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Sunken City · Off Nabeul, NE coast, Tunisia

Neapolis

Neapolis: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: TraditionDrowned 365 AD · found 2017 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

The same earthquake and tsunami that toppled Alexandria in 365 AD swallowed the Roman city of Neapolis on the Tunisian coast, and it lay unread until 2017, when archaeologists mapped streets, monuments, and a hundred stone vats once brimming with garum, the fermented fish sauce Rome could not live without. A whole industrial quarter, pickled under the Mediterranean for sixteen centuries.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: A Roman city and a hundred tanks of garum, the sauce of an empire

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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