I recently unlocked a new lifetime achievement level: I met my first cult leader. But why do people join cults? As a charismatic woman who makes friends easily, I’ve always joked about making a great cult leader someday. I listen to a lot of true crime. I often binge-listen to deep investigative journalism podcasts late…
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Iraq child marriage law to allow 9-year-old girls to marry undermines progress in women’s rights and gender equality in 2024
Did Iraq lower the age of marriage? Outrage has sparked around the world as Iraq considers allowing girls aged nine to marry. The Iraq child marriage law was introduced by the Iraq Justice Ministry this week, the bill aims to amend the Personal Status Law, which currently sets the minimum age for marriage at 18….
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Scientists to survey for the lost city of Atlantis in Doggerland in 2024
One of the most tantalizing locations for the lost city of Atlantis is in Doggerland, an ancient submerged landmass that once bridged the North and Baltic Seas, connecting what is now Great Britain to mainland Europe during prehistoric times. Archeologists have been lured by fossilized footprints left by our ancestors on the seafloor in addition…
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Shockingly Large Ancient Civilizations in Mosquitia Honduras
Lost civilizations in Mosquitia Honduras have been uncovered with high tech new methods that can penetrate the triple-canopy rainforest. One of them has been known by indigenous people and European explorers as multiple names: La Ciudad Blanca, City of the Jaguar, City of the Monkey God—or simply, White City.
![Search for Atlantis led by Harvard scholars from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Plato reported his account of the lost city of Atlantis 2,372 years ago. Add the 9,000 years before his time, and that brings us to bitter end of the Younger Dryas epoch. Younger Dryas epoch. has atlantis been found 2024 And if atlantis found 2024 did atlantis exist on the road to atlantis or is the lost city of atlantis real? was atlantis found in Doggerland?](https://www.maineforestartistry.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/mother.clucker_the_large_island_of_Ireland_is_a_circle._ten_thi_432b4878-5b44-434d-b94a-432c57b61c16-850x850.jpg)
Search for Atlantis led by Harvard scholars from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
In 1931, an epic search for Atlantis led by Harvard scholars began when the field of ocean science was in it’s infancy. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s oceanographer and founding director, Henry Bryant Bigelow and first mate Columbus Iselin set sail on a 42 day research cruise around the Azores to investigate how strong currents affects aspects of North…
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Origins of the Olmec civilization and the controversy of the Olmec stone heads
In the shadows of Mexico’s ancient jungles, the enigmatic Olmec civilization carved colossal stone heads, whispering of rulers and voyages across vast oceans—a testament to a complex society lost to time. Archeological debates rage on over their mysterious origins and the decline of their city-states, with artifacts hinting at extensive trade, intricate art, hierarchical social structures, and profound celestial knowledge. As colossal guardians overlook long-abandoned centers, the Olmecs’ legacy lingers, fueling speculations on their influence and prompting a rethinking of ancient transcontinental connections.
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Uncover the hidden truth of the legendary Aztec gold curse of 1519 and the lost culture of the Aztec people: agriculture, human sacrifice, and metallurgy
Hernán Cortés’s conquest of the Aztec Empire in 1519 was a brutal and devastating campaign that resulted in the decimation of the indigenous population and the destruction of their civilization. Cortés, driven by a combination of personal ambition, greed, and religious zeal following evidence of Aztec human sacrifice, led a small but determined force of…
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List of 48 Modern and Early Explorers: Important explorers that changed the way we view the world
This list of both modern and early explorers highlights the most important explorers that changed the way we view the world around us. Here’s a list of 50 explorers who have made significant contributions to our understanding of the world. Although many of the voyages caused cultural chaos, mass death of indigenous peoples, forced labor,…
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Who is Percy Fawcett and what happened to him?
Over 100 people have entered the Amazon rainforest to find out what happened to the great explorer Percy Fawcett—many decades after he was last heard from—only to never return themselves. What drove them to do such a thing? Who is Percy Fawcett and what happened to him? Let’s dive in. British explorer and natural-born leader,…
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In 2024 Scientists Survey for the lost city of Atlantis in North and Baltic Seas, and in the Pacific Ocean
Earth’s most recent ice age began 115,000 years ago. In it’s peak, 7.7 million more square miles were above water than are today. Many believe humans had architectural skills longer than previously thought—far before agriculture. Could these submerged hunter-gatherer hotspots host a lost civilization? Plato marked the first historical account of a powerful utopian civilization lost to the sea 9,000 years before his own time. Here we are 2,300 years later still wondering. Is Atlantis sleeping below sediment in the Dutch area of today’s North Sea? Or buried by time northwest of the Australian continent?