Crime D.B. Cooper: The Ticket with One Name and the Man Without an Identity
In the FBI's collection of historical artifacts sits an airline ticket belonging to a man who identified himself as Dan Cooper. On November ...
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Mysteries The Voynich Manuscript: What We Know About the Book We Still Cannot Read
In the digital catalog of the Beinecke Library, the Voynich manuscript bears a strictly professional designation: MS 408. Its pages are fill...
Secrets of the Past The Rosetta Stone: Why a Single Decree Unlocked a Lost World
The Rosetta Stone appears to be an object designed to keep a secret. In reality, its inscription was intended to communicate. The fragment o...
Secrets of the Past The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Library That Tells More Than One Story
In 1947, Bedouin shepherds discovered the first seven scrolls in a cave near Qumran, on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. Subsequent f...
Secrets of the Past Sutton Hoo: The Ship in the Earth and the Nameless King
Beneath a mound in Suffolk lies not a ship that could simply be unearthed and set to sail, but the ghostly imprint of a massive wooden vesse...
Unexplained The Wow! Signal: Six Characters from the Sky That Aren't a Message
Six characters circled on a computer printout have become one of the most recognizable images in the search for extraterrestrial intelligenc...