Flipboard 2025 Archaeology And Discoveries

New finds at Augusta Raurica are proving the ancient city still has secrets left to reveal.

Neanderthals are often portrayed as simple cave dwellers, but discoveries from Belgium’s Goyet Caves have revealed a far darker side of their life.

For more than 2,000 years, nobody has been able to answer one simple question: Where is Cleopatra buried? It is one of history's greatest mysteries—and now, after years of discoveries at an ancient temple, some archaeologists think they're closer than ever to solving it. The problem? What they've discovered may only make the mystery even more complicated.

The Copper Scroll is one of the most unusual artifacts ever discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. Unlike the others, which were written on parchment or papyrus and focused on religious texts, this scroll was engraved onto thin sheets of copper.

For more than four centuries, the Lost Colony of Roanoke has been one of America's most enduring mysteries. More than 100 English settlers seemingly disappeared, leaving behind almost no clear explanation. But after decades of archaeology, old maps, climate research, and strange historical clues, many researchers now think the answer may have been hiding in plain sight.

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.

What began with a handful of silver coins quickly turned into the discovery of more than 3,000 pieces of Viking silver, now known as the Mørstad Hoard. The find offers an extraordinary glimpse into the increasingly global world that Vikings inhabited during the final decades of the Viking Age.

Archaeologists uncovered evidence suggesting Neanderthals cared for injured and elderly members of their groups, revealing a surprisingly compassionate side to Ice Age humanity.

For decades, scientists usually found Neanderthal history one fossil at a time: a tooth here, a bone fragment there. But a cave in Poland just delivered something completely different.

Scientists are puzzled over the recent discoveries below the surface of the Moon's under-explored far side.