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This war lasted 335 years without a single shot fired
In 1651, in the middle of the English Civil War, a royalist fleet took refuge in the Isles of Scilly, off the
Jeanne Calment, humanity's oldest verified person, who once crossed paths with Van Gogh
The Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, born in 1875 in Arles and who died in 1997 at the exceptional age of 122 years and
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,
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
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