In the village of Pastouh, near the city of Kyustendil (Bulgaria), there is a legend of giant human beings that lived thousands of years ago. One of their skeletons has been discovered during excavations near a small chapel. The “Holy Read More …
People have wondered about the nature of space for a long time. Some of the oldest art in the United States maps humanity’s place in the cosmos, as aligned with ancient religion. Numerous engravings and drawings were strategically placed in Read More …
Predictions for the inevitable end of the world have occurred often in history. People have always feared the wrath of the gods and such prophecies were very popular, mostly in the Middle Ages. On December 31, 999, many people thought Read More …
The interesting document, called Codex Mendoza, is an Aztec codex, created about twenty years after the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It was made for Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. The Codex Mendoza was painted on Read More …
Thoth is the God of wisdom, reading and writing. He was thought to be successor of the Sun God, Ra. He is almost always illustrated as a human with a head of an Ibis bird. According to ancient legends, Thoth Read More …
According to one of the many Mongolian legends, the first descendants of the Gods built a beautiful wealthy city which was home to sages, merchants, brave soldiers, and skillful craftsmen. The city was built back in the time when waters Read More …
This is a case of a very interesting mental experiment in which a group of volunteers had to create a fictional character and then try to communicate with it. The experiment was directed by the mathematician, A.R.G. Owen and supervised Read More …
Museums are far from the boring places you might think they are. Our ancestors knew very well about the art of love and sex and liked to leave for us scenes not only from their everyday lives, battles and priests’ Read More …
In June, 1992, near the village of Shiyan Beicun in Zhejiang province, a man named Wu Anai, decided to pump the water out from one of the locally known caves revealing the first of many man-made caves in the region. Read More …
The largest medieval manuscript in the world, Codex Gigas, or the Devil’s Bible, is a source of very mixed feelings – it possesses a certain charm but, at the same time, the grim illustrations look creepy, even scary. It is Read More …
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