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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...