TROY
Turns out it’s not just a mediocre Brad Pitt movie. Troy was actually a real city in what is now Turkey, but for hundreds of years, people thought it was fictional, a place that existed only in The Iliad. But in 1870, an archaeologist armed with the book set out to find it, and did.
The city appeared to have been destroyed not only by Brad Pitt’s sculpted pecs, but many more times after that. Eggheads theorize it was ravaged by war, earthquakes, and a group of marauders known as the Sea Peoples. No wonder people finally wised up, moved the hell away, and forgot the place.
