History – Mystery

Museums are the best place for us to contemplate how far humanity has progressed. These places hold the record of the millennia of innovation and evolution we went through to get to where we are now. But experts could explain not every artifact was discovered. And for some, no one even tried. What is a […]

In March 2003, the body of a man who lived during the Iron Age was discovered in a peat bog in Ireland. Known as the Clonycavan Man, the well-preserved remains indicate that the body was not that of a man who died a natural or honorable death, but one who was brutally murdered. The mysteries

Lima, Peru is home to many wonders of the world including the Huaca Pucllana pyramid. Huaca Pucllana served as an administrative and ceremonial center in the pre-Inca Lima culture to elite clergymen. Today, Huaca Pucllana now offers its visitors a glimpse into the history of the ancient culture. About Huaca Pucllana The Huaca Pucllana is

Recently, the “Chipa dragon fossils” were exhibited at the Xiпwei Aпcieпt Living Fossil Museum in Aпshυп, Guizhoυ. When archaeologists initially removed the clay from the fossil, they discovered that the dragon had a pair of horns on its head, and that the shape of the dragon closely resembled that of the legendary creature often remembered

For almost a century, King Tutankhamun has been the poster boy for Ancient Egypt. His death mask was sublimely, breathtakingly crafted over 3,300 years ago from 24 pounds of beaten gold, with eyeliner of lapis lazuli and eyes of quartz and obsidian. It’s probably the most recognizable artifact we have from antiquity. Once entombed in

Jarlshof is an ancient settlement near Sumburgh Head, the southern tip of the Shetland Mainland in northern Scotland. It is one of the most unique and famous prehistoric archaeological sites ever excavated in the British Isles and Scotland. It embraces more than 4,000 years of human history. It was home to many different people for

Almost every culture that prevails around the world talks consists of ancient accounts that narrate the tales of giants living on the Earth. One more addition to such accounts is the ancient mural painting in the Nubian pyramids that portrays a ‘Giant’ carrying two elephants. Moving north from Khartoum along a narrow desert road toward

In the 16th and 17th centuries while, with astonishing hypocrisy, Europeans were reacting with disgust and outrage to reports of cannibalism brought back by travelers from the New World. And yet in this very period people were still treating themselves with corpse medicine, cures and remedies consisting of human blood, bones, organs, and human fat!

Sam Osmanagich claims that 12,000 years ago, early Europeans built “the greatest pyramidal complex” on earth, in Bosnia. Morten Hvaal Sam Osmanagich kneels down next to a low wall, part of a 6-by-10-foot rectangle of fieldstone with an earthen floor. If I’d come upon it in a farmer’s backyard here on the edge of Visoko—in

The first complete skeleton of a prehistoric marine reptile was thought to be lost forever in a bombing raid in London in 1941. Paleontologist Mary Anning discovered the ichthyosaur fossil in 1818, two decades before the word dinosaur was even part of our lexicon. The ancient marine reptiles got the name ichthyosaur, or “fish lizard,”