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291 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.

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🇮🇳 India · Submerged site

Jomon Submerged City — Haryana Annex 391

Jomon · Jomon

Jomon submerged-city at Haryana.

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🇮🇹 Italy · Submerged site

Baiae (Baiae Archaeological Park)

Republican to Late Antique (140 BCE – 8th c CE) · Roman

Former luxury resort of Rome’s elite (Caesar, Nero, Hadrian) with imperial villa, submerged by bradyseism (volcanic uplift/subsidence) to 5–9 m, with mosaics, statues and pilings visible snorkelling.

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🇪🇬 Egypt · Submerged site

Canopus (East Canopus)

Ptolemaic to Byzantine · Egyptian-Greek / Roman

Sister city to Heracleion, 1.7 km west on same dune-barrier, sacred to Osiris with temple of Serapis, submerged same event, excavated by Goddio with statuettes, jewellery and ritual vessels.