The Mayans had many excellent medical practices

Health and medicine among the ancient Maya was a complex blend of mind, body, religion, ritual, and science. Important to all, medicine wa...

Cambodian temple brought back to life

A temple known as Cambodia's second Angkor Wat is slowly returning to life, after being left to ruin for 800 years

Karnak

This is the modern name for an ancient religious complex erected at THEBES in Upper Egypt. Called Nesut-Tawi, “the Throne of the Two Lands...

Carahunge

In a mountainous region of southern Armenia, near the town of Sisian, is an impressive stone setting consisting of over 150 standing stone...

Theban Mapping Project

Atlas of the Valley of the Kings: Discover each tomb in the Valley in this interactive Atlas. Investigate a database of information about ...

Ancient city ruins found in northern Peru

The ruins of an entire city that could provide the missing link between two ancient cultures have been found in northern Peru. Archaeologis...

Nabta

    Oldest Astronomical Megalith Alignment Discovered In Egypt. By Science Team ScienceDaily (Apr. 3, 1998) An assembly of huge stone slabs...

Mỹ Sơn

Perhaps because so many people travelling down the Vietnamese coast are en route to Angkor Wat in Cambodia, My Son, about an hour from Hoi...

Peru: 'sensational' Inca find for British team in Andes

The Inca platform where the ancestor stones were found. Photograph: Observer Discovery of sacred ancestor stones has archaeologists 'dan...

The Earth Shall Bleed

What, you thought I was kidding about the Dark Eclipse coming right before the Earth starts bleeding? What kind of horrible jac...

Remains of Pink Terraces discovered

By Hayden Donnell Scientists using underwater robots have discovered remnants of the Pink Terraces on the floor of Lake Rotomahana, near Rot...

CARTOGRAPHY Part II

Portrait of Amerigo Vespucci, 1510. To what degree Christopher Columbus’s (1451–1506) landfall of October 12, 1492, on an island in the Baha...

CARTOGRAPHY Part III

Quadrant. Simple quadrants allowed early cartographers, as well as sailors and explorers, to accurately measure altitude and determine latit...

CARTOGRAPHY IN THE COLONIAL AMERICAS

Ortelius’s Map of the New World. This early map of North and South America, by the Flemish mapmaker Abraham Ortelius, was first published in...

Armageddon

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

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...

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...

World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago

  Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago. By Fiona Govan in Madrid...

CAPTAIN COOK’S SECRET SEARCH FOR THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT: 1768–1771

The routes of Captain James Cook's voyages. The first voyage is shown in red , second voyage in green , and third voyage in blue . The r...