For more than 2,000 years, the lost city of Atlantis has fascinated treasure hunters and explorers.
But despite countless theories and decades of searching, the lost city has remained stubbornly lost.
While Atlantis itself may be nothing more than a myth, archaeologists have uncovered real sunken cities all over the world.
From a ‘cursed’ town in Germany to a mysterious underwater pyramid in Japan, these drowned worlds may be even stranger than any legend.
So if you feel like hunting
It is a question that frequently pops up on pub quizzes: how many of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can you name?
Perhaps more pertinently, how many are still standing?
The answer, as a new book reveals, is only one: the Great Pyramid of Giza.
The Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World, by historian Bettany Hughes, tells the story of each of the glittering marvels of engineering.
Five of the six that are now lost to the past
The Aztecs are today revered around the world, despite their civilisation having been gone for hundreds of years.
They were at one point in history the most advanced humans on the planet, leading the way in science and medicine, building great cities for hundreds of thousands of people in jungle and desert landscapes across Mexico.
Many of their cities contained complex irrigation systems that wouldn’t be seen anywhere else in the world for hundreds of years.
But, when Europeans arrived
Conspiracy theorists have a new focus for their attention – a ‘pyramid’ in Antarctica.
Despite the continent being covered in snow
A mysterious “pyramid” has been spotted below the ice in Antarctica, sparking a frenzy online among conspiracy theorists.
The formation was located using satellite images taken over the southern part of Antarctica’s Ellsworth Mountain range.
The location in question is found at the coordinates 79°58’39.25?S 81°57’32.21?W, which has been a much-searched spot on Google Earth.
A number of peaks can been seen appearing to push through the snow – with one even measuring two kilometers in each direction of its
When it comes to tourist attractions, Europe still has a few surprises up its sleeve – as we show here with a list of nine lesser-known, but truly fascinating, sights to make your next holiday extra memorable.
There’s a gem-studded human skeleton displayed in a glass case in Munich, Amsterdam’s Museum of Fluorescent Art, a vast Victorian cemetery in Glasgow and a pyramid in Rome.
Which would you visit? Scroll down for the full list…
Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
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Es wird zu einem hochsicheren Zentrum für Hochleistungsrechnen und Datenverarbeitung ausgebaut.
Die Ankündigung der Investition von 500 Millionen US-Dollar erfolgte durch Gouverneur Doug Burgum.
Der CO2-Fußabdruck der Anlage wird durch den Einsatz erneuerbarer Energiequellen kompensiert.
Der Standort kontrollierte einst antiballistische Raketen, wurde jedoch 1975 nach nur 8 Monaten vom Kongress deaktiviert.
