Moai
Giant stone statues of human faces on Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the South Pacific. About 900 exist, carved between around the 10th and 16th centuries. Thought to honor ancestors, how they were moved was long a mystery.
Mystery Timeline｜1185–1602
Mysteries of the Kamakura to Sengoku
Yokai and strange tales from the age of the samurai, alongside the mysterious books and legends of medieval Europe, from the Kamakura period to the Warring States era.
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c. 10th–16th century
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16th–18th century
Megallanica
An imaginary continent covering much of the Southern Hemisphere on world maps of the 16th–18th centuries. Named after Magellan, it was shown not to exist by voyages such as Cook's.
