AZTEC EARPLUGS?

The Aztec Culture, as with many other past cultures of the Mesoamerican region had a love for Obsidian. It was used mainly for objects of a ...

AN ANCIENT CALCULATOR?

Reconstruction of the Antikythera mechanism in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens (made by Robert J. Deroski, based on Derek J. de S...

HOLY LAND

Gerard de Jode, in Speculum Orbis Terrarum, Antwerp, 1578 Smith Collection, University of Southern Maine West is at the top. A detailed bird...

The Nasca Lines

In continuing our display of ‘ooparts’ mention must of course be given to the enormous motifs, spirals and geometric shapes that appear on t...

AGIOS GEORGIOS KOLOKYTHIAS

Byzantine fortification, Agios Georgios Kolokythias, Kythera, rendered as a plan and as a three dimensional visualization through extrusion ...

THE MERCATOR MAP OF 1538

And even yet another intriguing map is one drawn in 1538 by Mercator, another highly respected cartographer who lived in the 16th century. ...

Pirates of the Spanish Main Maps

The Winds Settlements All hands on deck! In the waters of the Caribbean there are fortunes to be made and lost…or stolen. In these times it ...

NEW ORION CORRELATION?

Researcher Scott Creighton may have discovered a new dimension to the alignment between the pyramids at Giza and the constellation Orion. Ac...

Newsarama.com : Getting Into Viking with Ivan Brandon

Last week, we posted the teaser for the April-launching Viking, a “9th century crime comic” by writer Ivan Brandon and artist Nic Klein. And...

The Giant Stone Balls of Costa Rica

Yet such proof may have already been long ago provided by an amazing discovery was made in the 1930’s by workmen would were clearing land fo...

The Puma Punka Stones

There is a most interesting thing that can be found in the Puma Punka Complex near Tiahuanaco. At the ancient site, standing upright in a co...

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard (1962)

Paperback cover blurb BACK TO THE JUNGLE Kerans could not remember how it had been before the violent solar storms shattere...

CELTIC EUROPE

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This map depicts Europe during the period o...

KING AHUITZOTL

Although Ahuitzotl undertook war campaigns, he was best remembered for concluding, after eight kings and endless struggles, the construction...

CAESAR'S GAUL

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine Ancient Gaul is depicted here in accordance ...

THE LANZHOU STONE

A truly amazing object has recently come to light in the form of an uncommon stone with a threaded metal bar inside it that was recently fou...

CAUSES OF THE VIKING AGE

Historians and writers, from the Viking Age onward, have suggested many different reasons why, between the years 800 – 1100, there was thi...

THE BRITISH ISLES IN ROMAN TIMES

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This map, oriented with north to the right, ...

A FRUIT THAT REALLY SHOULD NOT EXIST

I’ve included this last little tid-bit in simply because I think it’s interesting and just because it may give you something to think about ...

A HISTORY IN MYTH

Marduk, the king of gods defeating Tiamat, the Goddess of Chaos Truly, one of the most difficult tasks in attempting to understand what many...

THE MYSTERIOUS SINAI

A huge and very mysterious plain that can be found in the Sinai desert. The tales of creation, ancient wars and great annihilation by sop...

THE PIRI REIS MAP OF 1513

In 1929 there was an amazing map discovered in the Imperial Archives at Constantinople that had been sitting, virtually unexamined, for year...

LATIUM

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This map depicts the central region of Italy...

ANCIENT JERUSALEM / MODERN JERUSALEM

Lyman Coleman, in Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography, Philadelphia, 1854 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This is t...