Analysis
Pieces
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,
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
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
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,