Atlantis is a legendary lost continent, bygone ancient civilisation, and lost, submerged concentric-ringed city said to have existed way back in the past, situated, according to legend, somewhere in the North Atlantic Ocean, at the crossroads between Europe, Africa, and North America. The first well known literary sources detailing the myth of Atlantis are the…
According to relatively recent historical and archaeological/DNA research, it seems that the Norse might have reached the shores of the Madeira and Azores archipelagos (which are both part of Portugal) well before the firmly established Portuguese colonisers! According to several mouse bones found in Madeira which were dated to either the 10th or 11th centuries…
The Isle of Man was inhabited since ancient times. Human presence on the island is known to date back to at least 6500 BC, since the Mesolithic period more specifically (some of the earliest inhabitants being the ancient Celts). The Gaels are known to have settled the island during the 5th century and the Manx…
The Isle of Man (also simplu known as Mann) is a relatively small island situated in the Irish Sea, between Ireland and Britain. The Isle of Man was inhabited since ancient times. In the beginning of the 7th century, the Isle of Man was conquered by Edwin of Northumbria (initially the King of the early…
The Norwegian Vikings were by far the most skilled and resilient navigators of all the Vikings during the renowned Viking Age (a sub-epoch or sub-era of the lengthier Early Middle Ages), travelling far and wide distances in their imposing longships over the North Atlantic Ocean on perilous yet legendary voyages of exploration, trade, and conquest…
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