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6 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Judahite (c. 3000 – 600 BCE) · Canaanite / Philistine / Judahite / Assyrian
Philistine Goliath capital – Elah canal port 2 km north silted at –1 m – Philistine Bichrome harbour mud.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman to Early Islamic (Flavian to 7th c; peak 2nd–5th c) · Roman / Berber / Byzantine
Mid-steppe Roman-Byzantine city with triple Capitol temples, olive-press quarter and five Byzantine basilicas.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Submerged site
Archaic to Hellenistic (c. 650–100 BCE) · Ionian Greek
Archaic olive-oil harbour – ashlar quay at –0.5 m off Liman Tepe, Urla.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic / Roman / Byzantine (4th c BCE–7th c CE) · Punic / Roman
Roman–Punic oil port with amphitheatre and thermae on Gulf of Gabès.
🇱🇾 Libya · Fortress
Roman Tripolitania (2nd–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitanian Lim.
Tarhouna centenarium fort (60×40 m) controlling olive terraces.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient village
Greek / Punic / Roman · Greek then Punic / Roman
Hill of the Graces where Greek Cinyps colony (520 BCE) briefly rivalled Cyrene before Libyan expulsion. Later Tripolitanian olive villa cluster feeding Leptis port; terraces and cisterns.