The Fool

The Fool The Fool is one of the 78 cards in a tarot deck. Traditionally, it is the lowest of the 22 trump cards, in tarot card reading called the 22 Major Arcana. However, in tarot card games it developed to be not one of the (then 21) trump cards but a special card,...

Know Yourself; Know Your Enemy

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every...

List of Lost Cities

Lost cities by continent[edit] Africa[edit] Rediscovered[edit] Egypt[edit] Akhetaten – capital during the reign of 18th Dynasty pharaoh Akhenaten. Later abandoned and almost totally destroyed. Modern day Amarna. Avaris – capital city of the Hyksos in the Nile Delta....

List of lost lands

Submerged lands[edit] Further information: Continental fragment The Sahul Shelf and the Sunda Shelf during the last glacial maximum and today. The area in between is called “Wallacea”. Map showing hypothetical extent of Doggerland, c. 8,000 BC Although the...

Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain

The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain (Welsh: Tri Thlws ar Ddeg Ynys Prydain) are a series of items in late-medieval Welsh tradition. Lists of the items appear in texts dating to the 15th and 16th centuries.[2] The number of treasures is always given as...