While studying 18th-century maps, Bengtsson noticed a strange rectangle — and brought himself to the site. A surveyor marked the location as "Klosterkullen," or "monastery hill," on a 1760 map.

Photo by Göran Bengtsson Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word ...

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The first clue that leaps out on the wall is an 18th-century map of New York City, drawn a full century before Brooklyn was incorporated into “Greater New York” alongside the borough of Queens.