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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 One-Eyed Arimaspians and the Gold War with the Griffins
On the very edge of the known world, a creature stands frozen in ink—a Griffin, part lion, part eagle, guardian of realms beyond. Its...
Tartariae Imperium / Empire of Tartary 1596
The Tartariae Imperium, first appearing in Magini's Geographiae Universae tum Veteris tum Novae Absolutissimum in 1596, is a fantastic illustration that shows the Tartarian...
Dáire Donn: When Ireland Defied the King of the World
In the time of legends, when humanity differed greatly from today, there existed rulers whose dominion stretched beyond continents into realms unknown. Today, fears...
Queen Victoria: The Last Monarch of a Forgotten Empire?
In Calcutta stands a monument of staggering grandeur—the Victoria Memorial. Towering, ornate, and flanked by sprawling gardens and artificial lakes, it rivals the Taj...
From Scythia to Sovereignty
The story of the Alans doesn’t begin in Europe. It begins deep in the windswept steppe, under the wide sky that once belonged to...
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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...

