Flipboard 2025 World History

Today, humans sit comfortably at the top of the food chain. Nearly two million years ago, we were nowhere close. Early humans were getting smarter—but something else still had a very good chance of getting to them first.

New research challenges the famous Monte Verde archaeological site in Chile, suggesting it may be thousands of years younger than previously believed and reshaping the debate over when humans first reached the Americas.

For decades, people have argued about one question: if aliens really exist, what would they actually be like? Scientists look to the stars. Governments investigate mysterious sightings. Hollywood imagines flying saucers and little green men. But one Catholic nun has offered a completely different answer—and it may be the most unsettling one yet.

Marine archaeologists uncovered the wreck of the Danish warship Dannebroge in Copenhagen Harbour, revealing artifacts, human remains, and new evidence from the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen before construction alters the site.

Archaeologists uncovered the 4,000-year-old tomb of Idi beneath Assiut, revealing decorated coffins, religious titles, and surprising clues about elite women’s power in ancient Egypt.

Thousands of artifacts recovered from Jerusalem’s ancient drainage channel, including lamps, glass vessels, eggshells, and grape seeds, reveal daily life before the Roman destruction of the city.

Archaeologists near Auxerre, France, have uncovered a vast Roman villa with private baths, heated floors, gardens, fountains, and clues to elite rural life between the first and fourth centuries.

Scientists discovered 2.75-million-year-old stone tools in Kenya that reveal how prehistoric humans survived dramatic climate change through skill, adaptability, and dependable technology.

Excavated furnaces, mills, mines, and worker communities across Pennsylvania reveal the ingenious manufacturing methods that helped launch America’s Industrial Revolution.

Some asteroid stories sound like internet panic dressed up in a lab coat. This one is different. Scientists have studied one asteroid so closely that they have actually identified a future moment when Earth may have to pay very serious attention.