625 people in 95 mysteries

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Abraham (Avi) LoebHarvard astrophysicist; proposed the lightsail reading · born 1962

1I/'Oumuamua

Agustín FuentesAnthropologist, Princeton; co-author of the burial and meaning-making papers · born 1966

Homo naledi and the Rising Star burial claims

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Alex DietrichPilot of the second F/A-18F · born 1979

2004 Nimitz encounter and the Navy videos

Andreas ÖnnerforsHistorian of secret societies; the Oculists and Freemasonry · born 1971

Copiale cipher

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Asko ParpolaIndologist; corpus editor and Dravidian hypothesis · born 1972

Indus script

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Danny Hilman NatawidjajaGeologist, BRIN; lead author of the retracted paper · born 1961

Gunung Padang

David GruschFormer NGA officer and UAP Task Force member; whistleblower · born 1987

US government UAP disclosures

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Douglas R. StentonArchaeologist, University of Waterloo; leads the DNA identification work · born 1953

Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror)

Duncan R. LorimerAstronomer, West Virginia University; reported the first burst · born 1969

Fast radio bursts and the origin of the one-off bursts

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

Nebra Sky Disc

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Henrik WilliamsRunologist, Uppsala University · born 1958

Kensington Runestone

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

Monte Sierpe, the "Band of Holes"

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Magnus KällströmRunologist, Swedish National Heritage Board · born 1964

Kensington Runestone

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Manfred KrebernikJena Assyriologist and the leading editor of Early Dynastic literary and incantation texts from Fara, Ebla and Abu Salabikh. · born 1953

Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

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Marco MicheliESA astronomer; led the measurement of the non-gravitational acceleration · born 1983

1I/'Oumuamua

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Massimo TeodoraniAstrophysicist; at the CNR Institute of Radio Astronomy during the EMBLA expeditions · born 1956

Hessdalen lights

Mike Parker PearsonArchaeologist, UCL; director of the Stonehenge Riverside Project and the Preseli excavations · born 1957

Stonehenge

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Pete HegsethSecretary of War · born 1980

US government UAP disclosures

Pierre TalletEgyptologist, Sorbonne; director of the Wadi al-Jarf excavation · born 1966

How the Great Pyramid was built

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Reviel NetzHistorian of mathematics; transcriber and editor · born 1968

Archimedes Palimpsest

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Richard SproatComputational linguist; non-script argument and statistical critiques · born 1960

Indus script

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Richard SproatComputational linguist; critic of entropy-based writing claims · born 1960

Pictish symbol stones

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Robert K. EnglundAssyriologist at UCLA, founding director of the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and editor of the archaic Uruk texts. · 1952–2020

Unread cuneiform: half a million tablets and the limits of Sumerian

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Robert K. EnglundAssyriologist; editor of most of the proto-cuneiform corpus and founder of CDLI; held the language unknown · 1952–2020

Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

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Robert WerykUniversity of Hawaii astronomer who first identified the object in Pan-STARRS1 data · born 1981

1I/'Oumuamua

Rüdiger KrauseArchaeologist; co-author of the Iron Age critique · born 1958

Nebra Sky Disc

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Sabine HylandAnthropologist; Collata and hair-khipu studies · born 1964

Inka khipus: the knotted-cord records

Sara SeagerMIT planetary scientist; co-author of the detection and source studies · born 1971

Phosphine in the clouds of Venus

Svante PääboGeneticist, MPI-EVA; senior author of the 2010 Denisovan papers · born 1955

Who were the Denisovans? The Harbin "Dragon Man" cranium

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