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Tag: Lost Places

4 case files, newest first.

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  Dec 1991 – Feb 1992 (dug and announced) Disputed

  Ubar: The 'Atlantis of the Sands' Found From Space?

  In 1992 a team guided by space shuttle radar dug up a desert fortress in Oman and called it Ubar, the lost 'Atlantis of the Sands.' Was it really?

  • Lost Places
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  1st century BCE – 1st century CE (approx.) Explained Updated

  Baalbek: The Biggest Stones Ever Quarried

  Roman builders at Baalbek, Lebanon, moved 800-tonne blocks. 'Ancient aliens' writers say no human could; archaeologists show how.

  • Ancient Mysteries
  • Lost Places
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  c. 1650 BCE (destruction); paper 2021 (approx.) Disputed

  Tall el-Hammam: The "Sodom" Airburst Paper That Was Retracted

  In 2021 a team argued in Scientific Reports that a cosmic airburst destroyed a Bronze Age city in the Jordan Valley, possibly inspiring the story of Sodom.

  • Sky & Space
  • Lost Places
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  c. 9500–8000 BCE (approx.) Disputed

  Göbekli Tepe and the "Lost Civilization" Claims

  Hunter-gatherers in southeastern Turkey raised carved stone pillars about 11,500 years ago, before farming took hold.

  • Ancient Mysteries
  • Lost Places