Lost history

Previously lost

• The ancient city Troy
• The Greek place of worship Olympia
• The Lost Legions Of Varus
• Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, and Oplontis all buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
• The Nuestra Señora de Atocha Spanish treasure ship
• The RMS Titanic

  Still lost - some are legendary or dubious

• Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, lost following the invasion by Assyria in 722 BC
• The Lost Army of Cambyses — an army of 50,000 soldiers that disappeared in a sandstorm in the Egyptian desert
• The Ark of the Covenant – biblical repository for the Ten Commandments
• The Statue of Marduk – important Babylonian cult statue lost at some point during the 5th–1st centuries BC
• The Holy Chalice — biblical chalice
• The Ninth Roman Legion
• The Heirloom Seal of the Realm — Chinese Imperial Seal lost after the collapse of the Tang Dynasty
• The Roanoke Colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina Settlers of the first English colony in the New World vanish; leaving an abandoned settlement and the word "Croatoan," the name of a nearby island, carved into a post.
• The Money Pit on Oak Island
• The Mahogany Ship — an ancient shipwreck somewhere near Warrnambool, Victoria
• Twin Sisters — a pair of cannons used by Texas Military Forces during the Texas Revolution and American Civil War.
• The Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine
• Victoria's Parliamentary Mace
• The Irish Crown Jewels
• Amelia Earhart and her aircraft
• The Amber Room
• Flight 19 World War II era military aircraft training flight
• Lord Nelson's Chelengk
• FIFA World Cup Trophy Jules Rimet World Cup Trophy
• Lost asteroids and planets, lost after having been once discovered — some rediscovered but others still lost
• The Tomb of Alexander the Great
• The Library of Alexandria

  Apocryphal

• The island of Atlantis described by Plato BC
• El Dorado: lost city of bountiful gold in the Americas.
• The Lost Ship of the Desert
• Nazi gold train