Category: Mysterious Artifacts

In the year 1900, a group of sponge divers seeking their fortune off the coast of the small Greek island of Antikythera descended into the Aegean Sea and stumbled across…

History, we are told, follows a linear path—civilizations rise, inventions emerge, and knowledge accumulates like bricks stacked by time. But every so often, something surfaces from the earth, the sea,…

Beneath the soil, beneath centuries of civilization, lie stories forgotten, objects buried, and truths obscured by the passage of time. Archaeology has long been the window through which we peer…

History is supposed to be a discipline of facts: dates, events, discoveries, timelines. But every so often, an object emerges from the soil or stone of some forgotten place and…

In the dim storage rooms of the National Museum of Iraq, amidst rows of ancient relics, lies an unassuming clay jar. It is about the size of a modern coffee…

History, as written in textbooks, follows a fairly linear narrative: humanity evolved, developed tools, discovered agriculture, founded cities, created writing, and then slowly inched forward through trial and triumph to…

History is written in stone, ink, and metal—etched into the monuments we revere, recorded in ancient scrolls, and embedded in the tools left behind by long-lost civilizations. But what happens…