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  • [ April 5, 2019 ] The King’s Blood: A Friar Foresees a Gruesome Fate for Henry VIII’s Corpse Monarchy
  • [ December 15, 2018 ] The Voynich Manuscript: Will the Enigma Ever Be Solved? Historical Enigmas
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Historical Enigmas

The Voynich Manuscript: Will the Enigma Ever Be Solved?

December 15, 2018 Laura

In 1912 a Polish antique book dealer stumbled upon a bizarre artefact. Wilfrid Voynich operated one of the largest rare book businesses in the world , however his vast experience could provide no illumination when […]

The Talking Boards of Easter Island (1)
Archaeology

The Talking Boards of Easter Island

December 15, 2018 Laura

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 […]

Ancient Mysteries

The Mysterious Stones of Carnac

July 20, 2018 Laura

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 […]

World map, produced in Amsterdam in 1689.
Lost Civilizations

5 Lost Civilizations That May Have Existed

March 10, 2018 Erik

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 […]

Lost Civilizations

A “Mighty Heavenly Domain”: The Legendary Kingdom of Shambhala

March 9, 2018 Erik

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 […]

Glozel runes
Archaeology

Do the Glozel Runes Conceal the Secrets of Our Prehistory?

February 26, 2018 Laura

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 […]

Noah's Ark
Ancient Mysteries

The Great Flood: How Similar Accounts of a Mysterious Universal Deluge Have Confounded Experts

February 24, 2018 Laura

“ 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 […]

Lost Civilizations

The Legendary Lost Continent of Atlantis

February 22, 2018 Erik

“[…] 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 […]

Arctic continent on the Gerardus Mercator map of 1595.
Lost Civilizations

Beyond the North Wind: The Otherworldly Land of Hyperborea

February 21, 2018 Erik

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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  • A “Mighty Heavenly Domain”: The Legendary Kingdom of Shambhala
    March 9, 2018
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    The Talking Boards of Easter Island
    December 15, 2018
  • Before Salem How the Historic Persecution of Witches Led to the Infamous Salem Witchcraft Trials
    How the Historic Persecution of Witches Led to the Infamous Salem Witchcraft Trials
    February 27, 2018
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    December 15, 2018
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    Kumari Kandam and the Lost Continent of Lemuria
    February 23, 2018

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