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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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AA
Ahmad Al-JalladEpigrapher (Ohio State); 2025 decipherment; OCIANA director
Dhofari script

B 2

BS
Benjamin SassEpigrapher; author of the 1988 corpus, who later moved the alphabet's date down to c. 1300 BC
Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet
BE
Brian E. CollessNew Zealand historian of religion and epigrapher (Massey University) who from 1992 defended and extended Mendenhall's decipherment, treats t

G 1

GM
Geraldine M. H. KingEpigrapher; Dhofar Epigraphic Project
Dhofari script

H 1

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

J 2

JV
Javier VelazaEpigrapher; co-author of the 2020 survey and the Irulegi edition
Iberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts
JF
Joan Ferrer i JanéEpigrapher; dual system and numerals
Iberian language and Palaeohispanic scripts

M 1

MC
M. C. A. MacdonaldEpigrapher (Oxford); classification of Arabian scripts
Dhofari script

P 1

PI
Paul IversenEpigrapher; the Corinthian calendar argument
Antikythera Mechanism

R 1

RD
René DussaudLouvre curator of Near Eastern antiquities and Semitic epigrapher, editor of the Ahiram sarcophagus inscription, who argued in 1927 that the

S 1

SD
Stephen D. HoustonEpigrapher; drew the block; critic of the Isthmian decipherment
Cascajal block and Isthmian writing

Y 1

YD
Yves DuhouxEpigrapher; critic of decipherment claims
Phaistos Disc