257 Neanderthal footprints were recently uncovered in France

Basilica of San Crisogono, magnificent mailboxes, and how to reunite a 'witch' with her skull. Email not displaying correctly? View in your browser. September 11, 2019 Found: Neanderthal Footprints Formed 80,000 years ago, 257 footprints made by about a dozen Neanderthal adults and children were recently uncovered in Normandy, France. Read More → ROME, ITALY Basilica of San Crisogono Remnants of a 4th-century church with vivid medieval frescoes and ancient sarcophagi hide beneath this overlooked, old basilica. Read more → Community Magnificent Mailboxes Whether it’s one of the most remote mail drops in the United States, a pirate post box on a desert island, or one for fairies, mailboxes can make for terrific mundane wonders. Tell us about the most wondrous mailboxes you’ve encountered. Share now → ‘Witch’ Skull Reunion Over 300 years after her death, Scottish authorities are trying to reunite the body of Lilias Adie—a woman who was accused of being a witch—with her skull after it disappeared in 1938. Read more → Sea Floor Space Simulation Last June, Csilla Ari D’Agostino spent nine days living 62 feet underwater, more than six miles off the coast of Key Largo, Florida, to help simulate the environments that astronauts might face in outer space. Read more → EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS Thorncrown Chapel This beautiful glass church located in the Ozark Mountains looks conversely like something that either came from the future or was built by elves. Read more → OULU, FINLAND Oulu Groke On a small hill in Oulu, Finland, sits a lonely rock that has been turned into a character loved and feared by children. Read more → Visit AtlasObscura.com · View in Browser · Unsubscribe · See All Newsletters 61 Greenpoint Ave #622, Brooklyn, NY 11222