Actualidad

Places where something has been found recently, or where a long-standing reading has been revised by new excavation. These are the entries most likely to contradict a textbook.

• Göbekli Tepe was not simply buried on purpose apunte
• A broken sewer pipe found the Pool of Siloam apunte
• The oldest paper on Earth is a delivery schedule apunte
• There was a sealed tomb under the Treasury the whole time apunte
• Göbekli Tepe c. 9500 BC
• Troy nine cities from c. 3000 BC
• The Pyramids of Giza c. 2560 BC
• Pompeii from c. 600 BC
• Petra from c. 312 BC
• Jerusalem Before Rome Destroyed It Herodian rebuild from c. 20 BC
• The Colosseum AD 80

New excavation

Places currently in the news — a fire, a restoration, a flood, a repatriation argument. The reason searches for them spike this month.

• The Acropolis of Athens 447–432 BC
• Venice's Sinking City traditionally founded AD 421
• Notre-Dame de Paris 1163–1345

In the news

The genuinely strange ones: a wonder nobody can locate, a monument its own builders buried, a gate that ended up in the wrong country.

• Göbekli Tepe c. 9500 BC
• Babylon from c. 1894 BC; rebuilt 605–562 BC

Oddity