Flipboard 2025 World History

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

While museums display meteorite fragments removed from impact sites, Namibia preserves a singular cosmic trophy exactly where it landed. The Hoba meteorite remains untouched at its African resting place.

The true story of the Pink Panthers, the elite jewel thieves who pulled off lightning-fast robberies across the globe and continue to outsmart police well into the 2020s.

At first glance, this ancient temple seemed fully accounted for. Walls stood firm, carvings made sense, timelines felt neat. Then archaeologists listened to old stories instead of brushing them aside. Beneath the stone waited something far less tidy. Narrow passages and sealed routes challenged long-held assumptions about ritual life here. This article traces how certainty cracked once the floor did. Keep reading. Curiosity works best when it follows the strange stuff.

For a long time, the world’s first recorded pandemic has been one of those historical stories that sounds obvious—until you ask the annoying question: “Okay, but what actually caused it”. People have argued about the culprit for centuries, mostly because the sixth century didn’t exactly come with lab reports. Now researchers have managed to pull a real answer out of ancient remains, which is both incredible and a little spooky in the best way.

Energy stories usually start on land. This one doesn’t. It begins far offshore, where heat slips through rock and water, and where engineers and scientists see possibility instead of empty darkness waiting quietly below us.

Lots of people love the idea that their ancestry is a straight, spotless line—same place, same people, same “blood,” century after century. It’s neat. It’s tidy. It’s also not how humans work. According to DNA evidence discussed in the Harvard Gazette, the more scientists dig into ancient genetics, the more obvious it becomes: “pure bloodlines” aren’t rare or uncommon—they’re basically a fairy tale.

Between 1870 and 1920, Philadelphia minted millionaires. It became home to powerful industrials. All those industrial titans built massive fortunes through railroads, banking, textiles, and manufacturing. These nouveaux riches craved country estates that reflected European aristocratic taste.

An ancient fossil from Africa is rewriting the story of human evolution. Evidence of upright walking in this seven-million-year-old ape suggests our early ancestors adapted to new environments far earlier than previously believed.

Discover how the world’s oldest cave painting found in Indonesia is rewriting the history of human creativity, revealing astonishing insights into early art, symbolism, and ancient human thought.

Archaeological investigations along Maharashtra's Konkan coast have dramatically extended India's timeline for human artistic and cultural development. Petroglyph traditions in this coastal region are estimated to be between 10,000 and 12,000 years old, with preliminary research suggesting possible ages reaching 24,000 years, though this requires further validation.

Baoji in Shaanxi Province has long drawn archaeologists searching for clues about the Western Zhou. Each excavation season confirms its importance, yet recent work has gone further than expected.