800 Skeletons at 16,000 Feet: The Himalayan Lake That Has No Explanation
At nearly 16,000 feet above sea level, in a bowl of rock and snow in the Indian Himalayas, there is a small glacial lake less than 50…
The Miner Who Looked Like He Died Yesterday — After 1,700 Years in the Salt
In the winter of 1993, miners deep in a salt mine in northwestern Iran made a discovery that stopped them cold. A man. A face. Long hair,…
The Scorpion That Turned to Metal — and the Mine That May Never Have Existed
The first thing people notice is the tail. Every segment is there. The curve of it, the barb at the tip, the joints that should flex —…
Workers Dredging the Savaппah River Stυmbled Upoп 19 Caппoпs That Had Beeп Uпderwater Siпce the Revolυtioпary War
The ceпtυries-old artifacts emerged from the riverbed betweeп 2021 aпd 2022. Experts speпt several years carefυlly restoriпg 17 of them, which will make their pυblic debυt iп…
Stonehenge: 5,000 Years Old, and Still No One Knows Why
On the morning of the summer solstice, just before sunrise, a line drawn from the center of Stonehenge through the Heel Stone points precisely to the spot…
Dunkleosteus: The Armored Fish With a Guillotine for a Mouth
Long before sharks ruled the oceans, and nearly 150 million years before the first dinosaur walked the Earth, the seas had a different king. It had no…
The Siberian Ice Maiden: The Tattooed Woman Who Slept 2,500 Years in the Ice
High on a windswept plateau where Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan almost meet, the ground stays frozen all year round. For twenty-five centuries, that ice held a…
Someone Walked Through the Arabian Desert 120,000 Years Ago. We Found Their Footprints. We Still Don’t Know Who They Were.
They left no name. No tools, no shelter, no burial — nothing that would tell us who they were, where they came from, or what they were…
The Hidden Void Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza: A 30-Metre Mystery No One Can Explain
For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid of Giza has guarded its secrets behind millions of tonnes of limestone. We have mapped its corridors, crawled its shafts, and…
The Armored Giant With a Spiked Club — And the Humans Who Watched It Die
The brown clay of Buenos Aires Province has been a graveyard for Ice Age giants for as long as anyone has been digging here. Giant ground sloths…