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Investigations into enduring mysteries from history, archaeology, and science. We examine claims, track the evidence, and highlight what researchers know (and what remains uncertain).
Why Pyramids and why the pyramidal shape? There are countless pyramids scattered across the globe built across thousands of years by different cultures which were allegedly never in contact with…
This city of the dead in stone and sand is the otherworldly counterpart of the living city of Memphis in ancient Egypt. The Saqqara plateau was home to eleven ancient…
The most famous pyramids on Earth, although not the most numerous, are located in modern-day Egypt. The three perhaps most famous pyramids are those that were built at the Giza…
Over the years, numerous weird things have been reported by news outlets around the globe, from Pyramids in Antarctica to crashed UFO and secret alien and government bases. In other…
Of all the ancient monuments that have been built by ancient civilizations across millennia, none compares to the great Sphinx of Giza. Standing at the footsteps of some of the…
There’s a massive monolithic statue right next to Egypt’s most famous pyramids, and no one knows its purpose, exact age, or history. We know its old. Like, really old. In…
4,500 years ago, the Great Pyramid of Giza is believed to have been built on the arid Giza plateau, not far from Cairo. It would remain the tallest structure on…
Egypt was a cradle of civilization, allowing the same basic culture and language to prosper for nearly 3,000 years. Even before the rise of the first Pharaoh that united the…
If there was a competition among all the ancient statues on Earth and we were to include things like the most mysterious, the oldest, and the largest, the Sphinx would…
Exploring Mars has always been of great importance to humans. Not only because Mars is relatively close to Earth, but because the red planet is eerily similar to our own…
We’ve wondered for decades how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids. Countless theories have been proposed to explain how this ancient civilization managed to erect the only ancient wonder of…
People observed mysterious things in the sky since even before history was written. Strange lights, ‘falling stars’ comets, asteroids, and other inexplicable things have been observed worldwide since mankind has…
The Zapata Footprint is an alleged human footprint embedded in a Permian rock in New Mexico. Referred to by some as the New Mexico track or the Zapata track, a…
The Fawn Hoof Mummy was reported in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, in 1811. The burial was found below the cave floor, with the body seated and wrapped in deerskin, alongside tools…
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…
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?…
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…
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…
Does the Piri Reis map of Antarctica really depict the continent without its ice sheet? Over the years, this fragmentary 16th-century map has sparked intense debate among researchers, skeptics, and…
Why does the 33rd parallel appear in stories about ancient sites, UAPs and famous events? We map the coordinates and explain what the pattern proves.
As bestselling author Graham Hancock once said, “we are a species with amnesia.” And looking at history, it’s hard to argue with that. Humanity has always searched for answers about…
This living crater in Siberia has left scientists confused for more than 70 years. Known as the Patomskiy Crater, it rises out of the forest like a massive stone mound—and…
The lost cosmonauts of the USSR are at the heart of one of the most mysterious and debated stories of the space race era. While the world watched the USSR…