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How Old is the Sphinx?

August 20, 2010 By
The head of the Sphinx emerging from the sand

One of the mysteries of the Sphinx that has possibly been answered, but the answer is often disputed, is the age of the Sphinx.

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The Georgia Guidestones

July 2, 2010 By
The Georgia Guidestones courtesy of Belinda Dobie

The Georgia Guidestones is a rather unique monument. It is unique in the sense that it is one of the only, if not the only, monument that was constructed during modern times, which is still a mystery to modern men.

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The Antikythera Mechanism

June 2, 2010 By

The box contained 32 gears, accurately assembled in a box that reproduced the motion of the sun and moon against the background of fixed stars with a differential giving the relative position and the phases of the moon.

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The Amber Room Mystery

May 11, 2010 By
The Amber Room. As seen before WWII. Photo credit: Wikipedia

Once in Russia, the Amber Room was further built upon and renovated. In its final form in 1763, the Amber Room spanned 55 meters and contained over six tons of amber.

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The Mysteries of the Piri Reis Map of 1513

April 29, 2010 By
Piri Reis Map

Considered to be one of the most beautiful, most interesting, most mysterious maps to have survived from the Great Age of Discoveries, it is also one of the least understood maps in the history of explorations. The Piri Reis Map was discovered in 1929 by Bay Halil Etham, director general of the Topkapki Serai in [...]

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The Voynich Manuscript

April 23, 2010 By
Sample of the text in the Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript is a mysterious document that is kept in Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book Library. It is made up of 246 vellum pages of the original 262. The document is an unassuming 7 inches by 10 inches.

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