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Stonehenge, the logistical feat that still baffles archaeologists
Standing on Salisbury Plain in southern England, Stonehenge ranks among the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world, listed as a UNESCO
The Nazca Lines, a mystery etched into the Peruvian desert
In the Peruvian desert, about 400 kilometers south of Lima, lies one of the most intriguing archaeological sites on the planet: the
The Antikythera mechanism, a 2,000-year-old ancient "computer"
In 1901, Greek sponge divers explored the wreck of a Roman ship that had sunk near the small island of Antikythera, between
DID YOU KNOW the Cretan Linear A script has resisted decipherment for a century
On the island of Crete, British archaeologist Arthur Evans unearthed, at the very start of the twentieth century, thousands of tablets covered
The lost colony of Roanoke vanished, leaving only a single carved word
At the end of the sixteenth century, England attempted to establish its first permanent settlement in North America, on a small island
The Rosetta Stone cracked the secret of hieroglyphs after 1,400 years of silence
In 1799, soldiers from the Napoleonic army in Egypt were working to reinforce a fort near the town of Rosetta, in the
The Voynich manuscript, undeciphered for a century despite the best cryptographers
Among the precious collections of Yale University's Beinecke Library sits one of the most enigmatic documents ever studied by historians and cryptographers:
Antarctica, not the Sahara, is the largest desert in the world
When we hear the word desert, the collective imagination almost automatically conjures images of scorching dunes and unbearable heat, like the Sahara,
This town's border is so tangled that houses change country room by room
Straddling Belgium and the Netherlands, the small town of Baarle forms what is arguably the most complex border configuration on the planet,