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    A fascinating and incredible mystery is linked to ancient India, a journey into the remote past of a land that still has to reveal to the whole of humanity many of its 'stories...

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  • Swords of Fate: The Ancient Blades That Forged History

    For thousands of years humans have found good reason to stab, chop, slice and dice each other up, and the choice weapon which has endured the tests of time is the sword. 

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  • From Pigeon Poop to the Origin of the Universe

    The term, ‘Big Bang’ was coined by the English astronomer and cosmologist Sir Fred Hoyle in 1949. But when he first employed it, during a BBC radio broadcast on astronomy

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  • Pirates of the Northern Seas and Scotland’s Oceanic Criminals

    Pirates, maybe even more than mermaids and sea serpents, are the most fascinating and misunderstood entities of maritime history and while it is known today that mermaids were seal...

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  • Beware the Fate of the Fairy Winds

    In many folk tales from around the world there are accounts of a midwife who is taken by fairies to help with a birth. Apart from the overall otherworldly nature of these tales...

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Nadi Shastra: Ancient Leaves of Destiny
Swords of Fate: The Ancient Blades That Forged History
From Pigeon Poop to the Origin of the Universe
Pirates of the Northern Seas and Scotland’s Oceanic Criminals
Beware the Fate of the Fairy Winds
In Rome, I Saw Written On Top Of A Door
Who Built This City? Underground Derinkuyu, and the Rock Churches of Göreme
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A man with a quest is a man on a mission and woe to anyone who interferes!

 

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By the Sword

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“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warr

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Who Built This City? Underground Derinkuyu, and the Rock Churches of Göreme

Could the underground cities in Cappadocia, Turkey date back to 12,800 years ago? In 1963, so the story goes, a man living in Cappadocia exc...

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Mockery of the Crucifixion: The Sacred Donkey and the Cross

In 1857 in a cell of the ruins of Imperial Palace on the Palantine Hill in Rome, a curious graffiti representing a crucified man (corpus hum...

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Adena-Hopewell Cosmology, Community, and Identity at the Robbins Mound

The first people to construct widespread burial mounds and earthworks in the Ohio Valley were participants in the Adena Culture, which began...

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The Elusive Metal Library of the Tayos Caves

Legend has it that a metal library, containing valuable plates of inscriptions, recording an ancient history of some 250 000 years ago, writ...

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Istanbul: Gateway to History, Memory and Magic

For a moment, if one could conjure up in one’s mind's eye Istanbul, a city of magic, mystery, strategic geographical importance, a...

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Complex Neanderthal Technology Driven by Paleo Dietary Needs

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