ancient mysteries

Hundreds of years before European contact, the biggest city in North America was located along the Mississippi River. At its peak, perhaps 15,000 people lived there—and [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First! Here’s that documentary we mentioned, “Riddles of the Dead: Skeleton Lake” by National Geographic. It’s on DailyMotion, so [...Read More...]

In 1942, a forest ranger was hiking on an isolated trail deep in the Himalayas. Rising over 16,000 feet in elevation, he climbed a ridge that looked down a steep-sided funnel [...Read More...]

Did you know that the ancient Greeks and Romans didn’t have a word for sharks–despite the fact that they must have seen them eating sailors during sea battles all [...Read More...]

Become a Patron! First, here it is in all its glory: “The Mystery of the Sphinx,” the documentary with Robert Schoch, John Anthony West and Charleton Heston (for [...Read More...]

Carved from the very living bedrock of the Giza plateau, the Sphinx is shrouded in mystery. Archaeologists believe it’s about 4,500 years old. But there’s a fringe [...Read More...]