Padre Pio’s Stigmata
What do you think about this? On the morning of September 20, 1918, a young friar named Padre Pio was praying alone before a crucifix in a monastery in San […]
Eastern State Penitentiary
What do you think about this? Eastern State Penitentiary opened its doors in Philadelphia in 1829. It was built on a simple, brutal idea. Total isolation. Prisoners lived alone in […]
Stonehenge Alignment
What do you think about this? Five thousand years ago, before the wheel reached Britain, before iron tools, before written language in that part of the world, someone dragged stones […]
Kensington Runestone
What do you think about this? In 1898, a Swedish farmer named Olof Ohman was clearing trees on his land in Solem Township, Minnesota, when he pulled up a slab […]
Mary Magdalene at Mt. Tamalpais
What do you think about this? The conventional history is that Mary Magdalene died in Ephesus or somewhere in Provence, in the south of France, somewhere between 60 and 80 […]
Ezekiel’s Wheels
What do you think about this? In the sixth century BC, by the river Chebar in Babylon, a Hebrew prophet named Ezekiel had a vision. He wrote it down with […]
Nazca Lines
What do you think about this? In the Peruvian desert, between the Andes and the Pacific, the ground itself becomes a canvas. More than seven hundred geometric shapes and more […]
Patagonian Giants
What do you think about this? In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition was anchored in a harbor on the southern coast of South America, on what we now call Patagonia, when […]
Baghdad Battery
What do you think about this? In 1936, a German archaeologist named Wilhelm Konig was working at a museum in Baghdad when he found something in the basement collection that […]
Aztec 5 Suns Cosmology
What do you think about this? The Aztecs believed that the world has been destroyed four times already, and we are living in the fifth age. Each of the previous […]