10 Mythical Figures Archaeologists Finally Proved Real

Ten figures known from stories, and the thing found in the ground that established they existed. A step in a Roman theatre with a governor's title on the underside. A carved bone box in a burial cave under a park. A receipt in a museum drawer for eighty-seven years. A tribute list naming a king a fable is attached to. A foundation cylinder naming a firstborn son. A purpose-built capital under a mound. Ten thousand tablets belonging to a people declared imaginary. A sequence of halls where a poem said a hall stood. Turf walls found by reading sailing directions. And five letters on a broken stone reused in a wall. And in every case what was proved is that somebody existed, which is not what the stories were about.