – 641 CE Arab conquest) · Egyptian (all periods), Persian, Greek, Roman
3100 BCE 'White Walls' capital covering 8 km – now invisible under fields except Ptah temple colossus.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient city
Tanis (Zoan) – Djanet Lost Capital
Third Intermediate to Late (21st Dyn 1070 BCE – 7th c. BCE; reoccupied Ptolemaic/Roman) · Egyptian (Libyan dynasties) reusing New Kingdom monumental
21st Dynasty Tanis built from stolen Ramesside blocks – intact silver-coffined royal tombs under Delta silt.