The German businessman who excavated the site believed to be Troy in the 1870s was guided primarily by which source? — Options: Ottoman survey maps of Anatolia, Homer's Iliad, Herodotus's Histories, Strabo's Geographica

Pavlopetri, often called the oldest known submerged city, lies off the coast of which country? — Options: Greece, Egypt, Italy, Turkey

Which of these cities was buried not by ash fall but by a fast-moving flow of superheated mud and pyroclastic material that preserved wooden structures and food remains in remarkable detail? — Options: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae, Oplontis

The Swiss explorer who in 1812 became the first European in modern times to reach the rock-cut Nabataean city later known as Petra disguised himself as which of the following? — Options: A Bedouin trader, An Ottoman tax collector, A Muslim scholar on pilgrimage, A Greek Orthodox monk

Before Hiram Bingham's 1911 expedition publicised Machu Picchu, the site was being actively used by whom? — Options: It was completely abandoned and overgrown, Local Quechua farmers who lived and grew crops on its terraces, A community of cloistered Catholic nuns, Peruvian army patrols using it as a lookout

Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, was located near the modern site of which present-day American city? — Options: Memphis, Tennessee, St. Louis, Missouri, Cincinnati, Ohio, Nashville, Tennessee

Which Swiss explorer rediscovered the rock-cut city of Petra in 1812?

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