Rosalia Lombardo: The mystery of the “Blinking Mummy”
Even though mummification is still practised in some distant cultures, it is uncommon in the Western world. Rosalia Lombardo, a two-year-old girl, died in 1920 from an intensified case of…
History
You will discover here stories curated from archaeological finds, historical events, war, conspiracy, dark history and ancient mysteries. Some parts are intriguing, some are creepy, while some tragic, but all that’s very interesting.
Ancient superhighways: 12,000-year-old massive underground tunnels stretch from Scotland to Turkey
Across the European continent, an extensive network of ancient tunnels has recently been discovered. What's the actual purpose of these huge archaic tunnels?
The ghosts of Flight 401
Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 was a scheduled flight from New York to Miami. Shortly before midnight on December 29, 1972. It was the Lockheed L-1011-1 Tristar model which, on…
The unsolved locked room murder of Joe Elwell, 1920
On June 11, 1920, Joseph Bowne Elwell was killed in a room that was locked from the inside. So how did his death happen?
Skull 5: An 1.85-million-year-old human skull forced scientists to rethink early human evolution
The skull belongs an extinct hominin that lived 1.85 million years ago!
Scientists claim that there is another world under Antarctica’s ice
In January 2013, The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) Project had made a strange discovery that revealed the existence of enormous wetlands beneath the ice of western…
Moluccan boats from Indonesia identified in Australian rock art
The rock art offers new evidence of elusive and previously unrecorded encounters between Indigenous people from Awunbarna, Arnhem Land and visitors from the Moluccas to the north of Australia.
The accidental mummy: The discovery of an impeccably preserved woman from the Ming Dynasty
When the archaeologists opened the main coffin, they discovered layers of silk and linens coated in a dark liquid.
Black Dahlia: The 1947 murder of Elizabeth Short is still unsolved
Elizabeth Short, or widely known as the “Black Dahlia” was murdered on the 15th of January 1947. She had been mutilated and severed at the waist, with the two halves…
The Rock Wall of Texas: Is it really older than any known human civilization on Earth?
Estimated to be some 200,000 to 400,000 years old, some say it’s a natural formation while others say it’s clearly man-made.
