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Mexico’s “Olmec Colossal Heads” are a mystery as to their age and their method of construction
Miserere: The song written in the 1630s, performed only in the Sistine Chapel, was kept secret by the Vatican for 150 years
The Navy tug USS Conestoga is discovered only 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco, 90 years after it left the U.S. west coast and failed to reach Pearl Harbor
The Arms of Skanderbeg: the only remaining belongings of the Albanian national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg
Copper mining remnants discovered in Timna Valley, Israel may hold the key to the history behind Bible accounts of Solomon’s mines and King David’s military conflicts
Thomas Hooker: preacher, populist, and founder of the Connecticut Colony
Coastal erosion has caused the Medieval town of Dunwich to lie 10 meters underwater and 2,000 meters away from the present-day shoreline
Queen Mary’s Dolls’ house has working electricity and plumbing, a library with books specially written from famous authors, a wine cellar, and a Rolls Royce with a working engine
Contact with European colonists brought diseases that devasted Native American populations and altered the landscape of their settlements
The island of Poveglia in the Venetian Lagoon was used as a plague quarantine, military fortification, mental asylum, and TV location for ghost hunters
