Exploring the Unknown
Greg Herring 
The Mirror in Your Hand You’re waiting. For a bus, for a friend, for a moment to pass. You pull it from your pocket. The screen is dark—a perfect, polished slab of black glass. For a second, you see your own face reflected in its void, faint and ghostly. A black mirror. Then, with a … Read more
UAP’s: A Physics Tease The sky over the Pacific was a placid, empty blue. One hundred miles off the coast of San Diego, the USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group was slicing through the waves, a city of steel engaged in routine training exercises. It was November 14, 2004. Aboard the USS Princeton, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile … Read more
The First Tech Transfer Imagine a world on the cusp of change, a humanity still finding its footing. Then, they arrive. Two hundred beings of light, descending from the heavens to the summit of Mount Hermon. They are the Watchers, the “sons of God,” and they are not here to offer gentle guidance. They are … Read more
A diver’s torch cuts through the deep blue gloom, thousands of feet from shore. The light sweeps across what should be a sandy seabed or a coral reef. Instead, it catches the edge of a perfectly straight, massive stone wall. The beam travels upward, revealing blocks cut with impossible precision, stacked in a way that … Read more
Before skyscrapers and subways, there was Uruk. This Sumerian city in southern Mesopotamia turned scattered villages into a true urban world. Uruk built canals, raised temples, trained scribes, and wrote on clay. If you have ever checked the time, signed a receipt, or walked through a busy market, you are feeling the aftershock of what … Read more
Some “ancient mysteries” are not magic at all. With smart tools like AI, satellite images, and ground radar, we are reading clues that were hiding in plain sight. From giant desert drawings in Peru to a book no one can read, new tech is helping us tell real stories about the past—no aliens needed. What … Read more
Machines are learning to read the oldest writing on earth. From Sumerian wedges to faded hieroglyphs, AI is turning blurred tablets and chipped inscriptions into readable text. No sci fi magic here, just smart models, sharp photos, and patient experts working together. The result is a quiet revolution in how we recover the human record. … Read more
Imagine running an entire city with nothing but memory, handshakes, and hope. That was life before cuneiform. Then a reed stylus met wet clay, and the world changed. The first great writing system turned promises into proof, stories into literature, and numbers into a powerful language of trade. No aliens, just clever humans with sharp … Read more
From the first cities and pay stubs to your 60-minute hour, Ancient Sumer quietly launched the modern world—no aliens required. These 12 world-firsts still shape your day, and #7 might be sitting in your fridge. Fun fact: The Sumerians used a base-60 number system—why clocks count 60 seconds and 60 minutes. Watch for beer rations … Read more
Dive into the intriguing history of cities that vanished without a trace! Throughout history, empires have risen and fallen, but what happened to the cities that just… disappeared? Swallowed by the earth, the sea, or the sands of time, their secrets remain hidden from view. Let’s explore ten such places that vanished from the map—some … Read more