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6 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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
Archaic to Late Roman (c.560 BCE – 4th c. CE) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan
Crimean Atlantis — intact classical street grid and double walls at 3–7 m deep off Cape Takyl, the only wholly underwater Bosporan town.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Ancient city
Milesian Greek to Late Roman (600 BCE – 370 CE; Byzantine reoccup. 6th c.) · Milesian Greek / Bosporan Scythian / Mithridatic Pontic / Roman
Bosporan Kingdom capital on Mount Mithridat — acropolis above with harbour terraces now 1–3 m under Kerch Strait.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
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.
🇺🇦 Ukraine / Russia (disputed) · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (570 BCE – 13th c. CE; port antique) · Ionian Greek / Bosporan / Pontic / Byzantine
Bosporan wine port with Dionysus sanctuary — chalk-cliff city whose harbour now 2–4 m under Kerch Strait.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Archaic to Medieval (646 BCE – 4th c. CE; revisited 14th c.) · Milesian Greek / Scythian / Roman / Gothic
Milesian Black Sea emporium whose harbour lower town now lies 1–4 m under Bug–Dnieper liman.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Submerged site
Classical to Medieval (422 BCE – 14th c. CE) · Doric Greek / Bosporan / Roman / Byzantine / Kievan Rus' orbit
422 BCE Doric Black Sea polis whose harbour quarter now lies under Quarantine Bay.
