Flipboard 2025 Archaeology And Discoveries

The Dead Sea Scrolls still hide mysteries involving unknown scribes, disputed origins, ancient DNA, AI dating, and a missing treasure.

Scientists gave chimpanzees crystals to explore why ancient humans collected them 780,000 years ago. The apes' reactions offered surprising clues about curiosity, attraction, and the origins of enduring crystal fascination.

Scientists have searched the skies for decades without finding confirmed alien civilizations. Explore the Fermi Paradox, the Great Filter, technosignatures, exoplanets, and the leading scientific ideas that could explain the universe’s mysterious silence.

Humans love to tell ourselves the same story: bigger brains made us smarter, smarter made us dominant, and dominance made us the ultimate human species. There is just one problem...

Researchers have detected two air-filled anomalies behind the eastern face of Egypt's Menkaure Pyramid, strengthening a fascinating theory that the ancient monument may contain a previously unknown second entrance.

Evolution sounds simple enough: tiny changes build up over countless generations, and eventually you get something very different. But when scientists looked closely at certain fossils, the story wasn’t so simple...

Archaeologists in Egypt discovered fragments of Homer’s Iliad deliberately placed on a 1,600-year-old mummy, revealing an extraordinary connection between Greek literature and ancient Egyptian funerary practices.

Burned palaces. Empty houses. Buried treasures. Entire cities left behind. Ancient settlements often preserve the moment their world began to fall apart, but they rarely preserve a simple explanation for why it happened.

A metal detectorist in Finland expected another ordinary signal. Instead, he uncovered thousands of Viking Age silver coins.

Discover ancient artifacts found thousands of miles from where they were made, from Roman glass in Japan and African ivory in England to a Buddha unearthed in Sweden and Indian gems buried at Sutton Hoo.