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- Voynich Manuscript. Named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912, the Voynich Manuscript is a detailed 240-page book written in a language or script that is completely unknown.
- Kryptos. Kryptos is a mysterious encrypted sculpture designed by artist Jim Sanborn which sits right outside the headquarters of the CIA in Langley, Virginia.
- Beale Ciphers. The Beale Ciphers are a set of three ciphertexts that supposedly reveal the location of one of the grandest buried treasures in U.S. history: thousands of pounds of gold, silver and jewels worth roughly $43 million as of 2017.
- Phaistos Disc. The mystery of the Phaistos Disc is a story that sounds like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. Discovered by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier in 1908 in the Minoan palace-site of Phaistos, the disc is made of fired clay and contains mysterious symbols that may represent an unknown form of hieroglyphics.
Mar 18, 2024 · Whether the treasure is real, where exactly it was hidden, whether it was ever found and whether it could still exist today are all mysteries that will likely never be solved.
- Thonis-Heracleion
- Plain of Jars
- Guanabara Bay
- Nazca Lines
- Paracas Candelabra
- Sacsayhuamán
- Cleopatra's Tomb
- Voynich Manuscript
- Yonaguni Monument
- Stonehenge
An Egyptian port city on the Mediterranean Sea, Thonis-Heracleion served as a major trading hub prior to the founding of nearby Alexandria around 331 B.C. Mythical hero Heracles and Helen of Troy both supposedly spent time there. Around the second century B.C., however, the city center collapsed due to soil liquification, possibly triggered by eart...
Thousands of lichen-covered stone jars from the Iron Age, some standing close to 10 feet tall and weighing several tons, dot the mountainous landscape of northern Laos. Carved largely from sandstone and found in groups ranging from just one to 400, legend holds that giants used them as wine glasses. Many archeologists, on the other hand, believe th...
Acting on a tip from locals, controversial shipwreck explorer Robert Marx claimed in 1982 to have discovered a number of twin-handled Roman vases, known as amphoras, in Brazil’s Guanabara Bay. According to Marx, the barnacle-covered amphoras provided proof that the Romans were the first Europeans in Brazil, having pre-dated the Portuguese by over 1...
Roughly 2,000 years ago, a pre-Inca civilization etched a series of enormous drawings into the dry coastal plain of Peru. Known as the Nazca Lines, these geoglyphs remained largely unknown until aircraft began flying over the area in the 1930s. To date, well over 1,000 designs have been located: Most are straight lines, stretching up to 30 miles, o...
To the northwest of the Nazca Lines, carved into a hillside overlooking Peru’s Pisco Bay, lies the Paracas Candelabra, another massive geoglyph that stretches some 600 feet from top to bottom. Though pottery found at the site has been dated to around 200 B.C., no one knows the age of the candelabra itself. Its raison d’être remains equally fuzzy. O...
Elsewhere in Peru, just outside Cuzco, stands the remains of the Sacsayhuamán fortress, which was painstakingly constructed by the Incas in the 1400s. Much like at Machu Picchu, Inca laborers somehow moved enormous rocks into place—some of which weighed 125 tons or more—before masons cut them, using only bronze and stone tools, and fitted them toge...
For an ancient ruler, much is known about Cleopatra VII, the so-called last queen of Egypt, who famously consorted with both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony and later committed suicide in 30 B.C. following Antony’s and her defeat at the Battle of Actium. Yet the location of Antony’s and her tomb—the couple were purportedly buried together—remains a c...
In 1912, rare book dealer Wilfrid Voynich acquired a medieval manuscript that he claimed had been housed in “an ancient castle in southern Europe.” Written in an extinct language, or code, no one could recognize and filled with strange illustrations of fictitious plants and naked women, it has befuddled scholars ever since, including Alan Turing an...
Off the coast of Japan’s Yonaguni Island lies an underwater rock structure, at least 165 feet long and 65 feet wide, that resembles a manmade step pyramid. Discovered in the 1980s and now known as the Yonaguni Monument, it is believed by some researchers to be the ruins of an ancient civilization. Many other researchers, however, contend that “Japa...
Construction of Stonehenge, one of the world’s most iconic prehistoric landmarks, began some 5,000 years ago, before England even entered the Bronze Age. Well studied for centuries, most researchers agree it functioned as a burial site—and it’s now known where the massive stones came from. Yet Stonehenge’s other secrets remain stubbornly elusive, i...
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- The Last Cruise Of Amy Lynn Bradley. Within a period of half an hour in 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley went missing from her cruise ship cabin, never to be seen or heard from again.
- The Unlikely Construction Of Florida's Coral Castle. Many find it hard to explain how Ed Leedskalnin, who stood just over five feet tall, was able to carve and manipulate 1,100 tons of coral into this monument for his unrequited love.
- Whatever Happened To Little Bobby Dunbar? Four-year-old Bobby Dunbar vanished from Louisiana in 1912. His reappearance led to a custody battle, an incredible DNA test 90 years later, and a wrongly convicted man.
- The Disappearance Of Kris Kremers And Lisanne Froon. On April 1, 2014, Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon left their host family’s home in Panama, and it would be the last time anyone would see them alive.
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- The Greatest Mysteries Of Human History: The Lost City of Atlantis. The Lost City of Atlantis is one of the oldest and greatest mysteries of the world. Since ancient times, people have been trying to locate Atlantis, which is believed to have submerged after an earthquake or tsunami.
- The Greatest Mysteries Of The World: The Bog Bodies. The bog bodies, or bog people, are the naturally preserved human corpses that were found in the sphagnum bogs in Northern Europe.
- Jack The Ripper. The most notorious criminal of all time, Jack the Ripper’s identity still remains one of the greatest mysteries in the history of crime.
- The Greatest Mysteries Of Human History: Stonehenge. Stonehenge stands in all its beautiful and enigmatic glory on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.
Feb 6, 2024 · 1. Where is Cleopatra’s tomb? Finding the burial place of Cleopatra VII, who is usually considered the last monarch of the Ptolemaic dynasty that ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the...
Apr 17, 2024 · 18 April, 2024 - 20:49 Robbie Mitchell. The Mystery of Roanoke Colony’s Disappearance (Video) The Roanoke Colony's mysterious disappearance, led by John White, stands as a profound enigma in the annals of early American history. Embarking on multiple expeditions to the New World, White and... Read Later. Read more. 17 April, 2024 - 15:00 dhwty.
