UFOlogist Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aidan Gillen) ponders a UFO sighting during NATO war games, in the Season 2 finale of “Project Blue Book.” When a massive international war-games exercise known as Operation Mainbrace convened in the North Sea in…
Photograph of the Sylt concentration camp taken in 1945. A Nazi concentration camp on one of the British Channel Islands was the site of terrible atrocities that were downplayed in official reports after the end of World War II. Now,…
A closeup of the papyrus showing the Egyptian jackal-headed god Anubis shooting Kephalas with an arrow. Kephalas is depicted nude with an enlarged penis and scrotum. The arrow Anubis shoots is supposed to make Kephalas lustful for a woman named…
Skeletal remains of Homo antecessor — an archaic relative of modern humans — found in Spain. In 1994, archaeologists digging in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain discovered the fossilized remains of an archaic group of humans unlike any other…
The richly decorated sanctuary in the Red Monastery at Sohag in Egypt. Virtual tours of a handful of Egypt’s archaeological marvels — including the ancient Tomb of Queen Meresankh III and the fourth century Red Monastery — are now available.…
The skull fragment of a 2-million-year-old Homo erectus child found in South Africa In an ancient cave in South Africa, paleontologists have found evidence that three of humankind’s oldest known relatives lived in the same place, at the same time.…
Archaeologists examined these rock-cut features under the Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. The town of Nazareth in modern-day Israel is steeped in mystique, as it is thought to be the place where Jesus was raised. And now, a new…
The Statue of Liberty is famous for her torch-bearing arm, but newly discovered blueprints reveal that this arm was revised to be more slender at the last minute, changing the plans of the French engineer Gustave Eiffel who helped design…
Known as the Nazareth Inscription and the Nazareth Decree, this carved marble slab preserves an edict issued by a Roman emperor identified as “Caesar.” A stern warning carved in Greek on an ancient marble slab declared that a Roman emperor…
Different sides of a prehistoric stone crafted ball found at Qesem Cave in Israel. For nearly 2 million years, ancient humans crafted stones into hand-size balls, but archaeologists were unsure why. Now they know: Ancient people used them as tools…
A lidar map showing the geography and location of Mount Key on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Laser and radar technology has revealed the 454-year-old remains of a Spanish fort on an island off the Gulf Coast of Florida, a new study…
