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It’s the kind of discovery that sounds more Indiana Jones than archaeology lab. Researchers digging in Israel say they may have uncovered ruins linked to the Ark of the Covenant — the gold-covered biblical chest said to have held the Ten Commandments. The Ark is described in scripture as a sacred chest built by the Israelites after their Exodus from Egypt. It was kept in the Tabernacle, a portable sanctuary some scholars date to around 1445 BC. According to the Bible, Moses himself placed the stone tablets inside. And then — like a divine disappearing act — it vanishes from...

A discovered trove of 100-year-old sketches by Prussian-born artist Charles Dellschau could hold clues that the former president —and his youngest son, Barron— could be hopping through the decades, observers suggest. Dellschau, who died in 1923, was obsessed with “aeros,” bizarre flying machines that looked part balloon, part airplane, part steampunk fantasy. Conspiracy buffs are zooming in on the word “TRUMP” scrawled across some of the drawings. Add to that a blonde doodled person steering a craft labeled 45, and theorists’ tinfoil hats are practically melting. Then there are the books.

Is this the real-life Atlantis. A 90-foot “pyramid” submerged just off the coast of Japan is turning heads — and could shake up everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. Sitting 82 feet below sea level near the Ryukyu Islands, the Yonaguni Monument has baffled scientists and divers since it was first discovered in 1986. The enormous stone structure, complete with angular steps and flat terraces, looks uncannily like the ruins of a man-made temple — despite being over 10,000 years old. That timeline, if proven accurate, would date it thousands of years earlier than Egypt’s pyramids or England’s...