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Coptic leaders said their church believes in human rights and freedoms but that these freedoms must not be used to ‘violate the laws of the Creator.’

Throughout cryptozoology there have long been reports of all manner of strange creatures. One very weird corner of this phenomonon

Memphis, near the modern village of Mit Rahina not far from Cairo, the capital of Egypt, and its necropolis were added to UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1979. The capital of the Old Kingdom of Egypt has some extraordinary funerary monuments, including rock tombs

In the world of mysterious undiscovered beasts we have creatures of all shapes and sizes, with some being more bizarre than others. One corner of cryptozoology that has quite a few rather strange stories is that of various flying, winged reptiles, which have popped up in numerous cultures across the world. Perhaps standing out among

Io was a naiad, a water nymph, in Greek mythology. She is famous for being a lover of Zeus; a lover who was persecuted by Hera, resulting in Io wandering the earth in the form of a cow.

Old fortress walls discovered during excavation.

Historic Tales of Dragons and Reptilian Monsters The Egyptians were said to be invaded each year by flying serpents from Arabia that threatened their frankincense trade, while Alexander the Great encountered a great hissing dragon when he invaded India. In 1035, a terrible dragon was killed in the swamps of Hungary, the memory of this event living on through the royalty of the Báthory family and the Báthory seal. In Kradów, Poland, a dragon was said to terrify the inhabitants, requiring w...