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Sigüenza first learnt of Atlantis while studying to be a Jesuit where he came across the work of Athanasius Kircher whose 1665 map of the lost continent was the first in history. Expelled from the Je

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Amid the spectacular ruins of the new world, the story of Atlantis would now take a different turn, becoming the focus for one man's bold quest to discover the truth about his country and himself. 30

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It took Columbus a very long time to convince Isabella and Ferdinand that he ought to be able to find something because for the most part his ideas were ridicule d and this was of course during the In

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On August 2nd, 1492, as Columbus finally set off on his epic voyage to cross the Atlantic Ocean, he had not one but two goals in mind--crossing the endless expanse of an uncharted sea, and discovering

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And at other times, they'd have looked more like Africa's Serengeti Plains. More than 15 millions years ago, what is now Vienna and Paris would have been submerged beneath rich tropical seas. And over

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It took a ten-meter layer of fallen rain forest to make just a one-meter seam of coal. When you consider the depth of all the seams in all the coalfields worked in Europe, from Britain through to nort

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This documentary film lost in the German archives played to packed audiences in German movie theaters in 1933. Not wanting to dispel the illusion of a great find, the archeologists remained evasive ab

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When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1799, he took with him the largest collection of scholars ever to accompany a military campaign. The finds and discoveries made by Napoleon's archaeologists generated a

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In 1888, Blavatsky wrote a book called the Secret Doctrine, in which she attempted to establish the principles of Theosophy or God Wisdom that the cosmic masters had impart ed to her. Blavatsky cited

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Entomb ed by a 30-foot layer of volcanic pumice for more than 3,500 years, the city was clearly related to the ruins of Minoan Crete. Hundreds if not thousands of years ahead of its time, among the ci

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In the summer of 1968, the occupant s of a small plane flying off the coast of Bimini near Florida spotted beneath them mysterious shapes in the clear waters. The site quickly attracted huge interest,

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Based in Tobay, England, Jim Allen is a former aerial photography analyst for the British Royal Air Force. And it is by analyzing aerial photography that Jim Allen believes he has discovered one of th

Wild Europe - Genesis 肇始之初- 14

Despite this enormous flood, the Mediterranean took more than a century to refill. But what is more amazing is that this process of drying and flooding has happened not just once, but possibly ten tim

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Continent 大洲 There are seven continents in the world. 世界有七大洲。 They are Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and Antarctica. 它们分别是亚洲、非洲、北美洲、南美洲、欧洲、澳洲和南极洲

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