People
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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LG
Louis GodartCo-editor of GORILA
LGLinear A
Luca GasperiniMarine geologist, CNR-ISMAR Bologna; proposed the Cheko crater
LP1908 Tunguska event
Luigi PernierExcavator of Phaistos; found the disc · 1922–2009
Phaistos Disc
Luis ElizondoFormer Defense Department official; November 2024 witness
LFUS government UAP disclosures
Luke Farritor2023 Grand Prize winner
LZHerculaneum Papyri and the Vesuvius Challenge
Luo ZhenyuCollector and palaeographer who traced the bones to Anyang, published large sets of rubbings, and in Yinxu shuqi kaoshi (1914) read several
LYLutfi YondriArchaeologist who has excavated the terraces since the late 1990s
Gunung Padang
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MC
M. C. A. MacdonaldEpigrapher (Oxford); classification of Arabian scripts
MKDhofari script
M. K. StalinChief Minister of Tamil Nadu; announced the prize
MBIndus script
Magen BroshiCo-author of the 1990s radiocarbon series
MKDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance
Magnus KällströmRunologist, Swedish National Heritage Board · born 1964
MKKensington Runestone
Manfred KrebernikJena Assyriologist and the leading editor of Early Dynastic literary and incantation texts from Fara, Ebla and Abu Salabikh. · born 1953
MBUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
Manuel Borraz AymerichCo-author of the 2020 FOTOCAT re-analysis of Bunnell's photographs; made its maps and simulations
MGMarfa lights
Manuel Gómez-MorenoDeciphered the Palaeohispanic semi-syllabaries
MMIberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts
Manuel MedranoSanta Valley decipherment; corpus-wide data science
MMInka khipus: the knotted-cord records
Manuel MolinaCSIC Assyriologist who built and edits the Database of Neo-Sumerian Texts, the census of the Ur III corpus.
MDUnread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian
Marcelle Duchesne-GuilleminBelgian musicologist who proposed a melodic reading of h.6 (1975, 1980, 1984) and explained its repeated syllables by the tablet's spiral la
MAHurrian songs of Ugarit
Marcia AscherMathematician; recorded and analysed khipus with Robert Ascher
MMInka khipus: the knotted-cord records
Marco MerliniItalian researcher (Prehistory Knowledge Project, Institute of Archaeomythology) who built the DatDas databank of Danube script signs and re
MMMarco MicheliESA astronomer; led the measurement of the non-gravitational acceleration · born 1983
MW1I/'Oumuamua
Marcus WannerSolver in the 2012 round, interviewed by Rolling Stone
MGCicada 3301
Margherita GuarducciEpigraphist; editor of Inscriptiones Creticae, including the Praisos texts · 1902–1999
Maria ReicheMathematician; documented and protected the lines, proposed the calendar reading · 1903–1998
MGNazca Lines
Marija GimbutasLithuanian-American archaeologist who proposed the "Old European script" as the sacred writing of a goddess-centred Neolithic Europe · 1921–
MRMario RennerOne of the two looters
Nebra Sky Disc
Mark BosloughAirburst physicist; co-author of the refutation and PubPeer critic of the 2025 papers
MHYounger Dryas impact hypothesis
Mark HortonBritish archaeologist; leads the Hatteras excavations
MLLost Colony of Roanoke
Mark LehnerField director of the ARCE Sphinx Project; author of the 1991 dissertation
MLGreat Sphinx of Giza
Mark LehnerDirector, Ancient Egypt Research Associates
MEHow the Great Pyramid was built
Markus EgetmeyerLinguist (Sorbonne); grammar of Cypriot Greek, co-editor of IG XV, the "Golgian" proposal
MEMarq EvansDirector of the documentary Capturing Bigfoot
MLPatterson-Gimlin film
Martin Litchfield WestBritish classicist whose 1994 article read the Hurrian texts as melody on a descending scale. · 1937–2015
MAHurrian songs of Ugarit
Maruf A. DhaliBuilt the Enoch handwriting model
MWDead Sea Scrolls: dating, scribes and provenance
Marvin W. RoweChemist at Texas A&M; developed plasma-oxidation dating of rock paint
MMWhite Shaman Mural
María Martinón-TorresPalaeoanthropologist, CENIEH; lead author of the main critique
MDHomo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims
María del Carmen Rodríguez MartínezINAH archaeologist; registered and published the block
MSCascajal block and Isthmian writing
Masato SakaiArchaeologist, Yamagata University; leads the Nasca geoglyph survey
MPNazca Lines
Massimo PallottinoEtruscologist; editor of TLE and champion of the combinatory method · 1909–1995
MTEtruscan: the readable language that cannot be fully translated
Massimo TeodoraniAstrophysicist; at the CNR Institute of Radio Astronomy during the EMBLA expeditions · born 1956
MBHessdalen lights
Mather Byles DesBrisayCounty historian
MLOak Island money pit
Matteo LeonePhysicist (University of Bari at the time); author of the EMBLA 2002 rebuttal
MDHessdalen lights
Maurice DunandFrench archaeologist who directed the excavation of Byblos from 1924 to 1975, found the pseudo-hieroglyphic inscriptions in 1928 to 1932, an
MMererInspector leading a boat crew · fl. Year 26 of Khufu
MTHow the Great Pyramid was built
Metoro Tau'a UreRapanui informant who chanted over tablets for Jaussen
MDRongorongo
Michael D. CoeMesoamericanist (Yale); co-author of the 2006 paper; critic of the Isthmian decipherment · 1929–2019
MGCascajal block and Isthmian writing
Michael GuggenbergerClassical archaeologist; catalogued the dodecahedra
MHGallo-Roman dodecahedra
Michael HippkeLead author of the critique of plate photometry
MJTabby's star (KIC 8462852)
Michael J. MorwoodArchaeologist; co-director of the Liang Bua excavations
MMHomo floresiensis, the origin of the Flores "hobbits"
Michael MäderSemitist (Bern); OCLEI corpus
MMProto-Elamite and Linear Elamite
Michael MäderSwiss linguist (University of Bern; Gesellschaft für die Entzifferung antiker Schriftsysteme) who transcribed the Byblos corpus into Unicode
MSMichael ShermerPublisher of Skeptic; argued the pattern is "patternicity" and base-rate neglect
MWAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026
Michael WitzelCo-author of the non-script argument
MZIndus script
Michael ZeilikAstronomer; critic of the calendrical and lunar readings
MIGreat houses of Chaco Canyon
Michail I. PetaevGeochemist, Harvard; reported the GISP2 platinum anomaly
MJYounger Dryas impact hypothesis
Michel JébrakGeologist, Université du Québec à Montréal; co-author of the alkaline-complex model
MWEye of the Sahara and Atlantis
Mick WestScience writer and debunker; published the base-rate case against a pattern in April 2026
MWAmerica's missing scientists, 2021–2026
Mick WestSceptical analyst of the videos
MV2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos
Miguel ValérioLinguist; signary and proposed values
MKCypro-Minoan
Mike KrzystonFilmed the 10 pm lights
Phoenix Lights, 13 March 1997
Mike Parker PearsonArchaeologist, UCL; director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project and the Preseli excavations · born 1957
Stonehenge
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