On a ridge in southeastern Turkey stands the oldest known monumental architecture in the world. Göbekli Tepe dates to 9500-8000 BCE. That’s six thousand years
In 524 BCE, Persian King Cambyses II sent 50,000 soldiers across the Egyptian desert to destroy the oracle of Amun at Siwa Oasis, which had
Easter Island—Rapa Nui to its people—holds nearly 900 monolithic statues carved between roughly 1250 and 1500 CE. They average 13 feet and 14 tons. The
In 1974, Chinese farmers digging a well near Xi’an broke into the tomb complex of Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, dead since 210 BCE.
Yale’s Beinecke Library holds a 240-page book written in an alphabet no one has ever identified, illustrated with plants that don’t exist. Radiocarbon dating puts
In 1901, sponge divers working off the Greek island of Antikythera found a shipwreck. Among the statues and pottery was a corroded lump of bronze
This is currently my bestseller with some examples. The Little Black Book of Ancient Mysteries A selection from 35 years of research for my over
Here are a few ancient mysteries covered in The Little Black Book of Ancient Mysteries: This first one was the basis of my Road of
Over 4,500 years ago, the Great Sphinx was carved out of a quarry on the Giza Plateau. It has the body of a lion and
