Tag: history
Blueprints of the Human Race
Human prehistory is not something about which anyone ought to be dogmatic. A few years ago, the “Mitochondrial Eve” hypothesis was being presented to...
The Destruction of Knowledge
As our technology has gotten more advanced, we have become able to look into the future and into outer space with a view different...
Himalayas – The Roof of the World
If Everest, the highest mountain in the world, were anywhere else but central Asia, it would dwarf everything around it. Yet in the rugged...
The Vale of Kashmir
Once the summer residence of Mogul emperors and the families of the British Raj, the Vale of Kashmir has been likened to paradise. To...
The Cones of Cappadocia
Needles of rock thrust upwards from the plain of Cappadocia, in central Turkey, to create a startling, almost unearthly landscape. The early Christians, who...
Mount Ararat – The Painful Mountain
The towering summit of Ararat remained unconquered until the 19th century, for monks believed that no one should attempt to reach the ‘sacred top’...
Meteora – Pinnacles of History
For more than a thousand years tall spines of sheer rock, fixed in the shadow of the Pindhos Mountains in Greece, have provided sanctuary...
Earth Mounds – Man-Made Hills
Dotted across North America are more than 100,000 earth mounds, dispelling the early settlers’ belief that no previous culture of any significance existed on...
Easter Islands – Home of Stone Giants
It is said that Easter Island is one of the loneliest places in the world. A pinprick of land in the watery expanses of...
The Citadel of Great Zimbabwe
For centuries, the largest stone monument in sub-Saharan Africa has puzzled historians and archaeologists. To account for its origins, various people have coupled it...
