Category: Alternative History

• Tartaria

  Tartaria, more commonly rendered in English-language history as Tartary, was an early modern European geographic label used for a broad and shifting expanse of Inner Asia, Siberia, and neighboring regions. In modern conspiracy culture, the same name has been reinterpreted as referring to a lost global empire said to have possessed advanced architecture, technology, and knowledge before being erased from history. The modern Tartaria theory combines historical map terminology, architecture-focused hidden-history claims, mud-flood narratives, and ideas of documentary suppression into one of the most prominent internet-era alternative-history systems.

• Atlantis as Mother Civilization

  The “Atlantis as Mother Civilization” theory claims that Atlantis was not just a lost island kingdom but the original source civilization from which many later cultures descended. In this view, Atlantis served as the ancestral center of religion, astronomy, architecture, kingship, writing, navigation, and sacred science, and its destruction scattered survivors across the ancient world. Those survivors are said to have carried fragments of Atlantean knowledge into Egypt, Mesoamerica, the Mediterranean, and Europe, where later civilizations preserved distorted memories of the lost world in myth, monument, and mystery tradition.

• The People of Europe and Descendants of Atlantis

  This theory claims that the peoples of Europe, especially those described in esoteric or nationalist traditions as Nordic, Aryan, or proto-Indo-European, are the surviving descendants of Atlantis. In its broader conspiratorial form, the theory argues that after the destruction of Atlantis, selected survivors carried advanced knowledge, bloodlines, priesthoods, symbols, and civilizing power into Europe, where they became the ancestors of later European nations. Over time, the idea blended Plato’s lost-island story with Theosophy, racial mythology, occult history, and nationalist speculation, turning Atlantis into a hidden origin point for Europe’s peoples, ruling lines, and sacred traditions.