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Athelstan: King of Malmesbury and the Forgotten Library

BEFORE THE CANON IV In the centre of Malmesbury, in...

Lake Nemi: The Floating Palaces of Diana’s Mirror

On 15 July 1535, a Bolognese soldier and engineer...

The Ancient Finds of America: Too Deep to Be a Joke

Three men, working three different rigs across three different...

Aether: The 1729 Debate Over What Fills the Heavens

Editorial Note The entry below ran as two installments of...

The Shroud of Turin

On the night of 28 May 1898, an Italian lawyer named Secondo Pia stood in a darkroom in Turin and watched a face emerge...

The Red-Haired Giants of Lovelock Cave: Shoshone Testimony and the War Beneath the Earth

The Shoshone, along with the Paiute and other tribes of the Great Basin, speak of an older race—massive, powerful, and feared. These were not...

Was Ancient Egypt Actually in America?

Some say it was just a hoax, some say it is a myth, but others think it is history; we leave it to you,...

Explorations in Grand Canyon: Arizona Gazette, April 5, 1909

Oldest Paper in Phoenix—Twenty-Ninth Year. EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light. JORDAN IS ENTHUSEDRemarkable Finds Indicate Ancient People...

The Bang Behind the Car: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the Air-Powered Engine They Buried

When Ian Fleming published Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in 1964, it was written off as a whimsical children's story. A flying car, candy factories, and cartoonish...

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Gladiators are Fiction: Colosseums are Enormous Power Plants (Part 1)

Is it possible that, at some point in the...

The Ingenious Creator of the Hereford Mappa Mundi

The Hereford Mappa Mundi is one of the most...

Airship NORGE: The First to Conquer the North Pole

In the annals of exploration, few achievements stand as...

The Garden of Eden: A Paradise Lost

At the top center of the Hereford Mappa Mundi...
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