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🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Early Bronze to Crusader (c. 3500 BCE – 1270 CE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Phoenician / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader
Philistine pentapolis roadsteads – anchor fields and rubble dog-leg breakwater 2–4 m offshore of Ashkelon tell.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Middle Bronze to Ottoman (c. 1800 BCE – 1917 CE) · Canaanite / Egyptian / Phoenician / Persian / Hellenistic / Roman / Crusader / Ottoman
Biblical reef harbour of Andromeda – Byzantine seawall and Ottoman jetty 1–5 m down in Andromeda Reef gap.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
Herodian to Crusader (22 BCE – 1265 CE) · Judean / Roman / Byzantine / Crusader
Herod's colossal Roman harbour Sebastos now submerged 5 m; one of earliest hydraulic-concrete harbours.
🇮🇱 Israel · Submerged site
PPNB (6900–6300 BCE) · PPNB Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B mega-village (6900–6300 BCE) submerged 300–400 m offshore after post-glacial sea rise, with stone wall 150 m, paved well 5.5 m deep (earliest seawall and well), megalithic…
