Ancient World
Every age has a secret, a mystery that remains unsolved despite centuries of investigation. The curse of Tutankhamun, the Money Pit and Stonehenge are some of the most intriguing of all…
The Stanton Drew Stone Circle or, to be more precise, three stone circles, dates from around 3000 BC and enjoys a relatively isolated location well off the beaten track. The stones themselves stand sullen and silent - brooding guardians of ancient mysteries around which all manner of legends and ghostly tales have been woven.
Just as "Y2K" and its batch of predictions about the end of the world in the year 2000 have become a distant memory, here comes "Twenty-twelve" and a freshly baked batch.
Teotihuacán is a large ancient city located in what is now the San Juan municipality. It was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas during the first century AD, and peaked between 150AD and 450AD where it dominated Mesoamerica with had a population of between 150,000 and 250,000 people.
Not so much a mystery, but more of a gruesome custom of the Shuar Indians of the Amazon regions of present-day Ecuador and Peru. A shrunken head is a real human head, ritually prepared for spiritual protection and intimidation.
Easter Island is a small island in the South Pacific Ocean, which belongs to Chile. The island is most famous for its Moai (stone statues) carved from volcanic basalt along the island's coastline.
The lost civilisation of Atlantis is a story told throughout the ages. The first documented accounts are from around 355 BC by Greek philosopher Plato in the first part of his planned trilogy.
Stonehenge is one of the most famous megalithic monuments located on the Salisbury Plain in Southern England. Its construction and purpose have been a constant source of mystery.
In 1901 divers working near Antikythera, an island Northwest of Crete found the remains of a clockwork device that is estimated to be around 2,000 years old. Encased in coral and corrosion, its significance and complexity were not understood until decades later.
The Stone Spheres of Costa Rica are a collection of over 300 almost perfect spherical orbs first discovered in the Diquis Delta in the 1930's. They vary in size from a few centimetre to several meters, the larger stones weigh nearly 16 tonnes.
The Great Pyramid of Giza (also called the Khufu's Pyramid, Pyramid of Khufu, and Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that survives substantially intact.
