TARTARIA BRITANNICA
Tartaria Britannica explores the hidden corners of history, uncovering lost civilizations, ancient technology, and forgotten knowledge. We question the past, sift through its ruins, and bring to light the stories that were never meant to be forgotten.
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Maps & Relics
Discovered Twice: Australia on a French Map, 1584
Jacques de Vaulx, Les premières Œuvres, 1584. Southern hemisphere projection centred on the Antarctic Pole. The landmass labelled Australle Montz (Australia Mountains) is rendered...
Maps & Relics
The Voynich Manuscript: The Codex Nobody Can Read
In 1912, a Polish book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich was working through a collection of old manuscripts at the Villa Mondragone, a Jesuit college...
Mythology
CERNunnos: The God Who Sits Between Worlds
In 1710, workers excavating beneath the choir of Notre-Dame de Paris found a stone pillar broken into blocks, reused as rubble in a late...
Natural Realm
Natural Cycles and the Myth of Stability
Stability is a modern obsession. Growth should continue, disruption should be managed, and systems with sufficient intervention ought to trend toward equilibrium. These assumptions...
Giants & Creatures
The Satyr Was Real
Three emperors examined the evidence. None of them published their conclusions.
Records
St Benedict of Nursia: The Man Who Wrote the West
The medal fits in a closed fist. On its front, a haloed figure in monastic robes holds a cross in one hand and a...
Maps & Relics
Iran and the Caucasians
Caucasian. The word sits on government forms, medical records, and census documents across the English-speaking world. Most people who tick that box have never...
Exclusive
Hubal: The God Who Travelled to the Cube
The city of Hit sits on the western bank of the Euphrates, in what is now modern Iraq, roughly a hundred and fifty kilometres...
Records
St George: The Last Stand Before the Dragon
The image is one of the most reproduced in Western art: a white horse rearing, an armoured saint with lance angled downward, beneath the...
Natural Realm
The Body Is Light: Rainbow Body and the Memory of Human Capacity
In September 1998, a Tibetan Buddhist master named Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin died in eastern Tibet. Over the days that followed, witnesses reported that his...