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A Small Corner of England

When the map was created Britain would have featured on the first section, which has not survived. All that remains is this tantalizing corn...

A Mythic Mountain Range

The tentative state of what was known about this part of North America in the 1600s is clearly illustrated in this extract. Sanson's map...

Heinous Hybrids

Legends of goatmen have circulated since the time of the ancient Greeks, who told of goat-legged satyrs lurking in their wooded areas. (Troy...

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...

Armageddon

In Revelation 16:16, the battlefield designated where blasphemers, unclean spirits, and devils join forces for the final great battle of the...

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Antique M1

TERRA AUSTRALIS (SOUTH LAND).

The concept of a great southern continent surrounding the South Pole derived from the ancient Greek view that the landmass of Europe and Asi...

EGYPTIANS DISCOVER AUSTRALIA

Have chisel will chip! Before recoiling in absolute incredulity that, deep in antiquity, oceangoing mariners from ancient Egypt landed on A...

CHINESE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA

A reproduction of a 1566 world map by Nicolas Desliens. With south orientated at the top, the top left corner has a large land mass that is ...

Western China XVI-XVIII Centuries maps

The map of Chinese Kingdom from the «Drawing book of Siberia», 1699-1703 For more than three hundred years Russian travelers, merchants, dip...

Dragons

One of the most universal monster myths is that of the dragon. The awesome, reptile-like beasts appear in the folklore of nearly every count...

Were the Dark Ages Triggered by Volcano

Were the Dark Ages Triggered by Volcano-Related Climate Changes in the 6th Century? (If so, was Krakatau volcano the culprit?) by Ken Wohlet...

SILVAN SPIRITS

  The Russians call a silvan spirit Lešiy, Lesovik (cf. Russian lesu, "forest, wood"), and such a being shows himself either in hu...

African Desert Rift Confirmed as New Ocean in the Making

PHOTOS The rift in Afar, Ethiopia (credit University of Rochester) Download high-resolution image (please include photo credit) ...

Ancient Civilization Cut Path to Demise (Nasca, S. America)

The figure of a spider is seen in a desert plain in this undated file photo of an aerial view of the Nazca lines south of Lima, Peru. The an...

Ohio Wesleyan art professor uncovers celestial connection in desert Southwest

By Doug Caruso  Jim Krehbiel was up past midnight making a piece of art by layering maps and field notes onto photos he had taken of an anci...

Book: Lost Histories: Missing Cities, Treasures, Artefacts and People

Product Description "The Ark of the Covenant" and the "Holy Grail" are the most famous lost artefacts in history, but ev...

Gef the Talking Mongoose

Your Fabulous Singing Mongoose - Cobras beware, who a mongoose dare. WHEN IS A GHOST not a ghost? When it is a talking mongoose! In 1931 the...

The Great Flood

  JESUS CHRIST himself referred to ‘The Flood’ but it is not only Christians who believe in the story. Jews believe in accounts of the disas...

The Mongolian Deathworm

Artist’s impression of a Mongol Deathworm, based on eyewitness reports. Under the burning sand dunes of the Gobi desert there lurks a creatu...

Rendlesham Forest

Many areas on the east coast of Britain contain top-secret military installations. One island called Orford Ness, just off the coast of Suff...