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The team digs deeper eager to get to the bones they are searching for. As they unearth the skeletons, however, they recoil in surprise. What they saw shocked them all. Could the tales of demons and monsters have been true? What had these poor souls done to deserve this? Digging Up The Past Scientists in […]

Troels Pank Arbøll, an Assyriologist, from the University of Copenhagen, sits back to rub his tired eyes. He’s been poring over these tablers for hours. The cuneiform characters trying his eyes. That’s when he sees it. He rubs his eyes and squints down at the tablet again, just to make sure. There, never seen before […]

In June of 1942, the submarine USS Grunion under the command of Lt. Cmdr. Mannert Abele, receives its orders and sets off on its inaugural mission. The orders send it on a war patrol around the Aleutian Islands in Alaska where it sinks two Japanese patrol boats. On the 30th of June, it is ordered […]

Scientists and archeologists in northern Chile have discovered several severed heads in what is thought to be an ancient Incan garbage dump. This, however, is not the most disturbing part of their discovery. Losing Your Head The severed heads are believed to be those of women and children who truly met a grisly fate. Apart […]

“The Library of Babel” is a short story by Jorge Borges which was written in the 1940’s and translated to English in the 1960’s. It tells the story about a library that houses all the possible combinations of the letters of the alphabet, plus some punctuation, in 410 page long novels.  The librarians are incredibly […]

The Bible is full of stories and events that have always often been taken as a matter of faith. Many people doubt the existence of some of the places, people, and events mentioned, however. An increasing number of these have been given more credibility by various archeological discoveries that have been made. One such discovery […]

It’s one of the most commonly mocked scams that you’ll find in your emails. It goes something like this: a victim will receive an email from a Nigerian prince or a bank official or the wife of a wealthy deposed leader informing them that they have a huge fortune that can only be accessed if […]

These days, credit cards are nearly ubiquitous. In fact, there were an estimated 18.08 billion credit and debit cards in circulation in 2015—that’s nearly 2.5 cards for every person alive on the planet. It’s hard to think back to a time when we didn’t get daily offers for new cards in the mail, or when […]

For some, the Bible serves as a method to discern morality and immorality; a history lesson; and, in essence, a guide to “life” that is to be taken literally. To others, the bible is nothing more than a collection of stories, written by regular people, and loosely based on historical facts. Two misconceptions about the […]