Mysteries
Questions nobody has fully answered, plus a few solved ones we learn from.
102,000 years ago
Why do so many cultures call the Pleiades 'seven sisters' and tell of a lost one?
3 clues · 2 hunches
Half solved
12,800 years ago
Younger Dryas trigger, 12,800 years ago
1 clue
Half solved
1207 BC
Did Joshua's 'Sun stand still' at Gibeon remember a solar eclipse?
3 clues · 2 hunches
Half solved
1178 BC
Does the Odyssey record the eclipse of 16 April 1178 BC?
3 clues · 2 hunches
Half solved
660 BC
660 BC Miyake event
2 clues
Half solved
AD 369
369 guest star
1 clue
Half solved
AD 386
386 guest star
2 clues
Half solved
AD 393
393 guest star
2 clues
Half solved
AD 774
774 Miyake event
3 clues
Half solved
AD 837
837 guest stars
2 clues
Half solved
AD 850
Did drought bring down the Classic Maya cities (about 750 to 910)?
2 clues · 2 hunches
Half solved
AD 993
993 Miyake event
3 clues
Half solved
AD 1230
1229 eruption (ice cores said 1230)
2 clues
Half solved
AD 1458
1458 eruption pair
2 clues · 1 hunch
Half solved
AD 1587
Why did the Roanoke 'Lost Colony' (1587) and early Jamestown suffer so badly?
2 clues · 2 hunches
Half solved
AD 1872
Why was the Mary Celeste found sailing with no one aboard (December 1872)?
4 clues · 3 hunches
Half solved