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The Mysterious Origins of Man: The Oronteus Finaeus Map of 1532, by Paul Heinrich: the Oronteus map and Creationism; The Mysteries of the Piri Reis Map: by Diego Cuoghi. On the Piri Reis, Oronteus, and Philippe Buache maps; comparison to other 16th-century maps of America and Asia, debunking the Antarctica claims.
View looking up from the adjacent street. The Long Lines Building was designed by architect John Carl Warnecke in the Brutalist style and completed in 1974. [7] Its style has been generally praised, with The New York Times saying it is a rare building of its type in Manhattan that "makes sense architecturally" and that it "blends into its surroundings more gracefully" than any other skyscraper ...
While Plato's story explicitly locates Atlantis in the Atlantic Ocean beyond the Pillars of Hercules, location hypotheses include Helike, Thera, Troy, and the North Pole. A 17th century artwork of Olof Rudbeck dissecting the world and revealing the secret location of Atlantis (which he believed to be hidden in Sweden).
Coral Castle is an oolite limestone structure created by the Latvian-American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin (1887–1951). It is located in unincorporated territory of Miami-Dade County, Florida, between the cities of Homestead and Leisure City.
The Nazca lines (/ ˈ n ɑː z k ə /, /-k ɑː / [1]) are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. [2] They were created between 500 BC and 500 AD by people making depressions or shallow incisions in the desert floor, removing pebbles and leaving different-colored dirt exposed. [3]
Cahokia winter solstice sunrise over Fox Mound and the Cahokia Woodhenge ca. 1000 AD. Artist's concept. Cahokia Mounds / k ə ˈ h oʊ k i ə / [2] is the site of a pre-Columbian Native American city (which existed c. 1050–1350 CE) [3] directly across the Mississippi River from present-day St. Louis.
Bermeja is a phantom islet lying off the north coast of the Yucatán Peninsula according to several maps of the Gulf of Mexico from the 16th to the 20th centuries. [1] Despite being located somewhat precisely in relation to neighboring islands by notable Spanish cartographers of the 16th century, [2] the island was not found in a 1997 survey, [3] nor in an extensive 2009 study conducted by the ...
Location of Mystery Spot in California The Mystery Spot is a tourist attraction near Santa Cruz, California , opened in 1939 by George Prather. [ 2 ] Visitors experience demonstrations that appear to defy gravity, on the short but steep uphill walk and inside a wooden building on the site.