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Both of them rented the same retail space in Silver Plume, and both disappeared in the Colorado Rocky Mountains only one year apart.

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Even stranger was the fact that Keith had delved deeply into Tom's life and was That night, someone ran him over and killed him. What did the note mean and who murdered him? The Coral Castle in Miami is an engineering marvel that has been puzzling visitors for nearly a century. How did one man seemingly defy gravity to build it? What happened to him would come to be known as the Great Mull Air Mystery. Many cultures around the world have been creating elongated skulls for thousands of years, but the exact reasons why are still a mystery. One of the strangest Unsolved Mysteries cases was that of Blair Adams.

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He said someone was trying to kill him and wound up dead thousands of miles away. Then his wife died suspiciously. Did the Queen have something to do with it? Pauline Picard disappeared from her family's farm, but they found her in another town Then a cyclist found her decomposing body.

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Along the dramatic cliffs of Southern China, coffins are suspended on open precipices or tucked inside caves that appear impossible to reach. Although it is assumed that the legendary Bo people practiced this ritual beginning about years ago, exactly how they placed the coffins in such The Sarah Joe mystery is the story of 5 men who went fishing on a beautiful day in Hawaii, but never returned, only to have 1 man reappear 10 years later.

A family feud has been raging over who wrote "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," the classic poem that dazzles kids with sugar plums and flying reindeer. Explorers have searched for millennia for the lost mine of Ophir. Why hasn't it been found? They called her "Lady of the Swamp. Murder was suspected, but where was her body? Despite centuries of searching no treasure has been found on Oak Island.

Nevertheless that doesn't stop people from trying to find it. A History Channel show called the " Curse of Oak Island " follows a modern-day expedition; the show was just renewed for a fourth season in Another treasure tale that will probably never be resolved is more ancient.

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In a copper scroll was found by archaeologists in a cave, along with other Dead Sea Scrolls , at the site of Qumran. As its name suggests, the writing was engraved onto a copper scroll.

The scroll records a vast amount of hidden gold and silver treasure — so much, in fact, that some scholars believe that it is impossible for it to exist. A Glimpse of the Past ]. The scroll dates back more than 1, years to a time when the Roman Empire controlled the Qumran area. There were a number of revolts against Roman rule at the time the scroll was written, and scientists have hypothesized that the treasure was hidden to prevent its capture by Roman forces. Whether the treasure is real, where exactly it was hidden, whether it was ever found and whether it could still exist today are all mysteries that will likely never be solved.

The First Temple contained the Ark of the Covenant , which carried tablets recording the 10 Commandments. The fate of the Ark is unclear. Ancient sources indicate that the ark was either carried back to Babylon or hidden before the city was captured. It's also possible that the ark was destroyed during the city's sacking. In any event, the ark's location is unknown. Since the disappearance, a number of stories and legends about the ark's fate have been told. One story suggests the ark eventually made its way to Ethiopia, where it is kept today.

Another story says the ark was divinely hidden and will not appear until a messiah arrives. Ancient writers describe a fantastic series of gardens constructed at the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. It's not clear when these gardens were built, but some ancient writers were so impressed by the gardens that they called them a "wonder of the world. So far, archaeologists who have excavated Babylon have been unable to find the remains of a garden that meets this description.

This has left archaeologists with a question: Did the hanging gardens really exist? Over the past two decades, both Babylon and Nineveh have suffered damage from wars and looting, and it seems unlikely that this mystery will ever be fully solved.

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Writing in the fourth century B. In the story, the prehistoric Athenians strike back against Atlantis in a conflict that ends with Atlantis vanishing beneath the waves. While no serious scholar believes that this story is literally true, some have speculated that the legend could have been inspired, in part, by real events that happened in Greek history. One possibility is that the Minoan civilization as it's now called , which flourished on the island of Crete until about B. Although Crete is in the Mediterranean, and not the Atlantic, Minoan settlements suffered considerable damage during the eruption of Thera, a volcano in Greece.

Additionally, archaeologists found that the Minoans were eventually overcome or forced to join with a group of people called the Mycenaeans, who were based on mainland Greece.

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It's unlikely that this debate will ever be fully settled. The earliest surviving gospels date to the second century, almost years after the life of Jesus although recently, it was announced that a possible first-century fragment had been found.


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The lack of surviving first-century texts about Jesus leave biblical scholars with a number of questions. When were the gospels written? How many of the stories actually took place?


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What was Jesus like in real life? Archaeological investigations of Nazareth, Jesus' hometown, reveal more about the environment where he grew up. More recently, scientists discovered a first-century house that, centuries after Jesus' time, was venerated as being the house that Jesus grew up in, but whether it was actually Jesus' house is unknown. Although new research will provide more insight, scholars think it's unlikely they will ever fully know what Jesus was really like.

Owen Jarus writes about archaeology and all things about humans' past for Live Science.