History's great mysteries: puzzles of the past continue to perplex.(Great Sphinx, Nazca artworks, Atlantis, 1908 blast in Siberia, Stonehenge)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: April 15, 1996 | Copyright information

In recent years people have learned volumes about the human body, the world, and the universe. People have developed cures for once-deadly diseases, explored the furthest reaches of Earth--even delved into the mysterious realm of outer space and discovered far-off Planets and stars. In this modem, technologically driven world, it sometimes seems there is no unanswerable question, no unsolvable puzzle.

But the world is full of mysteries--riddles that have remained unresolved ...

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