In 1897, an American army officer named Charles Totten wrote “there are mysteries connected with the birth of this Republic.”...
This is gold, absolute gold – though for all the wrong reasons. The Big Z – that’s Dr Zahi Hawass...
I’m sure you remember how just 18 short years ago a German engineer named Rudolf Gantenbrink sent his robot ‘Upuaut...
David Attenborough takes you to the famed Pacific Island known for its enigmatic stone heads: “The Lost Gods of Easter...
Okay, so it’s not like Robert Langdon cracked a code and found the secret passageway into the Vatican Archives…but it’s...
Interesting to see two separate stories late this week suggesting that Renaissance masters hid secret ‘messages’ in their art. The...
Perhaps one of the most eloquent expositions ever of the beauty of ancient cultures and the debate over ‘progress’ versus...
(This essay was originally posted to The Daily Grail in 1999. I’m reposting it for those that may have missed...
