DIEGO DE ALMAGRO, (CA. 1478–1538)

Spanish conquistador in Peru and Chile don Diego de Almagro / don Francisco Pizarro / en Castilla Diego de Almagro was born in the town ...

MODEL OF HEROD'S TEMPLE

Now, here's a model of biblical proportions. A retired farmer has spent more than 30 years building an enormous scale model of Herod...

Google Atlantis II - Of course, the UK tabloid The Sun does it up right...

Is this Atlantis? Map from Atlantis ... spotted on ocean floor By VIRGINIA WHEELER and RHODRI PHILLIPS Published: 20 Feb 2009 ...

Google Atlantis I

Google Ocean has made an intriguing find. It seems to have found the remnants of a great city on the ocean floor in the location that legen...

Google Atlantis III - And Google has quickly tried to explain the data...

Hopes of finding 'lost city' dashed Hopes that the lost city of Atlantis had been found on Google Earth have been shattered. Keen ...

Hero (62–152 CE)

The Alexandrian inventor, physicist, and mathematician Hero was a creative mind of the second century CE. Hero lived, worked, and taught at...

The Nampa Image—An Ancient Artifact?

During the drilling of a well in Nampa Idaho in 1889 a tiny figurine made of baked-clay was brought up in amongst the debris churned out by ...

ANCIENT EGYPT - Antiquarian Map

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This map is oriented with east at the top, allow...

EL DORADO

The existence of a city of gold, or El Dorado, was regarded as fact rather than fiction in Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centu...

ANCIENT ITALY

Abraham Ortelius, in Parergon, Antwerp, 1595 Osher Collection, University of Southern Maine This map depicts the entire peninsula of ancient...

Featured Website: Cryptomundo

We welcome you! Cryptomundo is a place to enjoy the adventures, treks, theories, and wisdom of some of the most respected leaders in the fie...

Shambhala

A hidden holy place in Buddhist mythology, associated with a future Messiah. The name means “quietude.” Shambhala figures in the Lamaist...

Australian Giant Monitor

AUSTRALIAN GIANT MONITOR seen in 1979 by herpetologist Frank Gordon in the Wattagan Mountains, New South Wales. (William M. Rebsamen/Fortean...

ANCIENT TUSCANY

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

BOOK: TRAVELS IN THE NETHERWORLD

Description In Travels in the Netherworld , Bryan J. Cuevas examines a fascinating but little-known genre of Tibetan narrative literature ...

THE BAUCHE MAP OF 1737

The Bauche map (1754) shows the Antarctic continent without ice, divided into two great islands, a fact not re-established until 1958.... ...

THE ORONTIUS FINAEUS MAP OF 1531

The Orontius Finaeus map was found in 1960 by Charles Hapgood and it too, apparently shows the continent of Antarctica along with the accura...

Anglo-Saxon Burhs

Alfred the Great effectively saved Anglo-Saxon England from being overwhelmed by the Danes.. Yet Alfred was wise enough to realise that his ...

THE PERSIAN INVASION FLEETS

Battle of Marathon by Brian Palmer. The Battle of Marathon 490 BC during the Persian Greek Wars. King Darious I of Persia sent his son i...