The scroll labeled 3Q15 was an anomaly. It was unlike its companion manuscripts in almost every way. It was not made of leather or papyrus, but a sheet of almost pure copper. The contents were not literary or doctrinal in nature. It was simply a list with 64 entries that described where to find a unique and fabulous treasure of incalculable value. Not just an intellectual treasure, but one composed of gold and silver.

I've heard several legends about the Holy Grail, and I was wondering if there's any evidence of an actual Holy Grail. If there is, that what can it do? Can it grant immortal life like in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?"

In this issue:

-Pets Helped Make Modern Man
-Ligar Birth Brings Fine
-Remains of John the Baptist Found?
-One Hundred Dinosaurs in Central Park
-"Lens" Increases Wind Power
-Apollo 11 Aliens
-A Star Hustler Dies
and more...

It's 756 feet long on each side, 450 feet high and is composed of 2,300,000 blocks of stone. Until the 19th century it was the tallest building in the world and, at the age of 4,500 years, it is the only one of the famous "Seven Wonders" that still stands. Even today it is remains the most massive building on Earth. It is the Great Pyramid of Khufu, at Giza, Egypt.

Are there any real accounts of large birds of prey attacking or carrying off people?

In this issue...

-Cobra May Have Not Brought Queen of Nile to Her End
-Strange Object Found Near Distant Star
-Ancient Temple Comes with IKEA-like Instructions
-Torosaurus is Really Triceratrops
-Stonehenge had Wooden Twin
-Globster Controversy
-SETI Chance Is a Million to One
and more...

Anybody who regularly follows "From the Curator's Office" knows I'm a fan of Steampunk and interested in the movement toward alternative ways of making films.. Recently I've stumbled across a motion picture project that seems to encompass both. Iron Sky is a Finnish/German production slated to debut in 2011 that features an invasion of Earth from Nazis who have spend the last 73 years hiding on the far side of the moon.

A reader writes:

"This is the link to 'death ray tubes.' These are a workable model of a death ray gun, you can buy it for 350 US$ and it works for carving rock. It does exist and as seen in the site united nuclear.. So are lots of other sci-fi inventions… And they do work too.. You get warnings to not direct them toward humans… They will melt..."

Are they really selling a death ray?

In this issue...

-Ancients Discovered Rubber Too
-Dogs Have Lost the Nack
-Dinosaur Era Marine Reptiles Not Cold Blooded
-Universe May Not Be As Dark as Once Thought
-Mystery Sarcophagus Found in Italy
-Adamski and the Moon Base
-Teenager finds Ichthyosaur
and more...

Hitler was in love with big, technological weapons. Mighty battleships, supersonic rockets and jet aircraft were just a few of the advanced devices the Third Reich put onto the battlefield during World War II. One planned weapon that didn't make it into action, however, was the Landkreuzer P-1000 "Ratte." A true rolling fortress it was far heavier and more powerful than any other tank considered by any other country before, during or after the war. If this super tank had been built, how might it have affected the conflict?

I was wondering what the Curator's thought was on the stories of the Dudleytown hauntings in Connecticut . Could Dudleytown be haunted by the spirits of the old town that once resided there?

In this issue...

-Ancient Lead Important for Nuclear Experiments
-Mars Fossils May be Easier to Find Than First Thought
-Plasma Rocket Might Go to Asteroid
-Beavers Produce New Record Dam
-Study Says All Life Has Common Ancestor
-Shooting Stars from Lyra
-Giant Oarfish Found on Swedish Coast
and more...

"I have seen the walls and Hanging Gardens of ancient Babylon, the statue of Olympian Zeus, the Colossus of Rhodes, the mighty work of the high Pyramids and the tomb of Mausolus. But when I saw the temple at Ephesus rising to the clouds, all these other wonders were put in the shade"- Philon of Byzantium. Read the update of our classic Seven Wonders of the World page on ancient Ephesus.

How can so much of the interior of the earth be hot molten lava, and have the ground stay around a cool 55 degrees? Why does the heat not work its way to the surface? Where's the convection?

In this issue...

-Massive Fireball Startles Midwest
-Cornell Gives Up on Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
-Giant Lizard Found in Philippines
-"Oriental Yeti" Captured
-High School Science Teacher Find Rare Fossil
-Dinosaurs in Colorado?
-Monstrous Crustacean Stowaway
and more...

Check out our updated page on the mysterious Nazca lines of Peru. Did the ancients use them as temples for human sacrifice?

The curator tells us about ten anomalous places he'd like to visit before it is too late.

A TV cable has only has two wires in it, but it can have over a hundred different channels coming through it at the same time. How is the possible?

In this issue...

-Giant Eagle Might Have Preyed on Humans
-Eggshells Yield Ancient DNA
-Leonardo Da Vinci's Giant Horse Statue Feasible
-Scientists Put Macro Object in Superposition
-Queen's Tomb Found
-Chupacabra Visions
-Crash at Aurora
-New Smithsonian Exhibit Draws Protestors
and more...

Is every ancient extinct reptile a dinosaur?

Last month we started our expedition into the weird world of quantum physics. A place where things do not exist unless you look at them, where cats can be both dead and alive at the same time. This month we will focus on how some interpretations of quantum physics suggest that everything in the universe is instantly connected with everything else, no matter how distant apart they are.

In this issue...

-Dwarf Dinos on Island
-Roses that Smell Like Root Beer in Future
-Mummy Case to be Returned to Egypt
-King Solomon's Wall Found
-Thunderstorm Gama Rays may Threaten Airliners
-Jacko Spotted in Polymer Droplet
and more...

How does a gun silencer stop the loud sound of a gunpowder explosion?

The mystery at the heart of quantum physics strikes directly at our perception of whether the universe and everything in it, including ourselves, is real.

In this issue:

-Statistics Help Find Fraudulent Art
-Alligators' Lung Works Like Birds
-Pyramids Not Built by Slaves
-Chinese Dino Venomous
-So Long and Thanks for All the Fish
-ISS Moves into the 21st Century
-See an Asteroid
and more...

When I look up at the night sky, how many of those stars are really stars and how many are galaxies?

I write a lot about people who have encounters with anomalous things, but rarely do I just stumble across someone in my everyday life that tells me they encountered a rare electrical phenomenon called ball lightning.

In this issue:

-Is New Exo-planet a Waterworld?
-Revolutionary Paper Battery May Have Many Applications
-More of the Dino Warm/Cold Blooded Debate
-Recently Found Fragments Open Questions about Shroud of Turin
-HARPS Finds 32 Planets
-Cloud-like UFO?
-Quadrantid Meteor Shower
and more...

I have a thermometer hanging on the wall that also has a humidity gauge. The humidity gauge is just a round strip of metal. How can a strip of metal tell how much humidity is in the air?

Today one can hardly find a street in North America during the month of December where the majority of houses are not lit up with a dazzling display of hundreds or even thousands tiny electric lights. Where did these traditions come from and when did Christmas become electric?

In this issue:

-Crack Will Become New Sea
-Researchers find Supersize "Cosmic Web"
-Crash Shows That Water is On Moon
-Brothers Claim to Have Found Mysterious Missing Army
-Super Volcano Eruption Destroyed Forests 3,000 Miles Away
-Intra-Mercurial Planet
-Snails: Better than Beef
-Blue Moon
and more

What does the moon's unusual orbit tell us about Earth's past?

Books, internet sites and now even a major motion picture suggest that bad things are going to happen on December 21, 2012. Is any of this craziness based on scientific fact?

In this issue:

-Group Tries to Debunk Shroud of Turin
-New 4.4 Million-Year-Old Human Remains Found
-Researchers Find Dinosaur Stampede
-Ida Not Our Relative
-New Leonardo Work Found
-Earhart Died on Nikumaroro
and more...

Is there any way to resolve the Biblical Story with Science?

They are called phantasms, specters or spirits. Most people just call them ghosts and are either fascinated by them, or are terrified of them, or sometimes both.

In this issue:

-Massive Wall Discovered in Jerusalem
-Rat as Big as Cat
-Super Subs will Open Ocean Floor to Amateur Explorers
-Rat Eating Plant Found
-Tiny T-Rex. Startles Scientists
-Teenagers Kill Alien-like Animal
and more...

What is a "vitamin", and how can sunlight make vitamin D?

A do-it-yourself way to commemorate your favorite book or movie and add a conversation piece to your home.

In this issue:

-Space Elevator Getting Closer?
-Cave System Found Under Egyptian Pyramids
-Egyptian Tombs Could be Gone in 150 Years
-Giant Pandas in Trouble
-Pterosaurs Unlike Anything Else
-Book Review - Cosmic Jackpot: Why Our Universe is Just Right for Life
-Florida Muck Monster
and more...

Why do scorpions fluoresce under a UV light?

In twelve days in the summer of 1916 shark attacks along the New Jersey shore had left four dead and one maimed with the rogue shark still on the loose.

In this issue:

-Cats Developed Special Purr to get Human Attention
-Scientists Hunt Giant Worm
-Long Nailed Dinosaur
-Hubble Back in Service for a Day
-Purple Blobs
-The Perseid Meteor Shower
-Blue in M&Ms Could Save Spine
and more...

Is it possible to channel a pipe from Earth to Moon and pump in some of earth's atmosphere so as to support free life?

Four are dead and a fifth maimed in the America's worst shark attack incident in the history of the nation.

In this issue:

-Sharks Operate Like Serial Killers
-Find Makes Dino-Bird Connection More Likely
-Topless Mona Lisa-like Painting Exposed
-Warp Drive Might Create a Black Hole
-New Flying Car to be on Market
and more...

I'm wondering if it's possible to use the principles of magnetism for travel. For example, could a ship with a highly focused electromagnet aim and pull itself to a planet's magnetic field, or to the heavy metal core of an asteroid? Could this same idea be used to create a flying car, by pushing or pulling off more than one point at the same time?

Our page of breaking science news stories gets an update with more news categories and articles!

In this issue:

-Komodo Dragon: Venom or Toxic Bacteria?
-Cat-sized Primate Significant Fossil
-Island "Hobbits" New Species
-Meteorite Hit Created Dangerous Gas
-DNA Could Tell if Lincoln was Already Dying
-E.T. Search Going for a Decade
and more...

Is it true that for a satellite to hold the same position over the earth it can only be over the equator?

After investigating over 12,600 incidents the military's 22 year-long effort to crack the mystery of UFOs ended with anger, suspicion and claims of a cover up.

A new book from the author of the "The Martain Who Looked Like a Dog Series."

When Mike, Melissa and Hector ordered a submarine from an ad on the back for a comic book, they got less, and more than the expected. Robots, flying saucers, space aliens, sunken treasure and pirate looters were in the package too!

Paperback $5.49. Ages 8 - 13. Available from the UnMuseum Press or Amazon.com

In this issue:

- Drying Salt Lakes May have Caused Extinction
- "Drowned" Spiders Comes Back to Life
- Researchers Search for Cleopatra and Antony Tombs
- Long-necked Stegosaur Found
- Knights Templars Guarded Shroud
- Astronaut Believes in UFO
and more...

From the Martian Who Looked Like A Dog Series
From the author of the "Bunny Stories."

Zebop, the last Martian, finds living on Mars very lonely. So he takes this saucer and flies to the planet Earth. There he disguies himself as a dog. Zebop comes to live with Jeffrey and together with their friends, Brenda and Rex, they have many adventures. Zebop has much to learn about the ways of planet Earth!

Book#1 "Zebop Finds A Friend" - Zebop travels 36 million miles to Earth, but will anybody want to be a friend to a fuzzy alien?

Fiction Ages 6 - 8

Was Bruce Lee Assassinated? The story behind his mysterious death.

Magic & Teaching- Can a book about the history of magic tell us something about education?

In this issue:

-NASA Telescope Looks for ET's Home
-Dinosaurs on the Way Back to Life
-Oldest Evidence of Upright Walking
-Dead Sea Scroll Authors - The Essenes - Did Not Exist
-Smallest North American Dino Found
-British Release "Dog Walker" UFO Report
-Death of Dr. J. Allen Hynek

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