Easter Island, a remote volcanic island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, is renowned for being a land of mystery. Since it was discovered by Europeans on Easter Sunday, 1722, Easter Island has exuded an almost […]
The age of megalithic-building lasted anywhere from the 9th millennium BC to 1500 BC, and as far back as records go there has been speculation as to the origins and meanings of these strange prehistoric […]
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 […]
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 […]
In March 2010, Émile Fradin, a modest peasant farmer from central France, died at the age of 103. To his grave he took the secret behind one of the most controversial archaeological discoveries of the […]
“ I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.” The seventh […]
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 […]
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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