Exploration mysteries

a black and white photo of a sailor taken in the mid 1800s

DNA Researchers Identify Cannibalized Remains From Lost Franklin Expedition

Another piece of the Franklin Expedition puzzle has dropped...
September 26, 2024
Spanish gold coins.

Exploration Mysteries: The Treasure of Lima

It is 1820 and Peru is in chaos. Disaffection...
September 12, 2024
a portrait of Meriwether Lewis painted shortly after his return from the West

Exploration Mysteries: The Troublesome End of Meriwether Lewis

On Oct. 11, 1809, in a small inn named...
September 3, 2024
AI illustration of Zerzura.

Exploration Mysteries: Zerzura

In 1481, a mysterious figure emerged from the desert...
September 1, 2024
Aztec ruins.

Exploration Mysteries: Aztlan

Where did the Aztecs come from? Despite a wealth...
August 10, 2024
Saint Peter's Basilica.

Exploration Mysteries: Tartarian Empire

How exactly do you look for a civilization that...
August 4, 2024
desert town

Exploration Mysteries: Lost City of the Kalahari

In 1885, tightrope walker-turned-explorer William Leonard Hunt was searching...
July 1, 2024
green children

Exploration Mysteries: The Green Children of Woolpit

Once upon a time in the 12th century, two...
June 30, 2024
An illustration of a Patagonian encampment; from an account by French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1840s).

Exploration Mysteries: The Giants of Patagonia

Explorers and mapmakers called uncharted lands Terra Incognita. Though...
June 9, 2024
Sea Peoples

Exploration Mysteries: The Sea Peoples

Black-flagged ships sailed up the Nile, bringing mysterious seafarers...
June 3, 2024
a desert landscape with lights on the horizon

Exploration Mysteries: The Marfa Lights

There's something spooky happening way out in the desert,...
June 1, 2024
city underground

Exploration Mysteries: Agartha

We know the Earth is not hollow. While we...
April 7, 2024
formations in the desert

Exploration Mysteries: Works of the Old Men

Google Earth has done a lot more than show...
April 4, 2024
upright stone pillars

Exploration Mysteries: Newton Stone

Mysterious writing. No author. Enigmatic etchings that don't make...
March 23, 2024
African dance

The Spirits Known as ‘Zangbeto’ That Safeguard African Villages

Law and order runs a bit differently in Benin,...
March 17, 2024
letters and numbers

Exploration Mysteries: Beale Ciphers

Straight out of a National Treasure movie, the Beale...
March 1, 2024
close shot of the sole of Mallory's boot.

1924 Everest Anniversary Reignites Rumors: Did the Chinese Remove Irvine’s Body?

A hundred years ago this spring, George Mallory and...
February 23, 2024
Isles of Scilly from space.

Exploration Mysteries: Lyonesse

“And ever pushed Sir Mordred, league by league, back...
February 17, 2024
map

Exploration Mysteries: Doggerland

Did you ever wonder how Britain separated from the...
February 13, 2024
Plain of Jars

Exploration Mysteries: Plain of Jars

Once upon a time, giants roamed the foothills of...
February 1, 2024
La Pérouse and King Louis XVI.

Exploration Mysteries: Jean Francois de Galaup

The mutiny on HMS Bounty overshadowed an even stranger...
January 23, 2024
illustration of lost city under ocean

Exploration Mysteries: Lemuria

I first heard of the name Lemuria from Ray...
December 10, 2023
planets crashing

Exploration Mysteries: Theia Impact

Almost since the beginning of the solar system, Earth...
December 9, 2023
Shambhala

Exploration Mysteries: Shambhala

It has many names -- Shangri-La, Eden, The Land...
November 22, 2023

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