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625 people in 95 mysteries

Researchers, witnesses, makers and the missing: everyone the mysteries' records name, with what they did in each.

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All mysteries1908 Tunguska event1979 Vela incident1I/'Oumuamua2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videosAmber RoomAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026Antikythera MechanismArchimedes PalimpsestBall lightningBeale ciphersBermuda TriangleBloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean soundsCarnac alignmentsCascajal block and Isthmian writingCicada 3301Copiale cipherCretan HieroglyphicCypro-MinoanDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenanceDhofari scriptDisappearance of Amelia EarhartDorabella cipherDyatlov Pass incidentEarth flyby anomalyEaster Island moaiEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translatedEye of the Sahara and AtlantisFast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off burstsFlor de la MarFranklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)Gallo-Roman dodecahedraGreat Sphinx of GizaGreat houses of Chaco CanyonGunung PadangGöbekli TepeHD 139139, the "Random Transiter"Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archivesHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius ChallengeHessdalen lightsHijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claimsHow the Great Pyramid was builtHurrian songs of UgaritIberian language and Palaeohispanic scriptsIndus scriptInka khipus: the knotted-cord recordsKensington RunestoneKryptosLate Bronze Age collapseLinear ALoch NessLost Colony of RoanokeLost Dutchman's gold mineMalaysia Airlines Flight MH370Marfa lightsMars methane puzzleMary CelesteMeroiticMonte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"Nazca LinesNebra Sky DiscOak Island money pitPatterson-Gimlin filmPhaistos DiscPhoenix Lights, 13 March 1997Phosphine in the clouds of VenusPictish symbol stonesProto-Elamite and Linear ElamiteProto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabetProto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of UrukPuma Punku and TiwanakuRendlesham Forest, December 1980Ricky McCormick's notesRohonc CodexRongorongoRoswell, 1947San José galleonSanxingdui and its sacrificial pitsShroud of TurinShugborough inscriptionSkinwalker RanchSomerton Man (Tamam Shud)StonehengeStradivari "secret"Tabby's star (KIC 8462852)Tarim Basin mummies (Xiaohe)US government UAP disclosuresUVB-76, "the Buzzer"Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of SumerianWhite Shaman MuralWho were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" craniumWow! signalYounger Dryas impact hypothesisZodiac ciphers
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E. B. BanningArchaeologist, University of Toronto; author of the house reading
Göbekli Tepe
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Eduardo Orduña AznarLinguist; numerals and the Basque-Iberian hypothesis; designed the Hesperia database
Iberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts
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Edward CabansagAirman, security police; first patrol
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980
Edward ElgarComposer; author of the note · 1857–1934
Dorabella cipher
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Edward ScheidtCIA Office of Communications officer, retiring in the late 1980s; devised the cipher systems with Sanborn
Kryptos
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Edwin BarkerAstronomer, McDonald Observatory; led the scientists who watched for the lights for Unsolved Mysteries in 1989
Marfa lights
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Elisabeth RiekenMarburg Indo-Europeanist who identified the Kalašma language as Anatolian and co-edited the tablet
Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives
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Emanuel TovEditor-in-chief of the scroll publications; co-author of the 1995 radiocarbon series
Dead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance
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Emil ForrerSwiss Assyriologist who in 1919 sorted the Boğazköy tablets into eight languages and isolated Hattic · 1894–1986
Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives
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Emilia MassonEpigraphist; the CM1, CM2, CM3 classification
Cypro-Minoan
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Emmanuel LarocheFrench Hittitologist and Hurrian specialist who edited the Hurrian texts from Ugarit (1955, 1968). · 1914–1991
Hurrian songs of Ugarit
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Enrique JiménezAssyriologist at LMU Munich who leads the electronic Babylonian Library and its Fragmentarium.
Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
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Eric BurlisonUS Representative (R-Missouri); pressed for FBI involvement and added names to the list
America's missing scientists, 2021–2026
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Eric H. ClineArchaeologist, George Washington University; author of 1177 B.C. · born 1960
Late Bronze Age collapse
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Eric SamsMusicologist; 1970 reading · 1926–2004
Dorabella cipher
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Eric UlisIndependent researcher; sued the FBI for the tie
Hijacking of Northwest 305 (D. B. Cooper)
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Erik MarshArchaeologist; Tiwanaku chronology
Puma Punku and Tiwanaku
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Erik WahlgrenScandinavianist; author of the 1958 study · 1909–1990
Kensington Runestone
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Erling P. StrandEngineer; led Project Hessdalen from 1983, Østfold University College
Hessdalen lights
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Ernst PernickaArchaeometallurgist; led the metal and isotope analyses
Nebra Sky Disc
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Ester SalgarellaCo-creator of SigLA; author of Aegean Linear Script(s)
Linear A
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Evelyn BilloRock art photographer; made the 2009 GigaPan of the mural with Bob Mark
White Shaman Mural