Civilizations Lost Beneath Ice and Fire
Ice and Fire — Civilizations Lost Beneath the Ice Sheets and Volcanoes Throughout human memory — and perhaps long before it — fire and ice have sculpted the fate of civilizations. Glaciers advancing and retreating, volcanoes erupting with unimaginable power, and the planet’s own cycles of renewal have erased entire chapters of history.But could beneath […]
Sunken Worlds Beneath the Waves
Sunken Worlds Beneath the Waves: Tracing Lost Civilizations Below the Sea Oceans cover more than 70% of our planet, yet they remain Earth’s least explored frontier. Beneath the waves lie not only natural wonders but also evidence of lost worlds — landscapes once home to thriving human communities before rising seas swallowed them. Could these […]
The Atlantis Story: Plato’s Account of a Lost Civilization
The Origins of Atlantis The story of the lost island of Atlantis comes from two Socratic dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, written around 360 BCE by the Greek philosopher Plato. These dialogues formed a festival speech to be told on the Panathenaea, honoring the goddess Athena. Plato describes a conversation between Socrates, Timaeus of Locri, Hermocrates […]
The Oronteus Finaeus Controversy
The Orontius Finaeus Map: Did Ancient Cartographers Know Antarctica? Oronce Finé — also known as Oronteus Fineus or Orontius Finaeus — was a French mathematician, cartographer, and Royal Astronomer who left behind some of the most enigmatic maps of the Renaissance. Among them, his 1531 heart-shaped projection map has fueled centuries of debate. Could Finé’s […]
The story and consequences of Göbekli Tepe
As humans, our knowledge of the world can be categorized in two segments: the happenings of the present day, and the information that we discern about our reality by studying the past. The latter, however, is often forgotten. In reality, anthropology — the study of humans and human civilizations — is needed to adequately examine […]
