Wu Mingren

A tourist attraction, this giant boulder balances on a small surface area on the slope of a hill. It has neither slid down this hill, nor budged when attempts were made to move it.

Charles Hoy Fort was an American “self-educated newspaperman, modestly-successful short story writer, unsuccessful novelist and inventor, and eccentric natural philosopher.”

Mystery surrounds the most famous pair of lovers in ancient history.

The story of Atlantis is not unique to the ancient Greeks, as other cultures also have similar legends of landmasses that disappeared under the waves. One of these is the story of Cantre’r Gwaelod from Wales.

Did a Native American set foot on European soil long before we previously thought?

The holy man, Manu, built an ark with pairs of animals on it, directed by the heavens to do so before a large flood. Is Manu the bibIs Manu the Biblical Noah? Heaven directed holy man, Manu, to build an ark before a great flood lical Noah?

Medieval scientists claimed to have created little people. The ethics of creating artificial life has long been debated!

Defoe’s fictional tale may have been based on true stories of castaways, one of them being Alexander Selkirk, a Scotsman who was a contemporary of the writer.

Robin Hood is perhaps one of the most iconic English heroes. His ethos of “robbing from the rich and giving to the poor” has endeared him to many, as he is seen as a figure who fought for the downtrodden. Nevertheless, it is unclear whether Robin Hood did actually exist, or whether he was just a fictional character.

One of the earliest references to the use of chemical weapons in Western literature can be found in the Greek myth of Heracles. ...