Flipboard 2025 Archaeology And Discoveries

For much of 2025, the number of Americans visiting Canada softened, yet the visitors who did come kept spending more. That sounds contradictory until you stop treating every border crossing as the same kind of trip. A quick drive across the border and a five-night vacation both count as visits, but they leave very different amounts of money behind.

Ancient footprints in Saudi Arabia reveal Homo sapiens crossing a green Arabian landscape 120,000 years ago, reshaping the story of humanity’s journey out of Africa.

Fossil hunter Matthew Myerscough discovered a 201-million-year-old Jurassic sea dragon jaw on a Welsh beach, revealing Wales’s first known rhomaleosaur fossil and an extraordinary chapter of ancient marine reptile history.

Archaeologists investigating a skeleton found beneath a Maastricht church believe it could belong to real-life d’Artagnan, the French musketeer who inspired Alexandre Dumas’s celebrated Three Musketeers hero centuries later.

Metal detectorists know that every signal could be something incredible. They also know it is usually a nail, a bottle cap or another piece of metal nobody has wanted for a very long time. This little object looked like it belonged in the second category. But appearances were about to be very, very misleading.

Researchers used AI and declassified CORONA spy-satellite images to identify four previously overlooked archaeological sites near Baghdad, revealing how historic imagery can rescue evidence erased by modern development.

Most people assume their body arrived with the same standard equipment as everyone else’s. Two arms, two legs and all the usual pieces hidden beneath the skin. But there’s a pretty good chance something is missing...and you’ve never noticed.

Princesses of Ancient Egypt are usually imagined wearing elaborate jewelry, participating in ceremonies, and moving through the royal court. Yet that familiar picture may only capture part of their lives.

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old Egyptian pleasure boat beneath Alexandria’s sunken harbor, revealing evidence of ancient luxury travel, shipbuilding, and maritime life along the Mediterranean and Nile during the Roman era.

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered 50 ancient Persian gold darics hidden beneath Notion, a Greek city in western Anatolia. The remarkable hoard offers rare clues about warfare, wealth, and Achaemenid coinage.