625 people in 95 mysteries

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GO

Gareth OwensProposed a partial reading with John Coleman

Phaistos Disc

GU

Gary UrtonAnthropologist; founded the Harvard Khipu Database Project · born 1946

Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records

GE

George E. MendenhallAmerican biblical scholar and Near Eastern philologist at the University of Michigan (1916 to 2016), author of The Syllabic Inscriptions fro

GH

George H. PepperAMNH archaeologist of the Hyde Exploring Expedition

Great houses of Chaco Canyon

GH

George HourmouziadisGreek prehistorian, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, who excavated the Dispilio lake settlement from 1992 and found the inscribed woode

GK

George KnappKLAS-TV journalist; co-author of both books

Skinwalker Ranch

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George SarantitisGreek researcher; placed Atlantis at the Richat from 2008 · born 1954

Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis

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George SmithAssyriologist (British Museum); deciphered the Cypriot syllabary from the Idalion bilingual, 1871 · 1840–1876

GS

George SpicerReported a land sighting in August 1933

Loch Ness

GT

George T. FlomLinguist; argued the inscription is modern · 1871–1960

Kensington Runestone

GB

Gerald B. GallagherOfficer in charge, Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme; reported the bones

Disappearance of Amelia Earhart

Gerald HawkinsAstronomer; author of the observatory reading · 1928–2003

Stonehenge

GM

Geraldine M. H. KingEpigrapher; Dhofar Epigraphic Project

Dhofari script

GD

Gerrit D. van den BerghPalaeontologist, University of Wollongong; Mata Menge excavations

Homo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"

GC

Gilman C. ParkerLast master; wrecked the ship in 1885

Mary Celeste

GB

Giovanni Battista CavigliaCleared the Sphinx in 1817 to 1818; donor of the beard fragment

Great Sphinx of Giza

GC

Giuliano CastagnaLinguist (Beijing Normal University); South-east Arabian inscriptions, radiocarbon

Dhofari script

GL

Giuseppe LongoPhysicist, University of Bologna; led the Italian expeditions

1908 Tunguska event

GD

Glenn DennisMortician; body and nurse account, 1989

Roswell, 1947

GM

Glenn M. SchwartzArchaeologist who excavated Umm el-Marra and proposed that its clay cylinders carry alphabetic writing of c. 2400 BC

Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

GN

Gordon NobleArchaeologist, University of Aberdeen; dating and excavation · born 1950

Pictish symbol stones

GL

Greg LongAuthor of The Making of Bigfoot

Patterson-Gimlin film

GC

Guido CreemersCurator, Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren

Gallo-Roman dodecahedra

GM

Guillaume MattonGeologist; showed the Richat is the top of a Cretaceous alkaline complex

Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis

GM

Guo MoruoWriter, historian and palaeographer, editor-in-chief (with Hu Houxuan as chief editor) of the Jiaguwen heji, the 13-volume standard corpus o

Gusztáv BatthyányDonor of the codex

Rohonc Codex

GS

Gwen ShermanRancher; owner 1994–1996

Skinwalker Ranch

GT

Gábor TokaiCo-author of the 2018 decipherment

Rohonc Codex

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HS

Hallie StillwellTeacher and rancher of the Big Bend; told on television in 1989 of seeing the lights in 1916 · 1897–1997

Marfa lights

HA

Hans AchtermannSon of a Wehrmacht soldier; held the fourth mosaic until 1997

Amber Room

HJ

Hans J. NissenArchaeologist of Uruk; co-author of ZATU and Archaic Bookkeeping · born 1935

Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

HH

Hans-Rudolf HitzSwiss microbiologist and amateur epigrapher who from 1979 published readings of the Glozel tablets as a Celtic language in an Etruscan-deriv

HS

Hans-Siegfried SchusterGerman Hittitologist who edited the Hattic-Hittite bilinguals (1974, 2002)

Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives

HH

Harald HaarmannGerman linguist, the main academic proponent of the "Danube script" as the world's earliest writing and an ancestor of Linear A · born 1946

Harald MellerState archaeologist of Saxony-Anhalt, director of the Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte · born 1960

Nebra Sky Disc

HJ

Harry J. ShaferArchaeologist; Witte Museum curator of archaeology; co-author of the first plasma-oxidation date

White Shaman Mural

HR

Harry ReidUS Senator who secured AAWSAP funding

Skinwalker Ranch

HM

Haruyoshi MatsumotoPMEL acoustics engineer; co-author of the array design paper

Bloop and NOAA's unexplained ocean sounds

HS

Harvey SobelmanAmerican linguist whose 1961 paper set aside sound values and analysed the Byblos texts by sign sequences to find word boundaries and gramma

HX

He XiaogeArchaeologist; author of the 2025 and 2026 studies of the bronzes

Sanxingdui and its sacrificial pits

HS

Helaine SilvermanArchaeologist; excavator of Cahuachi

Nazca Lines

HR

Helmut RixIndo-Europeanist; editor of Etruskische Texte and author of the Tyrsenian hypothesis · 1926–2004

Etruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated

HV

Henri van EffenterreArchaeologist; excavator of Dreros, publisher of the Dreros bilinguals · 1912–2007

HW

Henrik WilliamsRunologist, Uppsala University · born 1958

Kensington Runestone

HT

Henry TantaleánArchaeologist; co-author of the 2015 survey and the 2025 study · born 1974

Monte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"

HW

Henry WestphalOne of the two looters

Nebra Sky Disc

Hjalmar HolandHistorian and owner; chief advocate of authenticity · 1872–1963

Kensington Runestone

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Ian RidpathAstronomer; proposed the fireball and lighthouse explanation in 1983 · born 1947

Rendlesham Forest, December 1980

IA

Ignas A. G. SnellenLeiden astronomer; led the first ALMA re-analysis

Phosphine in the clouds of Venus

ID

Igor DyatlovGroup leader, radio engineering student

Dyatlov Pass incident

IM

Iravatham MahadevanEpigraphist; the 1977 concordance · born 1990

Indus script

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Isaac Y. TianComputer scientist, University of Washington; lead author of the 2022 restoration

Patterson-Gimlin film

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