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4 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
New Kingdom to Roman (c. 1500 BCE – 400 CE) · Egyptian New Kingdom / Philistine / Ptolemaic / Roman
Sinai gate lagoon harbour – Bardawil quay walls and fish-salting vats at –1 m guarding Via Maris.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Saite to Byzantine (c. 664 BCE – 640 CE) · Saite Egyptian / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Byzantine
Western Pelusiac Nile harbour – quay blocks and harbour mud at 1–2 m on Farama west plain guarding Egypt's Sinai gate.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Saite to Byzantine (664 BCE – 640 CE) · Saite / Persian / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Open sea roadstead of Pelusium – rubble breakwater and anchor field 2–4 m off east beach.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site
Late Dynastic to Arab (c. 600 BCE – 640 CE) · Egyptian / Persian / Ptolemaic / Roman / Byzantine
Mendesian Nile canal port – quay 120 m and grain horrea at –0.5 m on migrated Mendesian branch.