Plus: The man who found the Yeti, a road built by a biblical villain, and other extraordinary tales of discovery
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 | | DAGLI ORTI/ART ARCHIVE | | | In the ancient tomb of the Red Queen, a modern mystery | | The archaeologists were greeted first by the sight of two skeletons who, based on their injuries, were determined to be sacrificial victims. Once they lifted the lid, they found a death mask, jewel-encrusted treasures, and the tomb's occupant herself, all covered in a highly toxic blood red dust. She became known as the Red Queen—but to this day, no one knows for sure who she was. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY LAURENT BALLESTA | | | They spent 28 days under the sea—and found another Earth | | In July 2019, this four-man team living in a cramped, pressurized habitat on a barge in the Mediterranean, breathing a high-pressure mix of helium and oxygen, descended to the seafloor each day in a diving bell. Because of their gear, they were able to explore the bottom freely—for hours, not minutes. See the extraordinary photos from that trip, of amazing sea life and signs of our impact on a mysterious landscape. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY TOPICAL PRESS AGENCY, GETTY | | | The man who searched for the Yeti for 60 years—and found it | | In 1951, a British explorer went looking for an alternative route up Mount Everest and found this footprint. He took a picture, and the mystery of the Yeti—a Sherpa word for "wild man"—was born. Author Daniel Taylor, who had been searching for signs of this "Abominable Snowman" since he was a child, tells us how and why he believes he found it. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAXIMILIAN BUZUN, ALAMY STOCK PHOTO | | | Earth's inner core is doing something weird | | A pair of decades-old nuclear explosions—part of hundreds of tests detonated during the throes of Cold War fervor—are helping geologists today calculate one of the most precise estimates yet of how fast the planet' s core is spinning. What they've found suggests "something is changing down there." | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY SIMON NORFOLK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC | | | A road built by a biblical villain has been uncovered in Jerusalem | | Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea who played a central role in the execution of Jesus, is also remembered as a callous ruler who set the stage for the rebellion that led to the destruction of Jerusalem. But a recent discovery suggests that he also spent a good deal of time and money embellishing the famous city. | | | | |
 | | ILLUSTRATION BY NOIRLAB, NSF, AURA, J. DA SILVA (SPACEENGINE) | | | One of the largest comets ever seen is headed our way | | It took nearly seven years for researchers to identify a strange dot of light as a huge primordial comet—possibly the biggest ever studied with modern telescopes. Called Bernardinelli-Bernstein, it will continue to get brighter over the next decade as it approaches the inner solar system—and will make its closest approach to Earth on January 21, 2031. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY MAGGIE STEBER | | | |
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