Alexander and Bucephalus

ALEXANDER, the son of Philip of Macedon, became king in 336 B.C. The queen-mother adored her brave son and dreamed of the great things he wo...

THE LEGEND OF SAVADDAN LAKE

Not far from the foot of the Black Mountains of Brecon, in a low lovely fertile valley, under the shadow of Mount Troedd, lies Savaddan La...

Asperatus Cloud

Photograph courtesy Merrick Davies An "asperatus" cloud rolls over New Zealand's South Island in an undated pictu...

The Earth Shall Bleed

What, you thought I was kidding about the Dark Eclipse coming right before the Earth starts bleeding? What kind of horrible jac...

Featured Website: David Rumsey Map Collection Cartography Associates

Welcome to the David Rumsey Map Collection Database and Blog. The Map Database has many viewers and the Blog has numerous categories . The ...

Giant rats lead scientists to ancient face carvings

Group of petroglyphs in Lena Hara Cave, East Timor. Credit: John Brush Ancient stone faces carved into the walls of a well-known limestone...

THE HOLLOW EARTH: REALITY OR MYTH Part I

Popular Purveyor of the Paranormal, Brad Steiger, Takes a Look at One of the Most Persistent Legends of Esoterica by Brad Steiger A hundr...

THE HOLLOW EARTH: REALITY OR MYTH Part II

"DEROS" AND "TEROS" In the March, 1945 issue of Amazing Stories Editor Ray Palmer introduced the Shaver Mystery, a pur...

Remains of Pink Terraces discovered

By Hayden Donnell Scientists using underwater robots have discovered remnants of the Pink Terraces on the floor of Lake Rotomahana, near Rot...

ALEXANDRIA I

Alexander the Great took over Egypt from the Persians in 331 BC, after the capture of Tyre, and it was while he was there that he founded ...

ALEXANDRIA II

That Deinocrates was Macedonian is important. Alexandria was not developed on the analogy of the independent city-states of southern Greec...