Flipboard 2025 Archaeology And Discoveries

Archaeologists in Bulgaria unearthed a significant historical treasure hidden in the sewer system below an ancient city—but its discovery is not what’s making history.

Whether Polynesians reached the Americas before Europeans appeared on the scene is one of history's great unknowns, but DNA analysis is providing new clues.

History is full of unsolved mysteries, but sometimes, new technology leads historians to answers. Here are some historical mysteries that we’ve recently figured out.

Giza's greatest mysteries might still be underground. While millions snap photos of the pyramids, researchers probe beneath the surface, finding hidden passages and peculiar features that challenge everything we thought we understood about ancient Egypt.

Archaeologists at the Hittite site of Samuha (modern Kayalıpınar) in central Turkey announced the discovery of 56 cuneiform tablets and 22 seal impressions.

Something strange sits high in the North Caucasus mountains, so odd that even seasoned researchers paused when they found it. The Khara-Hora Shaft has no confirmed builders and no features that align with known ancient engineering.

Scientists thnk they may have cracked the language of the ancient city of Teotihuacan, allowing us to read the messages of a long-lost people.

Archaeology rarely gives experts a “two-for-one” discovery, but Cova Dones seems to scream, “I am the exception”. The cave, tucked into Valencia’s rugged limestone terrain, holds traces of people who walked its passages thousands of years apart. Your curiosity will get a workout here, because each step into the darkness reveals new layers of human behavior. Stay with this story; there’s a lot to take in, and every detail brings you closer to the people who shaped these underground chambers.

A Swedish man digging for earthworms stumbled on a hidden hoard of medieval silver coins, the biggest ever found in Scandinavia.

Something extraordinary just emerged from Egypt’s desert, and it’s stirring one of history’s biggest conversations. Archaeologists uncovered a massive stronghold along a route long linked to the world of Moses.

What if a single trench could rewrite the story of Jerusalem’s past? Archaeologists in the City of David have uncovered a vast moat that once divided ancient Jerusalem, confirming details long recorded in sacred scripture.