Articles for tag: ancient myths, climate disaster, environmental catastrophe, Ragnarok myth

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Could a Climate Disaster Have Spawned The Ragnarok Myth

Suhail Ahmed

  The apocalypse of the Viking world was not a quiet affair. Ragnarok, with its freezing winds, blackened skies, and a sun that fails to rise, reads less like pure fantasy and more like an eye-witness report from the edge of a climate catastrophe. For decades, archaeologists, climatologists, and historians have been quietly piecing together ...

The Problem with Plato's Timeline

Why Archaeologists Are Rethinking the Story of Atlantis

Jan Otte

The legendary tale of Atlantis has captured human imagination for over two millennia, sparking countless expeditions, debates, and theories about its possible existence. But today’s archaeologists are approaching this ancient mystery in entirely new ways. Rather than dismissing it as pure myth or desperately searching for a sunken city, they’re examining how real discoveries of ...