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The Phaistos Disc carries a script that is still undeciphered
In 1908, amid the ruins of the palace of Phaistos, in Crete, Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier unearthed an object that would become
The Lascaux cave keeps the secret of its 17,000-year-old paintings
In September 1940, deep in Dordogne, four teenagers who had set out to explore a hole left by a fallen tree stumbled,
The Lake Michigan "triangle" and its still-unexplained disappearances
Far from the tropical waters of the Atlantic, another enigmatic zone has built a troubling reputation right in the heart of the
Two British pranksters admitted to creating crop circles
For decades, geometric patterns of unsettling precision appeared, often overnight, in the grain fields of southern England. These formations, dubbed crop circles,
DID YOU KNOW 80-ton statues actually "walked" across Easter Island
On a speck of volcanic land lost in the middle of the Pacific, nearly 900 monumental statues known as moai continue to
The desert dunes that sing a deep, unexplained sound
In roughly thirty deserts around the world, certain sand dunes spontaneously produce a deep, powerful sound, similar to the hum of an
The Dyatlov Pass, the icy mystery that has haunted the Urals since 1959
In January 1959, a group of nine experienced Soviet skiers, mostly students and graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, set out on
Why Genghis Khan's tomb has stayed lost for eight centuries
Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire, died in 1227 during a military campaign against the kingdom of Western Xia, under circumstances
Was the "Baghdad Battery" really an electric battery
In 1936, workers near Khujut Rabu, on the outskirts of Baghdad, uncovered a small clay pot containing a copper cylinder with an