Bushman’s Hole tragedy: The story of Deon Dreyer and Dave Shaw
Extreme cave diver Dave Shaw died while attempting to retrieve Dreyer's cadaver more than 10 years later.
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.
Malaysian rock art found to depict elite–Indigenous conflict
In what is believed to be the first age study of Malaysian rock art, researchers found that two anthropomorphic figures of Indigenous warriors were produced amid geopolitical tensions with the ruling class and other tribes.
Dogu: Japan’s mysterious prehistoric astronauts puzzle the theorists
The explorer AP Kazantsev discovered mysterious clay figurines in the Tohoku Region, Honshu Island, Japan. They were made by the people called Jomon in about 7,000 BC. As often happens…
Could this massive whale from 40 million years ago have been the world’s heaviest animal?
The blue whale may no longer be the heaviest animal to ever inhabit Earth; there is now another contender.
Enochian, the mysterious lost language of ‘Fallen Angels’
Dr. John Dee (1527-1609) was an occultist, mathematician, astronomer and astrologer who lived in Mort Lake, West London for most of his life. An educated man who studied at St.…
Ancient necropolis unearthed next to busy train station in Paris
The 2nd-century graveyard has at least 50 tombs of men, women, and children, but its organizational structure and history are unknown.
Bronze age artifacts used meteoric iron
Archaeologists had long been puzzled by iron tools dating thousands of years before iron smelting developed, but no, there was no precocious smelting, geochemists have concluded.
A list of famous lost history: How 97% of human history is lost today?
Many significant locations, objects, cultures and groups throughout history have been lost, inspiring archaeologists and treasure-hunters around the world to search for them. The existence of some of these places…
Do you remember Dolores Barrios, the woman from the planet Venus??
Her features resembled the description of the claimed aliens that came from Venus and walked among us.
The mystery of the 7,000-year-old Ubaid lizardmen: Reptilians in ancient Sumer??
It is widely recognised in mainstream archaeology that civilisation began in Iraq, in ancient Mesopotamia, with the vast Sumerian civilization. There is, however, an archaeological find at the Al Ubaid…
