The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
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It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a medieval airship!
An un-crewed sailing drone discovered the unusually shaped, slumbering seamount.
The amazing life of “Gudrid the Far-Traveled” was unjustly overshadowed by her in-laws, Erik the Red and Leif Erikson.
On New Year’s Eve 1899, the captain of this Pacific steamliner sailed into history. Or did he?
Mansa Musa, perhaps history’s richest man, claims he ascended the throne of Mali after his predecessor sailed west and never came back. Could he have made it to the New World?
Long before Christopher and Magellan, ancient explorers voyaged into the unknown and brought home extraordinary tales.
The most celebrated genius in human history didn’t just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
Narnia and early Middle-earth were pancake-esque — but their creators took differing views on de-globalization.
Borrow the same technique that produced McDonald’s, the Hawaiian pizza, the Beatles’ greatest hits, and Shakespeare’s rhetorical flair.
It’s a radical but plausible idea.
From questionable shipwrecks to outright attacks, the Sentinelese clearly don’t want to be bothered.
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
Invisible cloaks. Ghost imaging. Scientists are manipulating light in ways that were once only science fiction.
“Chicago May” was a classic swindler who conned her way around the world in the early twentieth century. She was also a sign of hard times.
Simple physics makes hauling vast ice chunks thousands of miles fiendishly difficult — but not impossible.
With advanced laser technology and an appropriate sail, we could accelerate objects to ~20% the speed of light. But would they survive?
It’s nearly 20,000 miles long.
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works engineering division has devised many jaw-dropping aircraft. Here are some of the best — and one ship.
A famous explorer’s doomed ship is finally found 107 years after it was lost to the Antarctic deep.
The Uros of Lake Titicaca live on floating islands made from reeds. How did they get there?
How to juggle while walking a tightrope — at work.
It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
Bathybius haeckelii was briefly thought to be the link between inorganic matter and organic life.
Architecture in the age of AI — argues professor Nayef Al-Rodhan — should embed philosophical inquiry in its transdisciplinary toolkit.
For centuries, the only way to travel between the Old and New World was through ships like the RMS Lusitania. Experiences varied wildly depending on your income.
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
A battle between different kinds of love.