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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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Alexei VranichArchaeologist; excavator of Puma Punku
Puma Punku and Tiwanaku
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Arthur EvansExcavator of Knossos; named and first catalogued the script · 1851–1941
Cretan Hieroglyphic
Arthur EvansExcavator of Knossos; named Linear A · 1891–1961
Linear A
AM
Auguste MarietteExcavator of the Valley Temple and the Isis temple
Great Sphinx of Giza

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FP
Flinders PetrieExcavator of Serabit el-Khadim; found and first published the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions · 1853–1942
Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet

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HS
Helaine SilvermanArchaeologist; excavator of Cahuachi
Nazca Lines
HV
Henri van EffenterreArchaeologist; excavator of Dreros, publisher of the Dreros bilinguals · 1912–2007

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KS
Klaus SchmidtExcavator 1995–2014, DAI
Göbekli Tepe

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LP
Luigi PernierExcavator of Phaistos; found the disc · 1922–2009
Phaistos Disc

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NM
Neil M. JuddSmithsonian excavator of Pueblo Bonito, 1921 to 1927
Great houses of Chaco Canyon

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SH
Selim HassanExcavator of the enclosure, 1936 to 1938
Great Sphinx of Giza

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Zahi HawassEgyptologist; excavator of the builders' cemetery · born 1947
How the Great Pyramid was built