Books
New book: ‘America Before’ by Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock’s new book is called America Before – The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilisation. Book tour Graham Hancock is talking about his new book on a tour that takes in the UK, the USA […]
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Landscapes
Sunken realms – the lost lands of Wales
There are legends of flooded lands around the coast of Britain and Ireland, and no more so than in Wales. These lands were inundated by the sea, through gradual sea level rise or during catastrophic […]
Natural history
Recent survival of dinosaurs?
Given the discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur bones, and a very well-preserved fossilised dinosaur, one question being asked is: could dinosaurs have survived into much more recent times? The longstanding consensus is that (non-avian) […]
Books
Featured book: ‘The Old Stones’ edited by Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham has edited a book called The Old Stones: A Field Guide to the Megalithic Sites of Britain and Ireland; published by Watkins Publishing as of September 2018. It is not the intention here […]
The sky above
“Controversial but promising” – the Electrical Universe theory
The Electric Universe theory has been described as “a controversial but promising theory where plasma and electric charge are responsible for most things that we take for granted”(1). If true, what implications does it have […]
Natural history
The Cave Bear vs our Forebears
The cave bear went extinct some 24,000 years ago. It was a largely vegetarian species, whose remains were mostly found in caves, hence the name. There is some contested evidence that ancient humans venerated the […]
Archaeology
Orkney – Britain’s Neolithic heartland
The Heart of Neolithic Orkney is a World Heritage Site, which has also been dubbed Britain’s Ancient Capital in a recent BBC TV series. It is described as a major prehistoric cultural landscape in the […]
The earth below
Hyperborea – the seventh continent
By Dr Alexander Koltypin. Editor’s introduction: Dr. Alexander Koltypin is a Russian geologist and author whose research on disappeared continents and ancient civilisations has been widely reported online. Here, we feature his thoughts on Hyperborea, […]
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Wiped out? The Wihtwara people of the Isle of Wight
By Jan Harper Whale. Editor’s introduction: Jan Harper Whale has extensively researched the history of the Wihtwara people of the Isle of Wight, which lies off the south coast of England. The first of her […]
Ancient Sites
(The shadow of) Atlantis in Ireland?
There are theories about the legendary Atlantis being located in all sorts of locations around the world, some underwater, some above the waves. Here we take a look at the idea that Plato’s Atlantis may […]