Tartaria: The Mystery Behind the Lost Empire and the Mud Flood Conspiracy

What it claims

This Discover magazine piece, by reporter Emily Lebeau Lucchesi, covers the Tartaria theory from a journalistic angle.It writes that when Notre-Dame Cathedral burned in 2019, some believers took it as an instance of Tartarian architecture being destroyed.It explains the word 'tartar' originally meant 'barbarian.' It writes that Martino Martini's 17th-century work De Bello Tartarico spread the term.It reports that even the U.S.Capitol, built in 1800, and the Taj Mahal have been named as Tartarian architecture.It writes that the 'Tower of Jewels' at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco is likewise a target of the claim.Borrowing Bloomberg's phrase, it introduces the theory as 'the QAnon of architecture.' It notes that the piece also covers research showing that sharing conspiracy theories builds a sense of belonging among believers.

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