Articles for tag: AncientCivilizations, AncientMysteries, LostCivilizations, UnexplainedHistory

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6 ancient sites that people are convinced were built by aliens

Suhail Ahmed

  Every few months, a new dig, a sharper satellite image, or a better dating method peels back another layer of the ancient world – and with it, another wave of claims that aliens must have helped. The idea is seductive: when human skill seems to collide with impossible precision, it feels easier to blame ...

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10 Ancient structures in The US That Are a Big Mystery

Suhail Ahmed

  Scattered across the United States are stone circles, earthen mounds, and astronomy-ready alignments that look like they belong in a university textbook on Old World archaeology – except they sit above American strip malls and cornfields. Archaeologists have mapped thousands of these sites, yet for many of them, the basic questions of who built ...