When you picture Atlantis, what do you see? For most people, this mythic city is a classical arcadia sunk beneath the sea – ...

In 1530, an Italian physician named Girolamo Fracastoro wrote an epic poem about… syphilis! In this poem, he suggested that indigenous peoples in the Americas were descendants of the people who ...

This two-part study (concluding next Monday) sets out not to expound the latest crackpot theory, but to survey the history of belief in the Atlantis myth. Why is it that, from the time of the ...