Medieval Mysteries You Didn't Learn in History Class

The Inventio Fortunata is said to be written in the 14th century by a Franciscan Friar from Oxford , England .

It is one of the most important travel logs that we have never seen.

It was summarized in a second text, the Itanarium, written by a Brabantian traveler from Den Bosch .

John Cabot sailed from Bristol in 1497 with a crew of 18 .

They found land after a month and claimed it in the name of Henry Tudor .

Cabot was rewarded with the sum of 10 lbs for finding a new island off the coast of China .

In 1528 , he sailed from South America to Spain in a repeat of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage, The Lost Tomb .

A shroud bearing the faint image of the front and back of a man appeared at the Church of Lurie , a village in North Central France , in 1453 .

It was procured by the Italian royal House of Savoy , who moved it to the new capital of Turin in 1578 .

The shroud bears the image of a gaunt man between 5 foot 7 and 6 foot tall, with thorn marks on the head, lacerations on the back, and bruises on the shoulders.