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When were the foundations of the original Globe Theatre discovered?
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Globe Theatre, London.
The foundations of the original Globe Theatre were discovered in 1989. They were found buried beneath a 19th-century building on a Bankside site near the location of the original playhouse.1
This discovery provided archaeologists and scholars with critical information regarding the theater's design, allowing them to adjust the plans for the modern reconstructionāsuch as determining the polygon's 99-foot (30-meter) outside diameter and its 20-sided structure.1