Tartary

[quadibloc]

I bumped into a YouTube video which claimed that the ancient land of Tartary... disappeared from encyclopedias and the like in 1920.
It turns out there's a pseudo-scientific theory claiming that several modern bridges in Russia are really ancient bridges from mediaeval Tartary that were made by a lost advanced civilization. This is called the "Mud Flood" theory.
Anyways, I found the 1927 edition of a historical atlas that put Tartary on the map, and these maps, in the Mollweide projection, now illustrate my web site.

[daan]

You are welcome to include links.

I should make a list of things that do not have pseudoscientific claims attached to them. It might be short.

— daan

[Milo]

I should make a list of things that do not have pseudoscientific claims attached to them.

It's pretty hard to prove that nobody has ever make a claim about something. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, after all. Therefore, such a list would itself be pseudoscientific...

[daan]

I was hoping someone would notice the irony!

— daan