Amazing discoveries

The Antikythera mechanism

An ancient Greek analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance. The artifact was retrieved from the sea in 1901, and identified on 17 M...

The Underwater City of Yonaguni

A submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan It was actually by accident that Kihachiro Aratake made the discovery of what scientists are calling, the archeolo...

The giant stone spheres of Costa Rica

The stone spheres of Costa Rica are an assortment of over three hundred petrospheres in Costa Rica, located on the Diquís Delta and on Isla del Caño. Found deep in the jungles of Costa Rica in the 1930's were 300 near...

The Voynich manuscript

An illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. Arguably the most mysterious manuscript that has ever been discovered, the Voynich Manuscript is an astonishing artifact whose origins and language are c...