Flipboard 2025 World History

The real story of Ancient Egypt is far more fascinating than the myths we've absorbed through movies and cartoons. In fact, many of the things we think we know about Egypt don’t hold up under scrutiny. For example…

In the hills near Amman, Jordan, archaeologists uncovered statues unlike anything the ancient world had ever seen. With eyes that seem alive and an unsettling presence, these figures may hold answers about belief and identity.

Beneath the Giza Plateau lies a shaft cut into stone, which is linked to the Egyptian god of the afterlife. And although its true purpose remains debated, the find is fascinating to say the least.

Long before cities or highways, the Clovis people ruled wide open land. They hunted giant beasts and left behind clever tools. Strangely, when they disappeared, they left us with riddles that sound more like detective work than history.

One declared loyalty to a blazing sun (henotheistic Atenism), the other to an unseen God. Fringe theories speculate on influence, but mainstream historians reject connections given the chronological gaps and distinct religious traditions.

A heavy stone fooled even the sharpest prospector’s eye. Instead of wealth, the find turned out to be far older and rarer, holding stories that stretch back billions of years.

In the mid-1400s, a French painter named Jean Fouquet created a remarkable work called the Melun Diptych. Today, it raises an unusual question: could an artist of his time have known about handaxes that were made thousands of years earlier?

In Shropshire, England, lies Shrewsbury, a market town whose tale doesn’t start with Norman castles or charters. It begins even earlier, when Saxon hands marked the ground.

A word once tied to science fiction is now reshaping laboratories. Scientists are no longer chasing the teleportation of people but of information itself. The recent advances in quantum teleportation raise questions about how computing and communication might evolve in the coming decade.

The Anasazi, also the Ancestral Puebloans, were the ancestors of today’s Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest. The term “Anasazi” comes from a Navajo word meaning “ancient enemies” or “ancient outsiders”. They were doing so well, then….they supposedly vanished.

The Sherpa people have made a home where most people couldn’t imagine living, high in the Himalayas. Journey through their life of strength, spirituality, and survival through this collection of photos.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the 4,400-year-old tomb of Prince Userefre behind a pink granite false door at the Saqqara necropolis. The richly decorated site includes rare statues, hieroglyphs, and offerings that shed new light on Egypt’s Fifth Dynasty and royal burial practices. The discovery is considered one of the most significant finds in the region in recent years.