Wing XI of XII
Science & Exploration
Bizarre theories, impossible expeditions.
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Newest in this wing
The Babylonian Virtual Reality Library
A reading room at Babylon in which no reading was done — eleven crystal shards, a gold headset, and a chamber that appears on no plan of Esagila.
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18 VII 2024
The Mystery of the Babylonian Battery
A clay jar from an Iraqi suburb has been called a two-thousand-year-old battery since 1938. The Bureau reviews every purpose proposed for it, in descending order of the confidence with which it was proposed.
12 VII 2024
The Lost Expedition to the Hollow Earth
Fifteen specialists went down a shaft in the Antarctic ice, radioed at four in the morning that the passage below had a lintel over it, and were never heard from again.