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Elongated skulls have been found all over the planet. No matter what ancient cultures are being studied, it seems that nearly all ancient civilizations had people of elongated skulls in…
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Elongated skulls have been found all over the planet. No matter what ancient cultures are being studied, it seems that nearly all ancient civilizations had people of elongated skulls in…

Nikola Tesla, born in Smiljan in what is now Croatia, spent his career moving between hard engineering and sweeping forecasts. One of the clearest records of his late-life outlook appears…

Egypt hides many secrets. The modern country we see today was built atop thousands and thousands of years of history and crafted by countless pharaohs and rulers that reigned over…

It is a library that not many people have heard about. Located on the Sinai Peninsula, Saint Catherine’s Monastery is home to the oldest continually operating library on the surface…

One of the most mysterious cave systems anywhere in the world is without a doubt the Longyou Caves. These are a series of large artificial sandstone caverns located near the village…

Archeological excavations in the Amazon have revealed that more than 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers occupied southwestern parts of the Amazon rainforest. This discovery comes as a surprise as it is…

Ask for the deepest hole on Earth and the answer depends on what you mean by a hole. Are you asking about the deepest shaft drilled by people, the lowest…

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…

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,…

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…

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…
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…

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…

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…

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,…

“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,…

The Konark Sun Temple (believed to have been built during the 13th-century CE) is a massive stone-built temple in the shape of a giant chariot, dedicated to the Hindu Sun God. Its…

Archaeologists have found evidence of ancient Maya cultivation fields under the wetlands of southern Mexico, which suggests that they grew a surplus of food, practicing a sophisticated market economy in…

The Hubble Space Telescope, or Hubble, is a telescope that orbits outside the atmosphere in a circular orbit around the planet Earth at 593 kilometers above sea level, with an…

Lake Baikal in southern Siberia holds more water than any other freshwater lake in the world. Its depth of 1,642 meters and age—estimated at up to 30 million years—make it…

Below the Giza plateau, the monument most often associated with Osiris is not a pyramid. It is a deep, rock-cut complex known as the Osiris Shaft, a set of passages…

The strangest places on Earth aren’t just the work of nature—they’re chapters in humanity’s deep, mysterious past. For thousands of years, humans have left strange markings, built impossible structures, and…