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The submerged city of Pavlopetri (Greek: Παυλοπέτρι) is found in Vatika Bay, off the coast of southern Laconia in Peloponnese, Greece. It is about 5,000 years old, making it the oldest submerged city known in the world. [citation needed] Pavlopetri is unique in having an almost complete town plan, including streets, buildings, and tombs.
Naucratis or Naukratis (Ancient Greek: Ναύκρατις, "Naval Command"; [1] Egyptian: njwt-kꜣrṯ, nskꜣrṯ, pr-mryt, [2] Coptic: Ⲡⲓⲉⲙⲣⲱ Piemro [citation needed]) was a city and trading-post in ancient Egypt, located on the Canopic (western-most) branch of the Nile river, south-east of the Mediterranean sea and the city of Alexandria.
The complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir (UET V 81) [1] is a clay tablet that was sent to the ancient city-state Ur, written c. 1750 BCE.The tablet, measuring 11.6 cm high and 5 cm wide, documents a transaction in which Ea-nāṣir, [a] a trader, allegedly sold sub-standard copper to a customer named Nanni.
Coinage of Mende. Ithyphallic ass on the obverse.c. 510-480 BC.. Mende (Ancient Greek: Μένδη), also Mendae or Mendai (Μένδαι), [1] or Menda (Μένδα), [2] or Mendis, [3] was an ancient Greek city located on the western coast of the Pallene peninsula in Chalkidiki, facing the coast of Pieria across the narrow Thermaic Gulf and near the modern town of Kalandra.
The city corresponds to the ancient Assyrian city of Arbela. Settlement at Erbil can be dated back to possibly 6000 BC, but not urban life until c. 2300. [86] [87] Ankara: Anatolia Turkey: c. 2000 BC [88] The oldest settlements in and around the city center of Ankara belonged to the Hattic civilization which existed during the Bronze Age. Jaffa ...
Olynthus (Ancient Greek: Ὄλυνθος Olynthos, named for the ὄλυνθος olunthos, "the fruit of the wild fig tree" [1]) is an ancient city in present-day Chalcidice, Greece.
Many of the figures are uncertain, especially in ancient times. ... City Location 2500 BC 2300 BC 2000 BC 1800 BC 1600 BC 1360 BC 1200 BC Athens [46] [47] Greece
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis.Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.