Surprising Architectural Anomalies and Unresolved Questions at the Mortuary Temple of Khafre | Ancient Origins
04/2/2026 | 23 mins.
Field observations at Khafre’s mortuary temple document masonry anomalies, granite interfaces, and erosion patterns that raise unresolved questions about construction methods at Giza.
Researcher Shows Northern Lights May Have Led to Titanic Sinking | Ancient Origins
04/2/2026 | 5 mins.
The Titanic sinking is well known but unclear. An independent American researcher believes that the Northern Lights could have been a major contributing cause.
Do You Have Royal Genes? Almost Certainly, Statisticians Say | Ancient Origins
04/2/2026 | 9 mins.
Math, genetics and statistics concur: it appears that all of us have royal genes at some point in our family history!
Underwater Discovery: Stone Age Humans Precisely Carved a 15 ton Stone Pillar and Carried it 300 Meters | Ancient Origins
04/2/2026 | 5 mins.
At least 9,300 years ago, Stone Age hunter-gatherers in a now-submerged area of the Mediterranean Sea accomplished a
Lucrezia Borgia: The Misunderstood Femme Fatale of the Renaissance | Ancient Origins
04/2/2026 | 12 mins.
One of the most famous femme fatales of the Renaissance, Lucrezia Borgia was born into wealth and power and was a pawn in her Pope father’s political ambitions.
At Ancient Origins we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exists countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained .