From mythological approaches to independent geological expertise

In former times, things used to be very different, and for most of human history the observation of geological phenomena and the acquisitio...

Galilee

The vast majority of Bible narratives occur in the hills, from the Galilee in the north, down through Samaria to Jerusalem and Bethlehem. ...

Mysterious Book: Codex Gigas

A huge mysterious medieval book, penned by a Benedictine monk on animal skin with bizarre devilish illustration and incantation. But who h...

The Exodus

Was Ramses the Great pharaoh of the Exodus? The biblical Exodus of the Jews from Egypt is generally thought to date from the reign of Ramses...

Biblical Unicorns

One Bible-related legend contends that the unicorn was too high-spirited to ride on Noah’s ark with the other animals and that is how it bec...

Fragment of world's oldest bible 'discovered in Egyptian monastery'

The Codex Sinaiticus, which appears to date from about AD350, is handwritten in Greek on animal skin and is the earliest known version of th...

THE LOST MINES OF THE GODS

The claim by Sitchin that the area of Lake Titicaca was set up as a major metallurgy center is quite an extraordinary piece of detective wor...

THE GREAT FLOOD - SONS OF NOAH

Maker unknown; from a Dutch Bible [seventeenth century] Smith Collection, University of Southern Maine This Bible map encompasses a large re...

THE CENTRAL AMERICAN MYSTERY

Artist’s conception of James O’Kon’s Mayan bridge BY WILL HART What Could Explain the Failure of Mainstream Science to Unravel the Origin...

BA’ALBEK

Snuggled deep within the scenic Beqa’a Valley is an age-old acropolis devoted to, at different times, a wide variety of gods and goddesses. ...

CIVILIZATION 9,000 YEARS AGO

Conjectural image of daily life in Catal Huyuk Does a Long-Lost Turkish Metropolis Qualify for the Oldest-City Award? BY PETER KING Th...