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. The ...
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Rongorongo is a system of mysterious glyphs discovered written on various artifacts on Easter Island. Many believe they represent a lost system of writing or proto-writing and could be one of just ...
Read moreThe mystery of the Phaistos Disc is a story that
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
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In the dry lakebad of Racetrack, Death Valley stoned as big as 700 pounds mysteriously slide across the surface of the earth without any notable external forces acting upon them. While some ...
Read moreNevada Indian legend of 12 foot red-haired ...
Nevada Indian legend of 12 foot red-haired giants that lived in the area when they arrived. The story has the Native American's killing off the giants at a cave. Excavations of guano in 1911 turned
Read moreOne legend connected to the Nordic Vikings got a
One legend connected to the Nordic Vikings got a strong jolt of reality with the discovery of a possible "sunstone" on a shipwreck off of Great Britain. Viking lore claimed that the sailors used ...
Read moreCommandment Rock Mysteries An 80 ton boulder on
Commandment Rock Mysteries An 80 ton boulder on the side of Hidden Mountain in New Mexico bears a puzzling inscription. Carved into the stone's flat side is what has been interpreted by some to be a
Read moreEaster Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is ...
Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, is remotely located 2,000 miles off the coast of Tahiti. The original settlers of the island were Polynesians who migrated to the far-off land between 400 and
Read moreThe Legend of El Dorado originates from the ...
The Legend of El Dorado originates from the Muisca, who lived in the modern country of Colombia from 1000 to 1538 AD. In a ritual ceremony for their goddess, the tribal chief would cover himself in
Read moreThe Ark of the Covenant is described in the ...
The Ark of the Covenant is described in the Bible as a wooden casket, gold plated, made for carrying the tablets of the Ten Commandments. The casket was carried throughout the desert and remained in
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