Flipboard 2025 World History

For a long time, historians relied on Roman artwork and dramatic ancient texts to understand how wild animals were used in public spectacles. Bears, lions, and other predators appeared constantly in mosaics and writings—but there was always a lingering question about how literal those depictions really were. Were they exaggerated for effect, or did these events truly happen as described? A battered brown bear skull found in present-day Serbia has finally answered that question.

For a long time, the ancient Maya story followed a familiar script: powerful kings, stone monuments, and dynasties ruled almost entirely by men. Then archaeologists started carefully piecing together a badly eroded stone monument at the jungle-covered city of Cobá, and that script quietly fell apart. Hidden in fading hieroglyphs was the name of a woman who didn’t just exist alongside Maya power—she wielded it.

Every history textbook said agriculture came first, then religion, then monumental architecture. Gobekli Tepe flipped that entire sequence upside down. The logistics alone seem impossible, yet the ruins are undeniably real.

Sand preserves and erases at the same time. For all its monuments and inscriptions, Ancient Egypt still guards unanswered questions—missing people, lost knowledge, and clues that suggest parts of its story were never meant to be fully told.

Perinthos has been quietly revealing its past for years—stone by stone, shard by shard. Archaeologists have uncovered theaters, temples, and fortifications on land, each discovery adding another layer to the city’s long story. But recently, the most surprising evidence didn’t come from the dirt. It came from beneath the water.

Deep in the Saudi region sits an ancient ritual site shaped by generations. People gathered here long before history books existed, and left behind clues of belief and unexpected connections that slowly came together beneath the desert ground.

Imagine discovering a painting so old it predates the earliest known European art traditions. Archaeologists just did, and the images are detailed and unsettling enough to force a rethink of when creativity began.

What if the Exodus story has been holding onto more truth than anyone guessed? Fresh digs across the region are surfacing clues that nudge the ancient account out of legend and into possibility.

The latest discovery from the 1715 Treasure Fleet isn’t just glittering proof of Spain’s lost wealth. It’s a reminder that the ocean never forgets what we drop into it. Over 1,000 coins, centuries of mystery, and a story still unfolding beneath Florida’s waves.

Toothpick habits were long presumed to explain the grooves, but new analysis of ancient dental marks challenges that idea, pointing instead to instinctive behavior deeply rooted in human ancestry rather than to early attempts at dental care.

A fossil usually reveals a creature, yet some split open to expose something wildly unexpected inside. Little stowaways. Last meals. Moments frozen by accident, preserved without intention.

A new debate is erupting in science circles and beyond. The newly translated God, the Science, the Evidence dives into modern discoveries in physics and cosmology—and makes a bold claim about what they reveal, arguing that today’s scientific discoveries don’t just allow for a Creator…they practically point straight at one.