The legend goes that Rome, through its founders Romulus and Remus, was born on the teat of a wolf. Both the inhabitants of the city-state and the world accepted this as historical truth. After all, […]
Many of the deities worshipped by mankind have been awful. Not only are their mythologies filled with conflict and aggression, but also the practices of their followers. Offerings of animals, and even people, have always […]
We know very little of the ancient world because records of it have been mostly destroyed. The Library of Alexandria, the greatest store house of ancient knowledge, was nothing but a heap of rubble and […]
For millennia people have heard that somewhere around Tibet there exists a utopian kingdom of peace and harmony known as Shambhala. Quite literally, Shambhala is a Sanskirt word which means “place of peace” or “place of […]
When Europeans first discovered the New World, there was one thing that fascinated them above all else – gold. There was gold everywhere. Natives adorned houses and clothes with the precious metal, frivolously using it […]
World War Two was an apocalypse. At its head an anti-Christ figure, who would popularise an ideology which would lead to the deaths of more than 50 million people. How was this nefarious philosophy born? And, […]
Indian mythology is filled with accounts of cities and lands being submerged by the sea. The Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram One such myth, describes the ancient city of Mahabalipuram as being the city of Seven Pagodas. Whilst one […]
“[…] histories tell of a mighty power which was aggressing wantonly against the whole of Europe and Asia […] This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was […]
In the year 450 BC, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote about the Hyperborea, a kingdom whose people were affluent and influential enough to transmit goods all the way from the northern reaches of Europe to […]
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