ince the 18th century, hundreds of incredibly well-preserved human cadavers have been discovered in the peat bogs of Northern Europe. These bodies have been forensically dated to as far back as 8,000 BCE. The famous “Tollund Man,” discovered in 1950 by two Danish farmers in a small town in Denmark, lived in the Pre-Roman Iron Age of the 3rd century…
Since the 1940s, archeologists have been unearthing mysterious stone spheres in the Diquis Delta of Costa Rica. Initially discovered during agricultural forays undertaken by the United Fruit Company, these objects range in size from a few centimeters to over two meters in diameter with some weighing as much as 16 tons. All of the spheres are man-made objects…
At some point between 70 and 60 BCE, a Greek ship heading from Asia Minor to Rome sank in the Mediterranean. When a group of sponge divers discovered the wreck in 1900, they salvaged three pieces of bronze comprising a device that became known as the Antikythera mechanism. The artifact, which is roughly the size of…