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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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Alexander JonesHistorian of astronomy; inscriptions and epoch dates
Antikythera Mechanism
Andreas ÖnnerforsHistorian of secret societies; the Oculists and Freemasonry · born 1971
Copiale cipher
AM
Antonin MorletVichy physician and amateur prehistorian who leased the field in 1925, excavated until 1936, published the finds as a Neolithic station with

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Benedek LángHistorian; author of the 2010 review and the 2021 book
Rohonc Codex
BE
Brian E. CollessNew Zealand historian of religion and epigrapher (Massey University) who from 1992 defended and extended Mendenhall's decipherment, treats t

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DC
David ClarkeHistorian; obtained the MoD file in 2001
Rendlesham Forest, December 1980
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David N. KeightleyBerkeley historian whose Sources of Shang History (1978) made the method of reading the inscriptions available in English and catalogued the

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

H 1

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

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JB
Jan BestDutch ancient historian and protohistorian at the University of Amsterdam (1941 to 2023) who proposed a decipherment of the Byblos bronze ta
JP
Jean-Pierre ProtzenArchitectural historian, UC Berkeley
Puma Punku and Tiwanaku
JG
John G. YoungerAegean prehistorian (Kansas); web editions of the hieroglyphic and Linear A texts
Cretan Hieroglyphic

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MB
Mather Byles DesBrisayCounty historian
Oak Island money pit

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PD
Peter DamerowHistorian of science; numerical systems and the proto-writing position · 1939–2011
Proto-cuneiform: the archaic texts of Uruk

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RN
Reviel NetzHistorian of mathematics; transcriber and editor · born 1968
Archimedes Palimpsest
RE
Richard E. JoltesSource-critical historian of the legend
Oak Island money pit
RB
Robert BlairHistorian of the legend's origins
Lost Dutchman's gold mine
RV
Robert VernetPrehistorian of the western Sahara; recorded the Akerdil pebble tools and the Adrar rock art
Eye of the Sahara and Atlantis

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SD
Scott DawsonHatteras Island historian; co-leads the excavations and runs the Lost Colony Museum in Buxton
Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Stella NairArchitectural historian, UCLA
Puma Punku and Tiwanaku

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Wang GuoweiHistorian who in 1917 matched the ancestors and kings named in the inscriptions to Sima Qian's Shang king list, confirming the list with cor