Mystery and riddles

For the first time, Indonesians heard about Mankiman in April 2003. Reports about this unusual creature appeared in the police chronicle, and then in...

This site is located north of the city of Cusco, at an altitude of about 3555 meters above sea level, between the districts of...

There are many well known examples of creatures from mythology that inspire dread, awe, curiosity or a even a combo of all three. Many...

Ajanta and nearby Ellora are two of the most amazing archaeological sites in India. Although handcrafted caves are scattered throughout India's western state of...

We learned in the Austin Powers movies of the benefits of having a Mini-Me. While the Moon may have once been a part of...

Skulls are humanity's foremost symbol of death, and a powerful icon in the visual vocabularies of cultures all over the globe. Many strangely "deformed"...

Billions of years ago, molecules on a lifeless and tumultuous Earth mixed, forming the first life-forms. Eons later, a larger, smarter form of life...

Earth is bombarded with millions of tons of space material each day. Most of the objects vaporize in our atmosphere, but some of the...

What remains intriguing about Mercury is how scant our knowledge has been regarding some of its key details until recently. For example, it was...

Eiffel tower facts tell us about this iconic symbol of Paris, France and the world. While the tower is located in Paris, people all...

Mars and Earth have approximately the same landmass. Even though Mars has only 15% of the Earth’s volume and just over 10% of...

The life of the German geographer and naturalist, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Alexander Humboldt (1769-1859), full of extraordinary events...

Russian city of Tobolsk, located in the Northern part of Siberia, in the Tyumen region has a rich history full of interesting facts. It...

The dark side of the moon is a myth. In reality both sides of the Moon see the same amount of sunlight however only...

There are many eyewitness stories about the so-called devil's glades, or damn cemeteries, where the earth is scorched, where animals and people die. The...

What is the shape of an electron? If you recall pictures from your high school science books, the answer seems quite clear: an electron...

It is no secret that often a man-made disaster is preceded by a fatal combination of circumstances, aggravated by the notorious human factor. The...

Representatives of different cultures have different opinions about how many days after death the soul still remains in some proximity to the dead body....