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DNA Is Finally Cracking One of the Arctic’s Oldest Unsolved Mysteries
New genetic identifications are confirming what Inuit witnesses said all along, and what Victorian Britain refused to believe.
Aug 19
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The Trojan War Was Real, Just Not the Way Homer Told It
Heinrich Schliemann wanted Troy so badly that he almost destroyed it. When he arrived at Hisarlik in 1871 with a crew of workmen and a head full of…
Aug 5
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The Real Nazca Lines: What Mainstream Archaeology Won’t Commit To
Everyone has heard of the Nazca Lines. Most people know the alien explanation is nonsense. But the real academic debate three competing theories, none…
Jul 22
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Stonehenge’s Bones: The Burial Site That Rewrites What We Thought We Knew
New isotope analysis of human remains at Stonehenge shows that many of the people buried there in its earliest phase came from Wales the same place as…
Jul 17
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Who Built Gobekli Tepe and Why Did They Bury It?
Gobekli Tepe was built 12,000 years ago at least 1,000 years before the first evidence of agriculture anywhere in the world. It required coordinating…
Jul 15
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The Lost Library of Alexandria: Did It Actually Burn, or Was That a Myth?
The Library of Alexandria did not burn in one catastrophic fire. Caesar probably destroyed a warehouse, not the library. The Arab general who supposedly…
Jul 8
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Britain Wasn’t Always an Island: The Drowned World Beneath the North Sea
The North Sea was not always there. Before the water arrived, before the English Channel cut Britain off from continental Europe, there was land. Dry…
Apr 2
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Greek Fire: The Byzantine Superweapon Lost to History
In the summer of 678 CE, an Arab fleet of several hundred ships approached Constantinople.
Mar 13
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The Plain of Jars: Laos’s Megalithic Mystery
Scattered across the highlands of northern Laos lie thousands of giant stone jars.
Mar 11
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Roopkund: The Himalayan Lake of Bones
High in the Indian Himalayas, at 5,029 meters above sea level, lies a small glacial lake called Roopkund.
Mar 4
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The Scripts We Cannot Read: Humanity’s Unbroken Codes
In 1952, a young British architect named Michael Ventris solved one of archaeology’s greatest puzzles.
Feb 28
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The Underwater Port That Could Finally Solve the Mystery of Cleopatra’s Tomb
Forty feet beneath the Mediterranean Sea, divers found stone columns rising more than 20 feet from the seafloor.
Feb 7
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