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Vile Vortices are specific places on Earth home to the strange and paranormal, where mysteries are more common than anywhere else. Any of twelve purported particular geographic areas arranged in…
China’s Chang’e-4 lander and Yutu-2 rover are still returning new views from the far side of the Moon, offering close-up looks at a landscape that is both familiar and fundamentally…
When NASA posts fresh Moon imagery, it rarely lands as just another space photo in some corners of the internet. A familiar cycle kicks in: the images get cropped, contrast-boosted,…
The Lempuyang Temple, also known as Pura Luhur Lempuyang, is one of Bali’s oldest and most highly regarded ancient temples. Sitting at around 600 meters, this temple is believed to predate…
There’s a stone tablet, recorded thousands of years ago in a Sumerian language that lists the ancient Kings of Sumer, their supposed length and location of kingship. The list narrates…
Did Nostradamus really have the supernatural power to foresee future events before they happened? Born Michel de Nostradame, December 14 or 21, Nostradamus as he is more commonly known as…
The Torysh Valley in Kazakhstan is home to a unique landscape. Scattered across the surface are countless stone spheres of different sizes. It’s as if in the distant past, it…
This is the biggest image ever of Andromeda at 1.5 billion pixels. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image. The image is beyond…
It remains a profound enigma just how ancient civilizations across the globe managed to move supermassive blocks of stone and transport them into position to build some of the most…
The Great Pyramid of Giza, built for the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu, remains the only surviving wonder from the classical list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It…
The Great Pyramid of Giza, beleived to have been built in Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, is widely identified as the tomb complex of King Khufu among mainstream archaeologists. It is the…
Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking lived centuries apart, yet they kept returning to the same question: how can we describe a universe that looks different at every scale?…
Have you ever wondered how powerful meditation really is? Harvard experts have studied Himalayan Monks for decades. They were the few lucky ones who were allowed inside the secretive world…
The Amazonian river can boil animals alive. An ancestral legend in the Peruvian Amazon speaks of a mysterious, boiling river. Hidden deep within the rainforest, this body of water is…
Each face has a shallow inward bend that can split it into two planes under the right light. The Great Pyramid at Giza has been measured for generations, and much…
For more than two millennia, Atlantis has survived in the public imagination on the strength of a single ancient source: Plato’s dialogues Timaeus and Critias. In those texts, Plato describes…
Standing not far from the Jordan River within the borders of Palestine, the city of Jericho challenges history. Experts indicate that the ancient city of Jericho is the oldest continuously…
The Odachi was a type of sword used by ancient Samurai in Japan. Since it was complicated for the wielder to draw the weapon quickly, the Odachi swords were more…
One of the most famous stone monuments on the European continent is Stonehenge: the massive stone formation in Wiltshire, England. This ancient monument attracts millions of tourists and is home…
Have you ever wondered about what Antarctica looks like without the massive, mile-thick sheets of ice covering its surface? Looking back at the geological history of our planet, we see…
This stunning image, snapped using the Wide Field Planetary Camera on NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, shows a striking, mysterious dark “X” silhouetted across a galaxy’s nucleus. The galaxy in question,…
No one knows what its purpose is or was. But there’s a massive megaphone in the middle of “nowhere.” It sits in the middle of the desert, tightly bolted onto…
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was,…
Throughout history, explorers, adventurers, and archeologists have spent lifetimes searching for long-lost places, legendary cities, and hidden treasures. While some of these expeditions have been a success, others were a…