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Southern Maya cities stopped dating monuments by AD 998. Lake cores, a stalagmite, Aguateca's walls and lidar each explain part of why they emptied.
· AD 900Calvert began digging Hisarlık in 1863; its nine layers span 3,000 years. Hittite texts name Wilusa, and in 2001 Korfmann and Kolb fought over its size.
· 1871Angkor Wat was built in the reign of Suryavarman II (anointed 1113). A Chinese envoy of 1296 called it only the tomb of Lu Ban; later books credited Rome.
· 1113Merneptah's Karnak inscription and Ramesses III's year 8 text at Medinet Habu name the Sea Peoples. Breasted, Cline and Roberts added the rest.
· 1177 BCJosé Garanger dug 118 square meters at Mangaasi on Efate in 1966–67 and named a pottery style. Re-excavation from 1996 put Erueti ware before it.
· 1967Police recovered looted gold at Sipán in February 1987. Walter Alva's team then recorded an intact Moche royal tomb at Huaca Rajada on July 20, 1987.
· AD 250From 1966 to 1973 David Whitehouse dug Siraf, a Persian Gulf port, and found Chinese stoneware in a mosque platform of about 800. Its end is still argued.
· 1966Fasilides settled the moving Ethiopian court at Gondar in 1636. His walled enclosure, Fasil Ghebbi, held castles built by the emperors after him.
· 1636Mount Fuji erupted from a new southeast vent on December 16, 1707, for 16 days. Ash buried Subashiri and fell on Edo; a levy and floods followed.
· 1707Polybius heard Scipio quote Homer as Carthage fell in 146 BC. R. T. Ridley traced the salted-earth story to a 1930 sentence in the Cambridge Ancient History.
· 146 BCTwo histories record Emperor Yang's canal orders of 605 to 610. For the Yongji Canal of 608 one counts over a million workers, the other over five million.
· AD 605A one-line colophon dates the Jikji's metal-type printing to 1377 at Heungdeoksa in Cheongju. Its only surviving volume is at the BnF in Paris.
· 1377Shells in the ahu of marae Taputapuātea on Ra'iatea date to AD 1503 to 1722 at the earliest. The World Heritage text says 14th to 18th centuries.
· 1600In May 1929 Claude Schaeffer found alphabetic cuneiform tablets at Ras Shamra, Syria. In 1930 Hans Bauer read about 20 of their 26 or 27 signs.
· 1190 BCMount Pelée destroyed Saint-Pierre, Martinique, on May 8, 1902, three days before an election. Two people in the city are known to have survived.
· 1902In 1975 Sapienza excavators found Ebla's palace archive at Tell Mardikh, Syria. Scarpa counts over 15,000 pieces in one room, ASOR over 18,000 tablets.
· 2300 BCThe Nika riot of 532 burned Constantinople's Great Church. Justinian's Hagia Sophia rose by 537, Procopius described it, and its dome fell in 558.
· AD 537A 2023 PLOS ONE model of 102 radiocarbon dates puts Tiwanaku's monument building at AD 590 to 720 and its collapse at 1010 to 1050, before a drought.
· 1010About AD 1200 Moundville, Alabama, was a palisaded town around a mound-lined plaza. After 1300 most residents left and it became a burial center.
· 1250A molasses tank in Boston's North End burst on January 15, 1919, killing 21. In 1925 auditor Hugh W. Ogden held its owner responsible, not anarchists.
· 1919Henry VIII's Mary Rose sank in the Solent on July 19, 1545. Two museums disagree on why and on the death toll; she was raised on October 11, 1982.
· 1545Ibn Battuta reached Kilwa in 1331. Excavations in the 1960s and 2016 and a 2023 DNA study date its origins differently; five of its coins turned up in Australia.
· 1331Priscus's fragment 8, in J. B. Bury's translation, follows the East Roman embassy of 449 to Attila, a Greek merchant turned Hun and a banquet in wood.
· AD 449Hannah Dawes Newcomb kept a parlor fire in Keene from May 1816. Tambora is the accepted cause; a 2016 paper testing the link was withdrawn.
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