11/25/2016 Update: I’ve just heard from a contact with the Explorers Club leadership, who has read the not-yet-public reports on the two expeditions to the now-missing wrecks. I’ve
You may already be aware of the 10 U.S. sailors taken into Iranian custody after their swiftboat-style ships ran into distress. Will this become the story that reshapes
An aluminum body patch from Amelia Earhart’s plane is found on Nikumaroro Island; a wheel cover from the same plane is found on Mili Atoll. The problem? These
Another day, another debunking. Accompanied by two Michigan State police divers, Archaeologists Dean Anderson and Wayne Lusardi examined a wreck site in Lake Michigan claimed by two Muskegon
…the most robust scientific analysis and conclusions are those of the original British finding indicating that the Nikumaroro bones belonged to a robust, middle-aged man, not Amelia Earhart.
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I have to say I admire some of the work that the Smithsonian Magazine has been doing lately… between this an their recent Amelia Earhart cover story, they’ve
SHREVEPORT, La. — A local historian and urban archaeologist thinks he’s solved a mystery: What happened to four Confederate submersibles known to be in Shreveport during the last
Annie Esposito was making lunch for her kids last summer when a fence company crew working in her back yard found an old cannonball. Her husband, Mike Esposito,
…and business is good. But what’s even better is Jerry Adler’s new piece on the amateur “archaeologists” and the strange world they’ve built around the never-ending search for
