🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Hippo Diarrhytus (Bizerte)
Phoenician to Late Antique (8th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman
Phoenician-Roman port under modern Bizerte with lagoon quay.
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🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician to Late Antique (8th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman
Phoenician-Roman port under modern Bizerte with lagoon quay.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Sunken City off Bal Esker in Central Anatolia, Turkey is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) submerged city attributed to Nazca culture.
🇨🇱 Chile · Submerged site
Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) · Classical
Sunken City off Jabal Kesh in Coquimbo, Chile is a Classical Antiquity (800 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attributed to Classical culture.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Punic to Roman (5th c BCE – 5th c CE) · Punic / Roman (Tripolitania–Cyrenaica border)
Lonely Syrtis salt post at Syrtis Major's southernmost bay, Paliurus marks the dangerous coastal road's water point between Leptis and Berenice; still salt flats.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Ptolemaic to Byzantine (3rd c BCE – 7th c CE) · Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine (Cyrenaica–Marmarica)
Desert–lagoon frontier tower at Marmarica's Cyrenaica edge, Boreum guarded the coastal road's last water before Egyptian desert and lagoon fishery.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Ancient port
Ptolemaic to WWII El Alamein (330 BCE Paraetonium to 1942 WWII Montgomery Rommel bastion) · Ptolemaic Paraetonium port → WWII British (Mersa Matruh fortress 1940–42)
Marsa Matruh Paraetonium and WWII bastion Rommel-Montgomery 1942 battle field.
🇱🇾 Libya · Submerged site
Greek (630 BCE Cyrene foundation) → Roman city subsided 6.2 earthquake? 374 CE Crete quake 365 CE? Drowned 2017 tomography 365 Crete 8.3 quake sank 2 m · Greek Cyrene port and Roman
Apollonia Cyrenaica Flemming 1958 submerged city 365 earthquake drowned 2 m.