Mysterious places and people forgotten by time.
Archaeologists have discovered the remains of what appears to be an ancient lodging almost 20 feet wide and 65 feet long in central Reykjavík. A government-sponsored team stumbled across the remains of the building and believes it predates
In a move only he could’ve seen coming…you know….because he’s who he is…the Amazing Kreskin has opened the gates on a new dating site… A site for “enthusiasts of the paranormal, the unexplained, the mystical, the implausible…” While we’re p
In May of 2013 during a geophysics survey along the Coast of Norfolk in England, researchers stumbled across what might be the oldest evidence of human life in the region…footprints. While skeptical at first, archaeologists have been doing
For quite a while archaeologists have suspected that people inhabited Portugal long before people claimed to have first inhabited Portugal. Within the last three years, researchers have discovered small rock pyramids on a small island calle
This fall a collaboration between NOVA & National Geographic will show how scientists think primitive culture may have moved the five-ton, ten-foot-tall Moai statues on Easter Island. [National Geographic YouTube Channel]
One year ago Swedish Ocean Explorer Team (Ocean X), using sonar, came across something buried under the ice in the Baltic Sea. Tons of hopeful theories have been tossed around as to what it may be. Ufo? Sunken ship? Arctic Stonehenge? No on
The terracotta warriors of the Xi’an archaeology dig in north-west China have become icons of the dynasties of long ago. More than 8,000 of these warriors have been excavated over the years and just yesterday more were unearthed. The curren
They’re featured in the title of practically every documentary or television show dealing with mysterious places. Their heads have adorned everything from coasters to keychains to books to backyard statuary. Heck, one of them even made it i
Even back in the day, Stonehenge was a tourist trap. One of the oldest human remains found near the site was identified as having Mediterranean origins. The British Geological Survey’s Jane Evans said that the find, radiocarbon dated to 1,5
The figure of pure terror you see before you is not the mascot of an arena league football team. Rather, it’s the artist rendering of an ancient seabird which once roamed modern-day Chile. Fossils of the creature were recently discovered ju
The oldest known shaman died and was buried in a Northern Israeli cave. Everyone thought it would be a good idea to stuff their faces with food in her memory. Because of this, you ate a ham plate at your Uncle Barry’s wake. Life is strange.
A letter found in the ruins of a collapsed Spanish colonial church in Peru could be the key to a heretofore undiscovered language. Awesome. “Even though [the letter] doesn’t tell us a whole lot, it does tell us about a language that is very
Researchers have found that Mayans protected their drinking water by installing a layer of ceramic shards. Pretty crafty… If so, that would be a minor sensation — merely due to the quantity of ceramics required. The aguadas in Uxul were eac
It meandered about the sea, a living blob named Drakozoon kalumon. Surviving by glomming on to other creatures and surviving on the tiniest morsels of food, this 1.7 millimeter creature was protected by a leathery outer skin bigger than it’
A ceremonial ground designed by a long-gone culture to mark and celebrate the lunar cycles… just over the river from modern-day Kentucky. This year archaeologists began using computer models to analyze Moorehead Circle’s layout and found th
German explorer Leo Frobenius came to West Africa and made a startling discovery. Gorgeous statues cast in exquisite bronze. So intricate, so beautiful, they so could not be the work of the locals. No, of course not. They simply had to be t
New archeological evidence proves that the China’s Western Zhou dynasty dabbled in human sacrifice roughly 2,700 years ago. “In general, there’s been a tendency to describe Western Zhou as a more humanistic period, when the practice of huma
Legend tells of an intensely insular, physically tiny race that lived in the north of Japan thousands of years ago before humans settled there. Brent Swancer of Cryptomundo takes a fascinating look at who they were and why they might be clo
A new finding suggests the earliest known human species swung from trees had the tools to make fire and was likely fond of eating other hominins. Yummo. The H. gautengensis fossils were found alongside basic stone tools and evidence of the
As it turns out, rolling with the Zoque over 2,700 years ago was pretty touch and go. On the upside, you were an off-shoot of the Olmec and were therefore among the first modern civilizations in recorded history. On the downside, you might
With all the talk of flooding in Tennessee, it helps to look back into history to gain perspective. After all, at least it wasn’t the megaflood that completely redefined that Alaskan landscape 15,000 years ago. One of at least four megafloo
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Deep in the Amazon researchers are exploring the remnants of a city that dates back to 200 AD. Little is known about the inhabitants and some speculate that this could have been the source of the rumors of El Dorado. Click through for the v
Thanks to the wonder of Microsoft’s Synth technology, we can explore haunted cities of the dead from the safety of your own home and avoid any avenging mummy unpleasantness. Check out this Synth of the Necropolis of Saqqara, an Egyptian bur
Travelet.com has this fun tourist destination known as Rookund in the Himalayas. It’s a lake filled with skeletons: Roopkund is better off known as “The skeleton lake” due to the presence of an enormous grave that holds about 300 to 600 ske
Newsweek has an interesting article about an ancient monument located in the middle of a golf course in Southern Ohio. Before you get upset about this suburbification of a historic site, it’s important to remember that if they hadn’t put a
50 meters off the coast of Laconia in Greece archeologists are mapping the oldest submerged city in the world. From ScienceDaily: Possibly one of the most important discoveries has been the identification of what could be a megaron — a larg
Embedded video from CNN VideoIn this video, CNN investigate Mirador, the cradle of the Mayan civilization and home to the largest pyramid (by volume) in the world. Mostly covered by jungle, it’s in the middle of a threatened region rampant
As the Hollywood and occult hype machines spin into overdrive about the proposed end of the world on December 21st, 2012, at least one person who may or may not know something about it says it’s all bunk. According to an AP story, Chile Pix
Researchers now speculate that an island chain once inhabited by the Minoan’s may have been a much larger island that was wiped out in a volcanic eruption that sent tidal waves as far as Israel. Speculation has abounded as to whether the Sa
The recent discovery of another megalithic site near Stonehenge has added yet another layer to the mystery. The presence of “Blue Stonehenge” approximately a mile away suggests that it was part of a larger scheme. What these stone age land
For years enthusiasts of the weird have dredged and searched Loch Ness for a monster and come up empty handed. Little did they know that a real ancient oddity was standing right behind them. Archaeologists in Scotland believe that a boulder