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.

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.

Severe drought at Iraq’s Mosul Dam reveals 40 ancient Hellenistic-era tombs, uncovering long-submerged burial practices and hidden history beneath the reservoir.

Everyone loves a good myth, especially when experts roll their eyes. Time passed. Dust settled. Evidence refused to stay buried, and familiar fairy tales suddenly came back, wearing boots, teeth, walls, and fingerprints everywhere.

9-year-old fossil hunter Molly Sampson discovered a rare 15-million-year-old Megalodon tooth on Christmas morning in Maryland, uncovering prehistoric history and inspiring explorers everywhere.

In October 2025, scientists published groundbreaking research in Geophysical Research Letters. A volcano in Iran that hadn't erupted in 700,000 years was moving now. The ground was swelling, and it could disrupt the findings.

Cusco has never been just stone and sky. Beneath the footsteps of tourists and locals alike, something older has been listening. Long-ignored stories now read less like legend and more like unfinished history.

They’re small. They’re mummified. They don’t look human. And once images of them hit the internet, everything exploded. Some people saw proof of extraterrestrial life. Others saw a hoax. What scientists found next didn’t settle the debate—it complicated it.

​Once-dry coastlines now rest beneath shallow seas, preserving traces of how early people lived and planned. A submerged stone wall from deep prehistory challenges long-held assumptions about hunter-gatherer life. Built with purpose and used repeatedly, it points to coordination, foresight, and shared knowledge long before farming or permanent settlements appeared.

Ireland does not always shout when history shifts. This time, the land gave itself away slowly, through shapes that refused to behave like modern fields. What followed reshaped ideas about early life on the island. Curious? You should be. Keep going. This discovery changes the scale of the past in surprising ways.

Located east of Malaga, Treasure Cave long attracted divers and visitors without revealing its deeper historical importance. That changed when researchers identified human footprints preserved in ancient sediment inside the cave. Formed by bare feet more than 40,000 years ago, these impressions survived as sea levels rose and shorelines shifted. Their age places them among the oldest known human footprints in the Mediterranean region. This discovery forced archaeologists to reassess early human activity along southern Europe’s coast and provided direct evidence of how early groups moved through and used coastal environments.

For decades, scientists believed one clear story: a single early human species boldly left Africa and spread across the world. But new fossil evidence is quietly rewriting that narrative.