A Columbia historian stated he’d came upon proof of a misplaced sacred textual content with scandalous implications concerning the lifetime of Jesus. Used to be it a pretend? In a brand new Atlantic characteristic, the creator Ariel Sabar experiences at the sour ongoing debate—and the in large part unexamined early lifetime of the person who discovered it.

The tale is the newest of Sabar’s a large number of explorations of the mysterious, the illusive, and the onerous to consider. He’s written about the billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that hooked Warren Buffett and the U.S. Treasury, probed a biblical thriller at Oxford, and presented readers to the tomb raiders of the Higher East Facet.

Nowadays’s publication is a choice of lengthy reads from Sabar and others concerning the enigmas in our midst and in puts you’ll have by no means concept to seem. Some are wondrous; others are chilling. I like to recommend settling in with a cup of espresso and getting misplaced.

The Mysteries Round Us

The ‘Secret’ Gospel and a Scandalous New Episode within the Lifetime of Jesus

Via Ariel Sabar

A Columbia historian stated he’d came upon a sacred textual content with clues to Jesus’s sexuality. Used to be it actual?

Learn the object.

The Tree With Matchmaking Powers

Via Jeff Maysh

For just about a century, an oak in a German woodland has helped lonely folks in finding love—together with the mailman who delivers its letters.

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What Truly Came about to Malaysia’s Lacking Aircraft

Via William Langewiesche

Ten years in the past, the flight vanished into the Indian Ocean, and we nonetheless don’t know why. The rationale would possibly lie no longer within the sea however on land—in Malaysia, the place officers know greater than they dare to mention. (From 2019)

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— Isabel