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Prehistoric monument in England
Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each arou…
Read article →Urban legend based on a region in North Atlantic
The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a loosely defined region in the North Atlantic Ocean, rough…
Island in the southeastern Pacific
Easter Island is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost poi…
Fictional island in Plato's works
Atlantis is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of na…
Geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert, Peru
The Nazca lines are a group of geoglyphs made in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. They were created betwee…
15th-century codex in an unknown script
The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex, hand-written in an unknown script referred to as Voynichese. The vellum …
Failed colony in North America (1584–1590)
The Roanoke Colony was the site of two attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in…
Neolithic archaeological site in Turkey
Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic archaeological site in Upper Mesopotamia (al-Jazira) in modern-day Turkey. The settlement wa…