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Neapolis

Drowned 365 AD · found 2017, Off Nabeul, NE coast, Tunisia
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Evidence status: Historical tradition. no documented source (historical tradition); legal status unknown (manual verification recommended). This account is presented as historical tradition, not verified fact. Manual verification recommended. Repository evidence: 0 sources · 0 timeline events · 0 media items · legal unknown · view on the Map Evidence on file: historical tradition

Neapolis: still unexplained.

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

The law of this ground: Tunisian heritage waters, a survey site, not a recreational dive.
The subject
developing the photograph…
The manifest
A Roman city and a hundred tanks of garum, the sauce of an empire
The account

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.

Leads, where the trail points now
  • Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Off Nabeul, NE coast, Tunisia.
  • What you are chasing is A Roman city and a hundred tanks of garum, the sauce of an empire. Work the documented record of Neapolis back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
  • Tunisian heritage waters, a survey site, not a recreational dive.
What the record holds

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
What we know, and what we don't
Established

No documentary claim is yet established. The account rests on tradition.

Still open
  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.
The evidence room

No documentary or visual exhibits have been located yet. The trail below and the open leads are where this dossier grows next — every exhibit that enters here carries a source.

Where the trail points now
  • Pin down the most specific last-known position in the record before going; the search centers on Off Nabeul, NE coast, Tunisia.
  • What you are chasing is A Roman city and a hundred tanks of garum, the sauce of an empire. Work the documented record of Neapolis back to primary sources and separate what is attested from folklore.
  • Tunisian heritage waters, a survey site, not a recreational dive.
  • Search Library of Congress + DPLA (IIIF) for period cartography of the site.
  • Run Chronicling America for dated newspaper mentions.
  • Query NARA for archival records tied to the site.

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Chart position 36.450°, 10.780° (approx.) View on the Map