The mysterious vanishing of Louis Le Prince
Louis Le Prince was the first person to create moving pictures—but he mysteriously disappeared in 1890, and his fate is still unknown.
History
Here are fascinating stories carefully curated from archaeological discoveries, historical events, war tales, conspiracy theories, dark history, and ancient mysteries. From intriguing and thought-provoking to creepy and tragic, our stories will captivate and enthrall you. Explore with us the intriguing and often unexpected sides of history!
Pyramids of Ancient Greece: The mysterious Hellinikon Pyramid is older than Giza?
While it’s fairly common to label the Egyptian pyramids the stuff of “ancient mysteries,” it’s something entirely new to discover similar structures all around the world. Such is the case…
The unsolved disappearance of Deborah Poe
Three decades ago, one night, Deborah Poe disappeared into thin air, leaving her purse and paycheck locked inside her new red Toyota Celica parked outside her night job at a…
Babylon knew secrets of the solar system 1,500 years before Europe
Hand in hand with agriculture, astronomy took its first steps between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, more than 10,000 years ago. The oldest records of this science belong to the…
Lycurgus Cup: Evidence of “nanotechnology” used 1,600 years ago!
According to scientists, nanotechnology was first discovered in ancient Rome nearly 1,700 years ago and it is not one of many samples of modern technology attributed to our sophisticated society.…
Did KGB accidentally discover a 13,000-year-old mysterious mummy in Egypt?
The Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians were supposedly visited by intellectual beings come from other worlds, and the Soviet spies hunted for their preserved bodies to uncover 'military secrets'.
Mysterious ‘handbags of the gods’ spotted in ancient sculptures worldwide: What its purpose was?
Ancient civilizations separated by nearly 12,700 kilometres, from Sumer to Mesoamerica, showed the mysterious handbag of the gods. It can be found in Sumerian sculptures and bas-reliefs dating back to…
Blue Babe: A 36,000-year-old incredibly preserved carcass of a male steppe bison embedded in permafrost in Alaska
The remarkably well-preserved bison was first discovered by gold miners in 1979 and handed over to scientists as a rare find, being the only known example of a Pleistocene bison reclaimed from the permafrost. That said, it didn’t stop gastronomically curious researchers from whipping up a batch of Pleistocene-era bison neck stew.
250-million-year-old remarkable Chinese fossil reveals reptiles using whale-like filter feeding
A recent discovery of a fossil from China shows that a group of reptiles had a whale-like filter feeding technique 250 million years ago.
Bronze swords from Mycenaean civilization found in Greek tomb
Archaeologists have uncovered three bronze swords from the Mycenaean civilisation during excavations of a 12th to 11th century BC tomb, discovered on the Trapeza plateau in the Peloponnese.
