Doe Castle – Mary’s Servant And The Castle Of The Territories On the north coast of Donegal, on the shores of Sheephaven Bay stands Doe Castle. This castle was built in 1425, and remained occupied until 1909, but now sits empty. It is far from abandoned, however, as tourists flock to see such a […]
Many collectors, history enthusiasts, and metal detectorists dream of finding legendary antiques or artifacts that tell the stories of history. Out-of-place artifacts is a term for artifacts of historical, archaeological, or paleontological interest found in an unusual context, that challenges conventional historical chronology by being “too advanced” for the level of civilization that existed at […]
The early missionaries laboured to destroy belief in the Polynesian concepts of the world and the origin and the power of the local gods. In this they were helped by the natives themselves who, eager to accept and adopt new ideas, broke almost completely with their old religion. Priests and scholars who had adopted and […]
Ancient Giants: The eyes of that species of extinct Giant, whose bones fill the Mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara, as ours do now. – Abraham Lincoln, 1848 Were the fathers of our father’s giants? They probably had a gigantic spirit; their vast knowledge and great powers made them giants comparing with the dwarfs […]
When ancient Egypt and Ireland are spoken about in the same breath it usually results in the rolling of eyes, polite exits and the sound of murmurs citing pseudo-history and new age babble. At least, that used to be the case. Recent discoveries in DNA research have added to already verified archaeological finds to present […]
The Lost Continent of Mu, The Atlantis of the Pacific Ocean The Lost Continent of Mu – The other Atlantis, the Real Cradle of All the Known Civilizations The first time we heard of the People of Mu it was on the remote Indonesian Island of Sumba. During a traditional festival called Pasola, we met a man from […]
Odin In the pre-Christian pagan religion of the Scandinavian and Northern Germanic people, Odin is the ruler of the Aesir, the principal race of gods and goddesses in Norse mythology. Archeologist and historian Thor Heyerdahl speculated that Odin, commonly thought of today as a mythical Norse god, was a historical person who founded the […]
The Central and South American Region is uniquely mysterious and littered with megalithic sites that defy the imagination. There is something intriguingly common about the way the stones were built and set into place that still today has scholars scratching their heads. Could this technique be a legacy technology from a potential lost civilisation? […]
The Younger Dryas Event and the Prehistoric Period Extinction By The Human Origin Project Over millennia earth has seen and lost countless living species. None is more well-known than the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. For many epochs, mega-reptiles dominated the planet until an asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico sending […]
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