The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone

The Unreadable Script

The young French soldier was hot, thirsty and tired. He had been involved in Napoleon's Egyptian expedition for months. He'd marched through the desert with no water, chasing after strange pools of liquid that miraculously appeared on the horizon, and then cruelly disappeared as he approached them. He'd also choked on storms of dust that raced across the landscape. Now he and his companions had been assigned to tear down an ancient wall so they could build an extension to Fort Julien. Backbreaking work. As he pried another stone out of the wall, its color struck him as being odd. It was dark, almost black actually. On one side that was flat there appeared to be writing of some sort. Not French, to be sure, but some strange script. No, not just one type either, but three different types. Very odd. He decided to call over the officer-in-charge over to take a look at it.

What that young, unnamed soldier had done was to discover the Rosetta Stone - an unremarkable chunk of black rock, covered with seemingly indecipherable markings - that would solve one of the greatest linguistic mysteries of the 19th century: how to read the ancient writing left by the Egyptians thousands of years ago.

Today on Far Future Horizons we present a BBC documentary titled “The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone” part of BBC's history series Egypt.

Plymouth - Moon Colony

Today on Far Future Horizons we present one of the most expensive TV pilot motion pictures ever produced concerning the first human outpost established on the Moon – Plymouth.

The inhabitants of the small quiet town of Plymouth, Oregon have lived in their community for several generations when suddenly they are forced to evacuate their homes because of an environmental disaster involving radioactive waste.

In compensation they are offered the chance, by the very same corporate conglomerate that cause the environmental accident that destroyed their town in the first place, to rebuild their lives and relocate to a new world - The Moon.

Mermaids - The New Evidence



"Prehistoric Cave Art" Depicting Mermaids 



The seas and oceans of our planet have since time immemorial been a familiar yet mysterious and alien realm for much of human history. Many myths and legends have appeared in every epoch to explain many strange and inexplicable phenomena.



Seafarers across the ages and from all cultures also reported sightings of many strange and fabulous creatures.  

When Worlds Collide (1951)

Today on Far Future Horizons we present George Pal's When Worlds Collide.


When Worlds Collide is a great movie classic based on the 1933 science fiction novel co-authored by Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer; they both also co-authored the sequel After Worlds Collide (1934). It was first published as a six-part monthly serial (September 1932-February 1933) in Blue Book magazine.

Imagine a pair of rogue planets entering our solar system and one of them is on a direct collision course with the Earth. Our planet is first devastated, and then destroyed by "Bronson Alpha", a gas giant-sized rogue planet, orbited by "Bronson Beta", an earth-sized satellite. 

Fortunately, advance warning enables several groups of survivors to escape to Bronson Beta, whose orbit maps onto that of the destroyed Earth, and is torn away from its former primary by the gravitational impact of the Bronson Alpha/Earth collision. In the 1951 cinematic incarnation, Bronson Alpha was reimagined as a dwarf star and renamed "Bellus", while Bronson Beta was designated "Zyra."

The Mars Underground

The Mars Underground  is a wonderful documentary that outlines the arguments within the space advocacy community concerning the next logical step in humanity’s quest to explore and eventually settle the high frontier of space. But, is a mission to Mars really the next logical step as we enter the second phase of the Space Age?

The Time Tunnel (2002 Unaired Pilot)

Today on Far Future Horizons we present an unaired TV pilot film that was a remake of Irwin Allen’s 1960s SciFi television series The Time Tunnel.

The Time Tunnel was a 1966–1967 U.S. colour science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure. The show was creator-producer Irwin Allen's third science fiction television series, released by 20th Century Fox and broadcast on ABC. The show ran for one season of 30 episodes. Reruns are viewable on cable and by internet streaming. A pilot for a new series was produced in 2002, although it was not picked up.

The Quest for Noah's Flood

Today on Far Future Horizons we join famed oceanographer, explorer and Titanic discoverer, Dr. Robert Ballard, as he embarks on a fascinating voyage to the Black Sea.  

Here he will try to separate history from the legend of a catastrophic flood to solve an ancient mystery that will take us on a quest to uncover the true story of Noah’s flood.