10 Most Incredible Lost Cities

9. Troy, Turkey

For centuries Troy was considered to be only a legend, a city that never really existed outside the poems of Homer, and especially the Iliad, where it is mentioned as part of the Trojan War. The legend turned out to be true only in the 1860s, when it was first excavated in northwest Anatolia. We now know that the city was repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, slowly declined until it was finally abandoned during the Byzantine era