The Racetrack Playa, or The Racetrack, is a scenic dry lake feature with “Sailing Stones” or “Sliding Rocks” that inscribe linear “Racetrack” imprints. It is located above the northwestern side of Death Valley, in Death Valley National … Read more
Rongorongo (pronouced as ‘ rɒŋɡoʊ rɒŋɡoʊ ‘) is a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century on Easter Island that appears to be writing or proto-writing in Rapanui Language. Numerous attempts at decipherment have been made, … Read more
It is believed that the ancient, mysterious and hauntingly beautiful site of Petra in Jordan has been inhabited (in one way or another) for approximately 9000 years. Petra (Greek Πέτρα, Petra, meaning “stone”; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is … Read more
This shoe print fossil was discovered in a seam of coal in Fisher Canyon, Pershing County, Nevada. Age of this coal is around 200 million years! And lest you think that this is the fossil of some … Read more
The mystery of the Phaistos Disc (also spelled Phaestos Disc, is a disk of fired clay) is a story that sounds like something out of an Indiana Jones movie. The disc was discovered in 1908, in the … Read more
Written in Central Europe at the end of the 15th or during the 16th century, the origin, language, and date of the Voynich Manuscript—named after the Polish-American antiquarian bookseller, Wilfrid M. Voynich, who acquired it in 1912—are … Read more