World famous Ottoman cartographer Piri Reis’ 500-year-old map, apart from accurately exploring the northern coast of Antarctica, provides mind-boggling information about 2000 important ports and cities of the Mediterranean Sea, the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the eastern coast of South America. The Piri Reis map was compiled in 1513 and when […]
Some years ago, a team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo dwelling and which likely originated in East Asia. (Credit: Colorado. edu) A team of researchers led […]
*This article first appeared on eden-saga.com and is written by Xavier Séguin. Among the unsolved archaeological mysteries, the pre-Columbian huge heads singularly alter our vision of the distant past of America and Africa. At the beginning of last century, several giant stone heads depicting warriors Negroid type were discovered in the jungles and chaparral of […]
There appears to be a correlation between the rise and fall of civilizations with the rise and fall of radiation from the sun. The graph shows a long-term envelope of sunspot activity derived...
The island of Java, the most populated in the vast archipelago of Indonesia, has many magnificent ancient structures. Borobudur is the biggest Buddhist structure in the world. The temple that doesn’t belong Prambanan is second only to Angkor Wat as far as Hindu temples are concerned. Countless others dot this fascinating island, which has been […]