
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.

Louis Le Prince was the first person to create moving pictures—but he mysteriously disappeared in 1890, and his fate is still unknown.

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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'.

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…

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.

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.

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.