Tea WilsonSome of the most legendary swords of all timeCrafted by master swordsmiths of the past and wielded by some of the bravest figures from history and myth, swords have always been the…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonBeijing has a 20,000-acre secret underground city, Dìxià Chéng, that was built during the Cold War…Deep below the bustling streets of Beijing, China, is a whole other world–one whose hidden existence is a badly kept secret. The city is…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonHuman remains found in a Mexican cave are believed to be 13,000 years old, but looting of the…A team led by Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, paleontologist, and geoscientist at the University of Heidelberg, has been working with what was left…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonThe mystery of the Octavius: An 18th-century ghost ship was discovered with the captain’s body…Maritime lore abounds with stories of ghost ships, those ships that sail the world’s oceans manned by a ghostly crew and destined never to…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonThe Aztec macuahuitl, a sword with obsidian blades, was sharp enough to decapitate a horseSince ancient days, people have developed sophisticated weapons to fill their arsenals. In ancient Egypt, the khopesh was a notoriously…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonScience fiction author Arthur C.Perhaps Arthur C. Clarke will be best remembered as a science fiction author, particularly for the work he did for the 1968 film 2001: A…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonAbandoned in space in 1967, a U.S. satellite started transmitting again in 2013After learning that a satellite that’s been silent for decades has suddenly started sending out new signals you may, of course, suspect…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonA story written in 1886 predicted the 1912 “Titanic” disaster with eerie accuracyThe sinking of the British passenger liner RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912, was the single deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in modern…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonA Victorian theory that Mars was once artificially irrigated by a desperate advanced civilizationWe now live in an age of constant astronomical revelations. Every day, new discoveries lead us closer to the answer of the perennial…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018
Tea WilsonSpace debris or an alien satellite: Unraveling the mysteries behind the “Black Knight”What most people don’t realize is that 6,000 satellites have been launched into Earth’s orbit since the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into…Jan 15, 2018Jan 15, 2018