The Giant Stone Spheres of Costa Rica
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 In the lowland deltas of southern Costa Rica, more than three hundred near-perfect stone spheres rest in fields, museum lawns, and the floors of houses where they have been used as garden ornaments since the 1930s. They are the work of the […]
The Treasure of Lima
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Is the Treasure of Lima? The Treasure of Lima is a legendary buried hoard said to have been removed from the Peruvian capital in 1820, entrusted to the British merchant captain William Thompson aboard the brig Mary Dear, and concealed by […]
The Olmecs: Mesoamerica’s First Civilization
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 6, 2026. Who Were the Olmec? The Olmec were Mesoamerica’s earliest complex civilization, flourishing on the humid Gulf Coast of Veracruz and Tabasco between roughly 1500 and 400 BCE. They built three successive capitals, carved colossal basalt portraits of […]
The Voyages of Captain James Cook
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Were the Voyages of Captain James Cook? The voyages of Captain James Cook (1728-1779) were three British Admiralty expeditions into the Pacific between 1768 and 1779 that produced the first accurate European charts of New Zealand and the eastern Australian coast, […]
The Paul Is Dead Beatles Theory
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Is the Paul Is Dead Beatles Theory? The Paul is Dead Beatles theory is a 1969 American folk legend claiming that Paul McCartney secretly died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike, with the surviving Beatles encoding clues in their […]
The Derinkuyu Underground City
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Is the Derinkuyu Underground City? Derinkuyu is a multi-level subterranean city carved into the soft volcanic tuff of central Cappadocia, in present-day Nevsehir Province, Turkey. Excavated portions reach roughly 60 to 85 meters below the surface, with about eight cleaned levels […]
The Megalithic Temples of Malta
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Are the Megalithic Temples of Malta? The Megalithic Temples of Malta are a group of prehistoric stone sanctuaries built on the islands of Malta and Gozo between roughly 3600 and 2500 BCE. Six of them carry UNESCO World Heritage status, awarded […]
The Proto-Elamite Script: Deciphering Iran’s Ancient Writing
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 6, 2026. What Is the Proto-Elamite Script? Proto-Elamite is the world’s oldest still-undeciphered writing system with a substantial corpus, used in southwestern Iran roughly between 3100 and 2900 BCE on small clay tablets that record the daily accounting of […]
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Happened to Jimmy Hoffa on July 30, 1975? Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president, vanished on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. He had driven there to […]
The Ica Stones: Proof of Dinosaurs and Humans Coexisting?
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Are the Ica Stones? The Ica Stones are roughly twenty thousand engraved andesite cobbles assembled from the early 1960s onward in Ica, a coastal-desert province about three hundred kilometres south of Lima, Peru, and exhibited in a private museum opened in […]