An unexpected discovery of a royal burial inside a previously unknown substructure of Temple XIII in Palenque, Mexico, set off a decades-long archaeological mystery. In 1994, a young Mexican archaeologist named Fanny Lopez Jimenez was
Read moreIn 1996, a team of researchers unearthed a unique burial of a mysterious man. The odd remains and specific funerary equipment thrilled the archaeologists. Was the man who lived 2,000 years ago an ancient Druid,
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Castillo de San Felipe del Morro is a fort that sits majestically on the northeastern coast of Puerto Rico in the capital city of San Juan. The Fort was declared a World Heritage by the
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The Annunaki (Anuna in original Sumerian text) gods were numerous. According to Sumerian text, they numbered 600 in population. It was written that 300 were given reign over the heavens (everything outside of Earth) and 300 were
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Back in 2014, a farmer found a box while plowing a section of field in the town of Novo Selo in the Republic of Macedonia. This story was first reported to Ancient Origins from a
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While we were on the topic of supernatural beings and how people buried them for punishment in the afterlife, here is a story about Bulgarian archaeologists who found two graves belonging to vampires. In 2013,
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Since 2014, there has been a significant increase in the number of unidentified flying objects (UFO’s), or unexplained aerial phenomena as the military calls them, flying around and often entering military-designated airspace. These incidences have been becoming
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Modern day society aren’t the only ones fascinated by the undead. Ancient Greeks on the Island of Sicily had a fear so awful that they weighed the bodies of the dead down with rocks to
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In 2014, Discover News reported about an archaeological find where a grave belonging to a teenage girl had been found in Albenga, Italy. The skeleton was facing the ground which back in the days meant
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When odd, skull-shaped grave items were found by archaeologists decades ago at an Aztec temple in Mexico, they were assumed to be mere toys or ornaments, and were catalogued and stored in warehouses. However, years
Read moreAnomalies have been documented for centuries, and while many odd events or unusual artifacts have been explained over the years, strange happenings continue to incite controversy and imagination. Historians and archaeologists often unearth objects and
Read morePhysicists have been referred to as the explorers of our time. Physics is an extraordinarily diverse field that has SO much left to be uncovered. And while the Earth itself has been pretty fully discovered, we’re still
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